Why There's a Single, Tiny Wire Encircling Manhattan
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The Farklenator
8 ditë më parë
Y’all’s
miftakhul abdurrozaq
9 ditë më parë
@aiM not all religion made by people, religion like atheistm and whatever ancient yunani religion is example of made up religion. But yahudi/judaism, nasrani/christian, is religion that come from Allah ta'ala but already corrupted by rabi or pope, and islam is perfected version. Do you know that many corrupted version of islam like khawarij (isis), syi'ah?, but Allah ta'ala will protected islam until kiamah, that is ahlussunnah. Do you know about the hadith is guarded by authentic narrations (shahih)? And al-qur'an guarded from any change and amandement?.
aiM
14 ditë më parë
@miftakhul abdurrozaq All religions are made up by people, God does not care what day you fish on, or when you carry your keys, or anything else like that. These are human things that humans care about for many stupid reasons, that maybe were less stupid in ancient times, but are not relevant now.
miftakhul abdurrozaq
14 ditë më parë
I know that "HAI" get source from the Jews, and it sounds ridiculous because it seems like they are tricking Allah Ta'ala. then I will give the Islamic version of this. btw in short, the time of the prophets ibrahim> musa> isa> muhammad. Musa A'laihis salam conveyed an order from Allah Ta'ala, that his people (Jews / Children of Israel) are prohibited from fishing on Saturdays. At first they obeyed, but Allah Ta'ala gave them a tough test, on Saturday the fish were very abundant in the sea, jumped on the shore, but on other days the fish was very difficult to find. finally many of these people tried to get around the prohibition by installing fishing nets on Friday and harvesting on sunday. not a few of these people warn against offenders, but those who violate ignore it. finally Allah the Exalted cursed those who transgressed by turning them into pigs and monkeys. ulama agreed that the pigs and monkeys from the Jews had no offspring until they died. Of course the sharia was abolished long before the arrival of Isa a'laihissalam. This is not related to the video, but I want to explain why Judaism (yahudi) and Christianity (nasrani) are deviant religions. After the death of Musa a'laihissalam, the children of Israel forgot about the Torah which is the holy book of Musa a'laihissalam, because the book has no copy, and is only stored in one place. at that time, Allah Ta'ala appointed uzair as a prophet, and gave him knowledge of the Torah even though he had never read it, and uzair preached to the rabbis. Initially the rabbis did not believe that what the uzair read was the Torah, the rabbi decided to open the Torah after years of being kept untouched, and it turned out that its contents were exactly the same. Finally, the rabbi assumed that Uzair was a child of God, because Musa only got a book, while Uzair immediately knew its contents without reading the book. Fatal mistakes are also made by Christians, considering Isa the son of God because he has no lust, and assuming that the crucifixion by the yahudi was the order of the prophet Isa A'laihissalam. even though Isa a'laihissalam was betrayed by the Jews, the Jews flocked to kill Isa a'laihissalam, he and his loyal followers hid in a cave, but qadarullah the cave was surrounded by Jews who wanted to kill him. Allah Ta'ala gave revelation to Isa a'laihissalam that anyone who wanted to replace his position would enter jannah, he offered to his followers, there was a man who wanted to replace him, and that man was crucified, while the prophet isa a'laihissalam was saved by means of raised to the sky, and later will come down again to earth to kill the dajjal laknatullah almasih
aiM
17 ditë më parë
I am an ethnic Jew, and these people make me embarrassed of my heritage.
I'm so gonna cut that wire every time I get a chance 😂
Wow this is so stupid.
Sounds pretty petty. Far more important would be the laws involving sacrifices for sins. And when was the last time animal sacrifices were made?
Spending a shitload of money to circumvent a law that is non-binding (meaning, there is not really somebody who could enforce it) instead of just fixing the laws to fit to the modern world. Classical religion stuff...
The ten commandments states to keep the sabbath holy. Not to not work that day. The Mosaic law states that. Not the law of God.
