Thomas_More
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In the Adam and Eve apocrypha, written by Christians later, God forgot to give them digestive tracts. So when they ate the fruit they couldn’t digest or excrete it and were in agony. God puts them to sleep and installs intestines in them.
I have a compilation of these Jewish Christian stories of the first and second centuries CE.Yahweh was the god of storms, just one of the pantheon. He was subject to El, whose wife he stole. Now, was that wife (Asherah) his own mother (incest), or did El have a former wife?
This departure from the thread is my fault. Can we veer the debate on book quality back to the “Paper” thread?
Thanks, and fair enough. This isn’t the thread for this, but I’ll just reply.
I have ordered books in good faith and ended up receiving photocopied sheets glued together, badly photocopied illustrations barely visible, curling covers, no pagination, text alternating with blank pages, mispellings, unreadable grammar and orthography, etc.
One Mark Twain had GOOD QUALITY BOOK printed on the cover like a bad joke. It was thinner than a copy of The Beano but marketed as a book.
A p.o.d. on the English Civil War had a cover scene from the Napoleonic Wars. Several supposed books on De Sade had Rousseau on the cover! The blurbs on the back are illiterate.
If this is the future for print, I’ll stay out of it.
I now check the date of a book before I order. Prior to the year 2000 if I can get one.And I avoid anything that looks like it’s print on demand. I do research first into the publisher. I’m furious when I end up with a shoddy excuse for a book.
Do you have another option than Amazon?
I use Betterworld Books, Awesome Books, Ebay, and independents if I can.It was my fault, actually, that the piece referred to doesn’t work . My apologies to ALB.
I do not know which piece you are referring to, Ciudanado.
I had in fact asked to be removed from the forum, but no one would oblige and ignored my request.
But to concentrate on the thread instead of on me, you’re not bothered by the destruction of old books, are you?
” bring society back to the caveman.”
Which was a happy time, and most of human existence, before all this crap, including their Christian crap.
I have been excommunicated, age 20, from the Orthodox Church, so that makes me an apostate, like Julian, condemned to the lowest Hell of all. 😀 I’ll be in good company.
The bulk of Cassius Dio’s Roman History in 80 books are fragments compiled and preserved by Eastern Christian monks. Any religiously motivated interpolations would be obvious. It appears that in this case, as also in the preservation of Aesop’s Fables, the monks were honest and did not attempt anything spurious. We owe them gratitude for their preservation of these classics.
Humans legitimise their abuse of other animals by using the animals as abusive epithets.
“She’s a cow!”
“You pig!”
“He’s an animal! A bloody animal!”
He’s a right snake!”
“She’s a bitch!”
“You ape!”And to legitimise their abuse of other humans.
Also, in English, the denial of gender to nonhumans, some even referring to their own pets as “it.”
Some languages have different words for “eat” depending on the eater being human or not, even though it’s the same action.
Sensibility and love are mocked, ridiculed and sneered at.
When my dog died, a man told me another man had seen me crying. “What’s wrong with him?”
“His dog just died ”
“Jeez, is he sissy or something? It’s only a f*****g dog.”Old Fritz was how Frederick the Great preferred to be known. He would stroll in the public park every day in an old beaten tricorn and anyone could approach him and talk.
He had no truck with hunting, and loved his Italian greyhounds as companions. He protected materialist philosophers and was friends with Voltaire.
He offered shelter and land to any poor person in Europe, but foreign governments didn’t publicise it.
His will stipulated that he should be buried with his greyhounds, but it wasn’t until the fall of East Germany in 1989 that this was later done.
