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The Mudheads are not
very intelligent.
Long
ago they didn't know many
things, even very simple,
everyday actions.
So a man
tried to instruct them. He tried to
teach them how to go up a ladder.
He showed them how to do it, and they tried to copy him, but they
couldn't.
One tried to go up the ladder with his feet upmost, standing
on his head.
Another
tried to climb the back of the ladder.
A third kept falling through the
rungs, while a fourth got all tangled in the rungs.
They just couldn't
do it.
Then the man tried
to teach them how to build a house.
He showed them the right
way to do it, and they tried to
imitate his actions.
But one started
with the roof and made the others hold up the ceiling while he tried to build
downward from it.
Another put together a house with
no doors and windows.
He built it from the inside, and when he wanted
to go out, he found he had walled himself in.
The others had to break
down the walls to let him out.
Still
another made the
mud bricks out of
sand.
When it rained, his house
collapsed into a sandpile.
Try as they would, the Mudheads just
couldn't do it right.
Then the
man tried to show them a really
simple thing - how to sit on a
chair.
They watched and tried to do as he did.
One sat on
top of the chair back and tumbled over.
Another sat underneath
the chair.
Another sat
on the chair with his back to the front.
A fourth tried to sit upside
down with his head where his rump ought to have been.
They just
couldn't get the point.
'Well," said their
instructor, "I will try one
thing more.
I am going to show you how to copulate."
There was a fat old
woman who hadn't had a
man in her for a long
time.
"They can all practice on me,"
she said, "I don't mind."
So she
lifted up her manta and bent over, and the instructor copulated with her in the
simplest way - from the back as
dogs do.
The Mudheads watched closely,
and then they all wanted to try.
But none of them could find the
right opening.
One tried to do
it in the anus.
Another in the knee bend.
Another in the arm bend.
Another in the armpit.
They tried and tried.
They really wanted to do it
right, but they couldn't.
"I give up on you," said the
instructor.
The
fat old
woman just laughed.
A
Zuni clown dance story.
In
intervals between solemn masked dances the Mudheads provide relief as a comic
counterpoint.
do notDo not let
care corrode and gnaw your heart, lest you
should fall into a state of despondency and throw away all the blessings you
enjoy and with them your life.
Do not stir the fire with a sword, do
not irritate an angry person; rather endeavor to sooth and appease him. When no
longer under the influence of passion, he may hear and be benefitted by your
remonstrances.
Do not talk on moral or religious subjects before
immoral persons who are disposed to ridicule every thing that is grave and
serious; neither enter into arguments with persons who are obstinate, or
ignorant; who are either incapable of understanding, or predetermined not to
adopt what you advise.
Do not be ready to bind yourselves by vows, or
oaths, to do, or to refrain from any act. If the thing be proper in itself, you
will have sufficient incentive to do it, without laying such obligations or
restrictions upon yourself; the necessity for which can only arise from
imbecility, or inconstancy of mind, which you should rather endeavor to cure
than to indulge.
Do not through weariness, or inconstancy, leave any
business nearly completed in which you are engaged, unfinished, but persist to
the end; else all the time, labor, and expense that have been bestowed upon the
work, will be lost, and you will lose your character likewise; or when you
perceive yourself about to die, with patience and courage submit to your fate,
and do not weakly and foolishly wish for an extension of your life, in the vain
hope that you should live more rationally.
Do not attempt those actions
one is unqualified to perform, nor discourse on matters one does not
understand; more attention will be given to a blind man discoursing on colors.
Do nothing to revive a settled dispute or contest in which you were
engaged, you may not come off a second time so well.
Do not feed, or
take under your roof animals of ferocious and savage dispositions, that have
sharp and crooked claws.
Do not awaken sorrow once sorrow is asleep.
Do not wake a sleeping dog.
To follow the law of the Mishneh Torah an observant
Jews must:
The Book of Judges
whip the wicked,
do not allow a sorcerer to live, not execute the innocent on
circumstantial evidence; not punish one who committed an offence under
duress.
Laws of Rebels include nine commandments, three positive
commandments and six negative commandments, which are: (1) to act according
to the Torah as the Great Rabbinical Court declares it; (2) not to deviate
from their words; (3) not to add to the Torah
either in the commandments of the Written Law or in the interpretation that we
have learned from tradition; (4) not to take away from either of
them; (5) not to curse one's father or mother; (6) not to strike
one's father or mother; (7) to honor one's father and mother; (8) to
fear one's father and mother; (9) that a son shall not be stubborn and
rebellious against the voice of his father and mother.
