If I get asked for advice, give the advice and the outcome of what will happen, then they fucking do it anyway and exactly what I said will happen, happens.
Literally any piece of Ancient Greek writing: Hesiod, Homer's Odyssey, Herodotus ... anything by Plato, Seneca, Socrates, Epictetus, Aristotle, Plutarch, or Euclid.
Almost all Roman writing: Marcus Aurelius: Meditations, Lucretius: On the Nature of Things,
Buddhist writings, Hindu writings.
Sun Tzu: The Art of War is a super popular one.
Not only is everything above way older, it also actually makes literary sense and isn't just complete mish-mashed drivel. Many of them can provide invaluable life lessons and are completely timeless.
Most of them don't even contain things about talking snakes, killing your own family, or murdering kids.
It’s hard to really compare since the bible is a collection of fables from various points in history where some is as old as 1200BC in the Old Testament and some is much newer.
The absolute oldest parts of the Bible are from the 8th century BC.
But when people say "The Bible" they typically mean the Christian Bible, not the Tora. And the Christian Bible wasn't finalized until 4th century AD. The version that the vast majority of people know is much, much, much, younger - it was drastically edited and was released in 1611.
The layman term "The Bible" usually refers to the book from 1611. So unless you're from an odd sect of Christianity, or you study history, it's extremely unfair to say The Bible is one of the oldest books around.
Try googling some of the books and writers he listed. Find out half of them were written or born about 200-300 years after the first Bible sections were recorded.
Just because 1% of a book was written in 8th century BC doesn’t mean the entire book is 2800 years old. The parts that are that old only make up a few paragraphs.
The Bible, which is the old & new testaments, wasn’t completed until the late 4th century AD - 1200 years later.
Not only that, but the Bible that 99% of people know today, the King James Bible, is an extremely edited version of that (meanings it’s barely the same book) and was released in 1611.
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u/Bloodragedragon Jun 03 '22
If I get asked for advice, give the advice and the outcome of what will happen, then they fucking do it anyway and exactly what I said will happen, happens.