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Edit: For the record, Harley, I’m sorry I broke something you enjoyed.
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YEA DUDE. IT IS best for sweet dunks. That’s WHY you should read it. Dummy!
Bible contradicts itself: Perfect. Memorize every angle and apply it when personally convenient.
Which magical crap is important… heretic. Every word is important. That’s why you memorize the entire Bible.
And it should be obvious that a spear-wound-less Jesus is a living Jesus. Because spear wounds make most people mega dead.
Actually the spear was inserted to see if they needed to break his arms and legs. Blood and water in the lungs proved he was dead so they didn’t inflict further harm.
Or something like that.
You’re right as far as I can recall anyways.
Crucifixion can cause a type of dry drowning, fluid building up in the lungs and such. Breaking the legs and arms prevents escape and I think it’s supposed to hasten their demise without alleviating suffering? There were a lot of variables in the practice.
Crucifixion does cause dry drowning due to fluid in the lungs, yes. One can last a little longer by adjusting the angle they’re hanging at however, by pulling themselves up. In other words, by bracing against the nails impaled through their limbs, worsening the wounds. Breaking the legs means that the person being crucified can’t brace themselves upward any more, hastening their demise.
It is amusing to see people who go “The Bible is BS! Also, I don’t remember anything from the Bible!” Like, I’m basically an atheist, but I actually have read the thing, and read about the thing, and read history surrounding it, and understand it. No, I don’t read Koine Greek or Aramaic or ancient Hebrew versions, but I am familiar with it, and it’s equally funny to see Christians reference it when all they know are a few stories from childhood Sunday school, and to see angry atheists reference it when all they know are gotcha videos from The Amazing Atheist and Amon Ra from like 15 years ago. Like, I dunno man, believe or don’t believe, but don’t lecture me about a book you are personally ignorant of, you know?
And also, I wish more people were taught some of the classics; yes, eveyone in the western world should know the Passion story, just like they should have some knowledge of traditional Greek mythology, these things that are the basis of our current civilization, like it or not. You don’t have to like or believe in any of it, but you should understand the stories that are the inspiration for even the stories we tell to this day, the timeless concepts and conflicts that guys like George Lucas specifically studied in order to make Star Wars what it was.
I’m a “recovering Catholic”, a.k.a. now agnostic, but I find things in the Bible which explain a lot, and my knowledge level of it means it’s a weak category for me on “Jeopardy!”
Most of the things which Thomas and Carol talked about some point back were new to me.
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Too Soong
I’ve heard that B-4.
As some cops in Scotland say:
“OPEN UP in the name of the LORE!”
Reggie seems like the type of guy who discards knowledge that doesn’t serve him in the here-and-now. Jesus being stabbed by a spear after he died isn’t useful in any measurable, meaningful way that Reggie can work out, so it’s nothing that needs to be remembered.
I feel like living in a very religious area and not knowing basic facts about that religion could make him unpopular. But, I can’t say I’m surprised that Reggie wouldn’t consider that, for example, many workers at that construction company he wants to take over are probably religious.