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I cannot get over the irony of this religion of a famously malevolent and punitive god coming up with things like some fishing line on telephone poles to cheat

• mrguyorama 3y ago
  My understanding is that it's the entire point actually. Jewish people believe that these loopholes are explicit rewards for studying God's teachings. They don't believe they are "tricking" god or doing anything untoward, but rather that they and their god are sharing a shit eating grin of "yup solved your puzzle, pretty great" That being said, I have to laugh at a lot of the "Sabbath" mode stuff, because it's purposeful self deception. If you use an elevator at all, even in sabbath mode that is fully automated, just your physical presence is actuating several physical switches and logical systems, with plenty of sparks generated from relays opening and closing.
• amenhotep 3y ago
  It's not cheating! If the bible is supposed to be the word of god - perfect - then obviously any creative interpretations which a less faithful person might see as "loopholes" were actually intentionally left in there by him. Frankly, thinking you can second guess his lawmaking by deciding that you, a puny mortal, know what GOD HIMSELF meant better than he did when he had it written is arguably heretical!
• splintercell 3y ago
  Rank order preference of (all religions) regarding its members: - those who follow the religion above and beyond - those who "cheat" the rules - those who follow the religion bare minimum - those who explicitly reject the religion - those who don't care about the religion