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There are no answers in Genesis
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 (December 5, 2022 at 10:33 am)Jehanne Wrote:(December 5, 2022 at 10:24 am)Ahriman Wrote: OT as Jewish wisdom, NT as Christian wisdom. Pretty simply really. But certainly not historical. That's fine.
"Imagination, life is your creation"
 (December 5, 2022 at 10:35 am)Ahriman Wrote:(December 5, 2022 at 10:33 am)Jehanne Wrote: I see the Book of Revelation as being apocalyptic literature and not as wisdom literature. I'm not an expert, of course. I don't really care how Classicists organize things; it's a technical subject. 
There are plenty of answers in Genesis for the deluded, the indoctrinated, the controlled/manipulated believers.
For everyone else it's just bullsit.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
(December 5, 2022 at 11:14 am)brewer Wrote: There are plenty of answers in Genesis for the deluded, the indoctrinated, the controlled/manipulated believers. Are there really supposed to be answers though?
"Imagination, life is your creation"
The Book of Genesis is a beautiful allegory about how women are lower beings. That's why Paul cursed them.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
 RE: There are no answers in Genesis
December 5, 2022 at 1:22 pm
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RE: There are no answers in Genesis
December 5, 2022 at 1:54 pm
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The essential indication of the allegorical status of any tale is after the first telling, it quickly falls by the wayside for adults as the intended message stands on its own. If the supposedly intended message must frequently refer back to the “allegory” for support, then the allegory is not an allegory but a doctrinary manifesto, however the fabricator of the manifesto chose to present its contents.
The Bible was never intended to be any sort of allegory. It is part sales collateral, to overawe the impressionable about the overarching knowledgeability of its author by the use of breathtaking and overarching bullshit, and part dictatorial manifesto, browbeating the impressionable with rules governing how the impressionable should debase their own judgement and yield up any independent thinking that contradict the convenience of the said bullshitters.  (December 5, 2022 at 11:28 am)Ahriman Wrote:(December 5, 2022 at 11:14 am)brewer Wrote: There are plenty of answers in Genesis for the deluded, the indoctrinated, the controlled/manipulated believers. B asic I nstructions B efore L eaving E arth It’s an instructional manual RE: There are no answers in Genesis
December 5, 2022 at 3:02 pm
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(December 5, 2022 at 2:51 pm)h4ym4n Wrote:(December 5, 2022 at 11:28 am)Ahriman Wrote: Are there really supposed to be answers though? It’s an instruction to cats about how to become dogs, written by someone whose grasp of what constitutes a dog is about as hazy and variable as his grasp of the genetic sequence of unicorns. the only reason why it gained currency is because so many cats are stupid. (December 5, 2022 at 11:28 am)Ahriman Wrote:(December 5, 2022 at 11:14 am)brewer Wrote: There are plenty of answers in Genesis for the deluded, the indoctrinated, the controlled/manipulated believers. If you're gullible enough it explains it all.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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