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2012-05-18
God’s all about making contracts, but doesn’t seem too keen on fulfilling them. Remember, Abraham only had to circumcise his children, and he and his ancestors were supposed to get the Canaan. Yet here we are, hundreds of years and millions of foreskins later, and his people are still wandering in the desert. I’d say that God has defaulted, but he was wise enough not to include any time limit clauses.
In Exodus 34:9-10, God forced Moses and the Israelites to accept a new covenant. God intends to do marvels so amazing, so terrible, that no nation, in fact the very Earth has not seen these marvels. However, I’m pretty sure this is going to be false. Unless I’m forgetting something, the flooding of the entire world is the most impressive thing God does in the bible, at least based on how much it affects the Earth and its inhabitants. There will be smaller marvels and plagues later on, but I think that was the peak of God’s work (there’s something to be proud of, right?).
Now, it seems rather odd that God would use the word “terrible” in reference to the marvels he intends to perform considering that “terrible” is usually associated with bad and frightful things. However, modern translations tend to use the word “awesome” instead, which gives the verse a much different tone, especially with the modern slang use which compares “awesome” to exceptionally good. Normally, I side with the modern translations since they had better source material to work with and take into account recent colloquial usage of words, but in this case, the KJV appears to be more accurate. The Biblical Hebrew word used is yare', and the majority of the definitions mean, “to fear, to be afraid”. It can also mean, to stand in awe, hence the modern translations, but this doesn’t look like awe to feel amazed, rather awe to be fearful and reverent.
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FIRST! writes:
| "Yet here we are, hundredSSS of years and millions of foreskins later."
Forgot an S there.
"in fact the every Earth has not seen these marvels."
Seems like, you meant to say "everyone hasn't seen these marvels," and changed your mind half-way to "entire Earth has not seen these marvels,"
unless the Every Earth is a thing.
Please don't ignore: Why no multipaneled pages? It can't be that hard to add multiple comment fields to a page, can it? |
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Maju writes:
| Yeah, Quran is also all the time "fear God"... It seems that's all what Semitic religion can figure out... and yet they had such a huge success, I can't really believe it. :( |
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Ladyofthemasque writes:
| Oddly enough, this fear-of-God-and-must-therefore-worship-God is strangely comforting to me. I mean, we've all heard the phrase, "We fear that which we do not understand, and we destroy that which we fear," right?
Here's Douchebag God acting in ways we as logical beings cannot comprehend--and his followers are equally incomprehensible. Yet DBG acknowledges he's striking fear in the hearts of his followers, and his followers admit they're afraid of him. So...when are they going to destroy what they fear? ...Aaaaany second now? Minute? Hour? Any frikkin' millenium??
This reassures me in the sense that we do NOT always automagically destroy the things we fear. Of course, DBG's stranglehold on people's minds is very strange and needs to be destroyed, but I never said I was 100% consistent, either.
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Baughbe writes:
| Becasue I fear a predator hunting me in the night does NOT mean I should worship it nor does it mean I should not destroy it before it destroys me. Of course in this case the best way to destroy the douchbag gods is to create a society which thrives without them or thier followers. Unfortunately I have yet to find such place. |
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TheAlmightyGuru writes:
| @FIRST!: Fixed the typos. The second one was supposed to say, "The -very- Earth".
Though, I'm not sure I understand what you mean when you say "multi-paneled pages" |
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Richard writes:
| Baughbe, yet, look at how many religions do worship the scariest creatures they can find or make up. |
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Allanon6666 writes:
| @TAG: He's talking about having an option to see 4 panels per page (for example) as opposed to 1 per page. I like the 1 panel per page format, myself. Especially since you have the long posts beneath them explaining the panel. |
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FIRST! writes:
| @TAG
Example: http://ferretcomic.com/754n10 |
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Maju writes:
| @Lady:
We only destroy what we fear IF we also rage against it. Fear alone is an instinct (emotion) of hide or run, not an instinct (emotion) of struggle against what is felt as unfair, that's rage.
Fear is used by power to keep people quiet an submissive: "we can't do nothing", "we are powerless".... Also the hierarchs or all times have sought to canalize rage (unavoidable when there is injustice) against those without power, in favor of the system. That is what we know as hatred: a complex emotion that blends fear and rage against those who are considered alien or inferior (or both), this pseudo-emotion is cooked often in the kitchens of power, canalizing legitimate rage in favor of the system.
I think that the adagio you mention (and which I can't share) comes from that manipulation hatred against "the other". Institutional fear impedes that rage is mostly expressed against the hierarchs but only up to a point, so they seek to canalize it against other fears: like otherness (aliens) or defeat (weakest social layers). |
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