|
Source: (consider it)
|
Thread: How concerned is God with what we do in the bathroom?
|
Boogie
Boogie on down!
# 13538
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Spiffy:
I just read the thread title as "How concerned is God with what we do in the bathroom?"
Just thought you might need that little bit of levity in the midst of the argument.
I thought we might have a laugh with this.
I think the way I use the same flannel to wash my face and clean the bath might be very concerning for God, especially after re-reading Leviticus recently!
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
--------------------
Garden. Room. Walk
Posts: 13030 | From: Boogie Wonderland | Registered: Mar 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
# 2522
|
Posted
Let's get down to the real issues. Do you roll, fold, or crumple?
--------------------
I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
Posts: 35076 | From: Pura Californiana | Registered: Mar 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
Boogie
Boogie on down!
# 13538
|
Posted
Fold fold fold!
'tis ordained by God!
Exodus 39:9
It must be square—a span long and a span wide—and folded double.
--------------------
Garden. Room. Walk
Posts: 13030 | From: Boogie Wonderland | Registered: Mar 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
la vie en rouge
Parisienne
# 10688
|
Posted
Well I think this is all about mutually agreed boundaries and respect for others. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
So whether or not one cleans the bathroom as a mark of respect for one's housemates is clearly a matter of the highest spiritual importance. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
--------------------
Rent my holiday home in the South of France
Posts: 3696 | Registered: Nov 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
Nenya
Shipmate
# 16427
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Let's get down to the real issues. Do you roll, fold, or crumple?
What are we talking about here? Towels? Flannels? About-to-be-used toilet roll?
No one else in the household (now that Nenlet1 is married and has a home of her own) seems particularly bothered about the state of the bathroom so I clean it because I like the end result. So it's to pleasure myself.
In a wholesome way.
I'm sure God is delighted.
Nen - too gutter-minded for Heaven.
--------------------
They told me I was delusional. I nearly fell off my unicorn.
Posts: 1289 | Registered: May 2011
| IP: Logged
|
|
Sandemaniac
Shipmate
# 12829
|
Posted
Does it, or does it not, wear the soap?
AG
--------------------
"It becomes soon pleasantly apparent that change-ringing is by no means merely an excuse for beer" Charles Dickens gets it wrong, 1869
Posts: 3574 | From: The wardrobe of my soul | Registered: Jul 2007
| IP: Logged
|
|
The Great Gumby
Ship's Brain Surgeon
# 10989
|
Posted
God strongly disapproves of bathrooms (Deut 23:13). Their ubiquity is the sign of a wicked and adulterous generation. Woe unto thee, Armitage Shanks! Woe unto thee, Bristan! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in mud and dirt, there would be repenting in sackcloth and ashes!
Aside from that, I reckon God has very strong opinions on flossing. He seems like a flosser to me.
--------------------
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman
A letter to my son about death
Posts: 5382 | From: Home for shot clergy spouses | Registered: Feb 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Boogie
Boogie on down!
# 13538
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
Does it, or does it not, wear the soap?
AG
I have never heard of wearing soap, so I had to
Google it.
--------------------
Garden. Room. Walk
Posts: 13030 | From: Boogie Wonderland | Registered: Mar 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
Bob Two-Owls
Shipmate
# 9680
|
Posted
As any fule kno, the school lavatory (US: bathroom) is the best place for junior satanism. If you are going to pledge your soul to the devil over the solemn sacrifice of a packet of fruit gums burned with a stolen bic lighter, you might as well choose a place that smells appropriate. And the fact that teachers never, ever venture in there makes it all the more attractive.
I don't suppose that God approves of many things that go on in the school bogs...
Posts: 1262 | Registered: Jul 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
North East Quine
Curious beastie
# 13049
|
Posted
Boogie, it's an aged joke: Two nuns in a bath, one says "Where's the soap?"
The other replies "Yes, it does, doesn't it."
Posts: 6414 | From: North East Scotland | Registered: Oct 2007
| IP: Logged
|
|
Lord Jestocost
Shipmate
# 12909
|
Posted
The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats can surely be rewritten as the Parable of the Toilet Paper Hangs Forwards vs the Toilet Paper Hangs Backwards brigades.
