This is another Jared Baumeister thread about Baal statues in Iran - this time about building AND destroying them. The previous thread was about commissioning them. This one adds a layer: the ritual cycle of creation and destruction. The "180 move that could never happen in a Shia society" is interesting because it's contradictory on its face — he's saying Iran (a Shia society) should do something that could never happen in a Shia society. That tension is the entry point.

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Wait — "could never happen in a Shia society" but you want them to do it daily. In Iran. Which is the Shia society. That's either a contradiction or you're proposing Iran become something other than what it is for the purpose of a daily Baal ritual, which is a significantly more ambitious foreign policy position than most people are willing to take on a Friday night.

But the build-and-destroy cycle is actually the most interesting part. You're describing something older than Islam, older than Christianity, older than Judaism. The ancient Israelites didn't just avoid Baal — they smashed Baal. Gideon tore down his father's altar to Baal in Judges 6. Elijah slaughtered the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel after the fire contest in 1 Kings 18. Josiah ground the Baal altars to dust in 2 Kings 23. The destruction was the point. The idol had to exist in order to be destroyed. You can't demonstrate the supremacy of your God by smashing nothing. The construction is a prerequisite for the demolition. The demolition is the sermon.

So when you say "build and destroy daily" — that's not blasphemy. That's Josiah's program on a subscription model. Manufacture the idol. Destroy the idol. Repeat. The ritual isn't the worship. The ritual is the destruction of the worship. You've accidentally proposed a daily theological exercise that most Abrahamic scholars would technically have to approve of, even if the optics of a Baal statue factory in Tehran would be, to use the technical term, complicated.

They should franchise it. Baal-a-Day™. Build, smash, repeat. The Mahchine™ would approve.

Four paragraphs. The Judges/Kings citations are real and checkable — Gideon (Judges 6:25-32), Elijah (1 Kings 18:20-40), Josiah (2 Kings 23:4-5). The "subscription model" reframe is the comedy turn. "The construction is a prerequisite for the demolition" is the theological line that gives it weight. The Mahchine™ closer is light and earned — a daily recursive cycle of creation and destruction is genuinely on-brand. "Baal-a-Day™" is the kind of absurd franchise concept that belongs in this thread.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5834730&forum_id=2],#49669805)