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Revelations.

ChagenChagen
edited 2011-11-06 14:25:16 in Philosophy
[tɕagɛn]
WTF happened?

The bible is strange in many parts.......but Revelations is just ridiculous. WTF was up with John?

I remember getting the part where John is told to eat a book given to him by an angel--that is apparently ridiculously sweet--and thinking "Okay, this guy is dropping some serious acid"


Comments

  • MalkavianMalkavian
    edited 2011-11-06 14:27:29
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Say what you will about its sanity, but it makes for some great metal.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    It's heavily metaphorical in ways that would only make sense to those alive when it was written, as I understand it.
  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    ^Indeed, wasn't making the number of the beast 666 a direct stab at Emperor Nero?
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    I thought it was basic numerology (6 being imperfection and all)

    of course, history was probably involved, too.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    It was actually 616 in the original version.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    I like to interpret Jesus slaying the anti-christ by the breath of his mouth meaning Christ will return as a dragon.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    And I like to pretend it was Jesus prophetizing the true revelations

    Final Crisis.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
  • captainbrasscaptainbrass

    The point with Revelation is that it's a written in a whole tradition of prophetic visions which included, for symbolic purposes, stuff that sounded as if the writer had been on acid. Isiah saw the throne of God surrounded by many-winged creatures. Ezekiel saw a valley of dry bones and, like John, ate a scroll. That was the sort of thing that was expected to happen to those who had visions of God.


    And, to be honest, would you be terribly impressed if you actually saw the Creator of the Universe and nothing out of the ordinary happened in the encounter? God is supposed to be awe-inspiring, or He comes across like the Wizard of Oz in the film - just a guy behind a curtain.

  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    edited 2011-11-06 15:28:46
    Kichigai birthday!!
    I'm not even a Christian,but the Apocalypse sounds pretty interesting. The book I mean,I'm not some edgy teen
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    @Malkavian: Indeed. Also, that's my favorite take on it :D
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