Re: Oldest profession ?
yeh i wud say the oldest profession has to be prostitution,
Re: Oldest profession ?
yeh i wud say the oldest profession has to be prostitution,
Please give your logic or reason for saying so to make it more meaningful.
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Spying and locating lost people ... Amaah Haawa had hard time finding bawa Aadam .. hadnt she ... what she got paid for her efforts ... She got her husband back :D
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I think it’s agriculture…
Afterall, wasn’t Adam appointed by God to tend the garden of Eden… and later he was sent out of the garden to earth and asked to till the ground ??
“There is no ancient gentlemen, but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.” – Hamlet
weren't the earlier human beings hunter and gatherers? it's only after they settled down and started taming the cows and dogs did agriculture come into being. so it's still relatively new compared to hunting, or even prostitution.
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Please give your logic or reason for saying so to make it more meaningful.
in my mind to be fair prostitution isnt a profession as such but it has been the oldest method of making money for women, and dates back thousands of years. Many ppl mention hunting and gathering, but i disagree prostitution is by far the oldest profession known to mankind, which is sick and wrong but sadly true :(
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in my mind to be fair prostitution isnt a profession as such but it has been the oldest method of making money for women, and dates back thousands of years. Many ppl mention hunting and gathering, but i disagree prostitution is by far the oldest profession known to mankind, which is sick and wrong but sadly true :(
Now someone please explain to me what is the difference between making money and profession ?
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Now someone please explain to me what is the difference between making money and profession ?
thr is definitely a diff between making money and a profession, sorry if i didnt clarify that, i just mean that although in this day in age prostitution is not deemed a profession and rightly so, it was back then as in hundereds of years ago it was seen as a profession,
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weren't the earlier human beings hunter and gatherers? it's only after they settled down and started taming the cows and dogs did agriculture come into being. so it's still relatively new compared to hunting, or even prostitution.
I'm using the term "agriculture" very loosely... may be "gardening" would be a better term.
I think a profession is something you accept as a task in return for something that is valuable to you... and Faisal's given ample examples of barter based economies. So my premise is that Adam :Allaih: was assigned a particular task - to look after the garden of Eden... in return for God's bounties and favours.
So that makes gardening... Adam's :Allaih: profession.
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but he didn't exactly do that did he? he got fired :D
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weren't the earlier human beings hunter and gatherers? it's only after they settled down and started taming the cows and dogs did agriculture come into being. so it's still relatively new compared to hunting, or even prostitution.
exactly
i think that before all else is the need for survival, and for survival you need food, so would the gathering of food not be the oldest profession, isnt a profession what you do to stay alive?
edit : maybe the building of shelters would be the oldest profession?
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Did the concept of "profession" or "prostitution" exist back then?
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but he didn't exactly do that did he? he got fired :D
:) true that... so all the more... it was "unprofessional" :)
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Did the concept of "profession" or "prostitution" exist back then?
yeah when ever husbands used to get mad, the use to say "you are a wh-re"