Let Us Build Us a City

In our ongoing translation project we've finally reached out of those big long chapters of pretty much names and not much else. In fact, we've reached two of them. As tempting as it is to skip them entirely, that's the sort of thing liable to get one excommunicated, and besides, poor old Dan put a lot of effort into finding transliterations for some of these names.

Since the random number generator can't be relied upon to give me anything but names to make graphics of, I've just gone and picked the ones that I thought were more viable and ran the randomiser on them. Believe me, this is a better option for everyone involved.

Beginnings 10

 1 Now these are the families of the sons of the man who built the water car, the first son, the second son, and the third son: and to them were sons made after the lots of water.

 2 The sons of the third son; "Go More", and "More God", and "Mad Eye", and "Yeah Fun", and "Two Ball", and "Miss Each", and "Tire As".

 3 And the sons of "Go More"; "Ask An As", and "Rest Have", and "To Go Mark".

 4 And the sons of "Yeah Fun"; "Else Sigh Share", and "Tea hard ships", "Kid Team", and "Do day him".

 5 By these were the lands all around with water of the people who were not from God's chosen people; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their lands.

 6 And the sons of the second son; "Kiss", and "Miss Rain", and "Foot", and "Can In".

 7 And the sons of "Kiss"; "See Bar", and "Have All Are", and "Sad Tire", and "Run Are", and "Sad Take Are": and the sons of "Run Are"; "She Bar", and "Dead An".

 8 And "Kiss" had "Name Road": he began to be a great one in the world.

Picture modified from photo by publicdomainpictures.net user Vera Kratochvil

 9 He was great at killing animals before the god: where for it is said, Even as "Name Road" the great at killing animals guy before the god.

 10 And the beginning of his land was "Buy Ball", and "Ear Rock", and "are Card", and "Call Near", in the land of "She Near".

 11 Out of that land went forward "As Her", and built "New Never", and the city "Red How Box", and "Call Are",

 12 And "Resting" between "New Never" and "Call Are": the same is a great city.

 13 And "Miss Rain" had "Loud in", and "An Am In", and "Lean Have In", and "Nod Foot Are Him",

 14 And "Pass Rush Him", and "Cat Shoe Him", (out of who came "Fill Is Them",) and "Cat Or Him".

 15 And "Can An" had "Seat On" his first son, and "He Is",

 16 And the "Job Us Sight", and the "Am All Right", and the "Guy Guy Sight",

 17 And the "He Fight", and the "Are Cry It", and the "Seen Night",

 18 And the "Are Fact Eyed", and the "Seem All Right", and the "Him At Hide": and later were the families of the sons of "Can An" found across the world.

 19 And the edge of the land of the sons of "Can an" was from "Side On", as you come to "Chair Are", to "Guys Are"; as you go, to "Sold Home", and "Go More Are", and "Add More", and "See Bore Him", even to "Last ha".

 20 These are the sons of the second son, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, and in their lands.

 21 To "Slam" also, the father of all the children of "He Bar", the brother of "Wrap Lets" the older, even to him were children given.

 22 The children of the first son; "He Land", and "As Her", and "Are Facts Sad", and "Led", and "Are Am".

 23 And the children of "Are Am"; "Us", and "Hall", and "Get Her", and "Mays".

 24 And "Are Facts Sad" had "Sir Laugh"; and "Sir Laugh" had "He Bar".

 25 And to "He Bar" were given two sons: the name of one was "Pair Leg"; for in his days was the world shared; and his brother's name was "Joked An".

 26 And "Joked An" had "All Mad Add", and "She Left", and "Has Arm Have Is", and "Goer Are",

 27 And "Had Or Am", and "Ours All", and "Drink Laugh",

 28 And "Oh Ball", and "A Be May All", and "She Bar",

 29 And "Off Here", and "Have A Laugh", and "Job Add": all these were the sons of "Joked An".

 30 And their land was from "Me Share", as you go to "See Far" a large rock place of the place on the right of a picture of places.

 31 These are the sons of the first son, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their lands.

 32 These are the families of the sons of the man who made, after their families, in their lands: and by these were the lands set out in the world after the lots of water.

