What the hell, GOD!

[Freeky]

speaking of pimps in the bible abraham sent his wife to a couple of strange bedrooms. Figured if he told kings that lusted after his elderly barren wife that she was his sister they wouldnt kill him. Ancient kings liked granny porn apparently

WAT.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

speaking of pimps in the bible abraham sent his wife to a couple of strange bedrooms. Figured if he told kings that lusted after his elderly barren wife that she was his sister they wouldnt kill him. Ancient kings liked granny porn apparently

WAT.

Yup. They describe sarah as being 90 and barren and a little while later shes marrying pharaoh. Then hes like abraham how could you do this to me? Heres your wife back. And abraham does it again with some dude named abimelech. I suppose after so many decades you need a little kink to spice things up.

[Freeky]

speaking of pimps in the bible abraham sent his wife to a couple of strange bedrooms. Figured if he told kings that lusted after his elderly barren wife that she was his sister they wouldnt kill him. Ancient kings liked granny porn apparently

WAT.

Yup. They describe sarah as being 90 and barren and a little while later shes marrying pharaoh. Then hes like abraham how could you do this to me? Heres your wife back. And abraham does it again with some dude named abimelech. I suppose after so many decades you need a little kink to spice things up.

Okay, let me ask that again.


WAAAT.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

speaking of pimps in the bible abraham sent his wife to a couple of strange bedrooms. Figured if he told kings that lusted after his elderly barren wife that she was his sister they wouldnt kill him. Ancient kings liked granny porn apparently

WAT.

Yup. They describe sarah as being 90 and barren and a little while later shes marrying pharaoh. Then hes like abraham how could you do this to me? Heres your wife back. And abraham does it again with some dude named abimelech. I suppose after so many decades you need a little kink to spice things up.

Okay, let me ask that again.


WAAAT.

Yeah it doesnt make a shitload of sense to of either. Lol

[P3nT4gR4m]

You just need to get into the headspace. Try to imagine you live in a world which is flat, the sky is a couple of hundred feet in the air with little candles hanging from it to represent stars, the sun is driven across the sky by an invisible guy in a chariot and, because your intellect is so primitive, compared to the modern mind, hallucinations, visions and complete psychotic breaks are the rule rather than the exception, to the point where they're not even thought of as such, they're just god fucking with you and you can start to see where the bible is coming from.

It's all perfectly understandable in context. What fucks me up is how the hell supposedly "modern" people can buy it and way too many to be attributable to the odd throwback, too. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

You just need to get into the headspace. Try to imagine you live in a world which is flat, the sky is a couple of hundred feet in the air with little candles hanging from it to represent stars, the sun is driven across the sky by an invisible guy in a chariot and, because your intellect is so primitive, compared to the modern mind, hallucinations, visions and complete psychotic breaks are the rule rather than the exception, to the point where they're not even thought of as such, they're just god fucking with you and you can start to see where the bible is coming from.

It's all perfectly understandable in context. What fucks me up is how the hell supposedly "modern" people can buy it and way too many to be attributable to the odd throwback, too. 

People's brains weren't any different back then; they had the same basic intellectual capacity we do now. 

We're not smarter, we're just better fed.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I don't mean physiologically different, I'm talking about the actual intellect and worldview that was running on that hardware but, yeah, diet and childhood abuse we can barely imagine prolly figure quite highly in there too.

[Don Coyote]

You just need to get into the headspace. Try to imagine you live in a world which is flat, the sky is a couple of hundred feet in the air with little candles hanging from it to represent stars, the sun is driven across the sky by an invisible guy in a chariot and, because your intellect is so primitive, compared to the modern mind, hallucinations, visions and complete psychotic breaks are the rule rather than the exception, to the point where they're not even thought of as such, they're just god fucking with you and you can start to see where the bible is coming from.

It's all perfectly understandable in context. What fucks me up is how the hell supposedly "modern" people can buy it and way too many to be attributable to the odd throwback, too. 

People's brains weren't any different back then; they had the same basic intellectual capacity we do now. 

We're not smarter, we're just better fed.

While not supporting P3nt's claim that they were dumber back then, doesn't poor nutrition, to include eating spoiled food, increase the likelihood that you will operating in an impaired or altered mental state which could include hallucinations and delusional behavior being conflated with reality?

[Cain]

I don't believe I could hallucinate God commanding bears to kill 40+ children for calling a man "baldy", regardless of nutrition.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I don't believe I could hallucinate God commanding bears to kill 40+ children for calling a man "baldy", regardless of nutrition.

Spare the bear, spoil the children.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I don't believe I could hallucinate God commanding bears to kill 40+ children for calling a man "baldy", regardless of nutrition.

You've never tried the right hallucinogenics and/or level of manic psychosis

[Suu]

ITT: Proof the Old Testament is fucking awesome.

I advised Richter to do random justice to Proverbs while sitting in a church for an SCA event once. That was good times. So good, I have the Book of Proverbs as an app on my phone. For enlightenment, chuckles, and OMGWTFs.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I don't believe I could hallucinate God commanding bears to kill 40+ children for calling a man "baldy", regardless of nutrition.

Spare the bear, spoil the children.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't mean physiologically different, I'm talking about the actual intellect and worldview that was running on that hardware but, yeah, diet and childhood abuse we can barely imagine prolly figure quite highly in there too.

Good point

Given that they periodically roasted their own children to "please God", I think we can assume there was a lot of all of the above going on.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

They didn't have our accumulated knowledge.  For all they knew, roasting kids WAS the only way to keep the crops coming in...And in a desert society, life is kinda cheap.  The occasional kid vs the tribe, not much of a question, there.