😆😆😆😒😤😠 exactly how they bring unwanted attention to themselves
People are fucking insane lmao
Doesnt this just mean that rules are bent for personal gain? Just asking.. 😊
Wait a minute... Earth is round so, If whole Manhattan is surrounded with that wire in big loop It means that whole world except Manhattan is also in even bigger loop Jews are safe everywhere! Do rings and necklaces count too?
How you know when you are following religious ideologies and not God’s intent...watch this video. I am terrible at taking a day of rest and I make excuses and justifications too. I am self aware. I sure hope the followers of this boundary are self aware too.
FFS....
Bouta cut that wire
I'm trying to think if God meant for them not to light a candle, which would be a modern day light switch. I would think God meant work, like your occupation or job or whatever. Turns out Jews believe God is a lot dumber or confused than I do.
A bunch of idiots, making up new, more idiotic rules, in order to stay within the boundaries of the rules they dont feel like following any more. Religion is the worst cancer humans have ever encounterd.
Utterly stupid
V=
**touches fingers together** "Maybe we can work out a better deal, no?" God: "...."
How many through North America?!?!? CUT ALL THE WIRES
If not the religions, Mars would have been colonised by humans probably 400 years ago....
drdca
4 ditë më parë
I don't think that's likely.
I have a difficult time buying in to a man-made loophole from God's law. 🤨 Besides, the Sabbath was created for us not for God. More specifically "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath" But that's "only😳" what God in the flesh said.
Ancient problems require modern solutions i see
Sorry, but this is so dumb. If you can hack your religion then maybe it's not actually real in the first place.
Book of fairytales forbids something so people think of ways to get around the rules. Although it seems only some rules can be worked around but not others, depending on who benefits.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
So one more dumb thing done that costs money that has no benefit of any kind ? Got it.
clearly a tax dodge
Sounds like the best job ever. No one can ever tell you what you are doing wrong.
Sir your videos are very interesting but I have yet to come across one involving anything in a foreign language which isn't horribly mispronounced. It's not something funny to just laugh off, most of them are super easy if you just Google how to pronounce them. You're not allowed to joke about your pronunciation if you don't make an effort to try. It's really not that hard to Google pronunciation, I promise.
Pushing a button or flipping a light switch is considered as "work". Yet they get away with walking, talking, eating, etc, all of which take much more energy than pushing the floor button on an elevator. What a ludicrous concept. SMH
ROFLMAO....
I am glad I am an atheist
No more ridiculous than believing in Space Jesus or the Spaghetti Monster
What a bunch of stupidity
Religion is _weird!_
Hu the definition of fence says nothing about preventing anything from leaving...
Idiotic.
what a very very stupid ideology reminds me always that even intelligent people can be very dumb
That's. Insane.
Lol that shit is hilarious
THIS is why religions are bad!!!
This wire gets $100k a year. You suffer.
Private domain? How is that private?
So, devout followers look for outs to make things easier for them. Sounds like the religion is a little overboard and they know it and are simply lying to themselves.
TLDW: People who think god exists also think god is stupid.
As with all religion, it’s just a massive con, to sidestep the pointless rules
going to heaven and discovering some glitch in ancient week days counting so you have been sabathinh on wednesday and all of this efford is useless. Only REALLY lame people did the cut.
Sound a bit suspicious? That’s religion for you 🤣
Lol I’m Jewish and I find this really funny The way you explained it, you got the general idea but it’s a lot more complicated then that.
Daniel Bamberger
4 ditë më parë
People can always go and read the ALthe guidelines to get the full story :)
0:13 Taking a hot, a neutral, and a ground, and twisting them together is not smart and kinda dangerous 💥
its so sad how much money is wasted on stupid faith based stuff, the money could be going to actually helping people. Food, Shelter, Mental health, just to name a few...
This is the stupidest fucking thing they coulda done. They could have just re written the rule to say “no carrying large objects for work related purposes” instead and they woulda been fine. Frankly God didn’t tell them the rules, they just pulled them outta thin air so why not change them? If God had told them that rule only THEN would this be an acceptable “solution” but it still seems like cheating ngl
I'm jewish and This is a great video has good humor and explains the laws fairly well given how quickly it is done
Any rules that are that easy (relatively speaking) to circumvent are stupid rules.
