Bullshitting

I was pondering this today. Not sure why. But tell me what you think...

you need to add the option "marriage"

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and the reason for the threat to sex is that the writers of the new testament mistranslated the ancient hebrew prophecy about the messiah.  the original hebrew predicted that he would be born of a "young woman" with the word having no particular connotations about sexual status but it was mistranslated as "virgin" thus necessitating the writers to invent the whole virgin birth business, and thus begin christianity's obsession with sex as being inherently sinful.  pity.

point of information: while the word translated as "virgin" can be more correctly translated as "young woman," the use of that word for a young woman did, in fact, imply that she was also a virgin.

DON'T MAKE ME BUST OUT MY HEBREW BIBLE AND ANALYTICAL LEXICON, BITCHES!

point of information: while the word translated as "virgin" can be more correctly translated as "young woman," the use of that word for a young woman did, in fact, imply that she was also a virgin.

DON'T MAKE ME BUST OUT MY HEBREW BIBLE AND ANALYTICAL LEXICON, BITCHES!

and my retort to that is that if the prophecy intended to predict that the messiah would be born of a virgin, you would think that they would have been a little more specific than use a vague word that could mean either definition and might imply the virgin thing.  a rational, contextual reading of the original text clearly seems to indicate that the original author meant only "young woman" and not "virgin".

let's get technical here.  the prophecy that is specifically being referred to here is  Isaiah 7:14, which reads, "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel."  the word virgin in the original hebrew was "`almah" which means "young woman" (and i stand corrected, it can have the implication of virginal status of the woman, but it is not the explicit meaning of the word).  seeing as how hebrew at the time had another word "betulah" which did directly mean virgin, it would only make sense that the intent of the author was not to emphasize the un-sexed-up status of the mother, but rather that the name of the messiah would be immanuel.

to back this up is the fact that the gospels of mark and john both make no mention of the virgin birth of jesus.  one would think that something like that would be worth at least a passing mention.  to compound this problem, paul, (the author of a huge bulk of the new testament, aka saul of taursus) never mentions the virgin birth either.  as a matter of fact, in galations 4:4 he wrote of jesus, "God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law."  implying a normal birth, or in the least significant that he does not say virgin.  then you also have romans 1:3 where paul refers to jesus, "who was descended from David according to the flesh."  now all the accounts of jesus' genealogy trace back a connection to king david through joseph, and if this connection was "according to the flesh" it would seem to be that paul either did not know about or did not believe in the virgin birth.

all of this implies that the virgin birth was not an integral part of the story of jesus in the early days of christianity, and was later injected into some of the gospels in order to make them conform with the jewish prophecies of the messiah.

just saying.

Are you asking about my personal experience, generally in America, or worldwide?

Interpret it how you like and answer accordingly.


Thud, I almost did add that option. But being as my wife has been getting on the site more often lately, I didn't want to make a poll choice a reality for me. but we think alike.

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Is this a vote for pregnancy?

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Is this a vote for pregnancy?

Either that, or the answer to the question, "what color are Scott's balls?"

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Is this a vote for pregnancy?

Either that, or the answer to the question, "what color are Scott's balls?"

That's fuckin' funny.

I happen to think; nay, rather i know it is pregnancy.  babies wreck the bodie.  no one and I mean no woman ever fully recovers.  there is always some scratch in the paint or dent in the fender or knock in the block that lowers the resale value of the car making it ok to crash into shit or change lanes without using a blinker or looking. 

it may be a never gonna go away smell, huge nipples, snatch that looks like a box of cow toungs or package of old sliced roast beef.  that wierd yougert looking discharge stuff.  cottage cheese legs or just anywher, bum hip, headach, under eye bags.  there is alwayse some thing that if you do not have the lights off and see it the mast is down.

the holocoust that is the fallout of pregnancy is the proponent of abstenance.

Wow, you know when a politican says or does something really stupid and then all the other politicans quickly disassociate themselves from said person: yeah that's me disassociating from kevin right now!

I happen to think; nay, rather i know it is pregnancy.  babies wreck the bodie.  no one and I mean no woman ever fully recovers.  there is always some scratch in the paint or dent in the fender or knock in the block that lowers the resale value of the car making it ok to crash into shit or change lanes without using a blinker or looking. 

it may be a never gonna go away smell, huge nipples, snatch that looks like a box of cow toungs or package of old sliced roast beef.  that wierd yougert looking discharge stuff.  cottage cheese legs or just anywher, bum hip, headach, under eye bags.  there is alwayse some thing that if you do not have the lights off and see it the mast is down.

the holocoust that is the fallout of pregnancy is the proponent of abstenance.

From personal experience, I must disagree.

clearly, kevin, you have no experience with a woman during her second trimester of pregnancy, or, as i call it, The Lovin' Trimester