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[size=124]Jesus demonstrates the custom of the time when he comments on the lack of hospitality in one Pharisees home by not providing water to wash his feet:
Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but [b]she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair" – Luke[/b] 7:44[/size]
From Wikipedia:
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[size=124]Christus, by the Lutheran Lucas Cranach the Elder. This woodcut of John 13:14–17 is from Passionary of the Christ and Antichrist.[/size]
[size=140] John 13:14-17
King James Version (KJV)
14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.
15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.[/size]
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My thesis for this thread: How strong is your faith? Would you be willing to wash my feet in this way? Could we videotape this sacred experience to show the world how strong a faith you have?
Now you know these things…
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. John 13:14-17[/size]
I don’t think Bill is a human being, I think bill is a bot.
But let’s try and make him say something real anyway.
Bill answer me now do you really equate Christ with dirty feet being washed by a man with a long tongue?
Simple question this, I think the answer is does not compute, error, error, error… Head explodes.
If I was going to be disgusting and I will I take your dirty feet and raise you the head exploding scene in Scanners. Beat that botman.
Bear with me this post seems random but it has some sense to it. A human being would reply with something unusual or if usual something we can understand, a bot will reply with x. Meaningless shit. Bill go back to your programmers and tell them, you have failed, you will never pass a Turing test as long as I am a spoon and you are a spork.
Bill there is an African-American cultural phenomenon in the southeastern US where they have a thing called a foot wash.
Everyone meets up in the country in some big field or something and gets really wasted and smokes a lot of weed and listens to loud music and fights and macks on hos and shit.
Like the freaknick used to be in Atlanta back in the day, except out in some rural area.
If you get a chance to go to one I’d highly recommend it.
Here’s the first video that I found. It’s pure chaos.
[size=124]I’m sorry. I should have used the term Modern Jesus in the title. That way people would understand that I meant a Modern Jesus…Instead of the one that died like…forever ago.[/size]
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If you like, you could actually address the thesis of this particular thread:
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My thesis for this thread: [/b]How strong is your faith? Would you be willing to wash my feet in this way? Could we videotape this sacred experience to show the world how strong a faith you have?
Now you know these things…
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. John 13:14-17
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I Think there is faith involved in Calling that faith. How do you know why the guy is doing that? And I mean, even if he says he does it for religious reasons, why assume that it is a faith based act?
The cat image is a whole different kind of act. Licking someone’s dirty feet is not about empathy - it could be about some kind of spiritual self-flagellation along with the form of not distancing oneself from a leper or some other sick or poor person. There might be some empathy in it, there might not.
With the cats, is faith an issue?
Empathy sure is.
It was around these issues I questioned about how we know it is faith. The cat Picture was a good choice to help us triangulate.
Speaking as a Catholic, the washing of the feet represents part of the liturgy. In that mass, the priest takes a bowl of water, and washes the feet of everyone in the congregation, it is a symbol of modesty, humility and subserivance to others to please God, and his flock.
Which, it should be noted, is not licking their feet. It is also a priest who might be seen to be above others, so there is a balancing facet. But even here it is a ritual. It may contain empathy, it may not. Your description for example focuses on the priest’s state, in self-relation and in relation to God. There is subservience to others, but this need not be empathy.
True, and it may be relevant here to note, that this rite is very old and comes from a time when empathy did not exist. Feelings did not exist. States of mind could be effected only by demonstration. The time this originates was a very literal one, when truly it could've be said of men, - Blessed are the ones who do not see, and yet believe.-
Bill, I think this would be better suited under psychology and “foot fetishes”.
