Mobile Bible brewed
Holy texts
PELEPHONE, ISRAEL’S mobile network operator, recently launched a new application allowing users to access the full text of the Old Testament, in Hebrew, on their mobile phones.
The application, which could come in useful when stuck in traffic praying to get to work on time, was developed on the Qualcomm's Brew platform by another Israeli company called Zed Mobile. It allows users to search through the bible book by book, by individual chapter or in its entirety.
The application seems to already be proving popular, with requests from customers that the company provide additional languages for the Bible service in the future. The company also says that a mobile version of the Qur'an will be available very shortly.
Pelephone is not the only mobile network which has attempted to inject a dose of spirituality into mobile technology. Verizon Wireless in the US allows its users to search its database for prayers and verses from six different faiths. Customers can also sign up for a daily SMS quote from the Bible, Dhammapada, Qur'an or Talmud. µ
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man made books
Taking into account its from an Israeli source and the Jews (no offence intended as this is admitted by rabbis and priests alike) have a tendency to change their own scriptures to meet their needs, whats the like-lihood that this is a reliable source?;)
Bible is mythology
It is becoming more and more widely accepted that the bible is basically a mythological text, as well as all other religious documents. That fact doesn't necessarily diminish their value to any "ordinary" religious person, but by shaking these dogmatic assertions that the bible is literally true, you can diminish or prevent the downright homicidal behavior of your typical "jesus freak".(Not just christians, but also cultists like scientologists who believe Ron Hubbard's stories were more than just bad fiction, or the Muslims who are ready to assassinate you for a comic about Muhammed).
Once we accept that this stuff is nothing more than mythology, it becomes a lot harder to murder people over it. For instance, nobody's going to murder you over an off-hand comment about the Golden Fleece or speaking doubtfully about the three little pigs. It's just a myth!
St. Pat's driving who out of London?
Prithee, Pray for me that me Ofcom Cash back check comes soon...Me Vauxhall 4x4 guzzle-banger saloon_ goes like a bomb _but runs tank goodness. Which is tout, because me needs it to tow me custom converted double-deck Routemaster caravan, which is classic compared to Bendy Bus. Anywho, me was let-out to get mustard fit, first and second leg, when me ran down a sleeping policeman, misappropriately, ran down a sleeping policeman. Me hates to break me duck in a pelican crossing, but needs to fettle it once and for all. See, me was about to give me winker a pull to do a turnout on the layby from Picadilly Circus roundabout tailback, when bollocks up! it's getting me copped for being in a clamping site. It's awefully hard to keep one's pecker up when being beset by a window licker, so me becomes pressurised to quids-in and drop a clanger for compulsory purchase a C-charge. Me needs to get sussed out a logjam, and get away from the greenzone CCZ blackhole. Me was only out for a wicked bitter half (wifebeater), mash liquor, and pud, and then to holiday down in lavely Luten. Me never intended to skive out like some chiselling little crook and then be on lam from "Sod-U-RedKen, the squeegee guy of President Hugo Chávez". Would you give way to road trolls, if you didn't know the TfL was about it? Me neither! So me wants my stash to stand for something, and me has to find the warden and tell him to stuff it! ₤8 or ₤25? What's the difference? Whatever tips up on any pubs on the strip, and a glossy posse in tow. The US Embassy don't play that song... Oh. Smile! We're on candid camera! We may as well have another brew for the road! Don't it say so in the holy books? Where's me damned phone?
AT adds: WTF?
Translation
Translation = "We're going to put the skitters in your Alan Whickers you plunker!"Nice Golden Fleece reference, Grunchy.