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Post by anti-nonsense on May 9, 2011 1:34:03 GMT -5
It's only a 3 hour drive from where I live also.
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Post by Vypernight on May 9, 2011 5:00:28 GMT -5
Verily I say to you, that I have found the code in the King James . . . oh you're saying the Bible wasn't originally written in English? I have found the truth in the Latin . . . oh, um, so it was was written in Greek? I have found a code in the original . . . um, why is there only one word for vengeance, 5 words for sex, and 76 words for goat?
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czechmate
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Post by czechmate on May 9, 2011 7:48:30 GMT -5
First in Cuneform (Babylon and Assyria - and I can read it as well as my 5th language - English) Second in the Phoenician script - the origin of all European, Cyrillic, Arabic and Hebrew scripts. Third in Amharic and Old Hebrew. Then into Old Greek with the inevitable mistranslations and embellishments. Then in Latin, less expressive than Old Greek thus previous cock-ups amplified. Then King James I of England, whose MOTHER added her own embellishments and phobias regarding witches. In short, The Bible bears little resemblence to the original. You might just as well read The Sillmarillion, Lord of the Rings and the Complete Selection of Icelandic Sagas - then watch Life of Brian, then you will have a better understanding of the parasite to humanity that is organised religion.
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Post by starseeker on May 9, 2011 8:53:49 GMT -5
Aramaic not Amharic, Amharic is related, but spoken in Ethiopia.
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Post by Bezron on May 9, 2011 10:00:29 GMT -5
Friday evening, these guys were hanging out by Union station in Chicago handing out their garbage. And by hanging out, I mean standing in the worst possible spots during the evening rush. I must say, I took quite a bit of joy in seeing one get almost knocked down when he was shoved out of the way by the crowd...
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storymoron
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Post by storymoron on May 9, 2011 22:50:14 GMT -5
Well, if someone would do that, they should also add some extra to it... like #NOT born-again x-tian parents" or even *gasp* catholic parents was thinking the same thing, if you''re going to fuck with their heads you might as well go as far as you can. This has the potential for an epic prank; a bunch of us join RR, one person pretending to be uber-evangelical, the others are this person's friend and are agnostic but opn-minded. Then, after a period of trust-building, we have the "agnostic friends" start posting that their religious friend, as well as their fundie parents, cousins, etc., have all just vanished. Clothes on the floor. Car just crashed outside house. And then see what happens on the site.
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Post by starseeker on May 10, 2011 2:32:05 GMT -5
The agnostic friends would be banished to Apologetics in an instant though.
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on May 10, 2011 3:28:01 GMT -5
Fine, "raised agnostic, seeking the truth."
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Post by Chi Shiro on May 10, 2011 5:06:57 GMT -5
Oooh, oh, me! *waves hand around wildly*
What? I'm Christian, not stupid.
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Post by czechmate on May 10, 2011 6:37:37 GMT -5
Aramaic not Amharic, Amharic is related, but spoken in Ethiopia. Correct, but the two branches split about the same period. Amharic was spoken in Judea about the start of the Julian calendar and is also spoken in some isolated parts of Syria and a couple of communities in Israel. When the Ethiopian Jews were transferred to Israel, they brought with them books that predated the Torah which upset the Ashkenazi Jews considerably, as they regarded the Sfaradis as being inferior! The Ashkenazis came from East Europe and Russia, the Sfaradis were the tribes least affected by the Diaspora. Either way, thanks for the clarification.
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Post by Shane for Wax on May 10, 2011 8:47:25 GMT -5
I was thinking of fucking with the fundies but it's too much work. So sue me, I'm lazy.
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Post by wurdulac on May 10, 2011 11:43:03 GMT -5
When the Ethiopian Jews were transferred to Israel, they brought with them books that predated the Torah which upset the Ashkenazi Jews considerably, as they regarded the Sfaradis as being inferior! *GASP*! Suddenly, those protest signs comparing "Zionists" to Nazis make a lot more sense!
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Post by starseeker on May 10, 2011 12:19:01 GMT -5
Aramaic not Amharic, Amharic is related, but spoken in Ethiopia. Correct, but the two branches split about the same period. Amharic was spoken in Judea about the start of the Julian calendar and is also spoken in some isolated parts of Syria and a couple of communities in Israel. When the Ethiopian Jews were transferred to Israel, they brought with them books that predated the Torah which upset the Ashkenazi Jews considerably, as they regarded the Sfaradis as being inferior! The Ashkenazis came from East Europe and Russia, the Sfaradis were the tribes least affected by the Diaspora. Either way, thanks for the clarification. The sources I've seen has Amharic being a Semitic language but South Semitic, as opposed to Hebrew and Aramaic which are both North-West Semitic, though Hebrew belongs to the Canaanite sub-branch, and Aramaic being its own sub-branch. Aramaic was the official language of Babylon at the time when the Jews were deported there, which is how they learnt it. By the time of Christ, most Jews spoke Aramaic with Hebrew for religious functions. Jesus is known to have spoken Aramaic from a few quotes of it in the Gospels. There are people in the Middle-East who still speak languages descended from Aramaic, known as the Neo-Aramaic languages. Aramaic is closer to Arabic than it is to Aramaic. I'm not sure how the Falashas fit into all of this, I'll need to do more reading.
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Post by Ranger Joe on May 11, 2011 1:41:52 GMT -5
I saw the people that are touring around the country! They were in the Walmart (BIIIIIG Surprise) parking lot with RVs and they had signs. This presented an opportunity I could not pass up.
I drive over to the parking lot on my lunch break. I get an hour and the parking lot is literally a mile away. I approach the little table and there are people who are already talking to various people in this travelling circus. Some of the stuff I hear is just incredible. The man I spoke to left his wife and three children, quit his job and took to the road so he could spread this message. Another guy just got rid of all his posessions and bought the RV he was driving. "A wealthy man and the eye of the needle, am I right?" <---- he literally said that.
I, being the caustic bastard that I am, asked them what they were going to do on the 22nd when it passes like any other day that we have. Immediately, they started spouting off all these "mathematical" formulas. On a side note, when you know the answer that you want, it's really bloody easy to make an equation to fit it. I told them, calmly, that people had been predicting the end of the world since the Middle Ages and yet we continue, as always. At this point, they insisted they were right and said they would pray for me. Apparently, they will be in the Frederick area for a while. I asked him where I could reach him if I had any other questions and I got an email address.
Bwah-ha-haaaaah
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Post by Haseen on May 11, 2011 5:38:10 GMT -5
An email address, eh? You should ask him what he plans to do on the 22nd. But don't ask him until the day comes, or he won't answer.
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