Hang in there, Punk.
Posts by Vidiot
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60Goodbye Mother
by punkofnice inso my mother passed on 20 aug 23 from the big c. i was there when she went.
that was indeed very traumatic.
i won't go to describe it.. dad went 17 years ago so there's just me now.
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Were the life spans of the patriarchs just an allegory of astronomical cycles?
by was a new boy inlengths of life of the patriarchs.
genesis.
length of life.
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Vidiot
EasyPrompt - “…I can smell your ‘mother tongue’ a mile away. You got your ‘degree’ in ‘archaeology’ the same way you ‘became a Jew’ - in your imagination.”
And you just flushed the last bit of goodwill you had from anyone else here down the fucking toilet.
Well done; Jesus would be proud.
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Were the life spans of the patriarchs just an allegory of astronomical cycles?
by was a new boy inlengths of life of the patriarchs.
genesis.
length of life.
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Vidiot
EasyPrompt - “By the same token, anyone that insists the Bible be viewed as completely allegorical with no room for anything else also does it and everyone who contributed to its existence a disservice.”
Good thing I haven’t actually done that, then.
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Were the life spans of the patriarchs just an allegory of astronomical cycles?
by was a new boy inlengths of life of the patriarchs.
genesis.
length of life.
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Vidiot
EasyPrompt - “Yeah, right, that whole thing about showing love to your neighbor must have been a parable…”
Pretty sure he used the parable of the “Good Samaritan” to teach that very lesson.
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Were the life spans of the patriarchs just an allegory of astronomical cycles?
by was a new boy inlengths of life of the patriarchs.
genesis.
length of life.
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Vidiot
Really, by that logic, insisting that the Bible be viewed as set-in-stone literal with no room for anything else does a disservice to it and everyone who contributed to its existence.
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Were the life spans of the patriarchs just an allegory of astronomical cycles?
by was a new boy inlengths of life of the patriarchs.
genesis.
length of life.
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Vidiot
Pretty sure Jesus taught almost exclusively using parables.
Also known as allegories. Or metaphors.
I think that’s the point that all-or-nothing Biblical literalists fail to grasp (accidentally or otherwise)…
…that a symbolic narrative can have just as much value as theological “Truth” as a set-in-stone fact. More so, even, in some cases.
Take Aesop’s fables for example… no one in their right mind insists those stories are literal, but no one dismisses them as worthless, either.
Why?
Because they have profound value and insight into the human condition.
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Were the life spans of the patriarchs just an allegory of astronomical cycles?
by was a new boy inlengths of life of the patriarchs.
genesis.
length of life.
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Vidiot
Re. my last post on the previous page…
In fact, I’ve long suspected this was the primary factor in the Medieval Church’s historic antisemitism.
They wanted to present all the books of the Bible as a single throughline historical narrative for authoritative and cosmological reasons…
…but if the common folk learned that the actual individuals who wrote the books didn’t necessarily view them as set-in-stone fact, that authority and cosmology would be too deeply called into question.
Thus, the demonization of the descendants of the actual individuals who wrote the books…
…after all, no one is gonna ask scholarly questions or discuss history and theology with people they’re persecuting and ostracizing.
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Were the life spans of the patriarchs just an allegory of astronomical cycles?
by was a new boy inlengths of life of the patriarchs.
genesis.
length of life.
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Vidiot
KalebOutWest - “…Jews have never believed this information was ever literal…”
Super important, and, IMO, can never be repeated enough…
…that the people originally responsible for the Bible’s very existence viewed it as metaphor.
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Were the life spans of the patriarchs just an allegory of astronomical cycles?
by was a new boy inlengths of life of the patriarchs.
genesis.
length of life.
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Vidiot
Considering everything modern science and history has learned in the past century or so, I think the safest bet is to view pretty much everything in the Bible as “allegory”.
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JW.ORG Needs Lawyers
by Vanderhoven7 injehovah's witnesses are not encouraging university education... but those who are lawyers already can apply to volunteer to help at bethel.. https://youtu.be/5d_-1lbg-oc?si=fsxeewic-fkczu9p.
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Vidiot
“Must specialize in payoffs and NDAs.”
Jeezus, if that doesn’t raise red flags, nothin’ will. 🙄BTW, this is not the first time they’ve put out a casting call for free legal help from the rank-and-file. Anyone wanna hazard a guess how well it went before?