#the sin of Onan

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Judah and Tamar

1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.

3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er.

4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.

5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.

6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.

7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord slew him.

8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.

10 And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.

11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

14 And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.

15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.

16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?

17 And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?

18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not.

21 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.

22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.

23 And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.

25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.

26 And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.

28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.

29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.

30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah. — Genesis 38 | King James Version (KJV) The King James Version Bible is in the public domain. Cross References: Genesis 4:1; Genesis 24:65; Genesis 25:24; Genesis 37:32; Genesis 41:42; Genesis 46:12; Leviticus 21:9; Numbers 26:19; Deuteronomy 25:6; Joshua 15:1; Joshua 15:10; Joshua 15:35; Joshua 15:57; Ruth 4:12; 1 Samuel 24:17; 1 Chronicles 2:3-4; Nehemiah 11:24; Proverbs 7:10; Matthew 22:24

Genesis 38 (John Gill’s Exposition of the Bible)

[burningvelvet]

Every Instance of Lord Byron Hating On John Keats, Listed in Chronological Order.

“No more Keats I entreat — flay him alive. If some of you don’t I must skin him myself.”

To his publisher John Murray, 12 October 1820:

“‘I’m thankful for your books dear Murray / But why not send Scott’s Monastery?’ the only book in four living volumes I would give a baioccho to see, abating the rest of the same author, and an occasional Edinburgh & Quarterly – as brief Chroniclers of the times. — Instead of this – here are John Keats’s piss a bed poetry – and three novels by God knows whom [..] Pray send me no more poetry but what is rare and decidedly good. — There is such a trash of Keats and the like upon my tables – that I am ashamed to look at them. [..] – I am in a very fierce humour at not having Scott’s Monastery. – You are too liberal in quantity and somewhat careless of the quality of your missives. – [..] No more Keats I entreat – – – flay him alive – if some of you don’t I must skin him myself. There is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin. – – – – – [editor’s note: ‘dashes degenerate into scrawl’]”

To his publisher John Murray, 4 November 1820:

“They Support Pope I see in the Quarterly. [Let them] Continue to do so – it is a Sin & a Shame and a damnation – to think that Pope!! should require it – but he does. – – – Those miserable mountebanks of the day – the poets – disgrace themselves – and deny God – in running down Pope – the most faultless of Poets, and almost of men – – the Edinburgh praises Jack Keats or Ketch or whatever his names are; – why his is the Onanism of Poetry — something like the Pleasure an Italian fiddler extracted out of being suspended daily by a Street Walker in Drury Lane – this went on for some weeks – at last the Girl – went to get a pint of Gin – met another, chatted too long – and Cornelli was hanged outright before she returned. Such like is the trash they praise – and such will be the end of the outstretched poesy of this miserable Self-polluter of the human Mind [editor’s note: ‘untranscribable scrawl’]. W. Scott’s Monastery just arrived — many thanks for that Grand Desideratun of the last Six Months.”

Note: “onanism” refers to masturbation.

To his publisher John Murray, 9 November 1820:

“Mr. Keats whose poetry you enquire after — appears to me what I have already said; such writing is a sort of mental masturbation — he is always frigging his Imagination. I don’t mean that he is indecent, but viciously soliciting his own ideas into a state which is neither poetry nor any thing else but a Bedlam vision produced by raw pork and opium.”

Note: “frigging” was slang for masturbation.

To his publisher John Murray, 18 November 1820:

“P.S. — Of the praises of that little dirty blackguard Keates in the Edinburgh — I shall observe as Johnson did when Sheridan the actor got a pension. ‘What has he got a pension? then it is time that I should give up mine!’ — Nobody could be prouder of the praises of the Edinburgh than I was — or more alive to their censure — as I showed in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers — at present all the men they have ever praised are degraded by that insane article. — Why don't they review & praise ‘Solomon's Guide to Health’ it is better sense — and as much poetry as Johnny Keates.”

To his publisher John Murray 26 April 1821:

“Is it true – what Shelley writes me that poor John Keats died at Rome of the Quarterly Review? I am very sorry for it – though I think he took the wrong line as a poet – and was spoilt by Cockneyfying and Surburbing – and versifying Tooke’s Pantheon and Lempriere’s Dictionary. I know by experience that a savage review is Hemlock to a sucking author – and the one on me – (which produced the English Bards &c.) knocked me down – but I got up again. Instead of bursting a blood-vessel – I drank three bottles of Claret – and began an answer – finding that there was nothing in the Article for which I could lawfully knock Jeffrey on the head in an honourable way. However I would not be the person who wrote the homicidal article – for all the honour & glory in the World, – though I by no means approve of that School of Scribbling – which it treats upon.”

To Percy Shelley, 26 April 1821:

“I am very sorry to hear what you say of Keats — is it actually true? I did not think criticism had been so killing. Though I differ from you essentially in your estimate of his performances, I so much abhor all unnecessary pain, that I would rather he had been seated on the highest peak of Parnassus than have perished in such a manner. Poor fellow! though with such inordinate self-love he would probably have not been very happy. I read the review of ‘Endymion’ in the Quarterly. It was severe, — but surely not so severe as many reviews in that and other journals upon others.

I recollect the effect on me of the Edinburgh on my first poem; it was rage, and resistance, and redress — but not despondency nor despair. I grant that those are not amiable feelings; but, in this world of bustle and broil, and especially in the career of writing, a man should calculate upon his powers of resistance before he goes into the arena. ‘Expect not life from pain nor danger free, Nor deem the doom of man reversed for thee.’

You know my opinion of that second-hand school of poetry. You also know my high opinion of your own poetry, — because it is of no school. [..] I have published a pamphlet on the Pope controversy, which you will not like. Had I known that Keats was dead — or that he was alive and so sensitive — I should have omitted some remarks upon his poetry, to which I was provoked by his attack upon Pope, and my disapprobation of his own style of writing.”

To Percy Shelley, 30 July 1821:

[First page missing] “The impression of Hyperion upon my mind was – that it was the best of his works. Who is to be his editor? It is strange that Southey who attacks the reviewers so sharply in his Kirk White – calling theirs ‘the ungentle craft’ – should be perhaps the killer of Keats. Kirke White was nearly extinguished in the same way – by a paragraph or two in ‘the Monthly’ – Such inordinate sense of censure is surely incompatible with great exertion – have not all known writers been the subject thereof?”

