Lift buttons and jews

[Ayahuasca]

SantaBarbara said:

Ayahuasca said:

Doubt it. Actually I bet they got their maid to do it. Doh!

Why did you invent this strange scenario in the first place?

What makes you think I invented it?

[Ayahuasca]

SantaBarbara said:

Because it does not ring true.

Why not?

[Mothersruin]

Religion; bringing common sense to the world since...

[anonymous-user]

SantaBarbara said:

Because it does not ring true.

It's sadly true that religion leads to people acting like this, just as it's sadly true that there are bellends who would react just as the OP did.

[ChocolateFrog]

I wouldn't push the button for them. My contempt for any religion is barely contained as it is. Polite silence would be about as much as I could muster I think.

What's the difference pushing a door open and pushing a button, or can't they do that either?

[motco]

Ayahuasca said:

I still don't know how they took the lift down.

If it was before sunset on the Friday it wasn't the Sabbath yet.

[Countdown]

Mothersruin said:

Religion; bringing common sense to the world since...

Yes, because common sense is standing in a lift with 2 Jewish people a refusing to press the button because they won't press the button......

[SantaBarbara]

What would have happened if this story was actually true, and if the lift had stopped between floors and got stuck?

[mickk]

SantaBarbara said:

What would have happened if this story was actually true, and if the lift had stopped between floors and got stuck?

Why would the OP make such a story up though?

[SantaBarbara]

mickk said:

Why would the OP make such a story up though?

That is what some people do on some Internet forums

[Mothersruin]

Countdown said:

Mothersruin said:

Religion; bringing common sense to the world since...

Yes, because common sense is standing in a lift with 2 Jewish people a refusing to press the button because they won't press the button......

At least he didn't openly laugh, which is what I'd probably have done.

Because it's fking stupid.

[motco]

SantaBarbara said:

What would have happened if this story was actually true, and if the lift had stopped between floors and got stuck?

If this story isn't true, others just like it are. My company made volumetric movement detectors for alarm systems (ultrasonic in those days) and an orthodox Jewish family had them installed in their house by a local installer. He couldn't commission the system because the output signal of the detectors to the control panel was by way of a voltage free reed relay. Because the tiny springs in the detectors opened when anyone walked past at any time it was forbidden on the Sabbath. He had to fit something that disabled the devices from sunset Fridays till sunset on Saturdays. They really do take it that seriously!

[mickk]

SantaBarbara said:

mickk said:

Why would the OP make such a story up though?

That is what some people do on some Internet forums

A story about 2 Jewish men getting in a lift and not pressing a button?

I hear that one every other week!

[djc206]

Countdown said:

Yes, because common sense is standing in a lift with 2 Jewish people a refusing to press the button because they won't press the button......

Yes that is common sense, he pressed the button he needed. It's common courtesy to press it for someone else not common sense.

[elanfan]

anonymous said:

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Nope - that'd be a lot of hard work! Pretty sure most are hydraulic these days!

[C&C]

Would it make any difference if it was a Schindler's Lift?

[SlimJim16v]

fking pathetic and a great example of how silly religion is.
So it's OK to use a lift, but not press the button?
If you know you can't use the lift on Fridays, why live somewhere that has one?
fking hypocrites.

[HTP99]

^^^^^

Been done already and it was removed!! (I was nothing to do with the removal)

[Wiccan of Darkness]

I doubt this is a wind up. just to echo the few others who have correctly identified the issue, in judaism the sabbath is from sundown friday to sunrise on sunday. No work is to be done, and that includes preparing food. The lengths to which some will take this depends on the individual, but it is not unknown for some to not even eat pre prepared food, or take the lid off a pot noodle.

I guess like most other religious scriptures, nothing is set in stone and everything is open to interpretation, leading to some hardliners taking things a bit too far. One has to draw the line somewhere, but then again drawing a line could be construed as work....

I could probably get more info from a Jewish friend of mine but as it's the sabbath he won't answer the phone. Well, that's his excuse anyway....

[ApOrbital]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbat_elevator