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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Montana: "Let's make stupidity mandatory!"
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:46:31 -0500
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:53:36 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>On 1/16/2025 4:16 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:37:21 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 1/16/2025 3:19 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:
>>>> On 1/16/2025 4:14 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>> On 1/16/2025 3:09 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:
>>>>>> On 1/16/2025 3:15 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>>>> On 1/16/2025 2:05 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:27:20 -0500, Frank Krygowski
>>>>>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 1/16/2025 4:39 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:28:08 -0500, Frank Krygowski
>>>>>>>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I'm reminded about a parable about a poor widow
>>>>>>>>>>> contributing two tiny
>>>>>>>>>>> coins, a trivial amount, but “Truly I tell you, this
>>>>>>>>>>> poor widow has put
>>>>>>>>>>> more into the treasury than all the others. They all
>>>>>>>>>>> gave out of their
>>>>>>>>>>> wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in
>>>>>>>>>>> everything —all she had to
>>>>>>>>>>> live on.”
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> So she starved? WTF? Are you really OK with that?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Good point: WTF!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'll bet you think the guy who told that tale should
>>>>>>>>> have been
>>>>>>>>> crucified, right?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Good grief, Krygowski, you have no idea who made that
>>>>>>>> story up.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>>> C'est bon
>>>>>>>> Soloman
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [raises hand]
>>>>>>> Uh, Mark?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Mark-12-42/
>>>>>>> https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Mark-12-43/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As one godless heathen to another, I say "well-played
>>>>>> sir, well-played"
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Merely not being a Christian is no excuse to ignore
>>>>> English lit!
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ?
>>>>
>>>> I wouldn't exactly call the bible english lit.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's absolutely fundamental, and a gargantuan outsized
>>> influence on everything which follows, from Shakespeare to
>>> Lincoln.
>>>
>>> (The King James anyway. If you read it in the original
>>> Hebrew (Part I) and Greek (Part II), then I have no opinion
>> 
>> I understand that the Book of Mark was originally written in Greek.
>> 
>> --
>> C'est bon
>> Soloman
>
>Right, or possibly Aramaic. People who don't ride bicycles 
>enough have time to argue about that.

My biblical research happened a long time ago before I was out of high
school. For a long time I believed I was an athiest even though my
family was very religious. I've moderated that belief and now admit
that I have no idea what the reality might be. I'm comfortable not
knowing. It has no effect on how I live my life and I get along fine
with people on both extremes by generally not professing any religious
beliefs.

--
C'est bon
Soloman