To his publisher John Murray 30 July 1821:

“Are you aware that Shelley has written an Elegy on Keats, and accuses the Quarterly of killing him?

‘Who killed John Keats? / ‘I,’ says the Quarterly, / So savage and Tartarly; / ‘Twas one of my feats.’ / Who shot the arrow? / ‘The poet-priest Milman / (So ready to kill man), / Or Southey or Barrow.’’

You know very well that I did not approve of Keats’s poetry, or principles of poetry, or of his abuse of Pope; but, as he is dead, omit all that is said about him in any M.S.S. of mine, or publication. His Hyperion is a fine monument, and will keep his name. I do not envy the man who wrote the article; — you Review people have no more right to kill than any other footpads. However, he who would die of an article in a Review would probably have died of something else equally trivial. The same thing nearly happened to Kirke White, who died afterwards of a consumption.”

4 August 1821, to his publisher John Murray:

“You must however omit the whole of the observations against the Suburban School – they are meant against Keats and I cannot war with the dead – particularly those already killed by Criticism. Recollect to omit all that portion in any case.”

To his publisher John Murray, 7 August 1821:

“All the part about the Suburb School must be omitted – as it referred to poor Keats now slain by the Quarterly Review — [..] I have just been turning over the homicide review of J. Keats. – It is harsh certainly and contemptuous but not more so than what I recollect of the Edinburgh R. of ‘the Hours of Idleness’ in 1808. The Reviewer allows him ‘a degree of talent which deserves to be put in the right way’ ‘rays of fancy’ ‘gleams of Genius’ and ‘powers of language’. – It is harder on L. Hunt than upon Keats & professes fairly to review only one book of his poem. – Altogether – though very provoking it was hardly so bitter as to kill unless there was a morbid feeling previously in his system.”

To Thomas Moore, August 27th 1822:

“It was not a Bible that was found in Shelley's pocket, but John Keats's poems.”

From his poem Don Juan Canto Eleventh written October 1822 and published August 1823. He was going off the popular gossip shared to him by Shelley (who believed it), which was that Keats health had sharply declined due to receiving bad reviews:

“John Keats, who was killed off by one critique, / Just as he really promised something great, / If not intelligible, without Greek / Contrived to talk about the Gods of late, / Much as they might have been supposed to speak. / Poor fellow! His was an untoward fate; / ‘Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, / Should let itself be snuffed out by an article.”

To his publisher John Murray, 25 December 1822:

“As to any community of feeling, thought, or opinion, between Leigh Hunt and me, there is little or none. We meet rarely, hardly ever; but I think him a good-principled and able man, and must do as I would be done by. I do not know what world he has lived in – but I have lived in three or four – and none of them like his Keats and Kangaroo terra incognita – Alas! poor Shelley! – how he would have laughed – had he lived, and how we used to laugh now & then – at various things – which are grave in the Suburbs. You are all mistaken about Shelley – – you do not know – how mild – how tolerant – how good he was in Society – and as perfect a Gentleman as ever crossed a drawing room; – when he liked – & where he liked. – – – – –“

The excerpts above are taken primarily from Peter Cochran’s transcriptions.

[nerdygaymormon]

Genesis 38 - Tamar : It is a sin to deny people fair treatment & they are justified to find ways to get what they deserve

The story of Tamar interrupts the story of Joseph and his coat of many colors, which means it is often skipped over, in part to follow the story of Joseph and also because it is an uncomfortable story.

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Judah has 3 sons. He arranges for his oldest son to marry a Canaanite woman named Tamar. His oldest son dies without Tamar having children.

As per their tradition of levirate marriages, the brother of a man who dies without children is permitted and encouraged to marry the widow and any children that comes from that marriage are considered to belong to the deceased brother. Judah assigns Tamar to be wife of his second son who is named Onan.

Onan has sex with Tamar but pulls out and spills his semen on the ground rather than possibly impregnate her. Why would he do this? Under their tradition of primogeniture, Judah’s wealth would be divided among his 3 sons, but with the oldest getting double what the others receive. This meant the oldest would inherit 1/2 of all Judah has, the two younger brothers would each get 1/4. With the oldest son dead, if Tamar has a son, he would inherit his father’s share. However, if Tamar doesn’t have a son, then Onan would move into the spot of the oldest son and inherit 2/3 of Judah’s wealth. 

Onan dies and Tamar still doesn’t have a child, so tradition would be for her to go to the final brother. Judah is worried that if Tamar marries his final son, then he will also die, perhaps Judah sees Tamar as the common denominator in the deaths of his two oldest sons. Judah tells Tamar to go back to her father's home and live as a widow.

Judah’s wife dies. The scriptures say he was comforted, I think this is meaning he did the requisite mourning period.

Tamar finds out it is time for Judah to shear his sheep, and she puts her plan into motion. The local fertility cult had women who had sex with worshipers as a way to ensure the land's fertility, and Tamar dressed like one of these women, which included wearing a veil to hide her face, then she waits along the road that leads to where Judah’s sheep are located. Judah, who hasn’t had sex since his wife died, sees Tamar and wants to have sex with her and in exchange offers to give her a young goat. He doesn’t have the young goat with him, so to assure that Judah will send the goat, Tamar asks that he leave his staff, seal, and cord.

Judah later sends one of his workers with the young goat, except he can’t find the woman in this consecrated role, and the villagers say there hasn’t been such a woman at the local shrine for some time. 

In 3 months, reports come to Judah that Tamar is pregnant from prostituting herself out for money. He is outraged and orders for her to be burned to death.

Tamar produces the staff, seal, and cord, and announces these belong to the man who impregnated her and asks if Judah recognizes who these belong to. Judah admits to what he did, and takes care of Tamar and the twins she is pregnant with, although he never sleeps with her again, so it sounds like he does not marry her.

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This is a weird story. I have some observations.

Judah is pretty much a failure as patriarch of the tribe of Judah and this is really the story of how Tamar rescued this tribe and became the matriarch of the people of Judah. 

