re: #315 Walter L. Newton

One wonders… even if you believe in G-d, is it possible that these rules are simply a “goof” on humanity? If G-d is capable of being “all and everything” is he/she capable of capricious rules, for his enjoyment.

As I see it, it is not a matter of capricious rule imposed so much as capricious rules adopted; to identify the tribal association.

We have a need to identify ourselves as different from others or otherwise we would not have a unique identity, which most of us learn we have around 5 years of age or so.

There are different ways of expressing that.