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Gokul43201
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No study of the Bible is complete unless you've read the Nag Hammadi Texts.
Excellent point.Gokul43201 said:No study of the Bible is complete unless you've read the Nag Hammadi Texts.
Don't worry about that, he didn't write the bible, he only commisioned itdextercioby said:2.Who the hell is king James...?
Very true. One of the few correct things that you have said since you are at PFspender said:What is the fascination of most Americans with bible stuff ? In Europe if I told my friends that I intend to read bible I would be laughing stock.
spender said:What is the fascination of most Americans with bible stuff ? In Europe if I told my friends that I intend to read bible I would be laughing stock.Is America so naive as to take serriously this gibberish and utter nonsense.For me old testament is complete BS (simply waste of paper and ink),new testament also but has some slight improvements...
spender said:What is the fascination of most Americans with bible stuff ? In Europe if I told my friends that I intend to read bible I would be laughing stock.Is America so naive as to take serriously this gibberish and utter nonsense.For me old testament is complete BS (simply waste of paper and ink),new testament also but has some slight improvements and parables still valid in our modern world.
Integral said:See, I can make generalizations every bit as bad as yours.
dextercioby said:It would be okay if it had,let's say 200 pages,but 1500...?? : :yuck:
Daniel.
P.S.I think it would make a better sale,of one was to write:"The shortest version of Bible". :uhh: :tongue2:
mattmns said:However, the point is to read a nice long poetic story, there is no need to rush
Bartholomew said:Welll, a 200 page bible takes less time to read... and if you read a 200 page bible and a 300 page Iliad then you can read 700 pages of something else.
Bartholomew said:Myth like the Bible has a great attraction to it... the sifting images of strange and fundamental cultures... but eventually you realize that your own thoughts are as unique as the thoughts of whatever some great mythologist wrote, and you stop caring. Myth study is just a hobby.
Bartholomew said:what point might that be?
Like 30 comic books?Bartholomew said:Welll, a 200 page bible takes less time to read... and if you read a 200 page bible and a 300 page Iliad then you can read 700 pages of something else.
Like the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers - Freewheelin' Frank, Phineas Freek and Fat Freddy.Integral said:Like 30 comic books?
Humm... is this the hooka thread? Or am I lost?Astronuc said:Like the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers - Freewheelin' Frank, Phineas Freek and Fat Freddy.
Also, try Freaknet
I read the Bible for fun...not that I read all of it. But I did read the entire OT (skipping a couple of the begats here and there) and about 60% of the NT.GeneralChemTutor said:I don't believe that anyone, including Christians themselves, read the Bible for fun...
Gokul43201 said:I read the Bible for fun...not that I read all of it. But I did read the entire OT (skipping a couple of the begats here and there) and about 60% of the NT.
I already consider myself an intellectual, because of what I, personally, can think. There is no intrinsic intellectual value to reading literature, and particularly not in reading thousands of pages of the same book. All philosophical ideas can be summarized in a few pages.franznietzsche said:If you haven't gotten it yet, you're not going to, and i know better than to waste my time forcing intellectualism into people that just don't get it.
Bartholomew said:I already consider myself an intellectual, because of what I, personally, can think.
Moonbear said:... A lot of it really dealt with simple hygiene issues...