there's only one Ecclesiastes, they can't all be winners
there's only one Ecclesiastes, they can't all be winners
Revelations is some druggie's random hallucination that became scripture for some reason.
Thanks for powering every destructive doomsday christian and some non christian cults over the past two centuries, John-kun <3
To be fair to him, Revelations is more of an allegory on the then-current political situation than anything else. It's not his fault people don't know how to interpret texts.
Well he could've done a political manifesto instead then couldn't he?
a manifesto? centuries prior to the printing press? completely removed from the technologies of parallelised publication and readership that allowed manifestos to function? seems ahistorical desu.
t. Person who has never read a political manifesto
Am I wrong?
Did the absence of dragons bore you?
But this is rather off topic, meet me at noon in Ancient Literature Discussion.
Where was the joke?
It's time to hajima with the potshots.
Lol what.
We're still talking about the Revelations as written by John the Evangelist? Number of the Beast, Riders of the Apocalypse, Second Coming, all the good stuff?
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Most manifestos I read these days are typically written by rambling anarcho-anti-somethings, so they're usually some flavor of entertaining. Still not my favorite choice of reading material...