18 Jul
2010
18 Jul
'10
6:54 p.m.
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield <gabrbedd(a)gmail.com
wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Paul Davis wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:55 PM, <fons(a)kokkinizita.net wrote:
>>
>>> Using farming machinery (*tractor) would even be more
>>> difficult to justify...
>>>
>>
>> i note that some 15-20 years ago, i was quite a rabid reader of the
>> agricultural movement that decried the use of the plough, an attitude
>> that was even more rabid when it came to the tractor that pulls a
>> plough. those guys would excoriate anyone who suggested using these
>> tools; i, on the other hand, am quite happy to refer people towards
>> rui's very nice device.
>>
>
> When I was in college, an elder gentleman said:
>
> In the 1960's they invented the Simpson reaper, and it was adopted very
> quicly without any question.
>
> Meanwhile in the 1960's, they developed localized anesthesia for use in
> childbirth. However, this got mired in controversy over whether or not it
> was "ethical" to allow women to opt-out of God's curse that a woman
should
> have increased labor pains.
>
> -gabriel
>
> p.s. for those who aren't bible scholars, in Genesis 3 God curses women
> with "greatly increased pains in childbearing" (Ge 3:16), but men were
> cursed: "By the sweat of your brow
> you will eat your food until you return to the ground...."
>
There is rexona for men now... Not ethical if you ask me! ;)