Word: guilts
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...example of this interpretive tradition, he cited the decision of Talmudic scholar Johanan ben Zakkai to end the practice of requiring women accused of adultery to drink “bitter waters” in order to determine their guilt because it did not apply in a contemporary social context...
...Some people needed a little nudging, but others were really excited,” she said. “Ten [o’clock] is a good study break time anyway. And then I laid down the guilt trip...
...home town, his avid defense of gay rights and his firm belief that women, rather than men, should rule the world. But if Cobain is a saint, then we must reexamine our definition of sainthood. Cobain’s brand was not one founded on moral perfectionism, guilt or self-flagellation, but one that upholds sincerity and human decency above status and personal achievement, and is willing to forgive and occasionally to embrace the flaws that make us human. Now that Cobain is long gone, and rock has all but gone belly-up, who is there, if anyone, to voice...
...SEVEN-DIRTY-WORDS BROUHAHA. IT'S BEEN 30 YEARS. DOES IT SURPRISE YOU THAT THOSE WORDS ARE STILL FORBIDDEN? No. What has happened over the centuries is that a natural modesty that people have has been exploited by religion to be a kind of fear and shame and guilt about our bodies and the functions they have. Now it is probably a permanent feature of the psyche of people...
...train blasts also differed from the Basque group's traditional modus operandi in important ways: the absence of warning, which ETA usually gives; the deliberate targeting of civilians; and the sheer scale of the operation. Despite the government's professed certainty of ETA's guilt, doubts began to creep in. Then on Thursday evening, Acebes announced that in Alcala de Henares, a town about 19 miles northeast of Madrid where three of the ill-fated trains had originated and which the fourth had passed through, police found an abandoned white Renault Kangoo van containing seven copper detonators and a tape...