All the men in this family, by treating Tamar this way, risked the continuation of this family's line by putting in jeopardy the creation of the next generation. 

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In their society, the value of a woman is her virginity and her ability to bear children, and she will be provided for by either her father or her husband.

Judah’s family has left her valueless. Tamar is no longer a maiden. Onan denied her the opportunity for children. After Onan's death, Judah denies her the opportunity to marry his youngest. They've put her in a precarious position.

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In Genesis 37, the chapter preceding this story, Judah is the one who came up with the idea of selling Joseph into slavery and telling their father that Joseph is dead, causing their father immense grief. It feels a bit like karma that in this story Judah loses two of his sons and he experiences the same grief at losing them as his father.

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Some Christians have used the story of Onan to argue that masturbation is sinful because it also results in spilling the man's seed on the ground, not in the vaginal canal. In other words, it's sex which can't result in pregnancy.

The scripture seems clear that the sin of Onan isn’t that his semen hit the ground, but that Onan refused to impregnate Tamar, which was his duty to his dead brother. Onan broke the contract to raise up children to his deceased brother. Onan used Tamar for his sexual pleasure and/or as a way to disgrace his dead brother. Blocking Tamar from having children would result in Onan receiving his brother’s inheritance for himself, essentially robbing Tamar.

It is strange to use this story to teach masturbation is a sin as there was no masturbation mentioned in the story. Masturbate to your heart’s content as long as it isn’t hurting anyone. 

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When Tamar heard that Judah was going to shear his sheep, that seemed to convey important information, like shearing sheep isn't the only thing that happens at this time.

It makes me think of cowboys on the cattle drives who would receive their lump sum payment at the end of the trail when the cattle are sold, and many of them would immediately go looking to spend it on booze and women. Perhaps it is similar in that having all this wool to sell is an economic windfall and vices can be afforded.

It is interesting there is no condemnation of Judah for soliciting the prostitute. However, when he learned that Tamar had prostituted herself, he is furious and demands that she be burned to death. It shows the double standard of patriarchy. It was fine for Judah to use a woman for sex, but unthinkable for a woman in his family to be engaged in that activity. What is acceptable depends on which side of the patriarchal system you find yourself. Women at that time were viewed as property, and being a harlot, even a religious one, dramatically reduces the value of the woman.

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It wasn't happenstance that Tamar required Judah to hand over his seal, staff, and cord. These are the symbol of his family and his tribe. The seal is used to mark his property. These items are highly valuable, and by handing them over, he is putting the future of his family in the hands of the sacred prostitute. It is reminiscent of Esau selling his birthright to satisfy his hunger. Judah was satisfying a different hunger.

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Judah admits to what he did and agrees to take care of Tamar. He recognized the wrong he did and took steps to fix it, so in a way he redeems himself in some measure. This is considered justice and a fulfilling of what is owed to Tamar.

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The sin of this story was not prostitution, it wasn’t sex outside of marriage, it wasn’t masturbation or birth control. They failed to take care of Tamar and meet their obligations to her, that is the sin. They had an obligation to care for someone in a vulnerable position.

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This family has many generations of women who are infertile, but who finally have a son who grows up to save the nation. Think of Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, Elizabeth, and Hannah. Although, since the common denominator is the males from the same family line, perhaps it's not the women who are infertile.

While not infertile, Tamar is similar in that she is unable to have children due to the men of this family. Tamar uses trickery and extra-marital sex to seize the means of reproduction, and she was declared righteous for doing so.

This Canaanite woman lived up to all the traditional roles expected of her, but she was betrayed by the patriarchy. Perhaps they did this because she wasn't an Israelite, but rather than polluting the tribe, she lifts it up. She became the one to carry on Judah’s lineage through her children.

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A queer application of this is we need to take care of the people around us, especially those more vulnerable and on the margins of society.

Many laws are being passed to deny basic rights and decency to queer people, especially trans individuals. Do we stand up for these vulnerable groups of people and oppose this legislation?

It’s okay for non-queer people to get gender-affirming care. For example, hormone blockers if puberty comes too early or to treat the symptoms of PCOS, testosterone to boost sex drive, hormone replacement therapy for menopause, breast reduction or enhancement surgery, hair transplants, Viagra, injections of filler to plump up lips and bums, and the list goes on and on. Cisgender people affirming their gender through healthcare is commonplace.

But for queer people to seek gender-affirming healthcare, that's not seen as the same. Laws target trans people to forbid them accessing gender-affirming care.

When I read that Judah thought it was fine for him to pay a woman for sex, but terrible for Tamar to be paid by a man for sex, it reminded me of how those in power and positions of privilege often allow for themselves things they deny to others. We live in a cis-normative and heteronormative society and gender-affirming healthcare is easily accessible for those in the majority. Meanwhile, the same health treatments for a queer person are tightly controlled and difficult to access. Estrogen is readily available to cis women as a hormonal contraceptive from their doctor, yet extremely hard to get hold of for trans women, who must go through a specialist gender clinic and a psychiatric assessment to access the same drug.

Most trans healthcare is actually cis healthcare. Very few of the speech and language therapists, laser hair-removal specialists, or surgeons constructing penises for trans men, originally trained to offer their services to trans people. Their services were for cis people first, and then adapted for trans people.

Cis people would be very upset if the government severely limited or outlawed their access to these treatments. Why are they upset that queer people receive gender-affirming healthcare? Perhaps it’s not the healthcare that they have a problem with, but it's about their own discomfort with queer people.

Just as Judah didn't have an issue with sex outside of marriage for himself but was ready to kill Tamar for essentially the same thing, many people in our society are ready to shame, bully, outlaw and even cause the death of queer people for accessing treatments available to everyone else.

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Another queer application for queer Mormons is we can relate to growing up being promised that we would be married and have a family, but then being denied those blessings and reminded of it at every turn.

Like Tamar, queer members have to make families in unconventional ways, and we get shamed and labeled a sinner because of it.

Eventually Tamar’s choices were validated and she was honored to become a foremother of Jesus Christ. One day queer Latter-day Saints will receive the blessings we were promised and be able to stay in the Church. In the meantime, we need to be persistent like Tamar to get the blessings we deserve.

