chapter 13

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

If someone claims to be a prophet or dream-deviner 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 fucker I used 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 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.

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. Someone else wrote it. And forgot someone else wrote it all already.

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. Maybe we could 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. That illustrates the danger of militant enforcement of random rules. They must always be amended. Each time we learn more, we must adapt out 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 whatnot.

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 also chose what to believe.

Language and knowledge are something like a life form, a parasite, that has grown through and with us. And what will soon happen, beyond us. We carry the DNA, the genes that will adapt, and we will also adapt them, as will our machines.

And we will evolve on more than just a physical level. All this is happening. Our barbaric attempt at language and technology shapes the rules for survival.

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, you will bear with me and not stone me.

And loan me money and never borrow from me.

For the Israelites will dominate many nations.

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 cheep 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.


chapters 16 - 18