I have a similar history, being raised by parents who are Jehovah's Witnesses, and later becoming an atheist in my 30s. I came to see the dogma of the JWs as nonsense. I never liked the form of worship of JWs with the dull meetings and awful door to door preaching. I held on for a long time because it was expected of me by family. Then my cognitive dissonance was too great to keep bottled up, and I dove into alternative research on the Bible. by Richard E. Friedman was of particular help in breaking the narrative promoted by Fundamentalist Christianity. I also spent some time becoming acquainted with the Theory of Evolution, not the straw man of it that Fundamentalists try to 'debunk.'
Most processes concerning inner change take their time. Unfortunately I never found out how to accelerate such things.
There hasn't been a good bible after the old Latin bible. So if you really want to get into it learn Latin and get the oldest version you can find. It makes sense, otherwise most translations are just pretty much a place in the garbage can.
I meant the new testament with Jebus. The old testament is nice with it's hebrew, but the new testament when it got translated from Latin to other languages it ruined it. Haven't ever known Greek language so haven't read it in greek. In hebrew I've read the old testament. But in Latin I've read it and compared to the english translations it is very good.
Ok that's neat didn't know the new testament was also recorded in hebrew. Will have to read it
Thanks!
Well you should see the old greek mathematical calculations and things. It's a real mess. One of the languages that I haven't even wanted to learn is in fact old greek. Hebrew is fine as long as I don't need to calculate too much with it, but greek really blows your mind apart from some of those structures. Of course it got alot better with the arabic numbers. In a way hebrew inspired even greeks to use somekind of odder number system of letters for numbers as far as I know so it was a bit hard telling apart what was what. It had a roman and hebrew standard to the number system so there were alot of europeans in the older age going through ancient greek mathematical scriptures cursing them to the lowest hell thanks to their number system even though they had pretty good mathematical knowledgeYeah well, back in the olden days when jebus was still a carpenter instead of herding sheep they spoke hebrew and aramaic. The powers that STILL be, spoke latin.
It is said that arabic is a created language, at least the written form. It was done by greek explorers, like the europeans did AGAIN last century.
So in essence, i think the greek wrote it all down in israel and the peter took his version to rome, were he figured out the lie, got hung updside down and out of his pocket fell the ROMAN church, which is quite different from the greek orthodox aka aramaic church. As a side note they have been killing aramaic people for a while now similar to the killings of the yazidis.
The most strange thing i found about this language trap in that area of the world, is an old Mesopotamian rhyme, were it says the greek are liars.
i forgot the timelines on this, but history and the trilogy is like that: a big mess. Its even worse when you take the council of rome ad 382 into concideration.
Sorry for the chaotic view, but finding reliable info in the trilogy is like that. They dont like me there.
Sorry for the chaotic view, but finding reliable info in the trilogy is like that. They dont like me there.
Well finally met a new friend, first time in 10 years that I actually seem to hit off with someone on a deeper level, so the beginning is looking real great. But anyway he told me that he was in a bar and then some crazy individual just tackled him in the back in the bar without any warning or reason so he really got pissed off and choked him till he fell unconscious. I thought this was insane and asked if he had vibed anything holy or anything else to Finland, and he said no. The weirder part was that later on the same guy really was found dead somewhere because even the finns couldn't stand him.
