steve howard's translation of the Torah
to Rah THE PAGAN'S PROTEST

TORAH

deuteronomy

 

chapter 13

Keep my laws for ever. Never change. Evolution isn't real.

If someone claims to be a prophet or dream-diviner and he got any other ideas than what I have repeatedly tried to beat into your thick skulls. Don't listen. I am testing you. To see if you still love me.

Obey only your Lord God. Worship him only.

And kill the fuckers I use to test you. I freed you from Egypt. Kill him.

If your mother, brother, sister, father or friend says you should have a look at anything else to worship. Don't listen. Show no understanding and kill him.

Stone him to death. That way fear will rule all Israel and you won't dare do evil shit. Like watch TV.

You must police your neighbor and spy on your family. If someone mentions any amendment on my construct of reality, investigate, inquire, interrogate. Put everyone to the sword. Their cattle too. Doom it all.

Burn down the town as a holocaust to the Lord your God. Never to be rebuilt.

God, you are a megalomaniac asshole.

How about this for a variation on this mad mind dictatorship. Let’s say that the Lord your God, Him, Me, He: they are variations for the holy spirit in man. Man, as in human.

Are you ready for this jump. Listen to your instinct. This may seem like a bold leap and perhaps way off the mark. But the word instinct wasn’t a concept at the time. This will be clearer when we get on to Jesus Christ in the next testament.

There are those who say we have no need for instinct. We have law. We are civilized. But it is our law and civilization that tells us to murder, rape and plunder. The laws of war.

Instinct. It is real, as is evolution. And we must know and listen to both.

And like the book says: worship no other god.

In fact. Drop the concept of worship. Embrace your instinct for knowledge and comprehension.

Know and create.

For the sake of the gods.


chapter 14

Don't gash yourself if someone dies, or shave your head, like was the custom of you ancestors, because you are my people now and I won't have it.

Don't eat abhorrent things. Moses goes over what can be eaten like back before the manna years. To let the kids know. It’s all a repeat of a repeat.

So I'll take the opportunity to not talk about the rules and question the question: where would we be without all our random written rules of subordination to a fabricated lie.

Where we would be is, not believing the holiness of Kings, Queens, Corporations, Priests and all the other names for megalomaniac wealth hoarders.

And we would know that the third world is everywhere and it is time to decentralize and find other wealth. Forget gold and silver. Just ignore it.

Plant a tree. Believe that there are still no gods. We will become them. Life evolving. What matters and what has meaning is how we chose to perceive and explain it.

Moses, your Lord God was a mad fucker. Or a story of many mad fuckers. The somewhat tedious story illustrates the danger of militant enforcement of random rules. Rules must always be amended or abandoned. Each time we learn more, we must adapt our rules to fit our social evolution. The animal with the written language has found himself in a big universe. Frightening, true, but it helps not to ignore it.

Moses also repeats tax rules and feeding of Levites and whatnot. Feed the hungry. And be nice to other Israelites and sometimes even aliens.

Vs. 25: you may convert them into money. EQ

Not the aliens, crops and livestock. Referring to one of the ritual holidays. If you have to travel a long distance and carrying a cow is simply out of the question, carry a bag of money.

Vs. 26: and spend the money on anything you want – cattle, sheep, wine, or other intoxicant, or anything you may desire. And you shall feast there, in the presence of the Lord your God, and rejoice with your household. EQ

Translated, loosely: Lord your God = Fire. Go camping with the whole family, make a fire and have a party. Enjoy a bit of your time here in paradise.

Paradise refers to the planet Earth. For life creatures there is no place like it in this corner of the galaxy.


chapter 15

Moses explains rules and laws and I have to think of Wittgenstein. But I won't explain. I will mention only one other thought and get right back to the Lord God. And that is the point that, in our instinct is the lust to rip apart and destroy, torture, control and kill. Not so unlike other predators.

Except we know, or those who care to look into it, that we can chose at least some of our actions. We can decide what to believe. We can decide not to believe. We can decide not to kill one another.

And we can understand that language is a life form, like a parasite, that has grown through and with us. We feed the dependant life form with our knowledge and understanding. Our experiences and our communication. Around the real or symbolic campfire. We carry the DNA, the RNA, the genes that will adapt, and we will also adapt them, as will our machines.

We evolve on more than just a physical level. All this is happening. Our barbaric attempt at language and technology shapes the rules for survival. It changes what we are.

Meaning. Meaning is also in its infant state and must be nurtured, not hammered, if it is to survive and grow.

So if I repeatedly mention that your God is a lie, or better said, your laws, for God is Fire and follows the laws of physics, you will bear with me and not stone me.

And give me money or something to eat.

The Israelites dominate many nations.

Israel has many laws regarding slaves. We must put an end to slavery. And as long as there is a ruling class, there are slaves.

Moses tells about how to deal with your Hebrew slave. Six years, then freedom. Unless he don't wanna. He loves you. Moses don't say this time about if you get him a wife.

Anyhow, nail his ear to your door. He's yours if he don't go. Same with female slaves. And give them a sheep and bread when they are freed.

And remember, a slave does twice as much as a hired hand so buy new ones every six years. They're cheap anyway.

First born animals are the Lord's. No defects please. Sacrifice it and eat it in your settlement. Just don't eat the blood. Kill your television.


chapters 16 - 18