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Scott: Jk. But yeah, while I was debating on whether I should or not, I kinda just said in my head; “ya know what, if I don’t do this now, when the crap will I ever start.”
So I took your words to heart, drew up my courage, girded up my loins, and left the sticky note of love in The Hobbit.
woot
Ammon: Alright fine. But I’m pretty sure she’s not going to read the INSIDE COVER! I hope she finds it…
Oh, and never gird up your loins while you’re at work. That’s a disgusting mental image, never, ever do that to me again.
Seriously, where did that phrase come from? They’re in a loincloth, and they “GIRD up their loins”??? Ugh, that’s horrible. Maybe it was a cultural way of showing how manly… I’m not even going to go there.
But seriously, even if they were wearing animal skin pants, how do you gird up your loins? I’d like to see you try it. What a weird saying. Maybe they accidently wrote it in, and it turned into this huge prophet-historian joke for centuries. That would make the prophets a LOT cooler in my eyes.
Scott: Indeed. It would be something akin to saying nowadays “And behold, they hiked up their underpants… and went and preached unto the congregations”
Yep
Ammon: Super weird. Honestly, I wonder if the first guy who wrote it forgot to wear a belt to his preaching corner. He’s writing his account in the plates, late one night… his mind starts to wander as he accidently engraves the phrase… and now he had to lie to his generations and the rest of the Christian world about how that statement is metaphorical. What a shame.
This whole conversation is going on the quote blog tonight. J
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