In case anyone is wondering what the book is!
It’s one of the weird cognitive dissonances that I grew up with from the Christian church as a kid. They would say these things so casually, but then refuse to talk about sex or bodies. It’s just… bizarre. And took some unpacking and unlearning to get to a healthy place about bodies.
Why is body related violence so casually referred to, even in children’s books, but then they try to breeze past the weird sex stories in there at the same time.
It was just… weird. It’s still weird. I can’t help but shake my head and thank my lucky stars I got out of there when I did, right at the beginning of adulthood.
Same reason that jokes about prison rape is acceptable to virtually everyone: it’s happening to someone who “deserves” it.
Pretty fucked up.
I always thought it was weird that they temporarily cut the skin off of their forehead until I was nineteen and wondered why I had a line on my genitals where the color suddenly changed. Turns out I had been circumcized as an infant.
Sorta like how everybody in America is totally fine showing kids movies where the characters violently fight and die, but God forbid they see a bare breast (like they fed on as babies).
Just trying to visualize a milk gun is it a water gun filled with milk or a normal gun that has tits that lactate
It’s cognitive dissonance because we live in 2023 and not in biblical times. The bible is a collection of stories, written by mortal men, that seek to justify certain behaviors as “sanctioned by God”. Like, why the fuck would we need to teach children about murdering hundreds of people for their dick skin? Or teach children that rape is okay as long as you marry your victim? It’s because people did this shit and wanted to get away with it. The OT is literally “rules for thee and not for me”.
It is more of an American phenomenon than a religious one. We’re definitely a culture of “Spit in my face all you want, but don’t you dare walk on the grass.”
It is a community where children can straight up watch the most brutal horror movies of all time as long as there isn’t too much swearing or gayness.
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This was actually a pretty standard way of recording the number killed in battle. You can see in the Libyan War inscriptions for Merneptah discussion of how they took wheelbarrows of dicks of the uncircumcised, and the more unusual part is the mention of taking the hands instead from the sea peoples who were “without horns” (generally understood to have meant they were without foreskins).
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It’s good to be the king.
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Always be hustling.
I mean, to be fair, this was 3,000 years before that.
Though not like hyperviolence doesn’t happen anymore, even in ‘civilized’ militaries.
I dunno. I used to look at a town in France where the neighbors came in, pillaged, raped, and killed such that bodies were left dismembered for ages as this little microcosm example of how far the world had come from the senseless barbarism of antiquity.
But literally just a few days ago we had mass killings, rapes, and dismemberment from one group going in and attacking their neighbors as brutally as they could. And that was on top of having already been rather upset after reading just months before about Russians torturing POWs by feeding barb wire up their rectums to slowly pull it out.
We still seem to be doing our best to be as fucked up as possible.
It’s just that the parts of society that aren’t fucked up have arguably come a much longer way than the parts of society not fucked up in antiquity. Which is pretty much the only bright side I can see anymore.
- researchers use foreskins to test new cosmetics on.
- if you are in the cosmetic industry you’d want a good foreskin supplier.
This is true. I used to work at a foreskin medical supply company. We would do massive shipments to various cosmetology companies, schools, and some hospitals.
To be fair, it says he killed 200 philistines, not that he collected 200 foreskins.
So half of them were probably women, and he was just disappointed with the droprate like a bad MMO quest.
The other guy is David. King Saul would get super jelly of how popular David was getting (with all the foreskin collecting, I guess) and would eventually go on a murderous hunt for David and his men.
Also, Saul had a son, Johnathan. David and Johnathan have a lot of “no homo” moments.
First and Second Samuel and First and Second Kings. They’re a trip.
I wonder if this book has the one about the dad who gets drunk with his two daughters and fucks them
The two daughters who PURPOSEFULLY get their dad drunk and then have sex with him so that they get pregnant. If I recall correctly. Which I hope I do not.
Yeah the daughters are the rapists in that story. Unlike the other one where the father hands over his daughters to be raped
Also, he realized what was happening and pulled out, spilling his seed on the ground and so God punished him for not inseminating his daughters
You know, I always have been suspicious of that history, I mean he was so “drunk” that he didn’t know what happened?, but have you ever tried having sex drunk? Shit is impossible!, why do you think the term whiskey dick exist?
So I’m suspicious of this Lot “I want to fuck my daughters and I will use the most flimsy excuse in this bronze era shithole” of Haram
David is on that foreskillionaire grindset
If you grind foreskins, they become worthless. You have to polish them, by hand.
Just don’t polish each one more than 3 times, or else you’re playing with them.
