ughaibu

Okay, Ovid. He begins Metamorphoses by calling on the gods for inspiration, so we can assume it's a book inspired by gods. He takes a chain of mythological events, from several cultures, beginning with creation and ending in his present time, in other words, Metamorphoses is pretty much directly comparable with the Bible. So, I'll include a fourth category:
1) unutterable fools
2) criminally reckless
3) novelists
4) poets

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Sorry, it just seems like more crass stupidity to me. You are being either ignorant of the range of literature available or merely wayward in your presentation. You ignored the sample of literature from about the period I indicated and you spewed Ovid. Deep, ughaibu, really deep.

With your analysis you seem to be making most people, ie the non-writers, into fools or criminally reckless. You are referring to 99% of the population and that's just ridiculous.


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ughaibu

Rubbish, my posts are about the authors of the Bible. Feel free to suggest another category if you cant fit them into any of my four.

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And you are foolishly comparing high literature of a few outstanding individuals with the compilers of a compendium of the cultural artefacts of a traditional society. That doesn't make any sense for the producers of the bible are of the ilk of the many examples I've already provided, not of people like Ovid. As I said:

You are being either ignorant of the range of literature available or merely wayward in your presentation.

Still true, most will agree.


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ughaibu

Have it your way.
1) unutterable fools
2) criminally reckless
3) novelists
4) poets
5) anthropologists

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With 15 more posts and your continuing to play silly-buggers, you'll end up with your half-assed list of 20 categories. You've proven that you are just crapping on.


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ughaibu

Are you going to address the issue? Which category do the Bible authors fit?
If you think there's another category, suggest it. If you think there's a bunch of other books, the authors of which also fit the same category as the Bible's authors, stick them in too.

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Are you going to look at similar sorts of literature to the bible? No. Your categories are plainly inadequate as I've shown, so just give it a rest. :wave:


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ughaibu

You haven't shown anything. You haven't answered as to the nature of the Bible authors and your point about there being other pernicious crap from the same period fails, as there is worthwhile writing from that period and there is still pernicious crap written today.

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You started with three crass categories that were supposed to cover all the possibilities of how to describe the writers of the biblical texts. You've miraculously made them five and who knows how many more silly categories you were prepared to go to?

You continue to show a gross lack of understanding of the literature that you pretend to deal with calling it "pernicious crap", as though if you were living at the time you'd know better. That's the point: you wouldn't. You sit back with 2000 years of scientific and philosophical developments at your back thinking that you can retroject your modern values onto the past. You are being as naive as you are wrongheaded.


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