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Just how stupid were the ancient Israelites?

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Just how stupid were the ancient Israelites?
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RE: Just how stupid were the ancient Israelites?
May 24, 2018 at 10:07 pm
(May 24, 2018 at 10:06 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: That's where the song fails: "good men".

"Useful" would have been a better word.

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RE: Just how stupid were the ancient Israelites?
May 24, 2018 at 10:07 pm (This post was last modified: May 24, 2018 at 10:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The story as it;s written..is certainly fictional.  Its the establishment myth of a bunch of nasty motherfuckers called the levites. Even the jews know this (and long have)...though I guess they forgot to pass that along to their christian counterparts.
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RE: Just how stupid were the ancient Israelites?
May 24, 2018 at 10:09 pm
(May 24, 2018 at 10:06 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(May 24, 2018 at 10:04 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Where have all the good men gone. And where are all the gods?...........................

It doesn't take much for the simple minded to go off track.

That's where the song fails: "good men".

"Useful" would have been a better word.

Derailed to Pat Benatar. It's an improvement.
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RE: Just how stupid were the ancient Israelites?
May 24, 2018 at 10:10 pm
(May 24, 2018 at 10:09 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:
(May 24, 2018 at 10:06 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: That's where the song fails: "good men".

"Useful" would have been a better word.

Derailed to Pat Benatar. It's an improvement.

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RE: Just how stupid were the ancient Israelites?
May 24, 2018 at 10:11 pm
(May 24, 2018 at 10:10 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Bonnie Tyler...

The one hit wonder? Don't get me wrong, great song, but Pat Benatar is better.
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RE: Just how stupid were the ancient Israelites?
May 24, 2018 at 10:12 pm
(May 24, 2018 at 10:10 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(May 24, 2018 at 10:09 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Derailed to Pat Benatar. It's an improvement.

Bonnie Tyler...

I don't believe she's the "right kind of sinner"..............
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RE: Just how stupid were the ancient Israelites?
May 24, 2018 at 10:13 pm
(May 24, 2018 at 10:11 pm)Kit Wrote:
(May 24, 2018 at 10:10 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Bonnie Tyler...

The one hit wonder? Don't get me wrong, great song, but Pat Benatar is better.

Pat Benatar is amazing.

Bonnie Tyler had several great hits. Total Eclipse of the Heart was another.

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RE: Just how stupid were the ancient Israelites?
May 24, 2018 at 10:14 pm
(May 24, 2018 at 10:13 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(May 24, 2018 at 10:11 pm)Kit Wrote: The one hit wonder?  Don't get me wrong, great song, but Pat Benatar is better.

Pat Benatar is amazing.

Bonnie Tyler had several great hits.  Total Eclipse of the Heart was another.

Name those great hits. Sleepy
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RE: Just how stupid were the ancient Israelites?
May 24, 2018 at 10:15 pm
(May 24, 2018 at 9:54 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: So the ancient Israelites have suffered slavery in Egypt until a certain Mr. Moses frees them.

To get free, they witness the plagues of Egypt.

While fleeing they witness Moses part the Red Sea, and drown the Egyptian army.

Then, after a few days, Moses wanders up a mountain to get his rocks off, and the moment he turns his back, they're off creating new gods!

They witnessed these events and still chose to create new gods and idols the moment Moses buggered off for a quick wank!

So, were the ancient Israelites really that fucking stupid...

..or, perhaps, is the story a complete work of fiction?
In actual history the Egyptians left the Levant area that had been part of their empire.  So they left the Israelites instead of the Israelites leaving them.  When the Israelites built the golden calf idol they were worshiping the Egyptian deity instead of the deity that Moses had cooked up (probably a Hittite one).  In the story about ghow God couldn't defeat iron chariots it's really about how the Hittites used their technological advantage of iron chariots to defeat the Egyptians.  In that story the God character is the Egyptian Pharaoh.
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RE: Just how stupid were the ancient Israelites?
May 24, 2018 at 10:16 pm
(May 24, 2018 at 10:11 pm)Kit Wrote:
(May 24, 2018 at 10:10 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Bonnie Tyler...

The one hit wonder?  Don't get me wrong, great song, but Pat Benatar is better.

"Yo Bonni. I'm really happy for you, and I'mma let you finish, but Benatar is better."
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