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February 21, 2013 - Was a 'High-Level' Ritual Performed?
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you do know the "rule of thumb" was written as a legal means of beating your wife, with a stick, no larger around then the size of your thumb?i suppose that in itself was another outdated ritual.  I am glad someb0dy said it. :)  ... [ link to en.wikipedia.org] "The exact origin of the phrase is uncertain. The earliest citation comes from J. Durham’s Heaven upon Earth, 1685, ii. 217: "Many profest Christians are like to foolish builders, who build by guess, and by rule of thumb."[1] The phrase also exists in other languages, for example Swedish tumregel, Norwegian and Danish tommelfingerregel, sometimes in the variant "rule of fist", for example Finnish nyrkkisääntö, German Faustregel, Hungarian ökölszabály or Dutch vuistregel, as well as in Turkish parmak <lost in transfer; (rule of finger) and in Persian "<lost in transfer>," which is translated as finger's tip rule. This suggests that it has some antiquity, and does not originate in specifically English-language culture."... Now... off to your art show, woman   Nonetheless, belief in the existence of a "rule of thumb" law to excuse spousal abuse can be traced as far back as 1782,
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