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أهلا وسهلا بالجميع

Every day, my genitals "produce" several million sperm — about 1,500 per second.  

My sperm are BIG... insurrectionist (part of an disorganized militia)... and they have sharp little teeth.  They need to be evicted thoroughly and often.  

If sperm are not released from the testicles, they die, and their corpses are absorbed.  This creates a swampy puddle with sperm swimming in their decomposing peers... and that's sad.  I don't like having sad cemetery balls filled with marmy death, so I attempt to give every sperm an adventure - the time of our lives.

Of course, not every sperm is sacred - not every sperm is great - nature attempts to allow for diversity, and often fails.

Each of these individuals (who are also somehow "me") has some amount of autonomy.  They each choose to float, swim up, down, left, right, fast, slow, over here, over there, away from the heat, away from that other guy, and at best TOWARD THAT EGG.  

Female humans release a relatively passive "egg" - an ovum - about once per month.  It attracts sperm, carries genetic information, imposes natural selection, is enveloped by an incubation structure if fertilized, and contributes to the physical body it becomes.

To my perception, it seems as though the ovum is the prototypical "body", and the sperm is the prototypical brain, spine, and central nervous system that enters that "body" - or is accepted by it, or a combination of both - to begin gestation.

This is not "belief" (the acceptance of something without evidence), it is a hypothesis that is based on what I consider to be known about human reproduction and anatomy.  I accept that sperm do not have vertebrae... but they do have a "tail" that is remarkably similar to a spine in function and in form - the difference between them is a lack of calcium deposits... "bones".

We are in that respect very similar to the earliest known precursor to all vertebrates - pikaia gracilens.

Fetuses also have early stages that include tail-like forms, and not often, but occasionally, humans are born with vestigial tails that are indications of remnants of early evolution.

I'm just saying... the general shape of the thing... that is... the sperm... seems to reappear during the first two months of gestation, and remains recognizable in the cerebrospinal structure.  

"Created YHWH Elohim the sides which had taken from Adam as a wife and brought to Adam."

https://biblehub.com/text/genesis/2-22.htm

The "side chambers" or "sides" (the Hebrew is צְלָעֹת/tsela) that were taken from Adam and made into Eve by YHWH, refer to the side-by-side nature of the testicles.  

https://biblehub.com/hebrew/strongs_6763.htm

It does not infer that the testicles or part of the testicles were removed, but that some of the contents of the testicles were used in the creation of Eve.  This is a reasonable, non-destructive, somewhat natural perception.  To insist that YHWH created Adam whole only to immediately remove part of His creation is extremely problematic.

The essential naturalistic difference between male and female sexual physiology would reasonably be the presence of semen created by males, to early men.

2023 DRHOY asserts - based on indirect observation - that a sperm is a prototypical brain, spine, and central nervous system.

~2010 YouTube atheists (to my experience) give the definitive answer to "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?".

1978 The first human baby born from in vitro fertilization (IVF). 

1916 The first “sperm count” tests were available. 

1878 Reproductive cells - egg and sperm - were named "gametes".

~1870 Biologists understood that both sperm and egg are required to produce offspring, but remained largely "Spermist": “The male seed of whatever members of the animal kingdom contains … all the limbs and organs which an animal has when it is born.”

1824 Animal trials were convincing that sperm are not parasites but are involved in fertilization.

1685 It was suggested that inside a sperm’s head was a tiny human body (a "homunculus", blending Ovist and Spermist features).  

1651 William Harvey’s On the Generation of Animals states, “Everything from an egg”. "Ovism", the opinions of "Ovists", had a preformist view: there was a ready-made, tiny human being, inside the egg; and inside that human was another egg, enclosing another body, like a hopelessly unnecessary matryoshka doll.  

~1590-1650  Microscope users observed minute wriggling living animals in semen.  Sperm were generally considered either to be parasites or the sole precursor of a baby ("Spermism"/"Spermists").

c. 1200s Islamic physicians suggest seeds for reproduction are made in several organs and congregate in the sex organs. 

c. 65 BCE Roman philosopher and poet Lucretius wrote that men and women produce fluids containing seeds for procreation. 

~3000 BCE  Enoch began the writing tradition that became what is now Bereshit (Genesis), somehow including an understanding that reproductive influence is located in the testicles.

Emperor Rudolph II kept a pet tiger running wild in his castle at all times.   People who came to the castle were assured that if the tiger hurt them that the Emperor would reimburse them or their heirs.

I'm just saying... the guy was wild.

Rudolf II inherited the Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta from his grandfather Emperor Ferdinand The First (who had an impressive five-head).

The Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta ("The Model Book of Calligraphy") is a magnificent creation.

It features plants, animals, pretty writing, and many purely fictional fantasties of supernatural things.

The Voynich Manuscript is a... it falls quite short of magnificent... I can say that it is a work of astonishing dedication.

Dedication... to tomfoolery.

It also features plants, animals, and many purely fictional fantasties of supernatural things - including somewhat less pretty (but entirely fraudulent) writing.

https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2002046

It featured the calligraphized signature of E Rudolpnus (that's how he spelled it in the manuscript, not accounting for a few umlauts or whatever) very many dozens of times.

