>Genesis was a snore fest of lineages that I didn't bother to remember(This begot that guy, that guy begot him, him begot he, no one in-between has any relevance to the plot so you could've just skipped them and said that he was a descendant of this guy)>It still had enough edge/grit/tension to keep me reading through it>Start Exodus, know that there were alot of adaptations and homages to it so maybe this one is better>The entire first act is just a cycle of Pharoah refusing to let 'em go, then a plague comes, then he let's them go before saying 'SIKE!'>The rest of the book is a tent building guideYeah, I think I understand why even the fans don't even read ts
>>25178804This but unironically. I wish we moved past this jewish nonsense already.
>>25178804>The entire first act is just a cycle of Pharoah refusing to let 'em go, then a plague comes, then he let's them go before saying 'SIKE!'Imagine being filtered by kino
>>25178804neff told kufu to tell anish to mention to sera to call amadin to write to memo to say to jakobindi to say to lolofundikos that you are gay
>>25178804>The rest of the book is a tent building guideTo me it was the most interesting part of the Bible, no cap.
>>25178804The first family trees in Genesis are poems to God. They show the long history and devotion of people. Each name has a meaning, and many are short poems. The table of nations shows how tribes in Africa, Asia, and Europe are related. Later family trees will give you facts about the Jewish tribes in Judea, so you can understand their size. The tent guide you mentioned is the tabernacle, which gives enough detail to picture it in your mind. No books show their settings so well as the Bible does. You may read any part of the Bible, but you can also skip to the more exciting parts if you want to.
the book of Samuel is amazing though
>>25178839Are you diagnosed yet?
>>25178850I've never told truth to a doctor, not even a dentist.But seriously, it was fascinating to suddenly encounter such a precise technical description on how to construct a portable shrine. I even got a piece of paper and drew it according to the specifications.
>>25178804It's so obvious that the author of Exodus was just copying whatever Japanese manga was in vogue in his day. Moses is such an obvious shounen hero derivative (Goku anyone?), every time I sit down to *try* to read Exodus, I have to think why am I bothering with this derivative slop when I could be reading the original?
>>25178804the last plague should tell you that this isn't a loving god forcing the jews to worship it.
I died of boredom at Leviticus back when I tried reading it, Genesis and Exodus were ok in comparison
>>25179686if you wanted story you would of read 1Sam 2Sam 1Ki 2Ki Dan Mt Acts Rev, but you wanted something boring to complain about
>>25178804Yeah, I read The Lotus Sutra in one day while reciting a lot of it. I read a very dense academic translation of the Upanishads in only three days. I read other theological or philosophical texts (e.g., Daoism, Gathas, Pali canon, Republic, etc.) in only a few days.However, reading the Genesis and Exodus fills me with revulsion and genocidal lust towards the Jews. I can also barely push through it. I dropped it after Moses goes on Mt. Sinai as YHVH acts like an autistic cacodemon with all his inane requests. I have other books to read, so I am thinking of just dropping the Bible entirely. It doesn't help that I keep getting harassed by Orthobros on this one server I'm a part of.The Pentateuch seems like disgusting garbage to me. Jews massacring people who are paralyzed from circumcision because they seek reproachment with them. Isaac keeps telling rulers his wife is his sister and then jehova-the-shit-god intervening to warn them not to cuck him. I just don't get how anyone can follow this garbage. I just want to shove leaven bread into the mouths of Jews during passover and then shove their faces into dirt. Christians and Muslims can join in by eating the asses of the keks since that's what they've done for hundreds of years.>>25178811All of Abrahamic traditions are garbage. I read half of Koran and threw it to the side. It's just trying to induce trauma into the readers with threats and intimidation. Can't believe my ancestors read such garbage for thousand plus years.Bible is garbage too. I think John Lash Lamb's criticisms of Jewsus as an oversocialized cretin is apt, even though I don't agree with his weird Eleusinian Goddess worship cult. Faith in redemptive suffering legitimizes the infliction of suffering, a dynamic Lamb calls the victim-perpetrator bond. He's definitely on target with that.Christians rely on people being broken and beaten down to proselytize their garbage, preying on people's weaknesses. Ultimately all they do is strengthen jews. On a deeper level, Christcucks and Mudslimes are the same: slaves to jehova of the keks.Even a lot of shounen anime is better written than abrahamic garbage.
Don't want to make another theead, so: As I understand it it was a pre-occupation of monks to try and build genealogies of evil, tracing back every heresy to Zoroaster. Can anyone recommend a book on the topic?
>>25180476Well, I recommend you read Cologne Mani Codex and other recovered fragments of Manichaeism and then look at St. Augustine's criticisms of Manichaeism. Evil does not exist in Post-St. Augustine Christianity. Everything is good in various degrees, evil being merely a privation of good. Evil has no positive existence for him.Manichaeist dualism had a lot of influence from Zoroastrianism, but it was not identical. Manichaeist saw the material world as evil, materiality being a kind of shell of darkness, whereas Zoroastrians viewed the material world as good but Vohu Manah and Spenta Mainyu as helping to lead to end times (Frashokereti) to banish the evil. The main difference between Abrahamic traditions is that Manichaeists and Zoroastrians had a dualistic theodicy, and they saw evil as having a positive existence. However, Zoroastrians did have one fatalistic monist sect called Zurvanism.Catharism seems to have been influenced by Manichaeism.
>>25178804>>25178811Shill thread o algo
Unironically greek myths have better writing then these 3 holy books.
I'm still bothered by how Genesis has 2 contradictory creation stories right next to each other.
>>25180571Yeah, but why did I have to be born during these shit humiliating times and not as a Greek warrior or something? Honestly, just fuck this life, really.
