Message from @The Enlightened Shepherd
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I disagree the Bible is written the way normies think about the world, as figuration
the bible is written the way constantine wanted it to be so he could make a cancerously expanding dalit empire
and the new testament is probably 75% outright forgery
Hmmm I'm always in dilemma about the worth of NT myself
Revelations for example
Esoteric symbolism in disguise of prophecy
Or deranged phantasmagoria of the type of personality which Nietzdche has described as "man of resentment"
Saying that you are 100% certain on it's worth wouldn't be appropriate atm
I mean, some people are certain and decisive in what they will take from a certain work and what they will dismiss
Varg has a simple answer
Archaeologically and culturally, Bible isn't *us* hence screw everything written there
for some reason I was always quite drawn to the bible
I don't know if it's because my family was catholic for generations and generations and it had become congenital, or what
It has to draw you to it
Think about it
It's was written in the era, in the hotspot of mixed cultures and societies, and above all, mixed worldviews and spiritual proportions
It describes conflicts, agitation, breakdowns and rises of groups and ideas
It gives pages and pages of testimony in politics, religion, society, war
It deals with some of the most important societies to have existed, namely, Babylonian, Persian, Egyptian
And forces you to read between lines, since you are aware that narrator is being subjective
And forces you to take every symbol and study it, since it has got to have had both a significance, and a different meaning than a modern man, due to his separation from such a mode of thinking and speaking, cannot comprehend
Even if the worldview of the Bible is to be completely rejected
You still have to read it in preciselly in order to study it, and it's participants and their modus operandi
that is not even what draws me
what draws me in are two books, genesis and revelation
if you threw out all of the bible except those, I would not feel personally that I lost much
Personally i find the story of Hebrews in Egypt quite intriguing
What a great political and social drama, so misread by the general population eager for bedtime stories
most of that is garnish not the meat and potatoes of the story which everyone gets
it's great for hebrews, historians and hobbyists but that's about it.
Hebrews in Egypt is a great story. Not only political and social, but also personal drama.
I dug around a bit because I remembered in the back of my mind
if you dig around you can find some prozak posts on there too
if I'm not misremembering
dauq did i just read
an old VNN thread where people try to dox Greg Johnson
I'm pretty sure Johnson himself used to post on VNN too
oh actually @Deleted User 57835c2c
this may be something you want to check out, I don't know