Okay, I have got to need correcting
May. 5th, 2007 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maderrI was researching something, and of course got massively distracted.
Originally I was looking to see how precisely Solomon acquired his sparkly magic ring. My knowledge of such things is limited, near as I can tell Solomon was wise but also a bit of an asshole.
However. Different sources, and they could all be wrong, I'm not even pretending I've got this right, all say basically what I thought I remembered and what seems most obvious -- that God gave him the ring.
What Megan was not expecting was that it seems God gave him the ring because Solomon found out some worker boy was being harassed by a demon.
Now is it just me or does it seem odd that a King would get pissy and demand help from God over a simple worker boy?
No.
So what seems to be the case to me is that Solomon saw his boytoy was being molested and demanded help, and God handed over the goods.
The great King Solomon was given a powerful ring to control demons because he got snippy about someone else touching his pretty boy.
I have no words. Except maybe these:
*falls over laughing*
Okay, okay. Feel free to set me straight. But oh gods will that amuse me for the rest of my life.
Originally I was looking to see how precisely Solomon acquired his sparkly magic ring. My knowledge of such things is limited, near as I can tell Solomon was wise but also a bit of an asshole.
However. Different sources, and they could all be wrong, I'm not even pretending I've got this right, all say basically what I thought I remembered and what seems most obvious -- that God gave him the ring.
What Megan was not expecting was that it seems God gave him the ring because Solomon found out some worker boy was being harassed by a demon.
Now is it just me or does it seem odd that a King would get pissy and demand help from God over a simple worker boy?
No.
So what seems to be the case to me is that Solomon saw his boytoy was being molested and demanded help, and God handed over the goods.
The great King Solomon was given a powerful ring to control demons because he got snippy about someone else touching his pretty boy.
I have no words. Except maybe these:
*falls over laughing*
Okay, okay. Feel free to set me straight. But oh gods will that amuse me for the rest of my life.
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Date: 2007-05-05 07:26 pm (UTC)I started on wiki, just b/c it's an easy place for simple information. But I sort of jumped around from there, and i've since closed the links so I'd stop giggling and distracting myself ^^;
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Date: 2007-05-05 07:30 pm (UTC)Somehow Bible lessons forgot to mention that. Source? :(
{BTW, he WAS an arsehole. A major one.}
|Meduza|
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Date: 2007-05-06 12:30 am (UTC)I don't know how much relevence that has to ur post but it immediately came to my mind when i read it. And now thinking of that makes me think of another funny story bout roman emperors. Any know who Elagabolus was? lol, funny guy...
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Date: 2007-05-06 12:46 am (UTC)The bible for all its high morals is full of very nice male-on-male action. I'm glad I went to a catholic school and got exposed to such things. ^___^
And
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Date: 2007-05-06 01:46 am (UTC)Now I'm deadly curious. Do tell.
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Date: 2007-05-06 01:58 am (UTC)The History Channel had a thing on him that was set to techno music, and every so often there'd be shadowy figures in some sort of orgy-thing. Except when the Vestal Virgin is mentioned, in which case I think it's a shadowy scene of him doing her from behind. Probably to the techno. In his pretty pretty sun-god mask.
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Date: 2007-05-06 02:06 am (UTC)I think my ancient history class missed something when we were looking at Rome.
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Date: 2007-05-06 02:08 am (UTC)Uh. Interesting. He'd probably love San Fran.
Gods, now all I see is Romans dancing to techno. Did not need that image.
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Date: 2007-05-06 02:14 am (UTC)Elagabalus was
a drag queenspecial. XDno subject
Date: 2007-05-06 02:18 am (UTC)...at least Elly didn't kill loads of people. He just sexed them up. And wanted to be a woman for his slave-husband. ...and to lead a sun-god cult.
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Date: 2007-05-06 02:30 am (UTC)"Elgabalus, I'm cumming!"
Nope, that don't work. At all. In the meantime, slashing teh Bible makes me rather sqeamish. Must be a leagcy of the 18 years of preaching that I endured.
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Date: 2007-05-06 02:41 am (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testament_of_Solomon
http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/testamen.htm
Since it's not part of the Bible & sites say it was written after Christ had been around, it's probably mostly made up, however take it however you wish.
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Date: 2007-05-06 03:07 am (UTC)Now maybe some of those old Bible stories cartoons... I vaguely remember one series that had archaeologist-teenagers who traveled through time and relived the various stories.
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Date: 2007-05-06 03:31 am (UTC)That premise seriously needs a story!
*returns to lurkem on top of the stairs*
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Date: 2007-05-06 03:54 am (UTC)Hell yes. Madeline de Engle? Or was it Le Engle? My favorite one was with the Twins who went back in time to the Great Flood. Highly good, I fell utterly in love with the Angels in that book.
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Date: 2007-05-06 04:41 am (UTC)I found what I was looking for! "The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible". If you ever want to scar your child's mind? Campy animated Bible stories.
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Date: 2007-05-06 04:49 am (UTC)He's certainly not as bad as he could have been.
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Date: 2007-05-06 04:49 am (UTC)It was Veggie Tales that always scared me. Especially when my college roommate used to squee about it >_o
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Date: 2007-05-06 04:54 am (UTC)... *goes off into her corner of Veggie Tales shame*
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Date: 2007-05-06 04:56 am (UTC)*dies giggling*
Okay, okay. I'll stop picking on poor veggie tales.
There IS Biblical slash
Date: 2007-05-06 05:29 am (UTC)Now, I DID not sudied Bible in School, but my daughter just got a reasonble good marks for Tanah (Jewish Bible)
Rose Red
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Date: 2007-05-06 07:06 am (UTC)I do recall our old Ancient Civilization professor having a special one-hour lecture telling us all about the gay and bi people, in a room where a minor part of the students were majoring in Orthodox Theology. That was fun! *g*
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Date: 2007-05-06 11:48 am (UTC)Then my mind went to brother slash, and it was all over. XD
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Date: 2007-05-06 05:34 pm (UTC)*snorts coffee*
I love my flist.
Going to Hell in style
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Date: 2007-05-07 07:32 pm (UTC)As if that is anythign to Jesus 13 toyboys. ;)
I think you should write it! ^___^