Saturday, December 08, 2007

50 things you are not supposed to know.

I visited this site expecting nothing but the usual comedic take on things we actually DO know or a conspiracy theorists playground.

But this list is very impressive!

It covers religion, 9-11, witches, Hitler, the law, cloning, etc.

But my favorite one was that the Ten Commandments that we all think we know is not the REAL Ten Commandments in the Bible.

Here are the ten we all believe to be accurate.

ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.'
TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.'
THREE: 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.'
FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.'
FIVE: 'Honor your father and your mother.'
SIX: 'You shall not murder.'
SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.'
EIGHT: 'You shall not steal.'
NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'
TEN: 'You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.'

Here are the REAL Ten Commandments:

1. For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

2. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

3. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male. But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.

4. Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

5. And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

6. Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel. For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.

7. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven.

8. Neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.

9. The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God.

10. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Well there you go. What the hell is all of this about thrice in a year all of your menchildren must appear before the Lord stuff? Does this mean that men only have to attend church three times per year? I think that there are lot of guys who would appreciate this loophole. Especially during football season.

5 comments:

  1. Just recently it seems that "Thou shalt not kill" which I learnt when I was a kid, has now been replaced with "Thou shalt not murder" which sounds to me like the church is sanctioning death where it believes it is justified.

    Jaggy

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  2. Damn Jaggy, is your avatar Mongo?

    I love Mongo!

    You know the bible has been translated so many times there is no telling WHAT it originally said.

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  3. "Candygram for Mongo, Candygram for mongo"

    To me, Blazing Saddles IS the very definition of comedy.

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  4. It is a classic to be sure.

    However my favorite of the Mel Brooks films will always be Young Frankenstein.

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  5. Both those 10 commandments appear in the Bible. Go figure.

    The phrase "Ten Commandments" generally refers to the very similar passages in Exodus 20:2–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21. Some distinguish between this "Ethical Decalogue" and a series of ten commandments in Exodus 34 that are labeled the "Ritual Decalogue."

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