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To: muawiyah

Sorry, you've lost me in translation. I've never willingly read the bible.


188 posted on 08/21/2006 7:36:35 PM PDT by harrowup (Just naturally perfect and unquestionably humble about it.)
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To: harrowup
You missed some interesting things. It starts off with several "memory palace" setups. SEE: RICCI, MEMORY PALACE, for more on that.

There are probably several dozen structures described or recommended, but the big ones are the Garden of Eden, Noah's Ark, and the Genealogies.

The Tower of Babel might be one but a lot of it is "lost".

There are people who believe these techniques for memorizing religious lessons and histories are actually moral lessons in and of themselves. Combined with a believe in literalist inerrency they get into these little contests of retromangancy. Even St. Paul put in his two cents worth and misused allegories to keep women in their place (if, in fact, St. Paul actually wrote those words and they weren't simply something added by a rabbi of his day disquieted about Christianity's liberalism).

218 posted on 08/21/2006 7:50:16 PM PDT by muawiyah
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