I got wood today.
I can’t do anything right. That is the scary part for me and this collection of books I’m trying to understand. That perfect that no one seems to get. Anytime I go have drinks with Ralphy-Mae, he always tells me how he hates people—and he hates everyone. This person sucks. That person sucks. Reading this book makes me look at myself deeper than I ever have. Staring off into outer-space type of looking at myself. I’m no saint either.
Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and for seasons, and for days and years. And let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. And God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also. And God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.(14-20)
I was listening to some young bloke on YouTube prance on about the end-times earlier. It has me thinking when are the end-times, will we ever know? Science says we have multiple pending ways to die. I looked it up on YouTube. The Holy Bible says we only got one way. One literary and another catastrophically literary. He talked about the three-warring tribes for Christianity. Christians (kind of like a protestant I guess), Catholics (the ones that have choir boys), Judaism (Keepers of the Old Testament, and chronically stereotyped as greedy).
https://antisemitism.adl.org/greed/
“The stereotype of Jewish greed took hold in the Middle Ages, when Jews were frequently associated with money. Jews typically had restrictions placed on their economic activity and were sometimes prohibited from owning land. As described earlier, sometimes the only option available to earn a living in such circumstances was through high-interest crediting, a role for which Christian rulers sometimes recruited Jews, as Christians were prohibited from it. This made for a complicated and tense dynamic between Jews and Christian society that lasted well beyond medieval times. It made it easy for leaders to position Jews as a scapegoat, as the cause of the common people’s financial woes; it also compounded the perception among some Christian theologians of Jews as immoral and devoid of virtue.
“Jews were often made the villains in literature and art of the time, reflecting a widespread depiction of Jews as unscrupulous, money-hungry and working against the interest of the honest citizen. A famous character in literary history is Shylock, the greedy Jewish money lender in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Eventually this stereotype worked its way into modern vernacular: “To Jew someone down” became a common expression meaning to bargain unscrupulously for a lower price.
The charge against alleged Jewish greed has continued into the 21st century. In 2006, for example, Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jewish Frenchman was kidnapped, tortured for three weeks and killed by a gang in Paris that was hoping to extract $500,000 in ransom money from his family. They had assumed that, because he was Jewish, he’d be rich. But in fact, Halimi was a cell phone salesman of modest means whose working class North African family belied the stereotype.
Some Jews continue to be stereotyped as corrupted by an insatiable appetite for money and are often accused of hoarding wealth that they use to bribe people in power. Some continue to assert the false belief that the Jews pull the strings of the world’s financial markets. There are numerous conspiracies, many centered-around the Rothschild family, about Jewish control of the economy and important economic institutions like the U.S. Federal Reserve and the International Monetary Fund. Underpinning such belief is the idea that Jews are hungry for access to money and control over it.”
It sort of sounds like Christians are the ones that started scapegoating Jews. It also sounds like Jews had some deeeeep pockets back then.
Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let the birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens. And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. “ A God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. And God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food” and it was so. And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. (20-31)