On 11/1/13, 9:01 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/1/2013 8:45 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 11/1/13, 8:36 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/1/2013 8:32 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 11/1/13, 8:18 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
Ecclesiastes 10:2
(here's a link for the verse) :-)
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+10%3A2
Yet another Old Testament passage trashed by modernist revisions.
Correctly translated:
A wise man’s heart leads him rightly,
but a fool’s heart leads him astray;
The phrase has nothing to do with left or right.
Gotta love the hypocrisy of "religious Republicans." Many support
the right to carry assault weapons and are pro-war, and ignore the fact
that the New Testament depicts their saviour as a liberal who was
against capitalism and violence.
Ahh, religion.
Figured you would get a rise out of that one. Guess you didn't notice
the smiley face.
Of course I did. But I feel compelled to stomp on revisionist
modernizations of ancient texts. I got into a hell of a fight one
semester with a classics professor over a translation of the Iliad he
wanted to use for class discussion. It was a "modernized" version that
totally ignored Homer's use of dactylic hexameter. This was no
introductory course on the classics, so there should have been no need
for Homer's poetry to be simplified and stupefied into "modern" English
prose. Naturally, I lost the argument, so I wrote my final paper in
Homer's meter. 
Hope you understand but my eyes just glazed over.
I've read it of course, by dictate in school but never engaged in any
discussion because I didn't know what the hell he was talking about.
Still don't.
But! I *do* know the ionization potential required for argon at a
pressure of four millitorr. Good thing because it helped pay the bills.
Argon? Millitorr? Sounds like a modern version of Jason and the Argonauts!
The IIiad is the story of the sacking of Troy. There's much in it about
"divine intervention," which I suppose would qualify it as a religious
text.
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Religion: together we can find the cure.