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The problem with getting old is more that over the years, I have become involved in so many different activities taking up my time that I am 99% mentally and cronologically occupied already. A toddler doesn't have a huge list of books to be read, friends to converse with, going to chorus practice, washing the car and walking the dog, but can spend a major fraction of his time and brain on the task of learning his first language.
What wisdom? I learned long ago that there is no one wisdom, in particular when reading the Bible. I see enough different translations to know that there is a lot of politics in translation. Lots of newspeak. Lots of hiding things you really don't want to come out; it doesn't fit your agenda. Most of this kind of censorship is done by selecting which parts of the Bible to read; I have shocked a lot of believers by opening the Book in places they never knew existed, from our great hero David's sacrilege of the 200 dead warriors he had killed for the sole purpose of genitally molesting the bodies to earn his right to the daughter of the king, to the 40.000 killed because they spoke the wrong dialect, to reall going through the Onan story, pointing out that he was killed ("by God") because he refused to have intercourse with his sister-in-law.
I do not take any Bible translation at face value. When the latest Norwegian translation tells that you shall not undress your brother's wife, while earlier translations said that you should not have intercourse with her, why was it changed? For some reason, and I don't think that is because they suddenly realized that is has nothing to do with sex but with textiles. I don't trust them. I would like to dig as far back as possible to see if it is real, that is has to do only with textiles. (Obviously not - undressing is a euphemism. But in 2011, we were talking much more openly about intercourse than back in 1978. Introducing an euphemism for it in 2011 makes no sense. But they did. What for?)
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Member 7989122 wrote: Introducing an euphemism for it in 2011 makes no sense. But they did. What for?
Because it does not change the overall meaning and sounds a bit more "appropriate".
So, lets begin then; what collection of books do you see as the bible? How do you decide which parts to include and accept as canon, and which to reject?
There is nothing "real" in the books - that's the only thing that is sure 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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If I make a mechanism to handle it, it is just a mechanism. You fill it up with the books you want, or rather: Have access to.
Getting the texts into the system is such a great task that you (or whoever does it) will have to prioritize. If I do it, I guess I'll start with the books in the Bible used by the Norwegian Protestant church ("The Norwegian Church" - it was, but is no longer, a state church), in the languages / versions I can get access to. If I complete (which I doubt very much that I will), there are a number of closely related books - the apocryphal books, the rejected testsaments etc. If I make something that might interest others, maybe other people would take care of other books, and other languages.
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Member 7989122 wrote: If I make a mechanism to handle it, it is just a mechanism. You fill it up with the books you want, or rather: Have access to.
The mechanism would be called simply "automated translation"; and not much books in Arameic or Latin nowadays.
The problem is harder than you imagine; for to translate "fire" into another language is easy, but it becomes harder if I describe the fire in one's heart. The original texts were written for a simpeler audience, with a very different morale from ours.
Member 7989122 wrote: maybe other people would take care of other books
Aw, I'd be feeding it Marvel Comics, Thor in particular 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Plant puns: lettuce pro-seed?
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Weed cue: cumbersome replies.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I can dig it, (as long as cat doesn't pea in the garden)
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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Sow, now you'll be peppered with replies! Leaves one up all night drinking until one's eyes are radish, hoping a good response will somehow turnip.
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I think you really rose to the occasion there.
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Bud this is the forum where I can unabashedly petal my puns.
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One good turnip deserves another, I suppose.
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Well, that's a turnip for the books!
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...towards whirled peas.
/ravi
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People that can't run off to get married: Can't elope?
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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No more...leave me in peas 
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You were supposed to do your anti-seed-dance before you posted this.
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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Standardized test taking - a new gold standard:
Q: blah blah blah blah . . . .
Choose the best answer:
A - None of the above
B - All of the above
Oh Brave New World !
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How appropriate that they would go to stackoverflow.com for the answer.
Software Zen: delete this;
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If any one asks it's Korea related
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Your boss might think that you're Kroosing a line there.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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As long as you don't post here that we are attacking Korea...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Attacked me? No. They just sent some overpaid cucks home, that's all.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Damn. I wasted time reading the OP.
I thought it was referring to Germany gaming the (financial) system in the EU and was wonder what that was going to be about.
Instead, it's just a waste of a thread.
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Is this the Wendyball? I thought this was about the one place we didn't have that blah, blah, blah, all the time ... 
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