God bless! Ezekiel 23:20!
this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2025
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8 May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership. 9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. 10 May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes. 11 May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor. 12 May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children. 13 May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation. 14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out. 15 May their sins always remain before the LORD, that he may blot out their name from the earth. 16 For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted. 17 He loved to pronounce a curse— may it come back on him. He found no pleasure in blessing— may it be far from him.
Forgive my ignorance, in this context, who is "he"?
Like, what kind of person is being discussed in this passage?
Mostly just curious. But not curious enough to tarnish my Google search history by looking it up.
It's a psalm that wishes bad on those who oppose you and the love you give. Basically a disstrack on all your enemies.
I read an embarrassing amount of that before I realized those were verses and not dates.
That's one hell of a month
1 April just kidding
I read the whole thing like Sarah Connor and it was quite cathartic to imagine it being recited like a history lesson. That would be a hell of a week Couldn't happen to a more fitting person
I first read Sarah Connor as Sean Connery and went back to read it in his accent.
It was 2 for me.
Next May is gonna suck for that guy
Maybe that's what NSYNC was referencing in that one song.
Doing the Lords work. Hope you shower after browsing those platforms.
The Bible is like the Constitution. You don't have to read it to know it's meaning.
And I'll add the "/s" because it's 2025
The four horsemen of things people on the internet don't read, but still comment about endlessly:
- The Bible
- The US constitution
- 1984
- Whatever article is in the OP
I actually read 1984 because of all the "literally 1984" memes. It's dry but it does hold up surprisingly well.
I never finished it. The protag was a weird horny misogynist. And though he had fundamental problems with the state of the world, he was too cowardly to do anything to counter it except to sneak around fucking some nympho chick, and, in fact, was derisive of those who actually do rebel against it. The dystopia of it was interesting, but the narrative was not remotely engrossing and often insufferable after the initial world building, at least up the point I dropped it. Maybe it got better towards the end, but I've read a synopsis of it since then and it doesn't really seem like it. Not my cup of tea.
It kinda reads like Orwell wanted to write an essay on the subject but thought it would get a larger audience if he wrote it as a novel. I read it about twenty years ago and even back then it was terrifying just how many of the predictions had already come true.
"Stand On Zanzibar" has entered the chat.
The author of the novel, John Brunner, read Alvin Toffler's books and wrote a science fiction novel based on them. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1969 and it's scary how many of the predictions came to pass
Same, I actually really enjoyed it as a dystopic book. It might have been dry but the storytelling was great.
As a thought experiment I guess.
Not very good as a novel, though. Same as Aldous Huxley, the characters barely exist, it's just a platform for pontification. Give me George Eliot or William Faulkner any day of the week.
Everybody has enough time to read the constitution. Also 1984 isn't too long. The bible though? I went to church for 20 years and most people couldn't make it through the whole thing. It certainly doesn't help that like the first half of it is boring as hell. (I say that as somebody who got so bored with it I also have never read it through.)
The Jefferson Bible is a great way to read the NT without needing to spend too much time with it or roll your eyes at the supernatural bits.
the first half is boring??
that's where all of the super juicy stuff is!
Getting through Leviticus or Numbers is such a slog. There's some juicy stuff in there, but the record-keeping parts get real old, real fast.
I would read articles if they wanted to be read lol
People make solemn oaths to defend the Constitution without being required to read it. It's just insane.
Fun fact: Psalm hexing is a thing, in certain religions, like hoodoo and voduin.
Let's make that a thing of more religions.
I used to share that perspective, but my perspective has been tempered, as I just said elsewhere, but you're not beholden to my current perspective, as I also said, just prior.
This was a bit confusing. Mind just sharing your current perspective?
Some blend between https://github.com/nrrb/tao-te-ching/blob/master/Ursula%20K%20Le%20Guin.md#31
and
https://bhagavadgita.io/chapter/2
But wrt the Gita (or any other mythos), understanding not everything is meant to be taken so literally.
Here's my earlier comment: https://kbin.earth/m/hopeposting@lemmy.world/t/1850742/-/comment/8712086
Marking this down for my own future reference.
Most so called Christians have never read the bible, if they did they instantly became Atheists.
LoL, that's literally how I left Christianity to become an Atheist
There's a difference between Christians and Bible enthusiasts.
There shouldn't be, if you live by "the book" you should know "the book".
Yeah. I agree. But the fact that we have to use "shouldn't" here pretty much sums it up. I think it may be time for Christians to start thinking about if they have a responsibility to noting the difference.
The unwritten book of the road
Hey I watched the movie with Charles Heston. I'm good bro.
There’s gotta be a bit of critical thinking too
Trump and Vance make quite the wit.
They certainly are a pair of shining wits as Dr. Spooner would say.
I thought they meant the two of them added up to one full wit.
I'm pretty sure gnutrino was making a different, second joke. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism