What have I been up to lately? Dating a 43 year-old Israeli woman, her name's Rebekah and she's really awesome. She's a visiting scholar helping my current boss translate stuff. Maybe I'll get some pictures of her posted on here. Trust me, she's hot. In other news, my friend made the mistake of taking me to his conservative church. I got in an arguement with his pastor about how he was quoting verse from the Old Testament incorrectly and applying it to situations that no ancient mind would even care about. Must suck to be that unable to see things from a different perspective like him. Anywho, here are a couple quotes I like.
"Who is this who darkens counsel with words devoid of knowledge?
Brace yourself and stand up like a man; I shall put questions to you, and you must answer.
Where were you when I laid the earth's foundations?
Tell me, if you know and understand.
Who fixed its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line over it?
On what do its supporting pillars rest?
Who set its corner-stone in place, while the morning stars sang in chorus and the sons of Yahweh all shouted for joy?
Who supported the sea at its birth, when it burst in flood from the womb-
when I wrapped it in a blanket of cloud and swaddled it in dense fog, when I established its bounds, set its barred doors in place, and said 'Thus far you may come but no farther; here your surging waves must halt'?
In all your life have you ever called up the dawn or assigned the morning its place?
Have you taught it to grasp the fringes of the Earth and shake the Dog-star from the sky; to bring up the horizon in relief as clay under a seal, until all things stand out like the folds of a cloak, when the light of the Dog-star is dimmed and the stars of the Navigator's Line go out one by one?
Have you gone down to the springs of the sea or walked in the unfathomable deep?
Have the portals of death been revealed to you?
Have you seen the door-keepers of the place of darkness?
Have you comprehended the vast expanse of the world?
Tell me all this, if you know."
~Job 38:2-13
"The gods who are immortal are not vexed because during so long a time they must tolerate continually men such as they are and so many of them bad; and besides this, they also take care of them in all ways. But thou, who art destined to end so soon, art thou wearied of enduring the bad, and this too when thou art one of them?"
~Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Book Seven
"Who is this who darkens counsel with words devoid of knowledge?
Brace yourself and stand up like a man; I shall put questions to you, and you must answer.
Where were you when I laid the earth's foundations?
Tell me, if you know and understand.
Who fixed its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line over it?
On what do its supporting pillars rest?
Who set its corner-stone in place, while the morning stars sang in chorus and the sons of Yahweh all shouted for joy?
Who supported the sea at its birth, when it burst in flood from the womb-
when I wrapped it in a blanket of cloud and swaddled it in dense fog, when I established its bounds, set its barred doors in place, and said 'Thus far you may come but no farther; here your surging waves must halt'?
In all your life have you ever called up the dawn or assigned the morning its place?
Have you taught it to grasp the fringes of the Earth and shake the Dog-star from the sky; to bring up the horizon in relief as clay under a seal, until all things stand out like the folds of a cloak, when the light of the Dog-star is dimmed and the stars of the Navigator's Line go out one by one?
Have you gone down to the springs of the sea or walked in the unfathomable deep?
Have the portals of death been revealed to you?
Have you seen the door-keepers of the place of darkness?
Have you comprehended the vast expanse of the world?
Tell me all this, if you know."
~Job 38:2-13
"The gods who are immortal are not vexed because during so long a time they must tolerate continually men such as they are and so many of them bad; and besides this, they also take care of them in all ways. But thou, who art destined to end so soon, art thou wearied of enduring the bad, and this too when thou art one of them?"
~Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Book Seven