“Idleness, theft, and viciousness dishonor your mother who in pain bore you.”

—  Mark Rosenfelder

Some of the original tenets in Jippirasti http://www.almeopedia.com/Jippirasti#Jippir.E2.80.99s_demands, another Almean religion
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