Blame that on crappy translators and the fact that Hebrew grammar is different to English. Hebrew has no concept of a comma'ed list; you put 'and' (which is actually a one-letter prefix) before every word in the list.

Is there an age where anyone can accept their mortality? The only people I've known to be able to do that are those who have been diagnosed with something terminal and are staring it in the face.

didn't we already have a thread for the afterlife somewhere?

But anyways, My friend once told me that it wouldn't be scary for her to die, because she would be resting with the ever turning cosmos from which we all originated.
Or something.

We are all star children.

Is it that time again?

so now the Ten Commandments are contradictory?

I haven't ripped into the Decalogue on here yet, have I? Another time.

That tablet is supposed to be a full holy text. It is the stone age.

And this is Babylon.

I regret that I missed the inference there.

That's because he probably meant Sodom or Gommorah.

No I meant Babylon, everything was written on stone tablets.

O...kay?

Quite, WoF, quite.

He's probably thinking of the Code of Hammurabi, which was actually my first thought too. I was going to post a reference to it, but it's actually a legal code rather than a religious one.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...re_AO10237.jpg

Yeah, that's a code.

Meanwhile, in Algeria...

'Code' in the context of legal code.

Ack, that looks horrid to me! IT NEEDS TO BE SANDED DOWN SO THAT IT'S NOT ALL LUMPY.

I bet you're a riot with the blind community.

haha, no but it's got my OCD raging.

That's cuneiform. I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform. And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform.

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In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General!

I would of course like to know what happens after death, or if anything at all happens. But I do not know, nor will I ever know, so I'm content to just imagine it, and use it as a method of making it less disconcerting of a though. I'm pretty sure that whatever I imagine it's deludedly wrong.

I wouldn't like to know what happens after death. I've always wanted to know what happens, but I want the answer to be something I can look forward to when I'm dying.

That sounds less stupid in my head.

That makes a lot of sense. It does not sound very smart, but I know what you mean.

i've always been morbidly fascinated with death and whatever comes after it, if anything. i know that if things fuck up magnificently, i've always got that escape, my Get Out Of Jail Free card. and it'll be a fucking adventure. if there's nothing, so be it, at least i got out when i wanted to. but if there is something, maybe i can somehow start again.

maybe that's just me being fucked in the head, but that's how i feel about it. no, i don't have any specific beliefs about what happens when you die, but when the time comes i suppose i'll find out one way or another. i won't be disappointed no matter what the outcome, it's a win-win situation for me, at least i fucking tried.

so in short: i dunno.

You know.. the funny thing is I have the EXACT same thoughts regarding death.

But im also more fatal about it I guess. I see this world as a boring, gray pile of dirt. However... In this grey world, there is really tasty ice cream. So tasty that I'm not willing to let it go just yet. The ice cream takes form in all the things I like and enjoy. Such as love, friends, family, fun...
But once the supply ice cream slips up, nothing really hold me back from ending it. I find most of the regular life to be tedious, and it doesn't make sense at all.

Like to me... it doesn't make sense to have to go through education, only to get a job and show off to others about it. Not unless it's fun. Im not gonna go on merely because it's the society way of doing. If it's fun, then yea. I'll keep going. Yup.

I suppose that's strange... or...

Makes sense. You could get a boring job for money though. Make lot's of money, have nice things, good holidays and retire at 50 with your own pension.

Yea but I don't really take pleasure in material things.... I mean, they are fun. But not enough to make me 'happy'. And I dont deem the effort getting there enough to keep going on, if there arent other things to keep my mood up.

I was like that

Then I found my true calling!

Jesus!

Actually in a mentality similar to T-Nex's lack of interest for material wealth would make her greater in the eyes of God. ;)

If material wealth means that in forty years time I'll be sitting on a beach sipping aged Merlot with the keys to a château in my pocket. Then it's worth it.

We all know you'll be a bloated, white bread apiarist who sells home-harvested clover honey with poorly printed labels to other bloated, white bread locals. You'll die of coronary embolism at 55 while slouched in your easy chair after an unfortunate laughing fit caused by a re-run of your favorite episode of My Name is Earl.

I've got him down as a specified casualty of the first Gene War.

Let's just agree that he'll die horribly and ironically.

Or horribly ironically.

I wanted to be a barrister but Sekto's idea for my future is far more fun. I'm doing that instead, now to drop out of college.

You might want to consider taking a remedial course in critical thinking.

You'd be surprised at how much of a retard I am not in RL! =)

So this whole religious thing is just an act?

Then why are you so fucking dumb here?

I don't try to be...I just am.

So you are dumb.


anyway to try to derail from bashing the same guy in every thread

I can't see how anyone can think this when stuff like this exists

http://i.imgur.com/W23zA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/lp8Jn.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/vkteZ.jpg

http://images.nationalgeographic.com...30_990x742.jpg

http://images.nationalgeographic.com...14_990x742.jpg

http://images.nationalgeographic.com...79_990x742.jpg

Places you can go (well ok maybe not the crystal cave), things that are real. How can you know these things exist and still think "Wow, the world sure is boring!"

e: and I'm sorry if i'm misinterpreting your post I just get real peeved when people don't appreciate what's out there