Posts: 761 | From: The Instrumentality of Man | Registered: Aug 2007
| IP: Logged
|
|
Baptist Trainfan
Shipmate
# 15128
|
Posted
But some people use those moist little sheets which come in plastic boxes with lids. Where do they fit in, eh?
Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
Adam.
Like as the
# 4991
|
Posted
Just so long as the toilet paper always comes up and over towards you presenting itself like the offer of grace, not lurking away hanging down the back of the roll (like the devil). Everything else is supererogatory.
--------------------
Ave Crux, Spes Unica!
Preaching blog
Posts: 8164 | From: Notre Dame, IN | Registered: Sep 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
# 619
|
Posted
Time was - specially around Christmas - when you couldn't move for gifts of scented candles. Made you wonder what your friends perceived your bathroom as smelling of ordinarily.
Or they may have been buying into those articles in woman's magazines about Me time. Apparently bathing by scented candlelight was supposed to leach out the stress from even the most frazzled female life.
Anyway, with all this flammable wax knocking about, you might as well put up a shrine and get some votiving in. Who knows, it might shut the kids up when the whiff of hot lavender tells them Mummy is worshipping Kali.
[ 03. December 2012, 13:45: Message edited by: Firenze ]
Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Lord Jestocost
Shipmate
# 12909
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
But some people use those moist little sheets which come in plastic boxes with lids. Where do they fit in, eh?
That opens up the whole other faiths dialogue.
Posts: 761 | From: The Instrumentality of Man | Registered: Aug 2007
| IP: Logged
|
|
Baptist Trainfan
Shipmate
# 15128
|
Posted
Of course there are the allegedly primordial faiths (see Durkheim) which still use pieces of newspaper hanging on the back of the outhouse door.
Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
jbohn
Shipmate
# 8753
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
Of course there are the allegedly primordial faiths (see Durkheim) which still use pieces of newspaper hanging on the back of the outhouse door.
The orthodox ones still insist it was better when Sears still printed the catalog...
--------------------
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
--Elbert Hubbard
Posts: 989 | From: East of Eden, west of St. Paul | Registered: Nov 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Bob Two-Owls
Shipmate
# 9680
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
Of course there are the allegedly primordial faiths (see Durkheim) which still use pieces of newspaper hanging on the back of the outhouse door.
You leave my fortress of solitude out of this. My one remaining pleasure in life is an early day motion while smoking my pipe and listening to the jays coughing on the roof.
Posts: 1262 | Registered: Jul 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
Baptist Trainfan
Shipmate
# 15128
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by jbohn:
The orthodox ones still insist it was better when Sears still printed the catalog...
That would only have worked in the New World, of course. I suspect that the Argos catalogue, even with its many merits, is merely pseudocanonical.
[ 03. December 2012, 14:24: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
Nenya
Shipmate
# 16427
|
Posted
What nuns do with the soap doesn't bother God at all, he's very openminded about these things. However, what he does mind about is what the soap wears. Short and curlies on the soap incur his wrath and judgement. It's some lost verses of Leviticus, chapter 13, after the bit about hair falling from the head being a sign of disease and uncleanliness (vv 40-46) The next verse should read,
"When the hair of any person, male or female, falls from the loins, woe to those who allow such hair to adhere to any soap or remain in the bath or shower. It is an abomination. The man or woman who allows this must return to the bathroom in penitence and thoroughly cleanse any area thus contaminated and avert the wrath of the Lord your God who observes all bathing rituals whether or not by candlelight; lo, even the darkness of thy bathroom shall be as light to me, says the Lord."
Nen - soap vigilante
--------------------
They told me I was delusional. I nearly fell off my unicorn.
Posts: 1289 | Registered: May 2011
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Baptist Trainfan
Shipmate
# 15128
|
Posted
Are you sure? I thought that was Stephen Fry who, despite his many qualities, is hardly divine ...
Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
leo
Shipmate
# 1458
|
Posted
Jewish prayer after excretion: quote:
Blessed is He who has formed man in wisdom and created in him many orifices and many cavities. It is obvious and known before Your throne of glory that if one of them were to be ruptured or one of them blocked, it would be impossible for a man to survive and stand before You. Blessed are You that heals all flesh and does wonders."
source
--------------------
My Jewish-positive lectionary blog is at http://recognisingjewishrootsinthelectionary.wordpress.com/
My reviews at http://layreadersbookreviews.wordpress.com
Posts: 23198 | From: Bristol | Registered: Oct 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
lilBuddha
Shipmate
# 14333
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Bob Two-Owls:
You leave my fortress of solitude out of this. My one remaining pleasure in life is an early day motion while smoking my pipe and listening to the jays coughing on the roof.
I've asked and God thinks this is bit TMI. Jesus was seen sniggering behind his hand, though.
--------------------
I put on my rockin' shoes in the morning
Hallellou, hallellou
Posts: 17627 | From: the round earth's imagined corners | Registered: Dec 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
Baptist Trainfan
Shipmate
# 15128
|
Posted
In that case we'll delete the jays on the roof.
*Bang! Bang!* Got 'em.
Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
# 953
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by jbohn:
quote:
Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
Of course there are the allegedly primordial faiths (see Durkheim) which still use pieces of newspaper hanging on the back of the outhouse door.
The orthodox ones still insist it was better when Sears still printed the catalog...
Before they went glossy.
--------------------
This is the last sig I'll ever write for you...
Posts: 63536 | From: Washington | Registered: Jul 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Boogie
Boogie on down!
# 13538
|
Posted
The orthodox went glossy? When was this?
--------------------
Garden. Room. Walk
Posts: 13030 | From: Boogie Wonderland | Registered: Mar 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
# 953
|
Posted
Nobody even mentioned the Orthodox. You breathing outhouse fumes? Oh wait you mean orthodox toilet users. Carry on.
[ 03. December 2012, 18:57: Message edited by: mousethief ]
--------------------
This is the last sig I'll ever write for you...
Posts: 63536 | From: Washington | Registered: Jul 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Bostonman
Shipmate
# 17108
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by leo:
Jewish prayer after excretion: quote:
Blessed is He who has formed man in wisdom and created in him many orifices and many cavities. It is obvious and known before Your throne of glory that if one of them were to be ruptured or one of them blocked, it would be impossible for a man to survive and stand before You. Blessed are You that heals all flesh and does wonders."
source
I just read something in a book about the interfaith youth movement about a Jewish and a Muslim girl coming out of the bathroom laughing, having shared with one another their respective traditions' bathroom prayers.
Posts: 424 | From: USA | Registered: May 2012
| IP: Logged
|
|
jbohn
Shipmate
# 8753
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by mousethief:
quote:
Originally posted by jbohn:
quote:
Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
Of course there are the allegedly primordial faiths (see Durkheim) which still use pieces of newspaper hanging on the back of the outhouse door.
The orthodox ones still insist it was better when Sears still printed the catalog...
Before they went glossy.
Good point. The glossy stuff's well-nigh useless, I tell you.
--------------------
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
--Elbert Hubbard
Posts: 989 | From: East of Eden, west of St. Paul | Registered: Nov 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Ariel
Shipmate
# 58
|
Posted
I don't suppose any of you lot remember Izal Medicated toilet paper. That was an experience.
Posts: 25445 | Registered: May 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
# 15560
|
Posted
The word "bathroom" is ill used for this thread (!) The function of interest involves the seat of ease, the throne of thought, the pissoire, the shitter - these are the most common functions, isn't it so?
God ordained that we should be seated, neither standing nor kneeling in the lavatory because this brings us closer to comfort than the other postures during such an undertaking. We are so designed. Which makes me thus question if we really should be kneeling or standing when during praying, or rather should be sitting, recalling the relief in our bowels as we experience the relief in our spirits.
(And the roll definitely rolls from the front, without question.)
