• Flying Squid
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    116 days ago

    I was with them until this part:

    while in the Balkan peninsula a small bread image of the deceased is made and eaten by the survivors of the family.

    That crosses over into ‘what the fuck is wrong with you people’ territory.

    • @[email protected]
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      366 days ago

      I dunno, adding gingerbread yous as a party favor to your funeral sounds absolutely fantastic. Every funeral I’ve been to would have been improved by gingerbread people of whoever died.

      • Flying Squid
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        6 days ago

        I was thinking more “Dave’s face made out of bread” than “gingerbread Dave.” I guess the latter doesn’t seem bad.

          • @[email protected]
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            5 days ago

            With a playful strawberry jam filling that gushes out of its eyes and mouth when you bite into it

            • @MutilationWave
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              25 days ago

              I’d eat that up for sure, especially if it’s like a glazed donut.

              Oh man there’s a business idea for someone. Horrific pastries. Imagine biting into a glazed realistic colon filled with elderberry jam. A liver with lemon filling. And many various body parts filled with something red like strawberry or cherry.

      • @SkybreakerEngineer
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        125 days ago

        Everyone knows that bloodwine is for pairing with gagh, not puny p-taq bread

    • @whotookkarl
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      45 days ago

      In this house voodoo effigies are for eating only not burning.

      • Flying Squid
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        55 days ago

        The first doesn’t give me pause because it’s pretty engrained into virtually all of Western society. The second… well that’s sort of the whole point of Catholic communion, isn’t it?

        • richieadler 🇦🇷
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          04 days ago

          The first doesn’t give me pause because it’s pretty engrained into virtually all of Western society.

          It doesn’t mean that it isn’t nonsense.

          The second… well that’s sort of the whole point of Catholic communion, isn’t it?

          Not at all. The transubstantiation is supposed to turn the wine and bread into the blood and flesh of Christ, “really and truly”, in spite of the “accidents” (i.e. the material reality of the wine and bread), and that by ingesting them they receive “the present of Christ’s sacrifice”. They don’t “eat sins”; they accept the sacrifice that supposedly delivers them from sin.

          Of course, I think that all of that is nonsense, but that’s my opinion of all religious beliefs. I only know a little bit about the Eucharist because I live in a Catholic country.

          • Flying Squid
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            14 days ago

            You didn’t ask me if I thought it was nonsense. You asked me if it gave me pause.

              • Flying Squid
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                14 days ago

                If every nonsensical thing gives you pause, you must have immense trouble getting through your daily life.

                In fact, I don’t even know how you can make it through Lemmy, let alone the rest of the internet.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    12 days ago

                    You’re right, because I thought it meant someone was leaving after they said it. And yet you said it and you’re still here.