Why is the Bible so badly written?
What version(s) have you been reading? What are you expecting from the text?On Versions:There are multiple translations and versions in the English language. Because some of these translations/versions are designed to follow the flow of the Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic texts they can read a bit clumsy (the King James Version is such a text) because it attempts to be faithful to original langauge word order. Other translations do not consider original word order as valuable as creating an understandable flow in the English language.Furthermore, some versions are written in simpler language for access by those who are less educated, and others have a larger vocabulary. (The KJV and the NIV contrast here.) Typically faithfulness to the original meaning of the text has been a primary goal of Bible versions, yet there has been a subtle change in that goal recently. Some more recent versions are not attempting to give exacting translations of the original texts, but rather to make the stories accessible to people in the vernacular of today's American English. Eugene Peterson's The Message is the most popular example of this right now.On Expectations:If you are looking for love stories, or adventure these things are found in the Bible, but the book is not written as a narrative only.If you are looking for poetry, and lyric you can find that as well, but it is not a book of poetry.If you are looking DIY material on living the Bible is not that either, but large sections of it read like advice on living.If you are looking for prophetic and apocalyptic literature written in hard to understand, symbolic language, the Bible is not that either, yet there are sections devoted to that kind of writing.The fact is that the Bible is not a single book, but a compendium of many writings. It is viewed as a sacred resource drawing from history, narrative, poetry, lyric, apocalyptic, prophetic, advice, and philosophical/theological texts.
Help with immigrant parents?
HEy!, im arab too and well i have a pretty same story with you right there.. but im 17 i used to be bullied till high school came araound. somehow i became popular. and my arab parents are clearly whitewashed. but so religious. my younger brother who is 15 beats the **** outa me.. its more of an equal battle cuz sometimes i get him back hard. but the point is life sucks.. and thats how all arab families are. my mom calls me dumb and wierd and stupid all the time. all my life people have called me mentally retarded which im not i just learn at a slow pace. ive learnt to forget abut what they say and move on.. look I WANT YOU TO MESSAGE ME BACK PLEASE. if you have facebook send me a message .. my name on it is Maar G-star kay!!. or msn which is mariam_cutie99@hotmail.com <3
Why do you hate dark poems?
I'm very sorry, but I don't write happy poems. I was abused as a child and I am not a happy person. I write to try and release this poison from inside me. I know some of you want happy uplifting poems, but many of us don't feel that. Yes there are beautiful things in life and I try to see that beauty, but it has forever been clored by my experiences. I'm sorry that depressing poems aren't in keeping with the upbeat attitude alot of you have....but please, some of need to write this just to get through the day. I am in therapy and take anti-deppresants, but they help very little. So the next time you poke fun at someone who wrotes depressing poetry or you slam them for being sad or morose, stop and think....there are reasons we write this way. If you don't want to read them, just don't. Not trying to upset anyone, just explaining why some of us write the way we do.
Husband seems to have low opinion of me?
I have always considered myself an attractive person, always got a lot of male attention ever since I hit puberty, and aside from the times I went a little too nuts on the ice cream bars, I was always more than pleased with what I saw in the mirror. I've been offered to model by a couple of scouts, and people have told me in random conversation I should get into modeling. The guys I've dated in the past always seemed very interested in me and I never felt I was treated poorly. However, when I got married (for dumb reasons, I wanted independence from parents and the military benefits were all too alluring in today's economy), my husband treated me awfully. Never complimented me even when i really tried my best to look nice, he said nothing, yet didn't hesitate to mention how good other girls looked. I thought maybe he's just distant or it was a pathetic attempt to make me jealous, but I later found out that he complimented his exes quite a lot (who, no offense to them, were really nothing special), sometimes even to thep oint they got annoyed with it. I also saw old messages of him telling other girls how beautiful they were, and leaving compliments on lousy drawings and mediocre music performances. I beg him to compliment me and he will but it'll seem insincere, and if I just simply ask him how I look or something he'll say "you look okay." I get hit on pretty frequently when I'm out. Not to sound full of myself but I do get qiute a lot of stares, and guys strike up conversation and ask to hang out. I've never had a problem with men. I get compliments from other guys by the boatload. These of course mean nothing to me (although thank goodness for them for preventing my self esteem from being completely ravaged), since my husband doesn't say much. Perfect strangers seem to think more highly of me than my husband and it's extremely depressing. I don't know what to do?! I feel like the biggest loser to have to ASK for compliments and then still come up short of having heard something really nice for the day. What to do? I'm trying to be patient but I don't think anything much more is to come. I am desperate, if things don't change, the other guys who compliment me might start getting a little bit more than just a smile and thank you.
Teenage relationship..help?
go ahead take a chance!!! hope it works out :D
I AM DEEPLY IN LOVE WITH MY GIRLFRIEND, but i still cheat on her? Help!! (please read this all)?
Firstly, i wanna make something clear. I know that a bunch of girls who have been cheated on are gonna feel very passionately about this and hence wanna take out their anger on me, but i beg that u have an open mind, try to understand me before telling me i dont love her and that if i did i wouldn't cheat. Ok, i love my girlfriend, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that i do. Like i would die for this girl. She is absolutely gorgeous and amazing, and i would kill for her, die for her, but for some reason, i end up cheating on her. Hear me out. Looking back i've cheated 4 times with 4 different girls... all of them were ugly, not my type and i definitely didn't care about them, like them or love them. I am barely able to talk to my girlfriend, i haven't seen her in 3 months... well lets just say her dad is the over protective type and we have been keeping our relationship a secret. When we were in high school together, i didn't cheat once, or even look at another woman, but now, it's like i can't stop. I am not a bad guy, i know i'm not, and i know that if i am able to see her and talk to her often, i prolly wont cheat, but i need help. Girls please don't be biased about this, i need ur help. How can i fight the urges? how can i remain faithful. If i met a gini and i had one wish, it will be to be faithful to my girlfriend. And the worst part is, the girls i cheated with are no match for her... absolutely no match. one is fat as hell, the other is drop dead ugly. all of em were fat. so why? they were random girls i met on "tagged" . Am i the only guy who's going through this right now? am i the only guy who seriously loves his girl/wife but still cheats? PLEASE I NEED HONEST HELP HERE. I need mature advice from mature people right now. Thank you for reading.
Can bad writing be a skill?
Yes it canBarbara Cartland famously said something like“It’s a waste of time trying to write seriously as readers just want escapism”She was the most published author of all time, and published over 700 books, with the majority of them being based on the Cinderella story in variationsBarbara Cartland - Google SearchShe is credited with having invented or proposed the gliders used in the D-Day landingsHer books are still best sellersShe didn’t ‘write’ but dictated her stories to secretaries, and sometimes did two books at the same timeShe ignored all the advice usually given to those who aspire to be writers, about learning the Art and Craft of writing, and went about it by studying the market like an entrepreneurGood advice for anyone