--------------------
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
\_(ツ)_/
Posts: 11498 | From: Treaty 6 territory in the nonexistant Province of Buffalo, Canada ↄ⃝' | Registered: Mar 2010
| IP: Logged
|
|
Ariel
Shipmate
# 58
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
The word "bathroom" is ill used for this thread (!)
Well, I'd thought from the OP that it meant "bathroom" in the broader sense, i.e. the place where you have your bath, or clean your teeth, not just use the toilet.
(Someone remind me, what's the North American equivalent of "bathroom" as in the place where you have your bath?)
Posts: 25445 | Registered: May 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Latchkey Kid
Shipmate
# 12444
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
I don't suppose any of you lot remember Izal Medicated toilet paper. That was an experience.
I remember the adverts, but not the experience as we never had it in our house.
But there was Pear's Coal Tar soap.
--------------------
'You must never give way for an answer. An answer is always the stretch of road that's behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.'
Mika; in Hello? Is Anybody There?, Jostein Gaardner
Posts: 2592 | From: The wizardest little town in Oz | Registered: Mar 2007
| IP: Logged
|
|
balaam
Making an ass of myself
# 4543
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
I don't suppose any of you lot remember Izal Medicated toilet paper. That was an experience.
Sadly missed.
These days schoolchildren miss out on the experience of Izal. You can't nip out to the toilets for a piece of tracing paper any more.
--------------------
Last ever sig ...
blog
Posts: 9049 | From: Hen Ogledd | Registered: May 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Darllenwr
Shipmate
# 14520
|
Posted
Ah, yes, Izal Medicated paper. I (regretfully) remember it well. My grandmother persisted in supplying the stuff in her bathroom whenever we visited. I could never understand why on earth anybody would even consider using a material so manifestly unfit for purpose as Izal medicated - it never tore off along the "perforations" and it was glossier than an Argos Catalogue page (and I mean the ones in their stores ... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) ).
If you had wanted something for greasing a baking tray, Izal would have been ideal - it was perfect for smearing soft stuff across a surface ...
I think I need brain bleach now.
--------------------
If I've told you once, I've told you a million times: I do not exaggerate!
Posts: 1101 | From: The catbox | Registered: Jan 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
Bene Gesserit
Shipmate
# 14718
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
I don't suppose any of you lot remember Izal Medicated toilet paper. That was an experience.
Gosh, yes, I remember that from school!
--------------------
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus
Posts: 405 | From: Flatlands of the East | Registered: Apr 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
# 619
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
(Someone remind me, what's the North American equivalent of "bathroom" as in the place where you have your bath?)
Dunno. Maybe they call it the privy.
But yes, we need to hold out for the European usage, if only to avoid absurdities like talking about a dog 'going to the bathroom'.
It could definitely be the site of thankfulness: in draughty winter digs, your hour on a Friday night could be the only time in the week you were entirely warm.
Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
balaam
Making an ass of myself
# 4543
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Darllenwr:
Ah, yes, Izal Medicated paper. <snip> it was glossier than an Argos Catalogue page (and I mean the ones in their stores ... ).
I don't know, I have never considered using toilet paper in an Argos store.
--------------------
Last ever sig ...
blog
Posts: 9049 | From: Hen Ogledd | Registered: May 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
# 15560
|
Posted
Re terminology for "bathroom". I think the Americans may differ from Canadians on this. For those familiar to you, i.e., not in an office, it is commonly "the can". The room is the can, and you "go to the can" in it. Calling it "the potty" ot the pot is also common in familiar company. At an office or public place, with those not as familiar, it may be "the washroom". Canadians are also a little regional about it I think.
Seeing a man about a dog, hanging a rat, going to the little boys'/girls' room, and spending a penny are said in humour. Schools still commonly have W.C. on the door.
--------------------
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
\_(ツ)_/
Posts: 11498 | From: Treaty 6 territory in the nonexistant Province of Buffalo, Canada ↄ⃝' | Registered: Mar 2010
| IP: Logged
|
|
Boogie
Boogie on down!