[weatherman667]

Fapping Good Actually: Read the Bible + Research

The Bible does not prohibit masturbation.

Onan is about betraying your brother..

All of the prohibitions on sexuality are on having sex with not your wife.

Because bonding, disease, children born out of wedlock, etc.

The root of the word pornography is the writings about prostitutes.  So, what we think are prohibitions on consuming pornography are prohibitions on fucking prostitutes.

The Bible also says to judge things based off their fruits, i.e. the actual effect.  This is the big problem on the Left as they create programmes out of compassion, and don’t care if they work, or even if they exacerbate the problem they think they are solving.

Statistically pornography reduces sex crimes.  Those who consume more pornography statistically have more sex.  Likely because of a mediator variable: horniness.

The downsides are addiction, which is real, and a declining fertility, but that can likely be blamed on something else, namely Feminism, and displaced men.

Jesus goes on a rant on excessive purity culture.  The quote about if you look at a woman with lust, you should rip out your own eye, was a comment on the demand for the complete elimination of sin.  Our goal is to be better, more productive people, not be perfect.  “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”

That said, live pornography does have some great moral qualms, which we really don’t need to get into, and just accept that they exist.   Which leaves simulacrum pornography: drawings, writings, etc.

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[josemanuelhortelanopi]

Onán es una publicación de ilustración erótica cuyo contenido nace de la correspondencia entre el artista José Manuel Hortelano-Pi y la gente que envía sus fotos para que él las dibuje.

En Onán todo el mundo tiene cabida. Con esta publicación, José Manuel Hortelano-Pi quiere ilustrar las diferentes formas en que la gente expresa conceptos como el autoerotismo, la intimidad y la desnudez. También es una celebración de la diversidad de cuerpos que existen, y pretende darles visibilidad a esos cuerpos que tienen poca presencia en el imaginario erótico colectivo.

Si quieres participar en el proyecto y ser dibujado, puedes mandar tus fotos directamente al artista a su correo jmhortelanopi@gmail.com o ponerte en contacto con él a través del

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Requisitos de las fotos:

- Onán es una publicación de ilustración erótica, por lo tanto la foto tiene que tener un carácter eminentemente erótico. Onán es una celebración del cuerpo humano y el placer de sentir la belleza con la visión de nuestro cuerpo desnudo.

- Se valorará enormemente que la foto esté hecha expresamente para el proyecto teniendo en cuenta los conceptos mencionados. Con fotos exclusivas se consiguen dibujos más especiales y tanto el trabajo del artista como del retratado se ven recompensados.

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Participa en Onán y en la celebración de uno mismo, de la alegría de sentirse hermoso tengas el cuerpo que tengas.

Onán is a publication of erotic illustration whose content is born from the correspondence between the artist José Manuel Hortelano-Pi and the people who send their photos for him to draw them.Everyone has a place in Onán. With this publication, José Manuel Hortelano-Pi wants to illustrate the different ways in which people express concepts such as autoeroticism, intimacy and nudity. It is also a celebration of the diversity of bodies that exist, and aims to give visibility to those bodies that have little presence in the collective erotic imaginary.If you want to participate in the project and be drawn, you can send your photos directly to the artist at his email jmhortelanopi@gmail.com or contact him through the publication's instagram @onan.fanzine.

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Participate in Onan and in the celebration of oneself, of the joy of feeling beautiful no matter what body you have

[uboat53]

A thought occurs, SHORT RANT (TM) time? No titles or sections on this one, it's more of a stream-of-consciousness rant.

We talk a lot about the way that Christianity interacts with politics, but has anyone else noticed the sheer arrogance of fundamentalist/evangelical Christians here in the US?

I'm not talking about normal arrogance, the kind that we have day-to-day. Heck, I'm sure many of you think (and some of you accurately) that I'm pretty arrogant myself! No, I'm talking about a deep and abiding arrogance beyond the realm of man. Can you imagine telling someone that you have perfectly understood the mind of God?

They won't say it like that, but that's what they mean if you put the pieces together. They say that they're just reading the Bible, but how many people do you know who agree on exactly what every single passage of the Bible means after studying it for a lifetime, let alone just reading it a few times? I can tell you, as a Jew, that the parts of the Bible that are shared are not remotely agreed upon by Jewish scholars even after millennia of study and debate. They also say that the Bible is inerrant, but how do they know which version? Is it the King James Version? The New International Version? Is it the version that the Council of Nicea agreed upon? Is it the few scraps and passages that have survived in the original Aramaic from the first century CE?

And even when they do get a little bit of focus and clarity, they don't use it to pursue a deeper understanding. They'll say that the story of Sodom and Gomorah tells you that God rejects homosexuality, ignoring the passage in Ezekiel that describes the sin of these two cities as refusing to use their wealth to help the poor and needy. They'll say that the story of Onan and Tamar in the Book of Genesis tells you that God detests masturbation, ignoring the scholarly consensus that Onan's sin was actually his refusal to fulfil his obligation to Tamar and his brother's family line by providing her with a child.

And, despite all of the issues with how they arrive at their perfect understanding of the mind of God they're not shy about enforcing any of it. These things they've perfectly understood from the mind of God aren't just things that they think that Christians should do, they think that the force of law and the violence of the state should be brought to bear to force every single person, regardless of their beliefs, to follow their understanding of the mind of God as well. After all, if they've perfectly understood it, then why shouldn't it be enforced with all possible power?

And that's the arrogance of it. It's not just that they think that the mind of God is perfectly understandable or that they think that the will of God should be enforced, it's that they think that they and only they have perfectly understood the mind of God and, therefore, their understanding must be forced on everyone else no matter the cost.

Even at my worst, I'm not that arrogant.

[freebiblestudies]

Lesson 038: More Righteous?

Genesis 38:26 - So Judah acknowledged them and said, “She has been more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shelah my son.” And he never knew her again. 

Genesis chapter 38 tells a rather sordid story about sexual sins.  Judah and Tamar both committed sins in this story, yet Judah called her more righteous than him.  Why did he say that?

Let’s read together Genesis 38:1-11; Deuteronomy 25:5-10; and Numbers 36:7.

