Can you explain what the talmud is?
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And it's not even the rote memorization that gets me It's that it's an *arbitrary list of verses collated by the teacher* Random one-line snippets from a dozen different documents written hundreds of years apart in wildly different contexts that all contain the word "love"
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Like oh my fucking God Out in the secular world we talk about people who buy books of quotable quotes and just memorize "quotes about the brutality of war" to bust out and sound cool instead of ever actually reading the whole book the quote came from
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I grew up in a Southern Baptist church, and I can remember Bible Verse Quizzes and the like that I never won because I hadn't spent time memorizing the Bible. Good way to make a little kid feel like shit there, Christians.
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Wait you got candy? I am indescribably angry at this.
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I was raised atheist so the first time I found out about 'sword drills' as an adult I made a face like a codfish.
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