Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Ahahaha
The bet was for 30 undershirts so Samson got pissy and killed 30 Phillistines and stole their shirts to pay it
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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
I hope Sampson's riddle was messed up through multiple translations, but that makes no sense
Some scholar tried making it work as a sexual metaphor about semen, but that doesn't work either
And there's the idea of spontaneous generation of bees in there too, but the riddle makes no sense and it's very irritating
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Samson is the guy who breaks your TV chucking a controller through it because his dad works at Nintendo and it’s bullshit that you can beat him while he’s Oddjob
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I agree with all of that, but I also think there's something to the idea of a character not being able to solve a puzzle and finding a solution another way. For example Samson being too dumb to beat his opponent in a fair riddle contest and cheating (granted, he's smart enough to phrase his personal weird encounter in riddle language), or my personal favorite, Alexander the Great failing to untie the Gordian Knot, and just using his sword to "untangle" it.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
One of my favorite things about the Samson story is that the reason he couldn't cut his hair is because his mom promised an angel that he'd be a lifelong Nazirite. Nazirites were folks who took a vow not to drink wine, cut their hair, or touch dead people. And the conversation was basically
ANGEL: You're going to have a kid, and it's very important that he doesn't drink wine or cut his hair.
MOM: Or touch dead people, right? The whole Nazirite thing.
ANGEL: Super important that he doesn't drink wine or cut his hair.
Later theologians argued that the angel very specifically left out the prohibition against touching dead people, because God knew that this fool was going to spend a lot of time elbow-deep in very recently dead people.
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He just so clearly is too dumb to know how riddles work
What have I got in my pocket?
The bet was for 30 undershirts so Samson got pissy and killed 30 Phillistines and stole their shirts to pay it
Jesus
I actually almost cited that in my post, but that's intentionally dumb in a way that I'm not sure Samson's is supposed to be
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Yeah canonically he is very dumb. He doesnt clue into Delilah until the very end
Samson was Biblical Superman and super ruled/was horrifying.
Some scholar tried making it work as a sexual metaphor about semen, but that doesn't work either
And there's the idea of spontaneous generation of bees in there too, but the riddle makes no sense and it's very irritating
ANGEL: You're going to have a kid, and it's very important that he doesn't drink wine or cut his hair.
MOM: Or touch dead people, right? The whole Nazirite thing.
ANGEL: Super important that he doesn't drink wine or cut his hair.
Later theologians argued that the angel very specifically left out the prohibition against touching dead people, because God knew that this fool was going to spend a lot of time elbow-deep in very recently dead people.