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Thread refers to oldest book in world, then to oldest christian book, according to auction house Christie's.
Well they would argue it's the oldest.

"The oldest surviving literary work is The Epic of Gilgamesh. It was composed nearly 4,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia (roughly equivalent to where Iraq and eastern Syria are now). No one knows who wrote it, or why, or what readership or audience it was intended."

It was probably written to find the secret of eternal life (youth).
A plant held the answer, but was eaten by a snake.

Oldest Coptic christian text might be the Bruce Codex which is hidden away in the Bodleian in Oxford.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_Jeu#:~:text=The%20date%20of%20the%20Bruce,in%20the%20early%203rd%20century.

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Laid Back Lounge / Re: what is the worst job you ...

Last post by Tom62 - April 07, 2024, 11:15:21 AM

My worst job would be a job in where I'd have to lie continuously or cover up other people's mistakes, so something like being Biden's White House Press secretary.

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Last post by Asmodean - April 07, 2024, 09:53:04 AM

I want a pretty high degree of problem solving in my day-to-day, which I have. Within my sphere of work, I do not enjoy personnel responsibility. I don't like somebody else's job having to depend on the way I do my own. Generally speaking, I easily get bored doing "robot work." I have a high threshhold for acting out on boredom, and can be "just-bored" for longer than any-one else I know personally, but eight hours a day, five days a week, 2000-some hours a year manning a stamping machine or putting together IKEA furniture... Yeah. Don't want to. I'd do it, but I would not be content doing it for very long.

In the realm of jobs I'm not qualified for, I suppose it would be kindergarten or primary school teacher. Kids tend to annoy me when they are in their "squeaky years."

But what I think would drive me from a job quicker than anything, is unproductiveness. I will tolerate having to look after people and even be surrounded by children as long as I am accomplishing something. I think the worst job I imagine, is "getting paychecks for nothing" - no stake, no responsibility, no product generated by my effort. Pride. Some say it's a sin. Well, I want to be proud of what I do, and to do that, I need to achieve certain goals doing it.

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Religion / Re: Christian Nonduality

Last post by Asmodean - April 07, 2024, 09:45:44 AM

Quote from: Me_Be on April 05, 2024, 04:27:03 PMAwareness is the only ONE real reality.

Explain. What precludes other realities from existing?

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Laid Back Lounge / Re: Jokes Thread (Was named An...

Last post by The Magic Pudding.. - April 07, 2024, 09:36:14 AM

QuoteIf this Partisan Hack"If this Partisan Hack wants to put me in the 'clink' for speaking the open and obvious TRUTH, I will gladly become a Modern Day Nelson Mandela — It will be my GREAT HONOR," Trump wrote.

They'll have to change the words of this song.

77 years of privilege...

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Laid Back Lounge / Re: what is the worst job you ...

Last post by Dark Lightning - April 07, 2024, 03:36:31 AM

You're not a pussy for the way your brain is wired. I see videos of guys who climb to the top of towers to replace the flashing bulbs that alert aircraft to their presence. There are steps/stairs to some level, and then they have to free climb. Those towers swing in the wind, to boot. Crazy, for me. When I look out at heights, I get vertigo. I really don't like that sensation. I recalled a memory to my mother many years ago. I was with her mother and my eldest sister, and my grandmother was watering plants. There was a mirror leaning against the wall of that room. I looked into the mirror and it looked to me like a hole (I am extremely nearsighted) that I could fall into and end up in the basement. My mother says I was maybe 18 months old, given my description of the situation. Wild. I knew that there was a basement at that age. I guess that the mirror was reflecting a dark ceiling; I'll never know.

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Laid Back Lounge / Re: what is the worst job you ...

Last post by Icarus - April 07, 2024, 03:22:47 AM

Here are several jobs that I would do my best to avoid. For starters, I wouldn't want to be a cop, the worst job for me would be a utility worker doing repair work in large sewers...........I am claustrophobic. A job as a miner would not work very well for me either.Nor would I want to be one of those full time painters who work every day on the Golden Gate bridge, or any other high elevation job. I'm a pussy because I am acrophobic.

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Laid Back Lounge / what is the worst job you can ...

Last post by billy rubin - April 06, 2024, 03:05:11 PM

some people like their jobs. some people hate their jobs. i was reading the news and got distracted by some clickbait

which was a success for the clickbait

and then it occurred to me that the worst job i coul dimagine having right now would be having to write things like this in order to make a living

QuoteCaught off guard

One of the teachers, Miss Clara, quickly entered the principal's office and closed the door behind her. "Shit, Eric! What was that? Who is that girl?" she whispered, completely caught off guard by what had just happened. "That's what I'm going to find out now, he muttered as he looked through one of his drawers.

The unexpected appearance of the mysterious girl has clearly left Miss Clara and Eric, the principal, bewildered. Their hushed conversation and the search for answers suggest that something intriguing or perhaps even concerning has just occurred. The unfolding story is sure to reveal more about the girl's identity and the secrets that may lie ahead

i would strangle innocent passersby before i would succeed in writing very much like this.

what would you hate to do for a living?

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