Excerpts from the Egyptian Book of the Dead.

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The Book of the Dead originated from concepts depicted in tomb paintings and inscriptions from as early as the Third Dynasty of Egypt (c. 2670 - 2613 BCE).

Excerpt:


I have committed no evil upon men.
I have not oppressed the members of my family.
I have not wrought evil in the place of right and truth.
I have had no knowledge of useless men.
I have brought about no evil.
I did not rise in the morning and expect more than was due to me.
I have not brought my name forward to be praised.
I have not oppressed servants.
I have not scorned any god.
I have not defrauded the poor of their property.
I have not done what the gods abominate.
I have not cause harm to be done to a servant by his master.
I have not caused pain.
I have caused no man to hunger.
I have made no one weep.
I have not killed.
I have not given the order to kill.
I have not inflicted pain on anyone.
I have not stolen the drink left for the gods in the temples.
I have not stolen the cakes left for the gods in the temples.
I have not stolen the cakes left for the dead in the temples.
I have not fornicated.
I have not polluted myself.
I have not diminished the bushel when I've sold it.
I have not added to or stolen land.
I have not encroached on the land of others.
I have not added weights to the scales to cheat buyers.
I have not misread the scales to cheat buyers.
I have not stolen milk from the mouths of children.
I have not driven cattle from their pastures.
I have not captured the birds of the preserves of the gods.
I have not caught fish with bait made of like fish.
I have not held back the water when it should flow.
I have not diverted the running water in a canal.
I have not put out a fire when it should burn.
I have not violated the times when meat should be offered to the gods.
I have not driven off the cattle from the property of the gods.
I have not stopped a god in his procession through the temple, 4
I am pure.

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http://people.virginia.edu/~bec/historycourse/egyptian book of the dead, chapter 125.htm
 
Hail, Long-Strider who comes from Heliopolis, I have not done iniquity.
Hail, Embraced-by Fire who comes from Kher-aha, I have not robbed with violence.
Hail, Divine-Nose who comes from Khemmenu, I have not done violence to another man.
Hail, Shade-Eater who comes from the caverns which produce the Nile, I have not committed theft.
Hail, Neha-hau who comes from Re-stau, I have not killed man or woman.
Hail, double Lion God who comes from heaven, I have not lightened the bushel.
Hail, Flint-Eyes who comes from Sekhem, I have not acted deceitfully.
Hail, Flame who comes backwards, I have not stolen what belongs to the gods.
Hail, Bone-Crusher who comes from Heracleopolis, I have not lied.
Hail, Flame-Grower who comes from Memphis, I have not carried away food.
Hail, Qerti 9 who comes from the west, I have not uttered evil words.
Hail, Shining-Tooth who comes from Ta-She, I have attacked no man.
Hail, Blood-Consumer who comes from the house of slaughter, I have not slaughtered sacred cattle.
Hail, Entrail-Consumer who comes from the mabet chamber, I have not cheated.

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it used to mean something different in that day

You were only supposed to fuck for the purpose of having children
 
for·ni·ca·tion
[ˌfôrnəˈkāSH(ə)n]

NOUN
formal
humorous
sexual intercourse between people not married to each other.
"laws forbidding adultery and fornication"
synonyms:
extramarital sex · extramarital relations · adultery · infidelity · unfaithfulness · cuckoldry · affair · liaison · sexual intercourse · sex · intercourse · sexual relations · coupling · [more]
 
Jack said:
"I have not fornicated".

Yeah, fuck that. :|
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The point is that the Egyptian code is older than the Hammurabi Code and the Hittite Code.. the Ten Commandments by hundreds (or thousands) of year.. and all subscribe to an eye for an eye.
 
kudzu said:
The point is that the Egyptian code is older than the Hammurabi Code and the Hittite Code.. the Ten Commandments by hundreds (or thousands) of year.. and all subscribe to an eye for an eye.
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Funny how our Christian friends preach "Turn the other cheek" and "Forgive your Trespassers", but then when a couple of Buildings in NYC get knocked down, they forget all that they say they believe in.
 
Jack said:
Funny how our Christian friends preach "Turn the other cheek" and "Forgive your Trespassers", but then when a couple of Buildings in NYC get knocked down, they forget all that they say they believe in.
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They don't really know the context for "turn the other cheek".. Jesus was teaching the Jews how to cope with the Roman occupation by nonviolent resistance and shaming the enemy.

