The chinese written language has evidence that it was derived from biblical teaching. The character for forbidden consists of three symbols: tree (of knowledge), tree (of life) and command (from God). There are other similar occurances like this.
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You got your fundie ignorance in my Star Wars! You're defiling Darth Vader! You're debauching Chewbacca!
I WANT MY WOOKIEE BACK, YOU SON OF A BITCH!
Sorry, Zekey, but written Chinese predated the Bible by a great many centuries. The earlist examples consist of oracular sayings incised on tortoise shells and date to the 14th Century BCE. Pictographic writing achieved a degree of formal organization during the Zhou period, from the 11th to the 3rd Centuries BCE. You could have looked this up, but why bother when it's easier to just run your mouth?
I'd like to see your sources for the above statement. something tells me they're still covered in fecal matter.
"The chinese written language has evidence that it was derived from biblical teaching."
Prove it. Cite for us the scholarly, peer-reviewed papers which support that assertion.
I don't know if those 3 symbols make up the character for "forbidden," but even if they do, just because tere are 2 trees, that doesn't mean they are the tree of knowledge of good & evil and the tree of life, nor that the command symbol equals God. There are other tree and other commands, Zekey.
That, Zekey, is what people with weak agruments say when they have run out of ideas. Until you prove that your first assertion, I will have to disregard this final, sweeping assertion.
Old Viking (#269976) wrote:
“Sorry, Zekey, but written Chinese predated the Bible by a great many centuries.”
We have failed to appreciate Zekey’s amazing discovery: the Bible was originally written in Chinese!
How are we going to break this to Brother Randy? He believes that the Bible was written in 16th century English.
Two trees == forest == Forbidden Forest from Harry Potter
....therefre, Harry potter is the one true religon. ;p
Wow, nothing like an outrageous, easily falsifiable, logically impossible claim to set up credibility amongst your peers.
Oh wait, you were banking on the fact they were too stupid and xenophobic to check right?
FAIL!
This is sad and just...so ironic.
Because I'm in China right now, visiting my relatives. I a.) know Chinese and b.) asked said relatives.
They all say...you fucking fail.
Miserably.
I'm ashamed of you.
Of course, if I ask whether you can speak Chinese, whether you know that China is miles away the territory of the Bible and that they started writing long before the Bible was even thought of...........you'd probably say no.
That's what they call 'mining', or being on a 'fishing trip'. With a source material as big as the Chinese language, you are bound to find whatever you're trying to prove SOMEWHERE.
In the unlikely event that the connection exists, I'd bet the Chinese came first.
Actually, the character can be dissected into the words forest (the top) and direct, as in direct the way (the bottom).
So... God is directing us to be life negating people who live in the forest?
Another thing, almost every Chinese character in use looks a bit like 2 or more other characters combined anyway, and (as the forbidden character illustrates) the resulting may not have anything to do with the original word at all.
So fuck off.
/azn
Is that so? Let's see...
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Separately, that's "jin," "zhi," and "de."
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aetharmanas wrote:
"Chan wrote:
I WANT MY WOOKIEE BACK, YOU SON OF A BITCH!
Then my work here is done.
I'd like to take the credit for ye olde awesome links on page one.
The origins of words fascinates me. While I have next to zero knowledge of Chinese (did you know the USMC saying "Gung Ho" comes from the Chinese Communists, and means "Work together"), I do know how to do a google search. And when Mr. Zekey made the claim, 'I just gots to know' if it was true.
(now all I have to do is find out why it keeps deleting my name when I post.
H.H. or HawkerHurricane
"Four percent of Chinese characters are derived directly from individual pictograms (Chinese: ???; Pinyin: xiàngxíngzì), and in most of those cases the relationship is not necessarily clear to the modern reader. Of the remaining 96%, some are logical aggregates (Simplified Chinese: ???; Traditional Chinese: ???; Pinyin: huìyìzì), which are characters combined from multiple parts indicative of meaning. But most characters are pictophonetics (Simplified Chinese: ???; Traditional Chinese: ???; Pinyin: xíng-shengzì), characters containing two parts where one indicates a general category of meaning and the other the sound. The sound in such characters is often only approximate to the modern pronunciation because of changes over time and differences between source languages."
-Wikipedia , the Free Encyclopedia
Being a former Japanese student, that's the kind of bullshitting for Jeebus that makes me wish the Death by a Thousand Cuts to Zekey...
And as others pointed out, Xianity hardly has the monopoly on magical trees. Or does Zekey want to explain to the Vikings that they can't have Yggdrasil anymore? Just wait until the popcorn is ready, Zekey! :P
Being a former Japanese student, that's the kind of bullshitting for Jeebus that makes me wish the Death by a Thousand Cuts to Zekey...
And as others pointed out, Xianity hardly has the monopoly on magical trees. Or does Zekey want to explain to the Vikings that they can't have Yggdrasil anymore? Just wait until the popcorn is ready, Zekey! :P
I saw a bull walking along taking a shit the other day, I noticed after it had gone that the shit had landed in three neat steaming piles. Just like the holy trinity, three separate piles of shit but all still the one load of bullshit.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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