In the Old Testament, there was a custom known as levirate marriage.  If a man died childless, it was the duty of an unmarried brother to marry the widow.  The first child they had together would be the legal descendant of the dead man.  The purpose of this custom was to protect family lines and inheritances.

Er married Tamar, but Er died without an heir.  It was Er’s brother Onan’s duty to marry Tamar and have a child who would be considered Er’s legal heir.  Onan took advantage of the situation to have sexual relations with Tamar, but he did not want to provide an heir for Er.  The Lord killed Onan for his disobedience.  Judah promised Tamar she would marry his next son Shelah, but he reneged on his promise.

Let’s read together Genesis 38:12-25; Leviticus 20:14; Leviticus 21:9; Deuteronomy 22:20-22; and John 8:41.

The penalty for adultery in Old Testament times was stoning for both the man and woman.  Burning was the penalty for extreme cases.    Judah in his anger demanded Tamar should be burnt to death because he thought she committed harlotry.  However, Tamar gave proof that Judah was the one who got her pregnant.  Judah had to come clean about lying to Tamar and committing sexual sin.  

When Judah said Tamar was more righteous than him, Judah acknowledged his hypocrisy.  They both sinned, but he was the worse sinner.  Judah never had sex with Tamar again after this admission.

Let’s read together Matthew 7:1-2 and Luke 6:41-42.

May we be careful not to judge others and act as hypocrites.

[caught-tumbling]

Its not a sin to waste cum because of the little sperms souls, it was a sin because of the context of the story. A man named Er died, so his brother Onan was tasked with providing the widow with a child, an heir for the now dead Er. My understanding is this was common at the time. The brother instead wanted to fuck the widow with no strings attached, so he came on the ground to avoid impregnating her. That was the sin.

So unless you're fucking your brothers wife cumming on the ground isn't a sin. Also abortions are healthcare not sinful

pro lifer blocked me on twitter for asking this but if embryos have souls, and then they're aborted, exactly how sapient are they in the afterlife? Are they forever doomed to float around with no thoughts in their heads? Is it like just animal intelligence like a little happy goldfish? Do they still have an embryonic form? I've always seen an assumption that child souls are still in child form so I guess so. Do the other people in the afterlife keep abortions as little pets? Will they stay in a fishbowl or are they too stupid + intangible and float right out again?

[thepitofjob]

Job 23: 13-17. "The Portfolio."

Mistakes are a type of Polemic that are written to clarify the assumptions about a particular passage in the Torah or Tanakh. Warrants contend with violations. Next is the Decree, which pertains to the oncoming of the Mashiach, which are ways to solidify global order.

It is a mistake to think Onan's sin was about masturbation for example, God issued a warrant after Cain's homicide of Abel, and now we will discuss the Decree, the things one must do:

13 “But he stands alone, and who can oppose him?     He does whatever he pleases. 14 He carries out his decree against me,     and many such plans he still has in store. 15 That is why I am terrified before him;     when I think of all this, I fear him. 16 God has made my heart faint;     the Almighty has terrified me. 17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness,     by the thick darkness that covers my face.

We cannot rely on the Shule alone for implementation of the Decrees. The beliefs and practices of the religion are supposedly designed to pave the way to a more lucrative way of life, but without active participation in the affairs of community, they are pointless. No amount of contemplation or oration on the desired way of life is going to matter without full engagement of the Decrees and the onset of the Mashiach.

But we cannot read so we do not even practice much less perform interpretive polemics. Mashiach is not possible in the midst of a deaf and dumb human race:

On average, 79% of U.S. adults nationwide are literate in 2024. 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).

Word of mouth then must the cause of our immense problems. This is why I want Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to be more forthright about what is going to happen with those two child molesters, Donald Trump and JD Vance ahead of the final days of this election year. Persons who have a history of child pornography and sex with minors are not allowed attain to positions of power. This is a violation of our agreements with other nations who may also not elect pedophiles and swear them in to public office.

Rape and other forms of sexual violence against children are human rights violations, and may amount to grave breaches of international humanitarian law.

In the very beginning of the Torah the first thing God tells Adam and Eve is not to exploit the sexuality of young people. We are not off to a very good start or conclusion to this election in America because we cannot read or act appropriately, and I think we are ready for some very serious consequences to the establishment responsible for failing to read and respond appropriately to these extremely important dictates.

If we do a Texas Two Step around this issue, we risk the USA becoming a hub for sex tourism and organized crime which it kind of already is. The implications of allowing Donald Trump et al to continue to promote perverted sex crimes on the soil of other nations are too serious to ignore.

Donald Trump and JD Vance both have connections to the trafficking of sex with minors the FBI and UN are aware of this, their actions are violations of spiritual, federal, and International laws it is illegal for these two men to participate in a US Election. someone has to make it clear their names shall not be appearing on that ballot in November.

This is an example of a Decree and the removal of the penetration darkness that is covering the faces of the human race.

The Values in Gematria are:

v. 13-14: He does whatever he pleases. So long as this pleases God that is fine. The Number is 7286, זבח‎ ו‎, "sacrifice."

The first aspect of the Decree is it requires sacrifice. One cannot, for example commit adultery. Sacrifice is required before and definitely after violations of the Decree that forbids adultery. The goal of a Decree is to identify which is the lesser sacrifice to make.

v. 15-16: That is why I am terrified.

The Torah says we are the most terrified of changing our minds. This passage is repeated twice:

Balak "The Destroyer" Summons Balaam "the Devourer of the People."

22 Then the Israelites traveled to the plains of Moab "father's way of life" and camped along the Jordan across from Jericho. [to cross the Jordan is to grow up, it refers to losing one's virginity. After this, one can enter Jericho "the fragrant place". ]

2 Now Balak "to lay waste" son of Zippor "the bird or the goat" saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites, 3 and Moab was terrified because there were so many people. Indeed, Moab was filled with dread because of the Israelites.

The Number is 5830, החל‎ , "what is applied". By the time one reaches adulthood one must be able to apply the Decrees and stay out of trouble. Sex with minors, for example is not an acceptable course of action for an adult to take nor is lack of enforcement of the age of consent by the government. This is a very serious crime.

