Reply to Re: Monarchs and Popes are stupid.
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You're serious meta? Have you actually looked up a verse in that thing? I have, and not a single time have I seen a match for whatever verse someone is pointing out.
There's so many ducking versions of that thing, whether they be simplified for kids, have things removed, have words changed, have things translated "better", what say you. It's not a reliable source of anything except knowing just how insane it is to follow something so inconsistent.
And even if it were consistent, it's still poorly written regardless. Every particle of paper contradicts another.
You'd get pretty confused as to how someone can sit down and take something seriously and believe it wholeheartedly if suddenly a work of fiction you enjoy turned out to have several versions, each retconning events from eachother. Now what are you supposed to do? The info in inconsistent. Maybe Jim Bob Weedcracker dies in one version, comes back, and eats a whole tree, but in another version, that same passage is replaced with Jim Bob Weedcracker fighting a tree.
But then someone says "Meta, did you see the ending to Shit Quest 5: The Creed of Apollo? Man, I can't believe the Zebra was behind it all." and you go to check your copy and it's not there. So you do some research and apparently, this is true. So you go searching for this specific version. How does it make sense to do? It doesn't flow consistently and it never will.
A new translation could alter a whole verse, change it slyly and make it more realistic to seem like a prophecy is coming true, could be edited to make it more violent, more "kid-friendly", whatever.
So, go ahead. Try and find that verse. If you find it, cool. That's one version out of countless.
There's so many ducking versions of that thing, whether they be simplified for kids, have things removed, have words changed, have things translated "better", what say you. It's not a reliable source of anything except knowing just how insane it is to follow something so inconsistent.
And even if it were consistent, it's still poorly written regardless. Every particle of paper contradicts another.
You'd get pretty confused as to how someone can sit down and take something seriously and believe it wholeheartedly if suddenly a work of fiction you enjoy turned out to have several versions, each retconning events from eachother. Now what are you supposed to do? The info in inconsistent. Maybe Jim Bob Weedcracker dies in one version, comes back, and eats a whole tree, but in another version, that same passage is replaced with Jim Bob Weedcracker fighting a tree.
But then someone says "Meta, did you see the ending to Shit Quest 5: The Creed of Apollo? Man, I can't believe the Zebra was behind it all." and you go to check your copy and it's not there. So you do some research and apparently, this is true. So you go searching for this specific version. How does it make sense to do? It doesn't flow consistently and it never will.
A new translation could alter a whole verse, change it slyly and make it more realistic to seem like a prophecy is coming true, could be edited to make it more violent, more "kid-friendly", whatever.
So, go ahead. Try and find that verse. If you find it, cool. That's one version out of countless.
