Thank You Very Much for your post, Nonc HilaireNonc Hilaire wrote:To move back towards the topic, RC and Shia are the only two groups in question who produce flagellants. This is only among certain subcultures within those groups, and it is not to punish the self but to experience and memorialize the suffering of another. RC has an Order of God subcult which promotes penitential flagellation, but it is a small group of zealots and serves more as a group bonding exercise than anything else.
The suicide bomber phenomenon is Jewish and Palestinian. Samson was the first suicide bomber, and along with the Masada suicide myth remains an active ideal in the Israeli mindset. Palestinian suicide bombing seems to have 'died off' now that the existence of the Palestinian genocide has reached the international community.
Not so much.... World wise & Time wise....RC and Shia are the only two groups in question who produce flagellants.
Remember the pagan Roman example already cited.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LupercaliaThe sacrificial feast followed, after which the Luperci cut thongs from the skins of the animals, which were called februa, dressed themselves in the skins of the sacrificed goats, in imitation of Lupercus, and ran round the walls of the old Palatine city, the line of which was marked with stones, with the thongs in their hands in two bands, striking the people who crowded near. Girls and young women would line up on their route to receive lashes from these whips. This was supposed to ensure fertility, prevent sterility in women and ease the pains of childbirth.
Also modern Pagans are known to engage in flagellation.
The scourge is used in Gardnerian Wicca to flagellate members of the coven, primarily in initiation rites. Frederic Lamond said that whilst Gardner never told his Bricket Wood coven which element this was associated with, he believed that as an "instrument for exercising power over others" then it should be Fire.[3] The scourge stands in contrast to "the Kiss" in Gardnerian and other forms of Wicca. These being representatives of the "gifts of the Goddess," the scourge standing for sacrifice and suffering one is willing to endure to learn, the kiss being the blessings of abundance in all life's aspects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_to ... ca#Scourge
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/inde ... 141AAGiNsh
But it is not exclusively Jewish & Palestinian.....The suicide bomber phenomenon is Jewish and Palestinian.
Recalling Japanese Shintoist Kamikaze pilots in World War 2*
I agree.Samson was the first suicide bomber,
At the very least, the first recorded one that I know of.....
Don't count on it.....Palestinian suicide bombing seems to have 'died off'
Probably just trying to figure out a new way to do it......
Given that using a retarded child and a women being sent to Israel for repeated medical treatment didn't work
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIEVqFB4WUo
*And also IIRC at least one incident called "3 Human Bombs" where 3 Japanese Soldiers blew up a bridge in Manchuria with bombs they carried.....