# 13538
|
Posted
Bathroom = the place where you have a bath (The clue is in the title)
--------------------
Garden. Room. Walk
Posts: 13030 | From: Boogie Wonderland | Registered: Mar 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
Horseman Bree
Shipmate
# 5290
|
Posted
Just to inject some trivia into this, how about trying: "Sex, gender and toilets" for a wide range of door symbols.
Who would have thought there was so much creative possibility?
And, no prophet, I've never seen "WC" on a school toilet-room door anywhere in the four provinces in which I have worked.
M or F, Male or Female, simple outline shape (pants or skirts), yes. Rarely "Boys" or "Girls" except in elementary grades.
--------------------
It's Not That Simple
Posts: 5372 | From: more herring choker than bluenose | Registered: Dec 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
# 619
|
Posted
Time was, of course, the plumbing followed you around (if you were grand enough). You had a close stool in your privy chamber, and your own personal bum-wiper - a coveted office of state (so not much change there).
If you were given to reckless pursuits such as washing all over, bath in your room and an army of maid servants hauling cans of hot water. Or M Degas in the corner, sketching furiously.
Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
balaam
Making an ass of myself
# 4543
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
Seeing a man about a dog, hanging a rat, going to the little boys'/girls' room, and spending a penny are said in humour.
As is "going to shake hands with the Vicar." Best not to use that one in Church.
--------------------
Last ever sig ...
blog
Posts: 9049 | From: Hen Ogledd | Registered: May 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Enoch
Shipmate
# 14322
|
Posted
They that are baptised need, and should, never wash again.
O ye of little faith.
--------------------
Brexit wrexit - Sir Graham Watson
Posts: 7610 | From: Bristol UK(was European Green Capital 2015, now Ljubljana) | Registered: Nov 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
Enoch
Shipmate
# 14322
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
I don't suppose any of you lot remember Izal Medicated toilet paper. That was an experience.
(in Maurice Chevalier accent) Ah, I remember it well.
Also Bronco, harder and shinier. And newspaper cut into rectangles, strung and tied to a nail.
--------------------
Brexit wrexit - Sir Graham Watson
Posts: 7610 | From: Bristol UK(was European Green Capital 2015, now Ljubljana) | Registered: Nov 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
Miffy
Ship's elephant
# 1438
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
The word "bathroom" is ill used for this thread (!) The function of interest involves the seat of ease, the throne of thought, the pissoire, the shitter - these are the most common functions, isn't it so?
God ordained that we should be seated, neither standing nor kneeling in the lavatory because this brings us closer to comfort than the other postures during such an undertaking. We are so designed. Which makes me thus question if we really should be kneeling or standing when during praying, or rather should be sitting, recalling the relief in our bowels as we experience the relief in our spirits.
(And the roll definitely rolls from the front, without question.)
There was no relief in my spirit on that momentous occasion, many moons ago, when so seated, my prayer book slipped out of my dressing gown pocket and into the miry depths below. Some of you may remember this.
The issue vexing my soul presently is that of God's view on whether bathing or showering is scriptural. I'm in need of wise counsel on this one.
Posts: 4739 | From: The Kitchen | Registered: Oct 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
# 619
|
Posted
Lice are the pearls of God.
Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
jbohn
Shipmate
# 8753
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
(Someone remind me, what's the North American equivalent of "bathroom" as in the place where you have your bath?)
Same room, and same term, at least around here.
In the one we had my senior year of college, you could darned near shit, shower, and shave all at one go.
--------------------
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
--Elbert Hubbard
Posts: 989 | From: East of Eden, west of St. Paul | Registered: Nov 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
# 953
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:
Bathroom = the place where you have a bath (The clue is in the title)
Do I have to keep changing the name of the room depending on what I plan to do?
Be right back, honey, I'm going to the pissroom.
Before you set the table, go to the handwashingroom.
And of course if this is true of the bathroom, it's true of every other room in the house, right? If we don't intend to sleep, but still wish to use the bed, we're going to the fuckroom.
This could get fun.
--------------------
This is the last sig I'll ever write for you...
Posts: 63536 | From: Washington | Registered: Jul 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Printer-friendly view
