Linus recites from the book of Luke, but I don't know what version. Probably the King James.
Question: Will hiding in a cavern with stockpiled chocolate goods be any part of this plan?
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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Dana - Dec 30, 2011 3:12:12 pm PST #4929 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Steph L. - Dec 30, 2011 3:13:39 pm PST #4930 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I used to have an NIV/NASB concordance, to compare the differences in the translations, and I loved the shit out of that thing, from a purely geeky standpoint. I think I was supposed to say something like "it revealed the power of THE LORD more purely," or something like that, but I just totally got down with the little fiddly translate-y bits from the Greek.
t edit I really wasn't a very good freak-ass Christian.
Steph L. - Dec 30, 2011 3:14:49 pm PST #4931 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Typo Boy - Dec 30, 2011 3:17:46 pm PST #4932 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
King James bible has some of best poetry in English language. As a Jewish Atheist I own one for that reason. Part of me thinks a KJB is a very Goth thing to own, but as a non-Goth my opinion on that is not well informed.
Strix - Dec 30, 2011 3:18:19 pm PST #4933 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I had a very academically annotated Bible I bought for a Bible as Lit course in grad school, which was a fantastic course, and I'd read it several times before then.
But I sold it at Half Price Books during one of my broke phases for gas or food. There are just SO many resources for the Bible on-line, I don't feel compelled to have a hard copy for reference.
Style guides and the Writer's Market are another matter...
Cass - Dec 30, 2011 3:46:02 pm PST #4934 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Dang, I can't believe I can still geek out about this shit.
Oh, I totally geek out and find it fascinating. I just don't believe in it.
billytea - Dec 30, 2011 3:56:07 pm PST #4935 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Dang, I can't believe I can still geek out about this shit.
It is eminently geekable. This year my office Christmas party was a bus tour around the Yarra Valley (a wine region just outside Melbourne). I spent the bus ride out doing my own religious geekout in discussion with my boss.
Connie Neil - Dec 30, 2011 4:05:24 pm PST #4936 of 30001
brillig
I was the go-to authority of Catholicism and Saints and historical Christianity when I worked for the library cataloging company. We'd be doing libraries with extensive religious collections, and I'd get asked "Is that a person or a place or both or what?" My habit of muttering "Blessed Mother" when annoyed pretty much cemented my identity as "probably not a Protestant, well, she is from Back East, you know."
Zenkitty - Dec 30, 2011 4:30:26 pm PST #4937 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I love that you people geek out about this stuff.
Me too!
Ginger - Dec 30, 2011 4:43:27 pm PST #4938 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The bible is the most the most geeked about writing ever. Torah scholars and cloistered monks are the original nerds.
The god of the old testament does so many inexplicably terrible things to men and women that I'd be hard put to figure out which sex fares worse. The new testament gives us Paul.