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Question: Who do you think were the first writers of the Bible? Black, white, “other”, or a “combo” of races?
(I just asked this in the Cultures & Groups section. But this section is probably more appropriate, so I’m re-posting it here.)
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(WRITERS– not storytellers, translators, etc… I’m talking about the people who first used the written word of any language to document the old and new testaments of the Bible.)
Explain your position. And please don’t get pissy with me. I haven’t even shared my opinion on the subject….. yet.
Thanks, y’all. ?
Oh, and I’m not asking anything regarding fact vs. fiction.
Feel free to give any details leading up to what you think is the first composition of Bible books and the first formation of the Bible itself (or each testament separately).
I’m just curious about your opinions.
“Oh, and I’m not asking anything regarding fact vs. fiction.” —-Sorry, when I said that, I should have said “fact vs. fiction regarding the accounts written about in the Bible.” I apologize.
Answer:
Answer by sean e
Well in the Book of Numbers one of those apposing Moses is an Ethiopian (Black) woman married to an Israelite.
Moses is married to a Shulamite (Thought to be black but no proof either Way.) or a Midianite (Arab) I can’t remember.
I think there are 600,000 foot solders in the camp (Males 20 years and up.) And their number is estimated at 3 Million or so total. Factor this into that they have been in Egypt for 400 years and I would say it is likely that they were of many ethnic back grounds. Moreover, The tribes that descended from Joseph =Ephraim and Manasseh were name after Josephs two sons-Both 1/2 Egyptian and 1/2 Syrian (Hebrew=Herdsman) and Israel was only 70+ people 400 years earlier so they had to be other races.
On another point:
The Idear that the bible (namly the O.T.) was an oral history that predated writing or the Hebrews ability to write is a relitivly modern idear which weather true or fale is completly speculative. If you beleive the text it states that it was writen at the time by Moses (We can give the benifit of the doubt in that he didn’t write about his own death.) this is implisted and no a controdiction but rather a samantical argument and an unfair one. One way to know for is to find the arch of the testamony for the torah is said to be writed on a skin inside of it. (Its sealed in a gold inlayed box- in one of natures most archyalogicaly hopitable regions on earth.)
P.S. I trust the whole book from Gen-Rev, no doubts here-Amen.
Question: What is the first thing that comes to your mind when I say “Fiction”?
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Answer:
Answer by Kiera
Stories/non-fiction
Question: The epitome of the dangers of consuming marijuana.(Long, first hand, unique, essay format.)?
8/7/11
I havent edited this in any way since last night. any abstract way of thinking conveyed in this this was solely caused by me being fucking blasted.
…its fucking weird when you finish. And remember this is a message i sent to my friend on facebook.
enjoy:
8/6/11
the entire thing was in response to your questions: “whatever that means” and “make me understand” to my brain spark extention: “which makes me wonder if theres something like a developmental instinct influencing you to make sense when your thought process is reaching its full potential. like living the language made me develop some crazy ability to be able to spit my thoughts without stopping when my brain starts actually being utilized to a point near its full potential. So the remains of my eccentric self indulgence actually make sense to my normal critical self. who’s of course trying to find fault in all my ideas..”
but that was actually in response to this innocent, yet ominously, titanic legend inspiring memories of a gleaming iceaberg tip: “whenever i write something long and weird when im high and i go back and read it i get mad confused at like 6 points and always have to stop and re read something but then after i finally catch up to it and understand it it, it normally turns out making sense.”
so the entire things goes like this:
begging:
“whenever i write something long and weird when im high and i go back and read it i get mad confused at like 6 points and always have to stop and re read something but then after i finally catch up to it and understand it it, it normally turns out making sense.”
middle:
“which makes me wonder if theres something like a developmental instinct influencing you to make sense when your thought process is reaching its full potential. like living the language made me develop some crazy ability to be able to spit my thoughts without stopping when my brain starts actually being utilized to a point near its full potential. So the remains of my eccentric self indulgence actually make sense to my normal critical self. who’s of course trying to find fault in all my ideas..”
ending:
“but on the last thing i said: I guess an analogy for it would be how you feel on adrenalin well actually not how you feel, ignore how adrenal makes you feel. But what it actually does, it makes you perform at your best right? It puts you into a state of mind that millions of years of evolutions attests to as equipped to handle a situation where life of death can live in details and seconds. but instead of the extremely physical and obvious feeling of adrenaline, imagine something harder to realize is taking control and when you’re having really abstract ideas it lets you convey them in such a way that you can re-read and understand what you meant, without extreme effort. And because its just an instinct you develop over years of experience with societal, conversational norms and common spoken tendencies it wouldn’t be as immediately noticible the way adrenaline shakes you awake, because its not actually releasing anything into your brain. its just the way your brain has adapted to the majorities language comprehension and is more like a pavlonian dog type thing where the dog hears the bell and recieves food 19 times and the twentieth time he hears the bell and recieves no food, but his mouth still waters profusely. like a trained by all your life experience knee jerk reaction”
8/7/11
…why the fuck is this shit illegal? Anything in today’s society that can cause someone to put as much thought into something as i did into that last night should never, ever be considered the stigma that marijuana is. societies general views and expectations will turn us all to copies.
Answer:
Answer by Houston, we have a problem
- It’s illegal because this is a democratic society, and this society chooses to make it so. What is your philosophy question?
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Question: Need help publishing my first book?
Ok…
I’ve finished my first book, and the first question I have is in reference to category. It’s a short story, based on a real life experience I had, but some of the details (and names) have been altered a bit to avoid self-incrimination. I’m guessing “non-fiction” is ok?
My other questions are:
What are the steps to publishing?
Do I get the ISBN first?
Where do I get the ISBN?
What is a POD book?
Any suggestions or tips from people who have recently published a book?
I’m kind of nervous about the whole thing, but it’s a good book, and it’s dedicated to the homeless, so I am anxious to get it out.
Thanks for any & all help
NOTE: My book has 11 chapters, with a total of 15,912 words.
Answer:
Answer by say ‘no’ to stop signs
If it’s a short story you won’t publish it as a book, you won’t need an agent, and there won’t be an ISBN.
Buy a copy of Writer’s Market and submit to the appropriate venue.
PS The second answerer is thinking of novels.
Question by WWTSD?: Remember the “Baby’s First Bible” Laptop Jesus found? Did anyone read the reviews?
They’re umm.. they’re interesting.
“Wholly boring, not Holy!: Woah! Boring alert! I don’t know if you guys have heard of this book, but it is VERY long and boring. It also seems like a lot of stuff is definitely made up so I don’t know why it’s in the “non-fiction” section. Basically, this man Jesus is amazing. That’s the whole story. But it goes on and on and on unnecessarily! “Joseph begat Abraham, Abraham begat Isiah…” on and on. Some editing would have definitely helped.”
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0834003473/sr=1-1/qid=1178202443/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/002-0432757-7608006?ie=UTF8&customer-reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDate&n=283155&qid=1178202443&sr=1-1
I send this to some friends… Part of me wonders if THEY posted the reviews. ;p
Best answer:
Answer by I’ve Got a Ruler!
Hahahaha! I’ll have to check that out.
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