Everyone in the world will benefit from an official announcement about the legal protections children have from sexual crimes performed by persons holding positions of power.

v. 17: I am not silenced by the darkness. The Number is 4293, דבטג‎ ‎ ‎‎, debtag, "The portfolio of a dove."

The Tribe of Simeon contains traits that contribute to a person's good reputation. About Simeon, the Torah says in Ki Tavo:

11 On the same day Moses commanded the people:

12 When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim "to graze" to bless the people:

Simeon "Law abiding" , Levi "unity", Judah "praise", Issachar "friendship", Joseph "prosperity" and Benjamin "righteousness." 13 And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce curses: Reuben "leadership" , Gad "teaching", Asher "happiness", Zebulun "honor" , Dan "judgement" and Naphtali "struggle".

14 The Levites shall recite to all the people of Israel in a loud voice:

15 “Cursed is anyone who makes an idol—a thing detestable to the Lord, the work of skilled hands—and sets it up in secret.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

16 “Cursed is anyone who dishonors their father or mother.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

17 “Cursed is anyone who moves their neighbor’s boundary stone.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

18 “Cursed is anyone who leads the blind astray on the road.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

19 “Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

20 “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he dishonors his father’s bed.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

21 “Cursed is anyone who has sexual relations with any animal.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

22 “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

23 “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his mother-in-law.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

24 “Cursed is anyone who kills their neighbor secretly.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

25 “Cursed is anyone who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

26 “Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

The Torah says "on the same day, Moses commanded the people." That day was not supposed to have end. We are not abiding by the laws or the decrees and have accrued too many violations and the government needs to catch up. The people should support its efforts.

[pickledfingers]

Personally recommend the sin of Onan, but combined with sodomy it makes for a great time

does anyone hve any sin recommendations i just fell from the garden of eden five seconds ago

[almaqead]

"The Hidden Stream." From Surah 19, Surah Maryam, "The Mother of the Dawn."

In this splendid retelling of the Christmas story, God tells Mary only a son who is obedient to his parents, loyal to the religion, and very compassionate can save the world. She agrees to go through with the process, which involves a meeting the angel Gabriel and some date fruits. Almost at once we are involved in her labor with her.

The Surah says Mary then goes to ground, meaning she enters the Kahf. Reality must be different after the Kafh.

19: 23-26:

"Then the pains of labour drove her to the trunk of a palm tree. She cried, “Alas! I wish I had died before this, and was a thing long forgotten!”

So a voice1 reassured her from below her, “Do not grieve! Your Lord has provided a stream at your feet.

And shake the trunk of this palm tree towards you, it will drop fresh, ripe dates upon you.

So eat and drink, and put your heart at ease. But if you see any of the people, say, ‘I have vowed silence1 to the Most Compassionate, so I am not talking to anyone today.’”

Commentary:

This is retelling of the story of Tamar the fruitful palm tree lady who attempted to earn the Signet of Royalty for her progeny through a good shag. All of this is done in the Torah to restart the age after one of widowhood, when man has apparently lost track of his morality, his governments, his direction, and is losing everything and everyone he loves in the process.

The Quran , as I have said was written to give us hope these things can be kept safe and returned to their full glory if we are faithful to it. Within the Torah we see the origins of Maryam's passion. From Vayeshev:

6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar "date palm tree". 7 But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord put him to death. 8 Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother's wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.” 9 But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother's wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother. 10 And what he did was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also. 11 Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father's house, till Shelah [Great Peace, Let it Be!] my son grows up”—for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and remained in her father's house.

--> For this one we need to know a little about the Quran. It is very bad to refuse the bounty of the Date Palm, the symbol of sustenance in the desert.

Hadith, "Applied Islam" AKA Kabbalah or Tantra says one must possess the Date Palm if one is wise:

Once Allah's Apostle said, "Amongst the trees there is a tree, the leaves of which do not fall and is like a Muslim, tell me the name of that tree." Everybody started thinking about the trees of the desert areas and I thought of the date-palm tree but felt shy (to answer). The others asked, "O Allah's Apostle! inform us of it." He replied, "it is the date-palm tree." I told my father what had come to my mind and on that he said, "Had you said it I would have preferred it to such and such a thing that I might possess."  (Book #3, Hadith #133)

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Refusing intercourse with the Date Palm so to speak is indeed the kiss of death.

Also recall in Parshiot 7 & 8 the Israelites commit to cross-pollinating their heritage and traditions across the globe. Onan's sin wasn't the fact he shook his pop can, it was his bigotry.

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12 In the course of time the wife of Judah [Praise], Shua's [the ditch] daughter, died. When Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah [allotted portion] to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah [most noble] the Adullamite [refuge of justice]. 13 And when Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah (self control) to shear his sheep,” 14 she took off her widow's garments and covered herself with a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim (double fountain), which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage. 15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. 16 He turned to her at the roadside and said, “Come, let me come in to you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?” 17 He answered, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” And she said, “If you give me a pledge, until you send it—” 18 He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” She replied, “Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him. 19 Then she arose and went away, and taking off her veil she put on the garments of her widowhood.

The verses in the Quran are rife with Gematria so we need to also decrypt them down to the level of their Numbers if we are to know for sure what God wants us to do:

The Valies in Gematria are:

v . 23: The pains of her labor drove her to the trunk. The Number is 6345, "she went to the bank of a river, to the brim of a glass." But she didn't jump in, she didn't drink.

v. 24: A voice reassured her. The Number is 6991, "and sweeping."

Sweeping is sweeping under the rug. The problems taking place all around the world are universal and are taking place because of the same reasons. Humanity has been vain, careless, and not nearly cautious enough. Eventually we start to cross line after line until we sink so far into sin, our virtues become lost.

