Sylph
07-17-2008, 04:05 PM
He tried to follow all the edicts of the Bible for a year.
His bottom line: treat the Bible as a cafeteria. Pick out what is good and useful for your life. Funny video!
https://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/a_j_jacobs_year_of_living_biblically.html
RichT
07-23-2008, 06:40 PM
Interesting video. I love how he highlights some of the conflicts within the bible. One has to remember that the bible is a work of fiction, written by other men, and should not be taken literally.
Lenny
07-24-2008, 05:44 AM
Interesting video. I love how he highlights some of the conflicts within the bible.
Lately been thinking it's a book about how savages living singularly or in small groups in a growing desert came together to live communally or in cities. Their self-identity, rules, their customs development, methods of cohesion and the "history" or stories to enforce & emphasize such. Practical too. The mandate not to wear two kinds of cloth makes sense when it's 115* daily. The clothes worn there to this day in that area are miniature air conditioners because of it. The best way to kill the meat one eats is that way (gently pet & whisper, slit throat), not the way we do it here (line up herd in trough, shoot in head). The rules and such just fascinates me.
One has to remember that the bible is a work of fiction, written by other men, and should not be taken literally.
And you "know" this how?
Of course men "wrote" it! You seem to indicate otherwise because of.....? Don't tell me!
Others "tell" you that The Big Cheese "wrote" it, right?
And do you believe other men?
I too am skeptical.
How does that change The Issues? You know, the "meaning of life" or "purpose"? After death, before creation, stuff like that.
Not at all? So, after death, dirt & worms for you?
I'm good with that as well.
Just working out stuff.
Sorry for the interruption.