Under Roman law that governed Palestine any Roman could strike a Jew or take his coat or make him carry his burden a mile.
 
kudzu said:
The point is that the Egyptian code is older than the Hammurabi Code and the Hittite Code.. the Ten Commandments by hundreds (or thousands) of year.. and all subscribe to an eye for an eye.
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yes because they are decent ideas meant to make life better for all


thinking of others and being honest is a good plan


when humans gather together to depend on each other to live


Its very wise to respect and be kind and honest with each other


the don't fuck someones husband or wife was designed to keep diseases down and allow people to know their children were their children for real


Most adultery in those days was likely rape of the female
 
kudzu said:
They don't really know the context for "turn the other cheek".. Jesus was teaching the Jews how to cope with the Roman occupation by nonviolent resistance and shaming the enemy.

Under Roman law that governed Palestine any Roman could strike a Jew or take his coat or make him carry his burden a mile.
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Thank you. How to survive under Occupation.
 
evince said:
yes because they are decent ideas meant to make life better for all


thinking of others and being honest is a good plan


when humans gather together to depend on each other to live


Its very wise to respect and be kind and honest with each other


the don't fuck someones husband or wife was designed to keep diseases down and allow people to know their children were their children for real


Most adultery in those days was likely rape of the female
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Thank you, Evince.. Yep.. they needed common ground rules to live in groups.
 
Jack said:
Thank you. How to survive under Occupation.
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When Jesus lived Herod had finished his big construction projects and there was a lot of unemployment.. They Jews were fighting each other and the Romans.. Zealots, Herodians, Pharisees, Sadducees, Ziccari and Essenes were fighting each other.. and the Romans.

Jesus KNEW that if they didn't stop, the Romans would destroy them... and they did.
 
Jack said:
Thank you. How to survive under Occupation.
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When Jesus lived Herod had finished his big construction projects and there was a lot of unemployment.. They Jews were fighting each other and the Romans.. Zealots, Herodians, Pharisees, Sadducees, Ziccari and Essenes were fighting each other.. and the Romans.

Jesus KNEW that if they didn't stop, the Romans would destroy them... and they did.
 
kudzu said:
When Jesus lived Herod had finished his big construction projects and there was a lot of unemployment.. They Jews were fighting each other and the Romans.. Zealots, Herodians, Pharisees, Sadducees, Ziccari and Essenes were fighting each other.. and the Romans.

Jesus KNEW that if they didn't stop, the Romans would destroy them... and they did.
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I view 'Christianity' as a Slave Religion. The Philosophy strikes me as 'survival'. Not to mention the concept of a 'Man-God', the 'Miracles', and the idea of 'Resurrection'. If you view it objectively, it's like some Fable a lost Tribe in the upper Amazon would embrace. What's incredulous, you have people in the 21st century thinking it is true and real.
 
Jack said:
I view 'Christianity' as a Slave Religion. The Philosophy strikes me as 'survival'. Not to mention the concept of a 'Man-God', the 'Miracles', and the idea of 'Resurrection'. If you view it objectively, it's like some Fable a lost Tribe in the upper Amazon would embrace. What's incredulous, you have people in the 21st century thinking it is true and real.
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The idea of being a "slave" is common to both Christianity and Islam. The term used is submission. I don't know about Judaism so much.. although obedience seems to be a theme for them as well.
 
kudzu said:
The idea of being a "slave" is common to both Christianity and Islam. The term used is submission. I don't know about Judaism so much.. although obedience seems to be a theme for them as well.
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I'm reading 'The Age of Reason' again.

"The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine, arguing for the philosophical position of Deism. It follows in the tradition of eighteenth-century British deism, and challenges institutionalized religion and the legitimacy of the Bible. It was published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1807."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Reason

He's a Deist, and that's it. He was in a French Prison during the (their) Revolution as he finished writing it.
 
"n December 1793, he was arrested and was taken to Luxembourg Prison in Paris. While in prison, he continued to work on The Age of Reason (1793–1794). Future President James Monroe used his diplomatic connections to get Paine released in November 1794. He became notorious because of his pamphlets. The Age of Reason, in which he advocated deism, promoted reason and free thought and argued against institutionalized religion in general and Christian doctrine in particular. He published the pamphlet Agrarian Justice (1797), discussing the origins of property and introduced the concept of a guaranteed minimum income. In 1802, he returned to the U.S. where he died on June 8, 1809. Only six people attended his funeral as he had been ostracized for his ridicule of Christianity.[8]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine
 
from Wiki:


"About his own religious beliefs, Paine wrote in The Age of Reason:"

"I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life."

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine
 
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