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Up and to my office, where all the morning, and part of it Sir J. Minnes spent, as he do every thing else, like a fool, reading the Anatomy of the body to me, but so sillily as to the making of me understand any thing that I was weary of him, and so I toward the ‘Change and met with Mr. Grant, and he and I to the Coffee-house, where I understand by him that Sir W. Petty and his vessel are coming, and the King intends to go to Portsmouth to meet it. Thence home and after dinner my wife and I, by Mr. Rawlinson’s conduct, to the Jewish Synagogue: where the men and boys in their vayles, and the women behind a lattice out of sight; and some things stand up, which I believe is their Law, in a press to which all coming in do bow; and at the putting on their vayles do say something, to which others that hear him do cry Amen, and the party do kiss his vayle. Their service all in a singing way, and in Hebrew. And anon their Laws that they take out of the press are carried by several men, four or five several burthens in all, and they do relieve one another; and whether it is that every one desires to have the carrying of it, I cannot tell, thus they carried it round about the room while such a service is singing. And in the end they had a prayer for the King, which they pronounced his name in Portugall; but the prayer, like the rest, in Hebrew. But, Lord! to see the disorder, laughing, sporting, and no attention, but confusion in all their service, more like brutes than people knowing the true God, would make a man forswear ever seeing them more and indeed I never did see so much, or could have imagined there had been any religion in the whole world so absurdly performed as this. Away thence with my mind strongly disturbed with them ...

Polygamy-Porter wrote:
Hey is that a GoPro HD camera on their heads??

Chap wrote:The difference between the video of Mormon temple activities and videos of Jewish prayer is that the first shows something that takes place in secrecy, and the second shows something that anyone, Jewish or not, can go and look at whenever they please.

why me wrote:

Chap wrote:The difference between the video of Mormon temple activities and videos of Jewish prayer is that the first shows something that takes place in secrecy, and the second shows something that anyone, Jewish or not, can go and look at whenever they please.

If something is secret it does not mean that it needs to be mocked. If Mormons want this to be sacred and secret, then let them. Why mock them? Why harm them? All faiths are touches of strangeness to them. All faiths. But so far, no one is mocking the jews in the video for rocking back and forth or for wearing what they are wearing? Why?

But only for Mormons can they be mocked for their 'magic underwear'.

why me wrote:

Chap wrote:The difference between the video of Mormon temple activities and videos of Jewish prayer is that the first shows something that takes place in secrecy, and the second shows something that anyone, Jewish or not, can go and look at whenever they please.

If something is secret it does not mean that it needs to be mocked. If Mormons want this to be sacred and secret, then let them. Why mock them? Why harm them? All faiths are touches of strangeness to them. All faiths. But so far, no one is mocking the jews in the video for rocking back and forth or for wearing what they are wearing? Why?

But only for Mormons can they be mocked for their 'magic underwear'.

brade wrote:
Um, ok, it's strange that they're rocking back and forth and wearing what they are wearing. Also, the Mormon temple ceremonies are strange. Is everything ok now?