• Bunnylux
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    854 days ago

    This is fun creative writing but entirely false.

    • @[email protected]
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      464 days ago

      Ok let’s do it for real then:

      Someone once said to me, "I have to go to the capital of the house, and please do not be wise for the vessel of the Beita. She said, “Wise, with a finger and a ram.” B’Tselem ‘L’ on her forehead.

      Well, the years draw and don’t always stop Full of rules and I’m on the road There is no point in living without joy Your intelligence is wise, but your head is weakened There’s a lot to do, a lot to see What’s wrong with taking the hidden alleys? You won’t know if you won’t go You will not shine if you do not shine

      Oh now, you are a star god Take the game, prepare a player Oh now, you’re a rock star Make a show, take a salary

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      244 days ago

      sigh

      Look man. I’m pretty sure everybody already knew this going in. It’s like going to a pro wrestling show, and proudly declairing it to be a fake sham of a specticle.

      We all just want to see 20 midgets attack a bullfighter waving a red flag, while we eat nachos and drink beers.

      Let us have our fun, alright?

      • @I_Has_A_Hat
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        No, fuck right off. That BS attitude is a big part of what killed reddit. Fake shit that tries to pass itself off as real is lame as fuck and insulting. With pro wrestling or plays or movies, you go in expecting it to be fake. It doesn’t really matter if the wrestlers don’t have any real beef or real drama, you still get to see 20 midgets attacking a bullfighter. The lie is just the set up, not the main event. But shit like this post? The lie is the entire thing. Take it away and you just have someone’s shitty, unclever, poetry that isn’t interesting or funny enough to stand on its own.

        • @[email protected]
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          33 days ago

          What is the entertainment from the meme? Is it that “Auto-translate did this”? Or is it “This is All Star as if it was a passage from the Bible”?

          If it’s the latter (which I personally found amusing) then why are you getting your panties is a twist that it wasn’t a computer that did this?

      • @Psythik
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        That meme always drove me crazy because “fuck bitches, get money” should be translated to “copulate with women, acquire currency”, not “disregard women”.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 days ago

      I assume this was translated by a human both ways, not machine translated. It’s plausible in that case

  • @papalonian
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    454 days ago

    My world bears flame! Does yours do the same?

    I’m in agreement with the situation, and it will never cease to amuse me.

  • IninewCrow
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    334 days ago

    Maybe this is how the bible was written, rewritten and evolved over time.

    It just started out as some young obnoxious guy with a lute making mad music in ancient Mesopotamia. Everyone panned his music, then after he died, someone translated it to a new language, a few hundred years go by and it got translated again, then a few hundred years went by and it got translated again and after the fourth translation, we end up with the first book of Genesis.

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      Hmmmmmm, well that certainly tracks with human behavior. Kind of like how there was a meme that the earth was flat. Nobody actually BELIEVED it. It was just a funny joke to explain why sailors would come in, and then sail off, and you’d never see that sailor again.

      So, ha ha, funny meme, earth is flat.

      Then hundreds of years later, people discovered that people “used to believe the earth was flat”. Wow. What stupid people those guys were hundreds of years ago, huh?

      Then it gets discovered nobody ACTUALLY believed that…but they do NOW. You know. Currently. AFTER we’ve been to space, and photographed the planet while not currently being on said planet. Only AFTER space travel did people revisit the earth being flat, and seriously unironically believe that.

      So I can’t believe ANY of the bullshit IN the bible. But I can totally believe it began as a meme, got out of control, and now it’s just “fact” to some people.

      …and by “some people” I mean gullible morons.

      • @grue
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        184 days ago

        You say that as if there wasn’t plenty of time before 100 BC for the stories to evolve.

        • @[email protected]
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          74 days ago

          Or that translations that are still in circulation don’t translate the original manuscripts (cough cough KJV)

        • @[email protected]
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          I wonder if those stories even matter, like they are from a culture so far removed from us (over 2 thousand years) that the lessons probably shouldn’t be hard interpreted.

          We wouldn’t like people to have differing opinions about stuff? Everyone should believe what we believe, think what we think. /s

          • @grue
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            I have no idea what point you’re trying to make, or what I wrote to provoke your angry tone.

            All I’m saying is that (for example) if Moses supposedly wrote the first five books of the Bible and he lived circa 1200-1500 BC (as per various estimates mentioned by Wikipedia), but the oldest surviving copy of those books is from 100 BC, that’s 1000+ years of potential change that we have no way of disproving.

