Trailblazer
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Sorry, I just assumed we were the same vintage since once you said you were retired, but maybe people retire earlier in your country.
And now I feel really old.
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The Ten Commandments movie
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And now I feel really old.
Trailblazer
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In the movie it was not God who ordered that, but maybe I was not watching it closely enough.
Besides, I do not believe God did half of what is recorded in the OT, I believe it is anthropomorphic.
I do not believe the real God slaughters innocents although he may well get the bad guys and I have no problem with that.
Audie
Veteran Member
That and the general,
"Who are you to question..."
leading into that God defines what's
right and wrong, is incapable of
wrong, and all that rot.
Sorry, I just assumed we were the same vintage since once you said you were retired, but maybe people retire earlier in your country.
And now I feel really old.
Chuckle, yes im retired, no people don't retire early. The state pension age is currently increasing meaning i should retire in 2137 but we were able to retire in 2015. Ain't life grand
Don't worry about it, i was teasing
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
I have been "able" to retire for years given our financial situation, I am just not ready to retire yet.Chuckle, yes im retired, no people don't retire early. The state pension age is currently increasing meaning i should retire in 2137 but we were able to retire in 2015. Ain't life grand
Don't worry about it, i was teasing
There are many factors to consider, especially now with Covid-19, as that has changed life so much.
Audie
Veteran Member
Make that "any of the things" and
we'd halfvway agree.
Slaughter of innocents shows up on a world
wide scale with "flood ", elsewhere it may
be just a city, or in exodus just firstborn,
excluded the collateral damage in casualties
from drought, etc.
Then there are the slaughters he gets henchmen to do.
Maybe reread the Bible with such
in mind.
I wondervwhy you even bother thinking there is a "real" one.
Audie
Veteran Member
Coz it shows the binle- story for what it is?
Perhaps our circumstances were a little odd. The dream of leaving England was strong and when the chance came we took it. We could have started a new company here but professional courtesy dictated that we not create competition for the buyers of our UK company. The sale of the company returned enough to invest and scrape by anyway so life of leisure it is (yes that was a joke, with three kids, a hubby and a house to look after, what leisure???)1
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
I have not read the Bible so I cannot re-read it, but I will read it eventually.
At that time I will take the stories with a grain of salt, as spiritual metaphors, not actual history.
I do not "think" there is a real God, I know there is.
The reason I know is because of Baha'u'llah.
Audie
Veteran Member
So you think you have absolute knowledge.
Good book, I've read 3 different versions.
Don't go there, it only gets you in bother with admin.
Audie
Veteran Member
Perhaps the life of a tai tai wouldst suit.
Audie
Veteran Member
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
We have no kids, never had any, but we have always had a multitude of cats and we also have three homes, two that are rentals, so what life of leisure?
We have the least amount of cats that we have ever had now, only eight, but we cannot go on vacations and leave them. We could find a pet sitter as we did in the past when we had more than twice as many cats but I do not like leaving them with pet sitters anymore, they are too precious to me, and besides as I think I told you, my husband does not like traveling. I have to drag him out of the house just to go grocery shopping.
You are just a spring chicken. Enjoy your younger years because they won't last. My husband is 10 years older than me so who knows how long he will be around, and then I will have nobody because I have no other family except a brother who is seven years older than me and I never talk to him anymore. But the way I survive is just to live one day at a time and not worry about the future. It will come and I will deal with it as I always have.
I try to look at the bright side. In many ways life is better now than when I was 50 and I can still do anything I could do at age 50. I no longer have to worry about going to school to advance my career, and I will never have to worry about money, and we have fewer cats to care for and none that are at death's door right now.
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
No, only God has absolute knowledge, but I absolutely know God exists.
And that knowledge can be an asset or a liability.
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
Oh I almost forgot, you were once a Christian....
I wasn't ever a Christian, so I never read even one page of the Bible until eight years ago, and then the only reason I read it was because I was posting to Christians on forums.
I will read it eventually though.
I didn't read it as a christian but after left christianity, very enlightening.