100 k a year hmm sounds like a good way to wash money
I wonder how many homeless people that hundred thousand dollars a year could feed...
So basically religion is a scam?
Religious workarounds.. love it
everyone here trying to clown on how pointless this is has never met a jew and is just telling on themselves
Please stop with the cringe jokes. It’s holding you back
Why does the Rabbi keep calling my dog "meeskite"?
$100,000 jew cable to fool God.
So what would happen if on the Sabbath I went out and cut the wire. Does every Jewish person that was out carrying something get smitten by god?
Hammy The Syrian Hamster
4 ditë më parë
No because its not with Intent, so you can sneak Pork in their sandwich.
religion is weird and messed up
This is hilarious
If you're just going to think of ways to get around your own rules, wouldn't it be easier to make a small loop of wire, and declare everything *outside* the loop to be private space?
Oy vey
What happens if it needs to be repaired on the Sabbath day???
$100,000 a YEAR for a superstition. :-/
Sounds like cheating.
Just another example of hypocritical ways so-called religious folks bend the rules to suit a narrative. Can't even be true to their own dictates.
this video is very well researched exept the mishna are the rules and the gemara elaborates on what why and who these rules were said
People are strange.
Suck if somebody cut the wire off on the Sabbath.
This has to be one of the clearest symbols of the stupidity of humanity
lol they're even cheating their own religion
Sounds a lot like an illegitimate claim to others people's property as their private domain. They have a lot of experience doing that, after all.
All religious people are hypocritical but this seems especially so.
So being Jewish is basically playing real life on ultra hard difficulty mode?
Who’s going to tell them that a wire around the city doesn’t make it private domain?
turtlellamacow
7 ditë më parë
"private" in the context of this jewish law isn't defined just by the usual "ownership" sense and has more to do with degree of enclosure. by the letter of the law, the wire + posts count as doors, and a series of doors counts as an unbroken wall, and a walled area counts as a private domain (once some other requirements have been met to formally create it) (i'm not saying it isn't silly, just that it's legally sound, strictly speaking)
Love the fact that they included Israel’s segregation wall and made it seem like it was for the Religion rather than what it’s actually for... SEGREGATION.
Am I the only one who looked at the map an thought of spiderman?
Did you know that there's one religious group in New York that has been ravaged (in comparison to other groups) by covid because they won't stop gathering and won't, generally, wear masks? I won't say which
Sounds like a waste of money and work and the whole thing just sounds dumb to be honest
Lets make rules then try and figure out how to break them legally
wHAt dAFuQ?
All that money and effort just to maintain a literal loophole.
Before watching the video I’m going to guess, it’s one of those pandering to religious nutters things?
turtlellamacow
7 ditë më parë
no, because it's entirely funded by the religious nutters themselves. no pandering involved
Meanwhile in France: “hey boss, I’ve worked my 35 hour workweek, now don’t you dare send me a work email or I’ll get a fine”
What happend to being god fearing? You'd think that would be the first thing on the mind of the jews.
But those jews don't own New York? It's still public domain
Good grief! Carry, schmarry... What a carry on! I was so intrigued by the title of this video only to be utterly disappointed by the end. It just proves how completely ridiculous religion is.
This is comparable to someone having anal and still thinking they are a virgin.
How stupid is that. Its a man made religion that adds a lot of inconvenience. 2000years ago most of the people was more believing any bullshit because there was no education. Religion is for people to relax about themselves and act the best they can because god is watching.
It all sounds like too much work for me. The whole Sabbath thing
this happens when scholars have too much time on their hands. Just chill and rest on the sabbath man. remember the sabbath was made for man not man for the sabbath
I have a sudden, thankfully controllable, urge to cut that wire... I know i know its wrong ):
Silly superstitions that people then find ways to CHEAT god’s supposed commandments.... CIRCULAR ABSURDITY Sadly, such superstitious beliefs and behaviors are just called religion and blindly followed. An ENLIGHTENMENT 2.0 is ready to boot 😂
My favorite part of religion is the COMPLETELY RANDOM *but* ultra specific rules. Seems there’s lots of fun ones on Judaism. Super cool
This is as dumb as having two dishwashers for different sets of plates.