Beginnings 11

 1 And the whole world was of one way of using words, and of one tongue.

 2 And it came to pass, as they went from the place on the right of a picture of places, that they found a even land in the land of "She Near"; and they lived there.

Picture modified from photo by Flickr user dynamosquito used under CC BY_SA 2.0 license

3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make rock boxes, and burn them well. And they had rock boxes for rock, and not clean water had they for sticking the rock boxes together.

 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tall house, which has a top may reach to the sky; and let us make us a name, in case we are sent away across the face of the whole world.

 5 And the god came down to see the city and the tall house, which the children of men built.

 6 And the god said, Check it out, the people is one, and they have all one tongue; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be held back from them, which they have imagined to do.

 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confuse their way of using words, that they may not understand one each other one's tongue.

 8 So the god sent them away from there upon the face of all the world: and they left off to build the city.

 9 For this reason is the name of it called "By Ball"; because the god did there confuse the way of using words of all the world: and from there did the god send them away upon the face of all the world.

 10 These are the children of "Slam": "Slam" was an hundred years old, and had "Are Facts Sad" two years after the lot of water:

 11 And "Slam" lived after he had "Are Facts Sad" five hundred years, and had sons and daughters.

 12 And "Are Facts Sad" lived five and three tens of years, and had "Sir Laugh":

 13 And "Are Facts Sad" lived after he had "Sir Laugh" four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters.

 14 And "Sir Laugh" lived three tens of years, and had "He Bar":

 15 And "Sir Laugh" lived after he had "He Bar" four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters.

 16 And "He Bar" lived four and three tens of years, and had "Pair Leg":

 17 And "He Bar" lived after he had "Pair Leg" four hundred and three tens of years, and had sons and daughters.

 18 And "Pair Leg" lived three tens of years, and had "Real":

 19 And "Pair Leg" lived after he had "Real" two hundred and ten less one years, and had sons and daughters.

 20 And "Real" lived two and three tens of years, and had "Shrug":

 21 And "Real" lived after he had "Shrug" two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters.

 22 And "Shrug" lived three tens of years, and had "Near Or":

 23 And "Shrug" lived after he had "Near Or" two hundred years, and had sons and daughters.

 24 And "Near Or" lived one less than three tens of years, and had "Tear Are":

 25 And "Near Or" lived after he had "Tear Are" an hundred and twenty less one years, and had sons and daughters.

 26 And "Tear Are" lived seven tens of years, and had "A Bar Am", "Near Or", and "He Ran".

 27 Now these are the children of "Tear Are": "Tear Are" had "A Bar Am", "Near Or", and "He Ran"; and "He Ran" had "Lot".

 28 And "He Ran" died before his father "Tear Are" in the land where he started, in "Are" of the "Child He's".

 29 And "A Bar Am" and "Near Or" took themselves wives: the name of "A Bar Am's" wife was "Sir Eye"; and the name of the wife of "Near Or", "Mark Are", the daughter of "He Ran", the father of "Mark Are", and the father of "Is Car".

 30 But "Sir Eye" could not make children; she had no child.

 31 And "Tear Are" took "A Bar Am" his son, and Lot the son of "He Ran" his son's son, and "Sir Eye" his son's wife, his son "A Bar Am's" wife; and they went out with them from "Are" of the "Child He's", to go into the land of "Can  An"; and they came to "He Ran", and lived there.

 32 And the days of "Tear Are" were two hundred and five years: and "Tear Are" died in "He Ran".

Phew, on with the plot next week.

The Stick That Throws Sticks

It's Sunday, and that means it's time for another extract from the strangely compelling story that is the Up Goer God Book, our buddy Dan's translation of the King James Bible into the ten hundred most common words in the English language.

 1 And God wished good on the man who made the water car and his sons, and said to them, Be full of babies, and have children, and fill the land.

 2 And the fear of you and the great fear of you will be upon every animal of the world, and upon every flying animal of the air, upon all that moves upon the land, and upon all the water animals of the water; into your hand are they given. 

 3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you; even as the green tree thing you can eat have I given you all things. 

