Self-imposed exile from Der Schtumpf.

Im instigating a self-imposed exile for thine self from participating in Der Schtumpf-at least till the beginning of the new year. A few reasons why:

1) I don't feel like pissing off too many people untill at least that time.
2) The fragging computer is just barely allowing me to log onto this site which has been giving me a special kind of electronic hell ever since I tried to log onto the site last night when our cable and internet were finally installed-and yes-for all School-teachers and retired Teachers who might be reading this-I KNOW I typed a rather long run-on sentence :lol: :lol: You can procede to rip out all of the hair on the tops and sides of your Kopfs ;-))
3) I MIGHT only be able to participate here on a regular basis during daytime hours as the internet connection we seem to have, is as unreliable as Beetle Bailey is.

That is all for now-im guessing?

Oh and, if Skipper is reading this, please check my Ebay account as I have two more nice photos on their way to me ;-)) One is a nice shot of a large German Artillery piece ""Clearing-it's-throat"" and the other is another and nice EKII award photo somewhere in ol mother Russia. ')

 

I thought it was fairly quiet anyhow but you'll definately be missed Carl. One thing though, 'thine' means 'your' so 'thine self' is 'yourself' (meaning in this case us rather than you), though I've now confused myself...

 

Heh heh, thanks Stefan and I am a confusing person most of the time. I need to bone up more on stuff from the bible ;-)0 Oh and, which will happen after i move back to glorious Corpus Christi in a few months.

Take care Stefan and Merry Christmas--C.

 

Try Shakespear too, it's just archaic English as used in the King James Bible and most other Tudor/Stuart texts.

That said, the Bible is always worth a read if only to hunt down some of the more wacky/contradictory packages (mostly in the Old Testament, Moses calling for genocide, encouraging rape and so on).

 

Rape ? what text do you have that states that Stefan ? am not wanting to start a ta-doo about this

 

numbers 31:7 has moses encouraging both killing and taking of women not belonging to tribes of the errr...goodies of the day..so to speak..then there are certain passages of judges and a few others

 

Erich, the Sodom and Gomorrah bit, priest arrives, people turn up wanting to 'know' him, priest gives them his concubine to rape, they do so but that is not enough so they want him, god punishes them not for raping a woman but for wanting to rape a man.

There is also:

>Rape, and pillage at Jabesh-gilead (Judges 21:10-24)
>Deuteronomy 20:10-14

It's pretty hot on all that stuff, worth a read to see how much we cherry pick what we choose to believe.

 

I used to read some Shakepeear-been about 25 or so yearssince I last did. Ironically, I quit reading his works when I really started to get into reading about WWII.

My Grandmother (deceased) is probably shaking her finger at me because of not reading any from the good book-like I used to also do.

 

Ahh, see now I blame 'reading' Shakespear for people losing interest, it was mostly written to be performed and always works better on stage. Too many kids give up because they are forced to read it but never understand how good it is when it is performed. But hey, at least you found something worthwhile to replace it with eh?

Just out of interest which version of the Bible do you read? I've read a couple of the newer translations and whilst they may be more accurate some of them have lost the beauty of the King James translation which to my mind can't be good. Somehow:

Even when I walk through the darkest valley, I will not be afraid, for you are close beside me. Your rod and your staff protect and comfort me.

Has lost some of the majesty of this:

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

On a side note there was a lane near my grandparents cottage which was known to everyone as the 'valley of the shadow of death.' We used to sneak down it and then run away from crows when we were small, it was that kind of place

 

Well, I didn't really lose interest in SHakespear, but just got so caught up into reading anything and everything I could get my hands on-that deals with Military History. If I recall correctly? after I quit reading other books, I was mainly into all things US Civil War, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, WWI, and WWII Pacific. I spent years reading only about that stuff until I discovered: The Eastern Front ;-))

 

SH*T!

ITS THE END OF THE WORLD!

WE'RE DOOMED PEOPLE, DOOMED!





No time to waste, lets get looting. :lol:

 

Gotcha Carl, allow me a little while as usual.

 

A beautiful story, even if not entirely historically accurate (Augustus didn't directly control Judea and therefore couldn't really have called for a census, plus what would be the point of a census (which the Romans often called to establish who was living where) which requires people to move from their homes to the place where a possible ancestor 1000 years ago lived), the King James remains a beautiful work of prose and an exciting (if not always faithful) translation.

 

Thank youSkipper, and, by this time tomorrow, I migh have a few more nice GJ pics to add to the growing tally ;-))

 

:lol: :lol: Tanks for the laugh Baron Noodles ;-)) I also tried to both you and Skipper, but I don't know if they took?