The signatures are generally in the bottom-left of the page, and are occasionally written vertically on its edge.

Rudy had created his own colouring book - very similar to the manuscript his grandfather had given him - and was practicing his signature.

Then, he had a bold idea.

He could convince people that his nonsensical paintings were of archaic - perhaps even alien - origins.

He scraped his signatures and family crest off, weirded the whole thing up with a fake script and a few embellishments, and sent it to a friend.

The friend used a dialect from Malta.

The friend was fooled by the hoax, attempted to equate the symbols within the script to alphabetical characters, and eventually hazarded a guess that the book must be from "West France".

I have now been distracted by the influence of Emperor Rudolpnus' humour for too many hours of my precious life.

From this manuscript, however, I discovered a new form of identification of written characters, and coined them "hydroglyphs".

Hydroglyphs occur when a manuscript gets wet, water stands on the page, ink leaches out of/off of the page, the ink floats on top of the standing water, the water carrying the ink moves, the water carrying the ink dries, and the ink carried by the water re-adheres to the page in a new location (often with a different orientation).

Rudy would have approved of the actual knowledge incidentally gained from his prank. 

The Chitsonim dubbed the Pharisees: "The Seekers Of Smooth Things" in fragments 3 and 4 of the Pesher Nahum (4Q169) of the Dead Sea Scrolls. 

The term was an insult of those who had appealed to Demetrius III Eucaerus in opposition to Alexander Jannaeus.

The Pesher Nahum describes The Seekers as an organized violent group responsible for numerous deaths. They are blamed for misleading kings, princes, priests, and the nation in opposition to the divine plan. 

More on that tragic tradition... on another day.

Punishment suggested in the Temple Scroll for those who oppose god is to be "hanged on a tree" - crucified - until death.

The Chitsonim were allied with King Jannaeus, a particularly prominent opponent to the Pharisees, who after defeating Demetrius, crucified 800 Pharisaic dissidents and had their families killed while enjoying a feast.

Usury was forbidden throughout all of Ancient Israel.

"If thou lend money to any of My people, even to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor, neither shall ye lay upon him interest" (Ex. 22:24). 

"...if thy brother be waxen poor and his means fail with thee… Take no interest of him or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals [provisions, living necessities] for increase" (Lev. 25:35–37). 

"Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother: interest of money, interest of victuals [provisions, living necessities], interest of anything that is lent upon interest. Unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon interest; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest thy hand unto…" (Deut. 23:20–21).

"He that augmenteth his substance by interest and increase" is among "evil men" (Prov. 28:8). 

"He that putteth not out his money on interest" is upright and righteous (Ps. 15:5). 

In the prophecies of Ezekiel usury was mentioned in the context of larceny, adultery, homicide, and other "abominations" that are worthy of death (18:11–13). 

The "Mark Of The Beast" was - or is said to be - "666".This "sign" is prophetically expected to be placed on the forehead and right hand of all people.  The placement of these signs are directly counter to - and blasphemous of - phylactery use.  The Teffilin - discipline symbolized as tiny scrolls representing the Torah within leather boxes attached to leather straps - are bound upon the forehead and the left hand of Jewish men. 

The significance of the number "666" is the yearly personal credit of 666 gold talents demanded by King Solomon, who failed to observe the "Ten Commandments" (or the "Laws Of Moses", "Book Of Moses", "The Law", etc.) in his profound gluttony of all things.

In Revelations 6:6, John Of Patmos relates as post-humous testimony from Jesus/YHWH that "...I heard like a voice in midst of the four living creatures, saying 'A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenixes of barley for a denarius, and the oil and the wine not you should injure.'"

https://biblehub.com/text/revelation/6-6.htm

That is - the price and quality of basic goods necessary for worship must be maintained as both inexpensive and precious. 

The Sanhedrin was the bi-cameral (two-chambered) governmental office of the Sadducees and the Pharisees under the authority of the High Priest.  Among the many responsibilities and powers of the Sanhedrin was the imposition of tithes (religious taxes for the Temple of generally 10%), and expenditure of Temple finances. The Sanhedrin was not always equal parts Pharisee to Sadducee, and in the early First Century Sadducean influence had been rendered inconsequential.

The "Fifth Woe" of Jesus referred to laws of tithing in burdensome minuteness, created by the Pharisees as the Sanhedrin. The smallest plants that could be preserved had become associated with a responsibility to tithe 10% of them to the Temple. Not only the seeds, but, even the leaves and stalks of produce became expected to be tithed. These are, in large part, some of the burdens mentioned in Matthew 23:4 "They tie up burdens heavy and hard to bear and lay on the shoulders of men.  Themselves however, with finger of them, not are they willing to move them."

The descriptive title is an insult - and is really quite witty.  

Only people with smooth hands are able to feel smooth things, and only people who do not work have smooth hands.    To the sardonic perspective of the Chitsonim, Sadducees, and other righteous Israelites, the Pharisees must primarily be "Seekers Of Smooth Things", because they appear to preserve smooth hands at all costs.