            • @[email protected]
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              23 days ago

              angry tone.

              Sarcastic tone, you’re reading what I wrote in an angry voice. Try reading with a happy voice. 😉

              that’s 1000+ years of potential change that we have no way of disproving.

              What if that’s not the point?

              “Oh, but it’s not exactly what that person said!”

              So what? Taking sentences out of context is bad interpretation anyway, especially if we aren’t reading the original language with the original cultural context (again, which was over 2 thousand years ago).

              You’re arguing for the letter of the law, I’m arguing for the spirit.

  • @[email protected]
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    234 days ago

    Threw it into some shitty online ai translator since google translate doesn’t support aramaic and used the same one to translate it back. Here’s what it spit out (no formatting because fuck you I don’t want to)

    Once someone told me, the world is destined to turn, I am not wise in stone tools. She appeared foolish, with her finger pointing to a ‘L’ on her forehead. Yet the years begin to come and do not halt, consumed by rules while I run from the land. It makes no sense to live in pleasure, how can a wise man emerge when your head is in folly? There is so much to do, so much to see; what is wrong with traveling inner paths? You won’t know if you don’t go, you won’t shine if you don’t take care. Be now, you are a star. Sit in your game, go play. Be now, you are a rock star. Bring the show, receive a reward. All that glistens is gold, only falling stars shatter the form. It is a fine place, and they say it will cool down; you are now wrapped, wait until you mature. But the mighty meteors think otherwise, according to the hole in the dualistic picture. The ice we slide on is very thin, the waters are enclosing and you must swim. My world is on fire; what about you? Thus, I love it and do not tire. Be now, you are a star. Sit in your game, go play. Be now, you are a rock star. Bring the show, receive a reward. All that glistens is gold, only falling stars shatter the form. (Go to the moon, go, go) (Go to the moon, go, go) (Go to the moon) (Go, go, go to the moon). Be now, you are a star. Sit in your game, go play. Be now, you are a rock star. Bring the show, receive a reward. And all that glistens is gold, only falling stars; someone once asked, ‘Can you leave me a bit of coal? I need to escape this place.’ I said, ‘Yes, what an idea, I need a bit of fuel.’ And we all need a little change. So, the years begin to come and do not stop, consumed by rules while I run from the land. It makes no sense to live in pleasure, how can a wise man emerge when your head is in folly? There is so much to do, so much to see; what is wrong with traveling inner paths? You won’t know if you don’t go (go!) you won’t shine if not…

  • @[email protected]
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    Fakeness aside, I like this part and feel like I need it on a poster or something:

    Behold now! You are entirely a star child!
    Begin your power! Go! Laugh!

  • Margot Robbie
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    And all that doth glimmer is gilded bright,

    Yet only blazing stars do rends moulds in flight.

  • @[email protected]
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    So I guess the least thing changed since then is how much we care about things shining and glowing, both physically and metaphorically.

  • @Lost_My_Mind
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    Behold! The years begin coming, and they do not cease from coming!

    Sounds like something Dr Weird would say if he ever had an evil plan that involved reciting poetry.

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      44 days ago

      “So Steve, what did you think of my poetry?”

      “Oh, ehrm, well Dr. Weird, it was uh…”

      “Haha, you fool, it was bad on purpose, and I’ll waste so many people’s time with it at the open mic next week. mwawhaha”

  • @Gradually_Adjusting
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    54 days ago

    the streets of the backside

    Appallingly good translation there

  • Bunnylux
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    -114 days ago

    Also why are people falling for this lol it’s actually kind of racist, like, look how archaic the Arabic language is! Like… No? A regular translation would just yield regular language… And then… Regular modern vernacular when translated back… people be fuckin stupid.

    • @[email protected]
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      >thinks Aramaic is the same as Arabic

      I hate it when I accidentally do a racism when accusing others of doing racism

      • Bunnylux
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        -54 days ago

        Ah, I read incorrectly my mistake. Still fake as fuck tho.

        • @[email protected]
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          13 days ago

          It would take like 10 times the effort to fake it than it would to just find an Aramaic translator.

    • @krashmo
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      74 days ago

      Aramaic is an ancient language used by some Middle Eastern cultures which reached its peak usage during the height of the Roman Empire. It is not the modern Arabic language.