> Sometimes, nature enjoys being horrifying ... "what would you think of god if the day you arrive in heaven, the first thing you see is a giant poster of rules placated next to heaven's gates, and those rules are; 'god shall not murder everybody', 'god shall not steal', "god shall not lie', and so on. Wouldn't you think it's odd that such rules have to be written for god, and put right there for everyone to see, as some sort of reminder? As if there were reasons to believe that he would eventually be tempted to infringe upon any of those rules... ? Well, it's the same deal for our constitution and the government... If the constitution explicitly forbids our government from infringing upon freedom of speech and the right to bear arms for instance, it's precisely because otherwise, it would ultimately end up doing just that" The 10 commandments is a list of things adherents of the faith are barred from doing. And IMO, it's reasonable to think that, those rules have been put in place precisely because those people have been deemed too keen on infringing upon those... ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.' TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.' THREE: 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.' FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.' FIVE: 'Honor your father and your mother.' SIX: 'You shall not murder.' SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.' EIGHT: 'You shall not steal.' NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.' TEN: 'You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.' ... One and Two, seem to be pretty much like "first rule about fight club is you do not talk about fight club. Second rule about fight club is you do not talk about Fight Club." It's rules for rule breakers and repeat offenders at that, it seems... So the two first is a double reinforcement of the entire set essentially, like, "nope, nope, nope, there's nothing above those rules, no stalin, no soviet union no nothing, no exception" "or that is in the water under the earth" < What and why? Idk but I think it has something to do with some ancient deity, but I'm not sure, it's not clear what they were obviously really trying hard to stop from being worshiped here Three... Seems to be yet again a reinforcement of the whole set Four... Seems to eventually refer to abusive exploitation of one another... And eventually a fourth reinforcement of the whole set lol Five... Seems to be a full stop to too many fuckYouMomAndDad moments... Six... Well well well... Sounds like there were a couple issues regarding murders... Seven... Infidelity... It's probably referring to the "Never mess with another man's woman" in the classic "3 Things in this world you don't do" Eight... Theft... It's probably referring to the "you never mess with another man's MONEY" in the classic "3 Things in this world you don't do" Nine... To lie... Lies, lies, and damned lies... Ten... "And most importantly, you never mess with another man's MONEY." ... So, yeah... You don't erect such rules into a religion for a bunch of saints... >Sometimes, nature enjoys being horrifying There's so much to say about what's lurking in the dark Of course I say all that I say nothing