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[amhranaiochta]

“When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said, ‘In your blood, live.’ I said, ‘In your blood, live.’”

-Ezek 16:6

To-day, I figured out the Bible. Again. This time, though, it was slow and quiet enough for me to transcribe. More on this later. (Suffice to say, it has to do with sacrifice, trees, death, life, earth, sky,

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[w00t11]

"To-day, I figured out the Bible. Again."

Had this statement come from anyone else, I would laugh and wait for some sort of sarcastic comment on religion or the like.

But no, I actually believe you.

(ZOMG SPOILER: Jesus lives in the end.)

[amhranaiochta]

Hahaha! Good thing, I'm quite serious and very excited about it. :)

I actually thought of you earlier to-day. I was reading an article written by a CHRISTIAN REVEREND from KENTUCKY in NINETEEN-fucking-TEN and the man managed to reconcile science and faith. It was fucking ridiculous: he was perfectly reasonable...and not only reasonable, he was actually fucking informed. I thought, "...man...if only he could see what's happened to...-we sure have come a long way!...I should probably print this out for Vincent so he can be angry and rant. Because I'm not very good at ranting. And, you know, being angry. But Vincent could do it! He has enough anger to supercede my liver deficiency

[w00t11]

Oh wow. I know, it is indeed quite exasperating. :(

But I'm flattered you thought of me when you needed someone to rant about something! :P I've always tried to put some kind of effort into my rants. :D

[clareistotle]

You'll probably appreciate this: Yesterday, I found out that my Hebrew name is Ziv Malaka. How cool is that?

[amhranaiochta]

That's actually a pretty scary name...;;stretches her hands experimentally.;; I bet I can make up an entertaining etymology for you:
Ziv is "splendour," and MLK is a rather mysterious entity in the Torah who may or may not be a king-but more often than a king, MLK is a Canaanite god who was especially found of collecting dead babies (or just purifying them by waving them over a bonfire, but that's less exciting, so nevermind)-one of his more famous cults was based in Carthage. Now, the way one sacrificed to MLK was to burn a baby, and the Chaldean root of Ziv relates to light-originally sunlight, but later applied to fire for its power to reproduce the sun at night. Thus Ziv Malaka is the "splendour of MLK," aka, the fire of the dead babies.
So you could probably go around saying, "My name means dead babies!" I'm sure there's a bad joke somewhere in there

[clareistotle]

Hmmm...the Ziv thing sounds about right, but I'm not quite sure that the Malaka thing carries over in terms of the MLK connection. I was told that Malaka is a slight perversion of one of the words for Angel (so that I would have a feminine name and not a masculine one) but I wasn't told which word- does that bear any weight?

[clareistotle]

(also, you and I seriously need to start an independant philology contracting firm.)