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Slog Bible Study: Exodus 35:2
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He does this every Sunday. I can't believe god hasn't killed you yet, Goldy. I think this counts as 'work'.
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Someone once said that that the 7th day was the greatest of God's gifts cause it forced us to build in the concept of rest. As in why would God need to rest? Well, a god doesn't really need to, so there must be a reason to force the concept. I thought the premise as interesting, being an atheist myself.
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And here I thought that for this Sunday afternoon shift I could go without my bullitproof-vest for a change...
I'll still take my chances I guess.
I'll still take my chances I guess.
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Well, too much work will probably lessen your life expectancy, so cutting it by almost 15% must help. the book says the punishment is death, it just doesn't say how long it will take to inflict it.
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As today's Bible is an amalgam of translations of ancient texts, I'd love to see a modern translation of this particular passage; maybe "God said 'Would it kill you to take a day off once a week and show Me some love and appreciation? Cause if you don't, I will kill you.'"
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"Whoever does any work on it is to be put to death"? Clunky. Since this poor sentence structure challenges my firmly held grammatical beliefs, I choose to disregard this rule. Next.
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@5 good point. I'd look through yesterday's posts to see if Goldy wrote anything but that might constitute work. And then god would kill me. I'm not quite ready yet.
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Irrational wishful thinking, but before some perverted youth pastor shitlife, I wish John Goodman would cease to be part of my mind.
Irrational wishful thinking, but before some perverted youth pastor shitlife, I wish John Goodman would cease to be part of my mind.
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What about John Roberts? He just did some work and gave the oath of office to Obama a few minutes ago.
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To me, it seems to touch on that feeling you get when, you've busted your ass all day or all week, while most no one was there to help or even witness; you finally take a moment to sit down and watch a little tv, and that's when your mother/spouse/roommie decides it's time to start running the vacuum, while giving you the stink-eye for 'just sitting there'.
Why, there oughta be a law against that.
Why, there oughta be a law against that.
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What if your work week doesn't start until Thursday? Or Sunday, or....so many what if's. Oh, and if you work 2 jobs, are the days counted together or is it six days consecutive at one job? I'm getting a headache.
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Starbucks will have to go Cloud Atlas on its workforce to keep us caffeinated on the day of the Sun.
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@22, it is, indeed, but this is from the Jewish bible, way before Christianity. Since Jews have more sense than Christians, they interpreted this silly commandment away and nobody ever died.
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Just to confuse the boundaries between Christian and Jewish Sabbaths, my Quaker friends call Sunday, "Firstday," yet that's the day they gather for weekly worship.
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As long as policing and enforcing this rule counts as "work," it seems violators of this particular law are protected by a nice Catch-22.
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