 4 But dead bodies with the life there of, which is the blood there of, will you not eat. 

 5 And for sure your blood of your lives will I need; at the hand of every animal will I need it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I need the life of man. 

 6 Who so drops man's blood, by man will his blood be dropped: for in the form of God made he man. 

 7 And you, be you full of babies, and have children; bring forward many in the world, and have children there in. 

 8 And God spoke to the man who built the water car, and to his sons with him, saying, 

 9 And I, check it out, I make my promise with you, and with your children after you; 

 10 And with every living animal that is with you, of the flying animal, of the food animal, and of every angry animal of the land with you; from all that go out of the water car, to every animal of the world. 

 11 And I will make my promise with you, no more will all bodies be cut off any more by the waters of a lot of water; and no more will there any more be a lot of water to break the world. 

 12 And God said, This is the sign of the promise which I make between me and you and every living animal that is with you, for as long as you have children: 

 13 I do set my stick that throws sticks with points in the water smoke in the sky, and it will be for a sign of a promise between me and the world.

 14 And it will come to pass, when I bring water smoke in the sky over the land, that the stick that throws sticks with points will be seen in the water smoke in the sky: 

 15 And I will remember my promise, which is between me and you and every living animal of all bodies; and the waters will no more become a lot of water to kill all bodies. 

 16 And the stick that throws sticks with points will be in the water smoke in the sky; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the not ending promise between God and every living animal of all bodies that is upon the world. 

 17 And God said to the man who made the water car, This is the sign of the promise, which I have made between me and all bodies that are upon the world. 

 18 And the sons of the man who made the water car, that went out of the water car, were "She Him", "Him", and "Jump Hairs": and the middle one who has a name that also means a sort of dead body from a food animal that rolls on the wet ground is the father of "Can an". 

 19 These are the three sons of the man who built the water car: and of them was all over the whole world. 

 20 And the man who made the water car began to be an person who makes food by growing things in the ground, and he grew a lot of food that makes a nice drink when it has gone bad: 

 21 And he drank of the nice drink made of bad food, and was off his face; and he was not wearing clothes within his house made of the same stuff as clothes. 

 22 And the middle son who had a name like the dead body from a food animal, the father of "Can an", saw the no clothes that were not on his father, and told his two brothers without. 

 23 And the other sons of the man who made the water car took a bit of clothes, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went back, and covered the no clothes body of their father; and their faces were not forward, and they saw not their father's no clothes. 

 24 And the man who made the water car woke after his good bad food drink, and knew what his younger son (which was actually his middle son) had done to him. 

 25 And he said, thrown down be "Can an"; a worker of their worker will he be to his brothers. 

 26 And he said, Good wishes be the god God of the first son; and "Can an" will be his worker. 

 27 God will make the other son big, and he will live in the houses made of clothes of the first son; and "Can an" will be his worker. 

 28 And the no clothes, good bad food drink drinking man who made the water car lived after the lots of water three and a half hundred years. 

 29 And all the days of him were half of a hundred less than ten hundred years: and he died.

Blaugust Writing Prompts

1) Tell us about a friend of yours that's a lot more talented than you are.

2) What do you think about when you see rainbows?

3) What do you do to relax on weekends?

No Rest for the Bottom of her Foot

I barely survived writing my own blog this week, so naturally the time and dedication that I was able to put into reading and commenting on other people's was a lot more limited than I'd been hoping. I still did a little, though, so this here's my weekly highlight reel, followed by the usual Sunday shenanigans.

Here's my highlights from the second week of Blaugust 2016:

Blaugust Prime: Luvapuzzle

Unbenownst to me, my darling mother has been posting daily on the internal workings of cryptic crosswords, explaining all the tools in the crossword compilers kit and giving us all hints on how to solve them. If any of you have ever wanted to give them a try some time, this is as good a beginner's guide as I've ever seen, and now that we're getting into some good stuff listing abbreviations, even people with a few cryptics under their belt like myself are wont to learn something.

I'm mostly just chuffed that my dear old mum has got in on the Blaugust act. Reading her blog is one of my great pleasures in life, as she writes just like she talks, and it's almost like being there sharing a cup of tea and a crossword. Bliss. Presumably it won't have exactly the same effect on those of you not crippled by homelessness, but I'm sure that you can get something out of it.

