How many people have read the bible?

[Qwertyuiopasd]

Marry a robot. End domestic violence.


Wait, there's probably something in Leviticus prohibiting that...

[Roy Hunter]

Marry a robot. End domestic violence.


Wait, there's probably something in Leviticus prohibiting that...

Only if it's a gentile robot that eats pork.

It was an accident - we were in a swimming pool on holiday in Gran Canaria, she got too close to me swimming, I kicked her in the thigh, my toe broke. I walked around for a week pretending I hadn't broken my toe, but I had, and I got it seen too on the NHS back in Blighty.

[Edd]

Does that mean the Song of Solomon is about Scott and El? (Music by Barry White, of course.)

And God and the spirit of Samuel Hahnemann made a bet casting DB as Job! (Mentioning DB is bound to mire us in the realm of broken bones indefinitely.)

[black bart]

Marry a robot. End domestic violence.


Wait, there's probably something in Leviticus prohibiting that...

Only if it's a gentile robot that eats pork.

It was an accident - we were in a swimming pool on holiday in Gran Canaria, she got too close to me swimming, I kicked her in the thigh, my toe broke. I walked around for a week pretending I hadn't broken my toe, but I had, and I got it seen too on the NHS back in Blighty.

Typical Scotsman...would rather walk around with a broken toe than fork out money to get it fixed.

[Tigger_the_Wing]

^ It must be catching.

(Maried to a Scot for over 30 years, walking around in compression socks and tight boots… )

[black bart]

As well as losing a toenail during a mixed hockey match I once hurt a toe quite badly during a dream! I was having a vivid dream in which I was fighting for my life against some nasty villains, when my gun jammed I kicked out a la Jean Claud Van Damme and I really did kick out making rather firm contact with the wall!!!! Please don't go reading anything significant into guns jamming and stuff like that!

[Roy Hunter]

Just don't tell Scott or me (or Qwerty - isn't he studying psych now?) about the dreams where all your teeth fall out.

Freud was such a dirty old man.

[black bart]

Clement Freud?

[Qwertyuiopasd]

(or Qwerty - isn't he studying psych now?)

Rofl, oh how we project. I'm just in an intro Psych class, passing through, filling a requirement. The thing I'll really be studying is Philosophy and Religion.

But yes, I'm aware of what he said those dreams mean. But I only ever had them between like, 3rd and 6th grade. I think I really was just worried about not brushing often enough.

[black bart]

I took me a while to find the dream explanation for 'Teeth Falling out' which you and Roy are referring to. First I got lots of adverts for dentistry and cures for hair loss and eventually I found that in a dream The teeth falling out and extraction of them are symbols of castration as a punishment for masturbating (castration's complex).


But looking on the bright side I should have a lovely thick head of hair by this time next year.

[Arkaeon]

Yah, I read the whole New International Version cover to cover, most of the King James (4) but not in order (had to skip around among some of the more boring and incoherent bits of that version), most of the Greek Interlinear New Testament, a lot of the hippy-like "The Way" version and the more pedestrian American Revised Standard version. I also read huge amounts if not most of the "Interpreters Commentary on the Bible."

I also read one of the older versions of the Book of Mormon (while it still had magic orbs, official polygamy, and stuff like that in it), and most of the Jehovah's Witness version of the New Testament (a hilariously bad translation created just to obscure some of their theological and social assertions that flatly contradict the actual New Testament).

The Interpreters Commentary was noteworthy, in that it is intended for priests, pastors, and professors, not really for laymen or students, so it includes explanations about how much of the Bible was pieced together from literary fragments, hero-stories, and wisdom literature of former and foreign cultures. Once you've read what the theologians, church historians, and theological archaeologists have to say about the various books while discussing it amongst themselves, you either go completely mad or forever abandon the idea of the Bible being intended as a literal interpretation.

This was when I first learned about "psuedoepigraphy," the once-honorable tradition of writing books in the name of a former philosopher or leader as a sort of homage, thus analyzing current problems or issues from a revered/ancient point of view. It was a valued literary style in those days, sort of taking the author's own ego out of the equation, and also good for hiding the real author's identity from the authorities. These days we call it parable, allegory, or forgery, depending on the intent.