No one is to throw anything until I blow this whistle!!!!! Even if they do say Jehova... AHHHH.grayswanFebruary 3 2004, 09:43:28 UTC
Yar I've read the bible.... well most of it. Like you and Alex said it does get pretty fucking dry towards the end. Personally I don't think it's any accident that the bible is so vague and open to interpretation. The bible is a tool and an ingenious one at that. It's believed to have been authored around 300AD and it is copied verbatim from earlier texts of the day and written in a way to be perfectly malleable to any situation or reverse meaning. Because any tool that is static would quickly exhaust its usefullness and people will always find loopholes in any rule. Therefor it would have to be dynamic in nature. Religious manuscripts follow two main themes in guiding their readers, hope and fear. The perfect form of control leaves people thinking they are in control of themselves. What's really fascinating is looking at the stories that didn't make it into the bible. Like a ton of shit about Lilith and other stories about angels and seraphs that just happen to almost equal the number of planets and moons around each planet in our
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Re: No one is to throw anything until I blow this whistle!!!!! Even if they do say Jehova... AHHHH.mcgarnickleFebruary 4 2004, 05:26:41 UTC
The Bible was not authored around 300AD. The Old Testament was around long before Christ's appearence on earth, and I'm sure you know that he appeared well before 300AD. Also, the bible was written by many people, over many years. Although, the beginings of the current published form did probably originate around that period of time.
Re: No one is to throw anything until I blow this whistle!!!!! Even if they do say Jehova... AHHHH.grayswanFebruary 5 2004, 00:29:04 UTC
Dude you contradict yourself if you read what I wrote. When I say 'bible' I'm refering, of course, to the current compendium. I already stated that it was compiled from preexisting texts. And yes the current published form has been found to historically originate from around 300AD. Yes the old testament/s was/were around well before Christ. Thank you for first disagreeing with me then agreeing with me.... I guess. What did you think that I thought AD meant "After Death"?
Actually, interesting sidenote. There was a supernova in the area of the sky around which the three wisemen could have followed to the christ child... of course it would have been in the sky 200 to 300 years before it is thought that christ was born, so that kinda throws the whole dating system off anyway.
you're way smarter than your brother! haha, i keed i keed. you, ian and ron are all wicked smah't, and good looking, too (obviously). what is it with the graves? they're gonna take over the world like they did etna, i tell you!
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sometimes i wear my WWII hat, as well.
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Actually, interesting sidenote. There was a supernova in the area of the sky around which the three wisemen could have followed to the christ child... of course it would have been in the sky 200 to 300 years before it is thought that christ was born, so that kinda throws the whole dating system off anyway.
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you're way smarter than your brother! haha, i keed i keed. you, ian and ron are all wicked smah't, and good looking, too (obviously). what is it with the graves? they're gonna take over the world like they did etna, i tell you!
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*Grayswan suddenly craves sushi*
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