Comments on: You Could Be a Genius!

By: Mriana

Mriana — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:21:54 +0000

Oh brother! I remembered all 10, but that doesn’t make anyone a genius. A father spending his life’s savings to bailing his son out of jail is love? Whatever happen to consequences? or does that make me an unloving parent to make my sons take their consequences? Where do they get these ideas?

By: Vincent

Vincent — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:51:48 +0000

as soon as I read this line

they show us how bad we are,

I guessed cameron was behind this.

That’s what he sees as the value of the bible: it makes you feel bad about yourself.

By: hoverFrog

hoverFrog — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:23:12 +0000

Miko, I suppose that serves me right for asking a rhetorical question.

By: Miko

Miko — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:07:17 +0000

I mean how hard is it to stay consistent, the message is supposed to be the unequivocal word of god after all.

The two sets were probably written by different authors; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis . The ritual decalogue was probably written by the Jahwist and the ethical decalogue by the Elohist. How it got worked into one text in the Bible is less clear; one possibility is that it was edited at a later time by priests who objected to the ritual decalogue and tried to erase it.

By: hoverFrog

hoverFrog — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:28:13 +0000

Without looking, the 10 Commandments are:
1-4 God gets all the credit
5-8 Don’t break any laws
9-10 Be nice to each other

One thing that’s always bugged me about the 10 commandments is that they can’t even get them consistent. If you read the wikipedia you can see four different versions and that the 10 commandments are 16 different rules written in two places. I mean how hard is it to stay consistent, the message is supposed to be the unequivocal word of god after all.

I suppose that’s what happens when you try to condense the entirety of human morality into a few neat little paragraphs.

Wasn’t there an attempt to produce an Atheist version of the 10 Commandments?

By: Richard Wade

Richard Wade — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:37:44 +0000

Cameron and Comfort? The two guys who worship Banana Maker? They wrote a “genius quiz?” My mirth echoes through the halls.

By: Miko

Miko — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:16:01 +0000

Those are some of the worst mnemonics I’ve ever seen…