Posted by Watcher The Jehovah's Witnesses avoid my house. Every time they come here, they find out that I know the Bible better than they do. That usually shuts 'em up real fast. Of course, there was that one time when I had jaundice. I can't decide if that guy thought I had a horrible contagious disease, or thought I was possessed. In any case, he ran away when I came to the door. They have never come back again.
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I usually hit on them. Offer them in for a nice bubble bath and some astro-glide.
It is funny to me how fascinated many people are with 'secret knowledge' and so called 'ancient wisdom.' The idea that there is an Oz behind the curtains pulling our levers is really a fascinating concept to many. Witness the best selling nature of the Da'vinci Code.
I wish I had the time to write a dissertation about comparative religion here.
Spell 125 of the Book of the Dead, contrary to the Book of Exodus, contains a moral code represented in a form of 'Negative Confession' that the dead person has to recite when he descends to the hall of the Two Truths.
The dead shall recite, truthfully:
"Hail to thee, great God, Lord of the Two Truths. I have come unto thee, my Lord, that thou mayest bring me to see thy beauty. I know thee, I know thy name, I know the names of the 42 Gods who are with thee in this broad hall of the Two Truths . . . Behold, I am come unto thee. I have brought thee truth; I have done away with sin for thee.
I have not sinned against anyone.
I have not mistreated people.
I have not done evil instead of righteousness . . .
I have not reviled the God.
I have not laid violent hands on an orphan.
I have not done what the God abominates . . .
I have not killed;
I have not turned anyone over to a killer.
I have not caused anyone's suffering . . .
I have not copulated (illicitly);
I have not been unchaste.
I have not increased nor diminished the measure,
I have not diminished the palm;
I have not encroached upon the fields.
I have not added to the balance weights;
I have not tempered with the plumb bob of the balance.
I have not taken milk from a child's mouth;
I have not driven small cattle from their herbage . . .
I have not stopped (the flow of) water in its seasons;
I have not built a dam against flowing water.
I have not quenched a fire in its time . . .
I have not kept cattle away from the God's property.
I have not blocked the God at his processions.
And with that I am off to bed.