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Monastery life

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Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:39 am
by ozzy72
A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand.
He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up! In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies.
The head monk, says, 'We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son.'
He goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the original manuscripts are held as archives in a locked vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot.
So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him.
He sees him banging his head against the wall and wailing.
'We missed the R !
We missed the R !
We missed the R !'
His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is crying uncontrollably. The young monk asks the old abbot, 'What's wrong, father?'
With a choking voice, the old abbot replies,
'The word was... CELEBRATE!!!
Re: Monastery life

Posted:
Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:16 pm
by J.
LOL! i like it
Re: Monastery life

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Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:49 pm
by a1
Re: Monastery life

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Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:34 pm
by Mushroom_Farmer

ROFL
Re: Monastery life

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Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:06 pm
by H
[color=#003300]This did not bring back all good memories; the girl's mother, nevertheless, stated, "The King James version was good enough for [the apostle] Paul so it's good enough for me."
The problem with her statement is that the KJV was published, not so much later than any of the earliest English translations, in the 17th century -- 1500 years after Paul's sojourn on earth; he was versed in Hebrew and Greek (undoubtedly, also in Latin), his letters (epistles which we now often refer to as books) being written in Greek. The ancestors of the English, and their language, were so far away from his arena that they may has well have been on Uranus beneath a full body suit.
Ahem, now, to fully destroy your post:
In the Old Testament, Hebrew words such as khaw-gag', zaw-kar' and saw-khak' and, in the New Testament, the Greek euphraino were translated as celebrate.
There is no rendering to celibate in any of the Old Testament translations; I know of only one recent Bible translation (The New Living Translation*) and a commentary (God's Word**) that use the word celibate and I had to look those up because they're not in my library.
*
Re: Monastery life

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Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:39 pm
by skoker
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CRASH!
the sound this post made because of "H"
Re: Monastery life

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Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:31 pm
by TacitBlue
Well, it
was funny...

Re: Monastery life

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Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:01 am
by BFMF
lol

Re: Monastery life

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Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:09 pm
by BigTruck
[quote][color=#003300]This did not bring back all good memories; the girl's mother, nevertheless, stated, "The King James version was good enough for [the apostle] Paul so it's good enough for me."
The problem with her statement is that the KJV was published, not so much later than any of the earliest English translations, in the 17th century -- 1500 years after Paul's sojourn on earth; he was versed in Hebrew and Greek (undoubtedly, also in Latin), his letters (epistles which we now often refer to as books) being written in Greek. The ancestors of the English, and their language, were so far away from his arena that they may has well have been on Uranus beneath a full body suit.
Ahem, now, to fully destroy your post:
In the Old Testament, Hebrew words such as khaw-gag', zaw-kar' and saw-khak' and, in the New Testament, the Greek euphraino were translated as celebrate.
There is no rendering to celibate in any of the Old Testament translations; I know of only one recent Bible translation (The New Living Translation*) and a commentary (God's Word**) that use the word celibate and I had to look those up because they're not in my library.
*
Re: Monastery life

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Wed Dec 17, 2008 10:55 am
by beaky
This is the Humor section, right? As in jokes? Jests? Funny stories? ::)
Re: Monastery life

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Wed Dec 17, 2008 4:02 pm
by Steve M
This thread is funny.

Re: Monastery life

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Wed Dec 17, 2008 6:24 pm
by skoker
[quote]This thread is funny.
Re: Monastery life

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Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:42 am
by H
:-/
Only two people seem to have their wits about them? I may have provided factual information but it is not without grammatical twist; although there may be a serious aspect, methinks you take me too seriously by taking me, or the subject, as too serious, thus missing what's amidst the lines.
Maybe it's like my attitude toward golf and health -- why play a game in which everyone has strokes?
8-)
Re: Monastery life

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Thu Dec 18, 2008 4:56 pm
by skoker
Correct=boring
worng=funny

Re: Monastery life

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Fri Dec 19, 2008 5:21 am
by H
Correct=boring
worng=funny
Now I see the problem: it was neither correct nor worng to begin with.8-)