Blaugust East: The Ancient Gaming Noob

Wilhelm is one of the Blaugust stalwarts, and has posted daily in each interation of Blaugust East as well as an awful lot besides. He's one of those stalwart types that just irritate you with how damn reliable they are. Prolific, that's the word.

Each time I read one of his posts about EVE online I get urges to install the game, even though I am certain without a shadow of a doubt that it's not the sort of game I'd enjoy. He writes excellent propaganda and I love allowing myself to be carried off in the flow of it. I also love the screenshots, but know that if I could ever get the thing to run on my machine it wouldn't look quite that nice.

Blaugust MTBOS: Kelly O'Shea

My MTBoS blog for this week isn't actually from someone who's participating in Blaugust, and it's from quite a while ago, but this post from 2012 is still inspiring those maths teacher folks to try out different teaching methods in the classroom, and I've seen it linked a couple of times in MTBoS discussions this week.

I have to say this mistake game seems fascinating, I want to be back at school just to participate! Once again I find myself just wishing that many of my teachers had the dedication to their craft that these twitter maths peeps do. I liked many of my teachers and appreciated their effort, but I am certain that my peers and I would have been more engaged in learning back at school if some of these more elaborate methods had been at least tried on us.

And then on to the main event. The Up-Goer God Book is my nemesis Dan's project to translate the King James Bible into onto the ten hundred most common English words. I help by making graphics based on public domain art of randomly selected verses:

Beginnings 8

1 And God remembered the man who made the water car, and every living thing, and all the food animals that were with him in the water car: and God made a wind to pass over the world, and the waters went down; 2 The water ways also of the deep and the windows of the place where God lives were stopped, and the rain from the sky was stopped;

 3 And the waters returned from off the land again: and after the end of a number of days as many and animals you used to be able keep in a ball the waters were gone. 4 And the water car rested in month seven, on day ten and seven of the month, upon the large rock place called "Are are at". 5 And the waters went down again until month ten: in the month ten, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the large rock places you can climb seen. 6 And it came to pass at the end of four tens of days, that the man who made the water car opened the window of the water car which he had made: 7 And he sent out a black flying animal, which went forward here and there, until the waters were dried up from off the land. 8 Also he sent out a white flying animal from him, to see if the waters were gone from off the face of the ground; 9 But the white flying animal found no rest for the bottom of her foot, and she returned to him into the water car, for the waters were on the face of the whole world: then he put out his hand, and took her, and pulled her in to him into the water car.  10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent out the white flying animal out of the water car; 11 And the white flying animal came in to him in the night; and, check it out, in her mouth was one of the leaves of a tree that grows food which is also a colour sometimes used to talk about skin, which it had picked: so the man who made the water car knew that the waters were gone from off the world. 12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent out the white flying animal; which returned not again to him any more. 13 And it came to pass in the year six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the land: and the man who made the water car took off the covering of the water car, and looked, and, check it out, the face of the ground was dry. 14 And in the second month, on the day seven and two tens of the month, was the land dried. 15 And God spoke to the man who made the water car, saying, 16 Go out of the water car, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you, of all kinds, both of flying animal, and of food animal, and of every quietly moving thing that moves quietly upon the land; that they may have children lots in the world, and be full of babies, and have children upon the land.

 18 And the man who made the water car went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives with him: 19 Every animal, every quietly moving animal, and every flying animal, and what so ever moves quietly upon the land, after their kinds, went out out of the water car. 20 And the man who made the water car made a table to the god; and took of every clean animal, and of every clean flying animal, and offered burnt bodies on the table. 21 And the god smelled a sweet smell of burning bodies; and the god said in his heart, I will not again throw down the ground any more for man's reason; for the thoughts of man's heart is bad from his child time; also not again will I again kill any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the world remains, the time to put trees in the ground and the time to take the food from the trees, and cold and hot, and summer and not summer, and day and night will not stop.

