The Septuagint
Reading The Septuagint has probably been one of the longest undertakings there has been. Certainly not as mind-numbing as reading The Qur’an, but definitely the hardest, in the form that it’s probably the most filled of hate book i have ever read.
Honestly, i have no idea how anyone could read this and be like: “Oh, this God is jolly! Let’s all use this as the center foundation in our lives!”, But apparently billions of people did, so there’s that.
i don’t even know where to begin, the book has so much disrespect for life, and death, that it uses one against the other, in order to get people to fear and obey, and i think i get it. i am starting to come to the conclusion that all these books have been written in order to assume command and control of weak/people in vulnerable states of mind and give them some hamster wheels to spend their time on. Otherwise i just for the love of me, i have no idea why anyone would be okay with thinking that what’s written in these books contains any sort of spark of divinity or the message from a true god.
There’s so much bloodshed, vengeance and hate, that at some point one could easily tune out and give up, unless we had a mission.
On the other hand, as i have been reading The Torah, The Qur’an and The Septuagint, i have been constantly thinking about “the poor people” who have fallen in this trap, of being mocked for centuries and worshipping men made images of God and made to get on their knees and pray and obey money laws and obey restrictions that are clearly human frustrations and inability to educate through understanding, but again, as i keep reading, i realize that this has been a choice. i mean to be completely fair, if one reads The Qur’an for instance, in there it’s specified that the book that preceded it was The Torah, about 5 times, so naturally, if i’m a person that thinks “Wow, this is truly the word of God” would i stop there? Wouldn’t i go and read the thing that’s mentioned as the predecessor? Then some obvious questions would have been asked because there’s an enlarged perspective. Then maybe one would like to know more. The Septuagint is not mentioned in The Torah, but looking at the Qur’an and The Torah in perspective, one would realize they are talking about the same thing, albeit to different people, so naturally, the curiosity would have to go towards whatever other old book that exists out there, after all this is no simple business, we are literally putting something at the foundations of our life, and we’re attributing this to a divine being, but while reading all of this, it all becomes a little questionable, and the train of thought might make us a little bit more exploratory. After all one can’t get stupid by reading more, right? (oh i wish that were true)
In The Septuagint, i came across a few interesting chapters, one of them being Ecclesiastes and the other being Maccabees 4. They are relatively short chapters, but i think it’s one of the very few instances where the mind of the authors really comes forward.
As far as i can tell, someone didn’t have the patience to work on getting people somewhere, and in order to get everyone to do what they wanted, because they ran out of time, they relied on fear, because the other paths, which relied on not screwing people lives, allowing them free will through understanding, would have been time-consuming and would have required one to actually care for the people. And time is a precious and limited resource when you’re a human. It’s not like we can slingshot through time, and rely on others to complete honest work when we have so much distrust in the people we’re leaving behind, but again, it’s people that we, have taught that way, so it’s only natural that we’re distrusting the slingshot because we’re distrusting ourselves and the teachings we have left behind.
i just can’t go into detail about it, because sometimes i see people on YouTube for instance arguing about the beauty of some word, and “challenging” the world to produce something of this magnitude and miracle such as old words used in new ways and to me, that’s like discussing breadcrumbs while ignoring the whole bread. However, a few highlights include:
– in death, no one remembers thee.
– God takes pleasure in the ones that fear.
– Some guys lost a battle – and then they ran away with their pants down their knees for some reason.
– The same jealous and vengeful God, repeated into oblivion, same as in the Qur’an or Torah.
– the amount of times dung is poured on people’s heads is too damn high!
– dark speech and golden chains. (David’s “proverbs” being wrongfully labeled as proverbs)
– A vineyard covered in weeds is seen as a bad thing when instead it’s just nature reclaiming it’s own. total utter disrespect for nature and natural processes shows how all these are man-made.
– God’s wonders are him killing children, bringing locusts, pestilence, death, dark clouds, fire, you cannot escape from him, etc.
– better to be stupid but fearful and believing, rather than knowledgeable and knowing – seeing how many “believers” are these days, i guess that was an easy choice.
– When fish reach salt water they can’t live.
– Jonas – troll story.
– day of God = day of darkness.
– Ambacus gives examples of nature having a bad time because they have “no guide”
i don’t know what more to say. It all seems madness. i kept thinking that i genuinely have no idea how could someone do this and how could people accept it, but then again, i realized that if you take something, write it in a nice script, wrap it in some beautiful covers, written on some good quality paper, with some great looking drawings, then you sing it, in a big beautiful building, adorned with gold and beautiful paintings and drawings, by people dressed in rich clothes, with crowns on their heads, with a bunch of people around them – i guess you could easily sing about anything, such as of God killing children, or bringing famine, locusts, storms, hail, destroying people with fire, helping people to kill tens of thousands of other people, demanding sacrifices and blood, and the construction of golden altars with horns, and everyone present would be okay with it, accept, it and even give it praise without questioning and feel good about it, because it was sung in a place of reverie, with many people around, by high priests or imams, or rabbis, in beautiful looking buildings, from beautiful looking books, written with beautiful looking scripts.