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RE: Revelations
October 29, 2013 at 7:34 pm
(October 29, 2013 at 4:29 pm)Dionysius Wrote: The Book of Revelation is merely a more modern retelling of the Papyrus of Ani .
Ani, as in plural of anus?
That would make it toilet paper. Yep, that's Revelation alright.
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RE: Revelations
October 29, 2013 at 7:52 pm
Quote:It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it and I then considered it as merely the ravings of a maniac no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams.
Thomas Jefferson on revelation.
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RE: Revelations
October 29, 2013 at 8:02 pm
(October 29, 2013 at 7:34 pm)Stimbo Wrote: (October 29, 2013 at 4:29 pm)Dionysius Wrote: The Book of Revelation is merely a more modern retelling of the Papyrus of Ani .
Ani, as in plural of anus?
That would make it toilet paper. Yep, that's Revelation alright.
I was kinda hoping for an Anikin Skywalker/Darth Vader segue. I guess that revelation was already shown to us in the Cloud City climactic bomb drop, though.
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RE: Revelations
October 29, 2013 at 8:16 pm
I thought the Papyrus of Ani was The Book of The Dead that Budge stole... er, found.
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RE: Revelations
October 29, 2013 at 11:10 pm
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(October 29, 2013 at 8:02 pm)Captain Colostomy Wrote: (October 29, 2013 at 7:34 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Ani, as in plural of anus?
That would make it toilet paper. Yep, that's Revelation alright.
I was kinda hoping for an Anikin Skywalker/Darth Vader segue. I guess that revelation was already shown to us in the Cloud City climactic bomb drop, though.
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It is certainly plausible. 
(October 29, 2013 at 7:34 pm)Stimbo Wrote: (October 29, 2013 at 4:29 pm)Dionysius Wrote: The Book of Revelation is merely a more modern retelling of the Papyrus of Ani .
Ani, as in plural of anus?
That would make it toilet paper. Yep, that's Revelation alright.
Not to appear pedantic, but from a scholarly viewpoint the Papyrus of Ani is anything BUTT (pun intended) toilet paper. Although it does do the trick in a pinch, I prefer charmin
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RE: Revelations
October 30, 2013 at 12:45 am
The account in Revelation is the best an old man living in the first century could do to describe what he understood and saw in The end times. Basically this book is how John would describe the last days of man, right or wrong this was the best he could do.
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RE: Revelations
October 30, 2013 at 1:33 am
Give him an F.
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RE: Revelations
October 30, 2013 at 3:16 am
Where is the "I don't know" option? This is a very open question. Some things within the Faith have yet to be revealed.
Plus, I do not know everything.
But I will cast my vote none the less.
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RE: Revelations
October 30, 2013 at 1:37 pm
(October 30, 2013 at 12:45 am)Drich Wrote: The account in Revelation is the best an old man living in the first century could do to describe what he understood and saw in The end times. Basically this book is how John would describe the last days of man, right or wrong this was the best he could do.
Funny how he totally didn't see modern buildings like skyscrapers, automobiles, guns, or tanks, nor people communicating with electronic devices, or even concrete highways for that matter, but all he could see was people riding horses and carrying swords.
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RE: Revelations
October 30, 2013 at 1:45 pm
(October 30, 2013 at 1:37 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: (October 30, 2013 at 12:45 am)Drich Wrote: The account in Revelation is the best an old man living in the first century could do to describe what he understood and saw in The end times. Basically this book is how John would describe the last days of man, right or wrong this was the best he could do.
Funny how he totally didn't see modern buildings like skyscrapers, automobiles, guns, or tanks, nor people communicating with electronic devices, or even concrete highways for that matter, but all he could see was people riding horses and carrying swords.
And since he was incapable of describing the things he was seeing, one would think his god would put the words into him the way he put the words into the tent dwellers turned self-proclaimed prophets on the mainland. Oh ...er ... that's right, his god didn't do a very good job with that either.
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