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Re:The Wire That Transforms Much of Manhattan into One Big, ... by throwaway2849 on Sunday June 08, 2025 @09:34PM (#44220730)
If your parents said come home by 6:00 PM and instead of coming home you put a wire around the city to “make it your home” and stay out, you’re tricking your parents.
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Re:The Wire That Transforms Much of Manhattan into One Big, ... by azernik on Monday June 09, 2025 @04:46AM (#44222514)
G-d is not your parents, and set and worded His rules with omniscience that your parents do not have.
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Re:The Wire That Transforms Much of Manhattan into One Big, ... by pnut on Monday June 09, 2025 @07:48AM (#44223501)
Is character substitution a clever rule hack also?
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Re:The Wire That Transforms Much of Manhattan into One Big, ... by azernik on Monday June 09, 2025 @08:27AM (#44223778)
No. As an extension of the rule about not taking his name in vain, and rules about preserving written instances of the name, observant Jews try not to refer to him explicitly. There's a bit of a dysphemism treadmill involved, but oh well.
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