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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Thanks Christians, you can shove that bible right up your collective asses.

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Even before then. They're originally listed in Exodus. Fun fact, after the tablet smashing incident when Moses goes back up the mountain to get a new set carved in Exodus 32, several of those listed by god in the process of creating the replacements are different from the first ten. Depending on where you split the clauses, there are as many as 18 commandments between the first and the second sets.

Deuteronomy is a recap, including only the first ten, but also manages get the explanation for the sabbath wrong as compared to previous chapters. Then it goes on to claim "these are the ten commandments and god added no more" which as we just saw is an untruth.

Even in Ye Olde Testament Times, an effort was afoot to deliberately mutate the terms and conditions in order to suit the current authority.

[–] leftascenter@jlai.lu 4 points 2 days ago

Forgot about that. I usually focus on Deuteronomy as it is really, very "fun"

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

"Ye Olde Testament"?

Its not 'ye', its 'þe', the thorn character, pronounced today as it always was, 'the'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)

So educate yourself, and please drop all that 'ye' shit, all articles that reference ye are incorrect. 'ye' is a mistranslation itself.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was obviously being deliberately facetious. Relax.

[–] tronx4002@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Ight CM, take my upvote and go smoke a joint.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You think the bible was written in English...?

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

No shit Watson, it was written in Hebrew.

YHWH