budaatum:

I think we fail sometimes to get a proper perspective of time. Imagine you were born a hundred years ago. You'd have lived through all the carnage, all the wars, all the change and have perhaps so many descendants you couldn't know all their names and most you used to know would be dead or dying or be too busy to visit you and that's if your body doesn't deteriorate so it's pissing and pooing on you!

The rate my body deteriorates, I see me driving my car at full speed against a wall in less than 50 years, though, with more finesse, like, stop eating, or slitting my wrist in a hot bath with couple of bottles of fine whiskey in my belly to dull the pain after putting a letter in the post to the appropriate authorities and saying byebye to everyone.

I'm glad I'd be dead naturally by five scores! buda ain't iron, and even that rusts given enough time.

lol that you feel that way buda doesnt mean others do, thats the beauty called life. Everyone surely has a different view of it. The choices we make determines how well we live our lives. A man could have lived for 20 years and attain the wisdom a 120year old man still tries so hard to attain. Different experiences buda!

wickedtuna:
lol that you feel that way buda doesnt mean others do, thats the beauty called life. Everyone surely has a different view of it. The choices we make determines how well we live our lives. A man could have lived for 20 years and attain the wisdom a 120year old man still tries so hard to attain. Different experiences buda!

Most 120 year olds I've ever heard of have lost all the wisdom they ever had and need help wiping their asses.

Please know that it's not a law or belief anyone must have. I only ever speak for no one else but buda.

budaatum:

Most 120 year olds I've ever heard of have lost all the wisdom they ever had and need help wiping their asses.

Please know that it's not a law or belief anyone must have. I only ever speak for no one else but buda.

lol if you say buda, if you say so.

MuttleyLaff:
... true to God's promise, man did die. He died spiritually death first and physical death, is the end of the "slow death" Adam was told of. After A&E's spiritual death, the process of decline and deterioration kicked in. Everything, over time, will begin going down and/or looking south. At the end of the decline, deterioration, body organ failings, aging etcetera, lol comes and so, we have, an awaiting physical death.

Yep, it surely, as God warned and guaranteed, from spiritual death to physical death, is a slow death, indeed for man, lol. It was a slow, 930 years long, before Adam died, lol. The slow tick, tock, tick, tock, mortality clock came alive and started to tick tock tick tock from after the lunge at the fruit and subsequent eating of it. Thou shalt surely die, essentially is what man truly is putting into practice. Man, the second he is born, is dying. Is having a slow death, just as warned and/or promised will certainly happened, lol

budaatum:
Most 120 year olds I've ever heard of have lost all the wisdom they ever had and need help wiping their asses.

Please know that it's not a law or belief anyone must have. I only ever speak for no one else but buda.

wickedtuna:
lol if you say buda, if you say so.

"¹⁰As you see, the Lord has kept me alive these forty-five years as he promised, since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel was journeying in the wilderness. Here I am today, eighty-five years old.
¹¹I am still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. My strength for battle and for daily tasks is now as it was then."
- Joshua 14:10-11

You're what you eat, to end up needing help wiping your arse. I used to wonder how possible was it that Caleb at 85 years old, felt and still had the body, might and/or strenghth of when he was 40 years old. Then, out of the blues, I got the epiphany why he still was wise, making good/right decisions and how he managed to not end up needing help to have his backside wiped for him

Never liked the OLD TESTAMENT its account were just too boring for me till present. Only difference now, I do not believe in the bible..

I believe in PRACTICALITY, I have a practical TEACHER-This is very OK with me...Let the bible flex on

budaatum:
God, having created the entire universe, decides to create man, but only after creating a garden. God teaches these people to take care of his farm for food and shelter but of the Godsfruit, they must not touch or he'll kill them! And your's truly they do. So God gets the funk, and sacks them, "escort them off the premises please and don't come back!"

"Hey, hold on, you said they'd die!" I say. I go back to where it's said, point at it. "See", " they'd die". But of course it's words in a book. It's not as if a "ah, ok, I'll just kill them" was going to pop on to the page with the words rearranged though it was worth considering considering how folks about me treated the book.

The copy I was reading was an immaculate white one ma got given when she'd married which I'd stolen from where she keeps emergency money and jewelry. It was wrapped in velvet, placed in a box, wrapped in a cloth, locked in a suitcase in a locked cupboard in her locked bedroom when I took it. A book thief was bad. Then a money thief had taken the money that had been there when I stole her Bible and she was yelling all over the place. Stole the Bible, stole the money, I is dead! To a lot of others at the time, it was treated equally valuable, the whole family could have the one, unlike now when everyone's got one or so many and all the others on their phone.

I look up and see there's always gods, Even if there aren't gods there'll always be controllers - cause that's what a god who keeps the godfruits to itself is. And those controllers want to keep all the godfruit to themselves and pay everyone else just food and board because by keeping them subservient they can better exploit them.

I look further and find it is not as I thought it was, the gods were not paying food and board, the bloody gods were in fact taking the sweat off people's brows. And then I find they use to even put chains round their necks sell people for slave work! It's then I understand what is meant when some say God wrote the Bible.

Many who have had that understanding got it from the Bible, and if someone hadn't written what God did in the Garden of Eden, I wouldn't have eyes wide enough to get that understanding. I had read the New Testament prior to starting the old thanks to Gideons who made it widely available, so it helped some of it fall in place. Depends how you read it, is my point. Many get to hear meanings of the story before they've read it and by such, a way of seeing it is imposed. If you read it as a child would read it, as was advised, you might have seen it in a different way too.

Controllers don't pay food and board anymore. Now you pay their food and board, Gucci shoes, Armani suits and jet fuel willingly too! Exploitation by exploiters has drastically changed for the worst.

I get to the fourth chapter, and Cain murders Abel, and I'm thinking, when did all this happen, I'm on to a good one here, and that's when I began reading the Bible aged 8. For the next 5 years, it was my go back to book whenever I was out of James Hadley Chase or anything else till I'd finished it. I never would have read it if I hadn't read it then.

Do you remember what you first thought when you first read the creation myth in Genesis?

Freeze007:

Never liked the OLD TESTAMENT its account were just too boring for me till present. Only difference now, I do not believe in the bible..

I believe in PRACTICALITY, I have a practical TEACHER-This is very OK with me...Let the bible flex on

I just finished reading the Book of Samuel and was amazed at the sort of justifications the authors adopted in writing it. It made me see where some get how the think and reason from with its what can best be called wuruwuru to the answer. If it were maths, 2+2 would equal whatever one wished it to equal.

And that, is one beauty of reading it. It opens the eyes to what humans sometimes do, while believing is the art of not using the brain in one's head. Its a manual of how some are, and not necessarily how one ought to become.

Poor annointed Saul drank sniper in the end, but I'm certain some justify him.