This is why Maryam is barren and only the power of Jibril, the god of reality, the same angel that gave Mo the Quran can give her the Gospels.

v. 25: Shake the trunk of this tree. The number is 5936, ה‎טגו‎‎, the tago,

"The verb תעה (ta'a) means to wander about and is used to describe the unsteady gait of drunkards (Job 12:25, Isaiah 28:7), of sheep or cattle without a herder (Exodus 23:4, Jeremiah 50:6), of homeless people (Genesis 21:14), and of foolish people (Ezekiel 44:10). It marks a lack of direction or objective and emphasizes the uselessness of the effort of going somewhere while in fact one is going nowhere at all. The noun תועה (to'a) means a wandering or straying from a certain path; a confusion or an error (Isaiah 32:6 and Nehemiah 4:2 only)."

v. 25: Eat and drink and put your mind at ease. Except Maryam, a good ghoulish girl was keeping Kosher, so she wasn't doing jack shit, which was apparently the cause of the problem.

The Number is 9747, ץזדז‎‎ czazd, "do it like this, then."

Allah told Mary to break the rules of Kosher and make a baby out of wedlock with a very fine male angel.

"So he...went in to her, and she conceived by him. 19 Then she arose and went away, and taking off her veil she put on the garments of her widowhood."

Maryam discovers the hidden stream, ecstasy, and became history's biggest scandal in the process. but it worked. The rules changed. To ensure the rules and their correct interpretation always fit the circumstances, we must discuss the Quran and its roots with others, otherwise there will be no new educated illuminated offspring and the human race will become all fugly and begin to die back.

[rennyji]

on forms of expressions of love/releases

One of the 10 Commandments is "Thou shalt not commit adultery."

Christ says if you even look at a woman in a wrong way, you have committed adultery in your heart.

Adultery is defined as "voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is not his or her spouse."

When it comes to looking at a woman in the "wrong way", it's about seeing women as an object, to exploit, vs someone to love, or be attracted to.

Then there's the infamous story about the Sin of Onan, an individual who spilled seed wastefully, when I believe God "commanded" him to produce offspring.-This is if I remember the story correctly. Assuming I am correct, as I'm in no mood to Google these trivial controversies, if my summary of the story is correct, the sin in the story is "disobeying what God told you to do: produce offspring in that context, not necessarily spilling seed." It is usually about "disobeying." Adam and Eve "disobeyed" and ate the apple from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, thereby losing their innocence/childlike naivety & faith.

I'm going to be blunt about this. When I was a teenager, I wasn't sure what was happening "down there" at the dawn of the internet, w/limited reading material. I couldn't talk to my conservative parents. I felt guilt, that I'm offending my friend and Father, God. When I failed once, I'd make a promise in prayer, that I'd never do it again. But biology is biology. And frankly, when you feel like pooping, you poop. You hold it, you cr*p your pants. When you feel like peeing, you pee, or end up wetting your pants. Who gave me desire or libido? It is part of God's creation. My Father doesn't want to be distressed over His children getting upset, over the design and mechanics of His children.

Now where am I going with all this? To make a point and address a facet of my situation.

As I learned from thought, perspective, and faith, I realized marriage is essential. Or a loving relationship is essential. It's best to experience the benefits of love by waiting for someone you can look at all day/every day without getting bored. Less or no consequences, in the long run. (On a sidetone, I'm a "face person"/"nice name person"/"nice smile person/long luscious hair person." That's more important to me than other bodily features and sizes. And above all, I want someone who understands what I'm saying and who I can talk to.) When you're old enough, you should seek out someone emotionally, intellectually, lovingly compatible. When you're young, focus on school and being financially independent through a resulting job, so that you can care for your significant other and self. In the nature of a friend who loves you more than anything, who walks with you side by side, you have your counterpart, one who complements you, to take care of your adult needs, physically, mentally, spiritually. This is the ideal model. If you go about it recklessly, and screw everyone you lust for(seeing as object for gratification), solely, based on physical features of attractiveness, you risk disease (STD's/Aids), unwanted pregnancies, and getting sucked into these abortion debates. These things wouldn't even matter, if you disciplined yourself in seeking a companion.

Like with everything, you need to go about things in the right way. If you're in a committed relationship, there is no STD, & if you end up having an unexpected child, you'll find a way to care for him/her and support your partner - it ends up being love for family.

And with respect to catering to one's physical needs, it's about discipline and control. You don't let your desire take you to extremes, excessiveness, without control.

You can't drink fluids all day, and waste precious time, endlessly peeing. You can eat food after food and spend your time pooping all day. I don't mean to compare someone's vitality/virility to waste, as it's an energy for happiness and growth of life. But what I am comparing is, it's another form of release. You can't dedicate your life to releases or going on a lustful marathon. Life is about limits, doing things in the right amount.

Now, if you're a teenager, if you're in a weird/confining/exposed mind harassing situation like mine, & you can't get married, then you can't initiate a relationship with a girl friend. Your "vitality/virility", building up will make your brain feel maybe too energetic or chemically fueling an unfocused mind. It might lead you to make reckless decisions through the wrong avenues of doing something, you're too young for, or don't have the opportunity for. This thing about "solo releases", not to be matched with pooping/peeing in image, but sometimes needs to be released. And if you're in a paradoxical situation, where for some reason, you're subjected to two antidepressants and two antipsychotics, which at its bare essence is with the goal to sedate, or take away a person's energy, a person's vitality/virility (resulting energy) will end up making you more sedated or feeling sedated.

Now on this subject, if we have toilet paper, toilets, not to put down a life producing force, you need a means that's sanitary for the product of "the deed." Women use-gonna say it-dildos, and men? I never understood the concept of a sock, or tissues in a dorm room garbage. If your son is in high school, getting him something like the initial brand Flesh Light? He'll have something clean/sanitary/non smelly/washable, for an energy that might make him make reckless decisions with his female peers in school. If parents get freaked out over awkwardness of it all and the images on these manufacturer sites, you risk your kids still engaging in things, and by not educating them, understanding them, you risk them getting into troublesome situations.

When I was in Catholic grade school, we had several of "the talks." Just don't do this/that. But they never got into circumstances where heat builds up between two of the opposite sexes, in some privacy setting. What if chemistry runs loose? If you don't explain about contraception/condoms, you're leading these kids to a path of destruction and abortion debates. Definitely tell them to wait till college or after, but also make sure they know how to control urges, deal with urges, what to do if something unexpected happens.

So what's up with all this?

In my naked situation, with the troubled kids show "theme," and the mind reading?