Blaugust Writing Prompts
1) Have you discovered anything new and exciting this Blaugust?
2) Seen any good motivation posters lately?
3) Hypothetically speaking, if you could 'accidentally' not save a species from extinction if it were your job to save them all, which would you pick?

The High Ground Places You Climb Were Covered

It's been a big first week...

I feel like Blaugust has taken a lot of effort for me this week, but I also feel like I really got into the swing of it a couple of times and produced some writing that I'm actually pretty pleased with. I've been able to spread my writing a little bit more widely outside of the small group of people that I normally share my online rantings, something that I don't always feel comfortable doing, and have been really encouraged by some of those responses. More importantly, I feel full of enthusiasm to tackle the second week of the challenge that is Blaugust, and enthusiasm is definitely a currency that I'll need to make it through.

As much as I've enjoyed challenging myself and pushing my own boundaries in Blaugust, with some limited success, it's by not means the only or even the best thing about the festival. The best part is undoubtedly being able to enjoy all the good stuff being created by the other Blagustines. As always I've loved getting inside of the heads of some of my friends from home, participating in what I've always thought of as 'Blaugust Prime', but I've also really enjoyed getting alongside some participants in the 'other' two Blaugusts (we're all one big happy family, really), both the MMO gaming community that I think of as 'Blaugust East' and the twitter-based maths teaching group that is #MTBoSBlaugust.

Here's my highlights from the first week of Blaugust 2016:

Blaugust Prime: Conntent

I've followed Connell's art for a long time. When we first met he was 'the Club', the heart and substance of the AUVGA club that I joined at the end of high school. It's a community that I've always valued, and people I met through the club have been partners in some of the most important times in my life, but apart from a few moments here and there, it's always been a group that generally meets on a pretty superficial level, to play games and to forget about the world.

Connell opened our Blaugust with a bang, with a heartfelt post about some of his struggles with depression and how he has to work to keep that particular enemy on the back foot. I'm grateful that from day 1 he set that sort of tone, to help set a standard that we can all be honest, open, and supportive of one another and not be afraid of posting important stuff, both because my Blaugust family are some of my greatest friends and I love hearing about the aspects of their lives that I wouldn't normally have cause to think about in a regular conversation. My own posts have been a little impersonal, but the call to be open is something I hope to come a little closer to answering over the month.

That, and his posts are interspersed with the daily cartoons that are childishly beautiful. I love them, that's all I have to say about that.

Blaugust East: Aywren

What's attracted me to the whole #blaugust scene is the impressive sense of community that the MMO guys have managed to produce. I think there's probably something about the dedication of the kind of people that are attracted to MMOs that causes them to write detailed posts, the take beautiful screenshots and just think more deeply about their games of choice than most other bloggers you see out there.

Two of Aywren's posts have stood out for me this week. The one I've linked about, in which she describes the sense of listlessness that can arise when you've played a game out almost completely, is a good post in and of itself, but what makes it great is the conversation in the comments and the willingness of all the participants to engage and help each other through tight scrapes. The other standout was this one about a little not-so-friendly meta-gaming vendetta, which was just made me giggle.

Blaugust MTBOS: Prime Factorisation

One of the pleasant surprises this year was finding out that the Maths teaching twitter guys are in on the action this Blaugust too. While I mostly find their enthusiasm for laminating slips of brightly-coloured paper a little bewildering, it's great to see a community that are keen to pool resources, help and encourage one another, and more importantly are doing something really important, teaching kids maths (they'd say math, but...no), which puts me typing all these words about board games to shame.

It helps that this particular maths teacher happens to be one of my cousins and another one of the kindred spirits that I've been thinking about so much this week, now off living his new life in the US. I sometimes wonder if my life would be like his if I were just a little bit smarter and had gone into teaching, but it's just nice to see what he's up to and to feel another little thing in common with him with the distance between us.

I leave you today with the traditional weekly passage from the Up Goer God book, an experimental attempt to rewrite the King James Bible using only the most common ten hundred words in the English language.

Beginnings 7

1 And the god said to the man who made the water car, Come you and all your house into the water car; for you have I seen good before me in this age of people.

2 Of every clean animal you will take to you by sevens, the boy and his girl: and of animals that are not clean by two, the boy and his girl.

