Comments on: What Happens When an Agnostic Follows the Bible Literally for One Year? http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/10/10/what-happens-when-an-agnostic-follows-the-bible-literally-for-one-year/ Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek and Lifestyle Design Blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:27:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: April http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/10/10/what-happens-when-an-agnostic-follows-the-bible-literally-for-one-year/comment-page-1/#comment-63849 April Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:58:10 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/10/10/what-happens-when-an-agnostic-follows-the-bible-literally-for-one-year/#comment-63849 That really spoke to me. I have a hard time expressing my views and I can REALLY relate to AJ. I grew up as a Mormon, which is a pretty traditional religion and I can totally relate. I'm agnostic now but I appreciate the value of many of the practices I learned growing up and hearing AJ articulate the changes he went through helps me understand why I have the views and feelings that I do. My practices help a very naturally freedom oriented individual like myself believe that I have responsibilities to others and a very natural skeptic like myself believe that there is something sacred about life. That is really cool. Thanks for posting that. That really spoke to me. I have a hard time expressing my views and I can REALLY relate to AJ. I grew up as a Mormon, which is a pretty traditional religion and I can totally relate. I’m agnostic now but I appreciate the value of many of the practices I learned growing up and hearing AJ articulate the changes he went through helps me understand why I have the views and feelings that I do. My practices help a very naturally freedom oriented individual like myself believe that I have responsibilities to others and a very natural skeptic like myself believe that there is something sacred about life.

That is really cool. Thanks for posting that.

]]> By: Personal Mythology: Using The Narrative Fallacy To Your Advantage « Skyler Tanner http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/10/10/what-happens-when-an-agnostic-follows-the-bible-literally-for-one-year/comment-page-1/#comment-53301 Personal Mythology: Using The Narrative Fallacy To Your Advantage « Skyler Tanner Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:59:54 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/10/10/what-happens-when-an-agnostic-follows-the-bible-literally-for-one-year/#comment-53301 [...] the result in a eupraxsophy. Why does an iron-clad set of rules and guidelines help us succeed? Because it eliminates choices that are superfluous and distracting. So from this you’re going to build your own mythic good book, preferably with negative rules [...] [...] the result in a eupraxsophy. Why does an iron-clad set of rules and guidelines help us succeed? Because it eliminates choices that are superfluous and distracting. So from this you’re going to build your own mythic good book, preferably with negative rules [...]

]]> By: lm http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/10/10/what-happens-when-an-agnostic-follows-the-bible-literally-for-one-year/comment-page-1/#comment-38789 lm Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:35:33 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/10/10/what-happens-when-an-agnostic-follows-the-bible-literally-for-one-year/#comment-38789 i loved your article, i always do, but i was wondering what all the simbols instead of I,s are if you have writen an article on this i would love to know which one it is and if not is it an experement? warmly LM i loved your article, i always do, but i was wondering what all the simbols instead of I,s are if you have writen an article on this i would love to know which one it is and if not is it an experement?

warmly

LM

]]> By: Chrisitan Church Pastor http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/10/10/what-happens-when-an-agnostic-follows-the-bible-literally-for-one-year/comment-page-1/#comment-36845 Chrisitan Church Pastor Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:33:07 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/10/10/what-happens-when-an-agnostic-follows-the-bible-literally-for-one-year/#comment-36845 He could have avoided a lot of trouble by studying the Bible before beginning his project. Hebrews, for example, would have shed a lot of light on the whole Old Testament law. Perhaps instead of becoming a strangely dressed oddball, he would have found that Christ fulfilled the moral law of God, making attempts at keeping oneself perfect are useless. He could have avoided a lot of trouble by studying the Bible before beginning his project. Hebrews, for example, would have shed a lot of light on the whole Old Testament law. Perhaps instead of becoming a strangely dressed oddball, he would have found that Christ fulfilled the moral law of God, making attempts at keeping oneself perfect are useless.

]]> By: Jay http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/10/10/what-happens-when-an-agnostic-follows-the-bible-literally-for-one-year/comment-page-1/#comment-31535 Jay Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:12:52 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/10/10/what-happens-when-an-agnostic-follows-the-bible-literally-for-one-year/#comment-31535 Ahavah wrote: "You know, that verse about not rounding the corners of your hair or cutting your beard? I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I did a linguistic analysis last semester of that passage and it doesn’t say that. It actually says something like “don’t make pilgrimages to the tombs of famous dead people, but don’t neglect the [nearby] graves of your elders.” As a rather Hebrew literate person, I determine that you're either exceptionally sick, or what you wrote was a megalomanic attempt at humor. Ahavah wrote:
“You know, that verse about not rounding the corners of your hair or cutting your beard? I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I did a linguistic analysis last semester of that passage and it doesn’t say that. It actually says something like “don’t make pilgrimages to the tombs of famous dead people, but don’t neglect the [nearby] graves of your elders.”

As a rather Hebrew literate person, I determine that you’re either exceptionally sick, or what you wrote was a megalomanic attempt at humor.

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