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Tlaçolteotl Is Dead: Captain Bourke's Scatalogic Rites of All Nations (2004)

10 points by Thevet 9y ago

mirimir 9y ago
I see no mention of pig toilets.[0] This is partly why pigs aren't kosher/halal.[1] 0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_toilet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_toilet 1) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/people-ate-pork-middle-east-until-1000-bcwhat-changed-180954614/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/people-ate-pork-mid...
- pmoriarty 9y ago
  Not only pigs but also plants eat shit and other decomposing matter (in the form of manure or "fertilizer"). So if pigs are unclean because of this, plants are too, and so are any animals that eat plants. All of our drinking water comes from oceans, lakes, and rivers, where plenty of people and animals shit, pee, die, decompose, and release all sort of other bodily fluids in all the time as well. So, if one subscribes to the contagion heuristic[1], any person or animal that drinks water is unclean as well. Ironically, however, water is often used in purifying rituals and is somehow supposed to make on "clean" in the religious sense. Go figure. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_heuristic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_heuristic
  - mirimir 9y ago
    All true. It's never made much sense to me. I mean, all food animals contain shit when they die.
  - andrewflnr 9y ago
    Why do you think ancient people should have been equally concerned with pigs eating people poop, other animals eating herbivore poop, and unmeasurable quantities of poop, etc. in drinking water? Both of us know, and probably ancient Middle-Eastern people knew, that eating people poop and fertilizing plants with herbivore poop are not really comparable. Washing with homeopathically contaminated water probably did make them cleaner physically, to say nothing of ceremonial cleanliness. Maybe it isn't the "contagion heuristic", just an attempt at finding a reasonable threshold for the time. This comment seems to be mocking the dumbest possible interpretation of kosher/halal solely for the sake of sounding clever.
camtarn 9y ago
The site is unusable on Android for me, because of an ad hijacking the page and redirecting me, spamming my phone's buzzer and popups, and trying to get me to download an APK to "clean my damaged phone". Ugh. At least it's usable if you disable JavaScript.

10 points by Thevet 9y ago

I see no mention of pig toilets.[0] This is partly why pigs aren't kosher/halal.[1] 0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_toilet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_toilet 1) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/people-ate-pork-middle-east-until-1000-bcwhat-changed-180954614/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/people-ate-pork-mid...

pmoriarty 9y ago
Not only pigs but also plants eat shit and other decomposing matter (in the form of manure or "fertilizer"). So if pigs are unclean because of this, plants are too, and so are any animals that eat plants. All of our drinking water comes from oceans, lakes, and rivers, where plenty of people and animals shit, pee, die, decompose, and release all sort of other bodily fluids in all the time as well. So, if one subscribes to the contagion heuristic[1], any person or animal that drinks water is unclean as well. Ironically, however, water is often used in purifying rituals and is somehow supposed to make on "clean" in the religious sense. Go figure. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_heuristic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_heuristic
- mirimir 9y ago
  All true. It's never made much sense to me. I mean, all food animals contain shit when they die.
- andrewflnr 9y ago
  Why do you think ancient people should have been equally concerned with pigs eating people poop, other animals eating herbivore poop, and unmeasurable quantities of poop, etc. in drinking water? Both of us know, and probably ancient Middle-Eastern people knew, that eating people poop and fertilizing plants with herbivore poop are not really comparable. Washing with homeopathically contaminated water probably did make them cleaner physically, to say nothing of ceremonial cleanliness. Maybe it isn't the "contagion heuristic", just an attempt at finding a reasonable threshold for the time. This comment seems to be mocking the dumbest possible interpretation of kosher/halal solely for the sake of sounding clever.

camtarn 9y ago

The site is unusable on Android for me, because of an ad hijacking the page and redirecting me, spamming my phone's buzzer and popups, and trying to get me to download an APK to "clean my damaged phone". Ugh. At least it's usable if you disable JavaScript.