Laws of Kings and
Wars include twenty-three commandments, ten positive commandments and thirteen
negative commandments, which are: (1) to appoint a king from among the
Israelites; (2) not to appoint him from the community of converts; (3)
that he shall not have many wives; (4) that he shall not have many horses;
(5) that he shall not have much gold and silver; (6)
to exterminate the seven Canaanite
peoples; (7) not to let a
single one of them live; (8) to wipe out the seed of Amalek;
(Amalek expelled the Israelites from Eygpt.) (9) to remember what Amalek
did; (10) not to forget his evil deeds and his ambush on the way; (11)
not to dwell in the Land of Egypt; (12) to offer peace to the inhabitants
of a city when besieging it, and to deal with it in the way set out in the
Torah, according as it makes peace or does not; (13) not to seek peace with
Ammon and Moab, when besieging them;(the children of Lot) (14) not to
destroy fruit trees in a siege; (15) to prepare a latrine so that members
of the camp shall go out there to excrete; (16) to prepare a stake to dig
with; (17) to anoint a priest
to speak to the men of the army in time of war; (18) for a man who has
espoused a wife, built a house, or planted a vineyard to rejoice in their new
acquisitions a full year, and they are sent back home from the war; (19)
that they shall not be pressed into any service, and not even to go out for the
needs of the city, the needs of the troops, nor the like; (20) not to be
frightened nor retreat in time of war; (21) the rule for a beautiful woman
taken captive in war; (22) that she is not to be sold; (23) that one
shall not enslave her after having sexual relations with her.
slavery (1) To
start with, we have Leviticus 25:43-46 to read.........."Your male and female
slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.
You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members
of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. You
can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves
for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly."
Clearly slavery is not forbidden. Slavery is legal and a modern capitalist
might say it is the freedom to own slaves. But this passage says that you
cannot have Israelite slaves but only slaves from other nations.
(2)
Slaves in ancient Israel were automatically emancipated after 6 years of
slavery, but only if they were Jewish. However, if the slave owner "gave" the
slave a wife, the owner could keep the wife and any children as his property.
This can't be true. This must be anti-Semitic propaganda as the Torah is a book
of love and tolerance. Well, Exodus 21:1-4 explains all.
(3) If one set
one's mind back to days of slavery it should be possible to imagine how slaves
must of been treated. In terms of beatings, Exodus 21:20-21 provides a decent
telling; 'And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die
under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a
day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money [property].' So in
this passage, killing your slaves is not allowed. But beating them as long as
they can survive after two days is allowed.
(4) Passages in Exodus
state that female slaves who were sold into slavery by their fathers would be
slaves forever. Exodus 21:7: 'And if a man sell his daughter to be a
maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.'
(5) Exodus
21:8. If a person bought a female slave from her father and she displeased him,
he had no right to sell her to a foreign owner. If the owner required her to
marry his son, then the owner was required to treat her like a daughter-in-law.
If the owner marries his slave and later marries another woman, he was required
to treat his slave as he previously had. If he violates any of these
requirements, then she must be emancipated. But she would leave without any
money or means of supporting herself; she would be free, but abandoned.
(6) Genesis 16:1-2. 'Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no
children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar. And Sarai
said to Abram, "Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go
in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram
listened to the voice of Sarai.' Would one call this the rape of a slave? Well
obviously Hagai had no choice in the matter as she was Abraham's property. All
the Jewish forefathers had slaves, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob etc... Nowadays
slavery is not seen at all as acceptable however in the 19th century the
situation was different. A quote found by a leading European Rabbi called
Morris-Jacob Raphall in 1861 was him saying that calling slavery a sin is
blasphemy because all the great Jews owed slaves.
(7) The Torah has
always been viewed as progressive. While still containing ideas which are now
not seen as moral in the 21st century, it did put limits on how to treat
slaves. The best example is: Exodus 20:10: "But the seventh day is the Sabbath
of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor
thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy
stranger that is within thy gates:"
(8) We left the most disturbing
passage for end. Torah says that if someone steal something then he must pay
back what he sole plus extra. But if that thief cannot afford this then he
would be sold as a slave (Exodus 22:3). Stealing in those days was not about
consumer items but for more desperate acts like stealing bread to survive. The
same rule applies for someone who owes money. A debtor who could not pay back
creditors might be sold into slavery or possibly have his children sold. (II
Kings 4:1)
prostitution
(1) The attitudes towards prostitutes is similar to the attitude
towards prostitutes now. It was seen as a disgusting and immoral profession and
there was no sympathy for the
woman. In line with the fact that the Torah was written by men, the prostitutes
create evil. As a punishment Jeremiah 13:26-27 says; "Therefore will I discover
thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear. I have seen thine
adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine
abominations on the hills in the fields" These women will be forcibly put in
front of the public naked in order to embarrass and humiliate them. Levititus
21:9 is a bit more extreme; 'And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes
herself by whoring, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.'
(2) Yet despite this, one of the heroes of the Torah, Samson visited a
prostitute. Judges 16:1, 'One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a
prostitute. He went in to spend the night with her.'
(3) Judah (Jacobs
son) also slept with a prostitute. Later found out she was his daughter-in-law
and furthermore she became pregnant. So he ordered her to be burnt alive.
(Genesis 38:16, 40)
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