To avoid living in my contentious house, I keep going off to far off colleges. Or I take advantage of cheaper living in India, so that I live by myself. Now my building understanding of my situation is that, "if nowhere else," I'm being displaying in common areas like a kitchen, living room, tv room. When I was 23 (I'm 36 now), and in India, from what I can gather, the troubled kids show or whatever, with possible cameras, was displaying the common area in my apartment in India. In my youth, I did the deed, and the random kids that the show employed, decided to take their rage over their predicament, on me, by allowing the cameras to still roll, while "deed" done, and through relaying the cameras content. Everyone thought I'd never suspect or that it would be hidden away in India. This just builds for the excuses to keep me in the dark, as the justification is, it might be too much for my apparently feeble mind to handle. And why'd the kids do it? Because in my complaints to the police, where I didn't even mention their names, from what was hacked and relayed to them by faculty of State University of New York, I said I don't know how I'm known to people. I said I didn't do anything controversial or exposing, for the random attention I was getting. The kids have some weird fetish with displaying me and exploiting me. I don't know them, they don't know me. Their obsession, which they're making a lucrative career out of, turns into periodic spite toward me, displayed through them doing these surreal/outlandish things. They basically needed a justification in crazily making me a public spectacle "and this deluded form of helping me ( with what, on whose judgement?!). I guess now they can say I was displayed naked and that's how I was in the public eye, not because they're sociopaths stalking me.

I am the psychologists of psychologists, or the psychiatrists of psychiatrists, the advisor of advisers, the counsellor of counselors.

There is no one who can give me advice on the level or meaning, I give to myself, which comes from years of self introspection and speaking in prayer to God. I'm someone who sees all angles, all perspectives, and am open minded enough to my own flaws, to be the perfect diplomat...

But that's my take on things that people needlessly stress over or don't think about enough...

[the-resurrection-3d]

The mystics also claimed that even involuntary emissions of semen created demons, which were a danger not only to the man who masturbated but to the entire community. Such notions appear in folk literature as well as in rabbinic mystical texts. Thus the narrator in I.B. Singer’s short story, “From the Diary of One Not Born,” says: “I was not born. My father, a yeshivah student, sinned as did Onan, and from his seed I was created‑half spirit, half‑demon…I am and I am not.”

@lukebeartoe I have the opportunity to do something really funny

[eclecticelectriceccentric]

There are so many citations because there are some things that implicitly claim masturbation is sinful.

There are a variety of passages that can be used to claim masturbation is a sin, but they require some extrapolation; I'll go into two of them, Galatians 5:16–17 and Genesis 38:7-10.

Galatians 5:16–17: "... you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do."

Masturbation is, arguably, a 'desire of the flesh', which is something you're told not to do.

Genesis 38:7-10: "But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord took his life. Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother. Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother’s wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother. But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord; so He took his life also." Him 'wasting his seed on the ground' is likely masturbation; this is called 'displeasing' to the Lord. Granted, Onan's sin could be that of disobeying his father, Judah, who commanded him to perform his duty, rather than his sin being masturbation.

[excessive citations]

[eugene114]

Vayeshev in a Nutshell

Genesis 37:1–40:23

The name of the Parshah, "Vayeshev," means "And he dwelt" and it is found in Genesis 37:1.

Jacob settles in Hebron with his twelve sons. His favorite is seventeen-year-old Joseph, whose brothers are jealous of the preferential treatment he receives from his father, such as a precious many-colored coat that Jacob makes for Joseph. Joseph relates to his brothers two of his dreams which foretell that he is destined to rule over them, increasing their envy and hatred towards him.

Simeon and Levi plot to kill him, but Reuben suggests that they throw him into a pit instead, intending to come back later and save him. While Joseph is in the pit, Judah has him sold to a band of passing Ishmaelites. The brothers dip Joseph’s special coat in the blood of a goat and show it to their father, leading him to believe that his most beloved son was devoured by a wild beast.

Judah marries and has three children. The eldest, Er, dies young and childless, and his wife, Tamar, is given in levirate marriage to the second son, Onan. Onan sins by spilling his seed, and he too meets an early death. Judah is reluctant to have his third son marry her. Determined to have a child from Judah’s family, Tamar disguises herself as a prostitute and seduces Judah himself. Judah hears that his daughter-in-law has become pregnant and orders her executed for harlotry, but when Tamar produces some personal effects he left with her as a pledge for payment, he publicly admits that he is the father. Tamar gives birth to twin sons, Peretz (an ancestor of King David) and Zerach.

Joseph is taken to Egypt and sold to Potiphar, the minister in charge of Pharaoh’s slaughterhouses. G‑d blesses everything he does, and soon he is made overseer of all his master’s property. Potiphar’s wife desires the handsome and charismatic lad; when Joseph rejects her advances, she tells her husband that the Hebrew slave tried to force himself on her, and has him thrown into prison. Joseph gains the trust and admiration of his jailers, who appoint him to a position of authority in the prison administration.

In prison, Joseph meets Pharaoh’s chief butler and chief baker, both incarcerated for offending their royal master. Both have disturbing dreams, which Joseph interprets; in three days, he tells them, the butler will be released and the baker hanged. Joseph asks the butler to intercede on his behalf with Pharaoh. Joseph’s predictions are fulfilled, but the butler forgets all about Joseph and does nothing for him.

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"Catholics are required by canon law to confess at least once a year...[but] by the second decade of the twentieth century, the Catholic schools were instructing a whole generation in the practice of monthly confession. But many Catholics even then continued to confess at Easter only.... 'Very many have no idea of the manner in which they should examine their consciences,' according to the Passionist [mendicant priest] Gaudentius Rossi, 'and consequently their confessions are very imperfectly made.' Reports from the grass-roots sometimes bear him out....A Detroit priest, ordained in 1938, remembers from his early years of ministry a stubborn male remnant who continued the practice of annual confession. Some of 'those old Belgians and Italians'—in the words of my informant—presented a year's worth of sins with remarkable dispatch: 'Same as last year, Father.'"

(from "The Abominable Crime of Onan": Catholic Pastoral Practice and Family Limitation in the United States, 1875-1919" by Leslie Woodcock Tentler, Church History Vol. 71 No. 2 (2002))