3 Of flying animals also of the air by sevens, the boy and the girl; to keep babies living upon the face of all the world.

4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the world four tens of days and four tens of nights; and every living thing that I have made will I take from off the face of the world.

5 And the man who made the water car followed all that the god told him.

Photo from Thomas Leuthard used under Creative Commons 2.0

6 And he was six hundred years old when the lots of water was upon the world.

7 And he went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives with him, into the water car, because of the lots of water.

8 Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of flying animals, and of every thing that moves quietly upon the world,

9 There went in two and two to him into the water car, the boy and the girl, as God had told the man who made the water car.

10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the lots of water were upon the world.

11 In the year six hundred of the man who made the water car's life, in the second month, day seven and ten day of the month, the same day were all the water ways of the great deep broken up, and the windows of the place where God lives were opened.

12 And the rain was upon the world four tens of days and four tens of nights.

13 In the same day entered the man who made the water car, and his first son, and his second son, and his third son, the sons of him, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the water car;

14 They, and every animal after his kind, and all the food animals after their kind, and every quietly moving thing that moves quietly upon the world after his kind, and every flying animal after his kind, every flying animal of every sort.

15 And they went in to him into the water car, two and two of all kinds, where in is the breath of life.

16 And they that went in, went in boy and girl of all kinds, as God had told him: and the god shut him in.

17 And the lots of water was four tens of days upon the world; and the waters went up, and carried up the water car, and it was lift up above the world.

18 And the waters continued, and were raised a lot upon the world; and the water car went upon the face of the waters.

19 And the waters continued a lot upon the world; and all the high ground places you climb, that were under the whole sky, were covered.

20 Five and ten fingers to arm joins up did the waters continue; and the high ground places you climb were covered.

21 And all bodies died that moved upon the world, both of flying animal, and of food animal, and of animal, and of every quietly moving thing that moves quietly upon the world, and every man:

22 All in all those who had in their noses the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

23 And every living thing was killed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and food animal, and the quietly moving things, and the flying animal of the sky; and they were taken from the world: and the man who made the water car only remained living, and they that were with him in the water car.

24 And the waters continued upon the world for as many days as there used to be animals that you could keep in balls in the small-computer game named after those animals and the color red or blue (if you ignore the one you could not find without breaking the game).

Blaugust Writing Prompts
1) What have been your favourite Blaugust posts so far?
2) What do you really want to write about but can't work out how to frame?
3) What subject do you love that seems to be reader poison?

To Break All Bodies

With Blaugust starting tomorrow, it seems appropriate to fall back on an old Leaflocker standard (read: I like it but it’s reader poison) and present the next part of the Up Goer God Book, the ongoing project of my good friend PsephologyKid to translate the King James Bible into the ten hundred most common words in the English language; for the lols. Since the original release of the first five chapters of the Book last year, Randall Munroe has made a considerably nicer word list that he used for his book Thing Explainer available, so I’ve done a little sprucing up to make chapter 6 TE-compatible.

As always, making the devotional cards for this has been a blast. I let the random number generator pick a verse for me to attempt to illustrate, and also just picked a couple manually because the random number generator just can’t be trusted to pick the best ones and I’m not under the Blaugust content pump just yet.

1 And it came to pass, when men began to have children on the face of the world, and daughters were formed by them,

2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were hot; and they took them wives of all which they wanted.

 3 And the god said, My mind will not always work with man, for that he also has body: yet his days will be an hundred and twenty years.

 4 There were big people in the world in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they formed children with them, the same became strong men which were of old, men well known.

 5 And God saw that the bad wants of man was great in the world, and that every idea of the thoughts of his heart was always bad.

 6 And it made the god sorry that he had made man on the world, and it made him sad at his heart.

 7 And the god said, I will kill man who I have made from the face of the world; both man, and animals, and the quietly moving thing, and the flying animals of the air; for it makes me sorry that I have made them.

 8 But "No are" was found good in the eyes of the god.

 9 These are the children of him: he was a just man and perfect in his children, and he walked with God.

 10 And he formed three sons, "Share Him", "Him", and "Jump Hairs".

 11 The world also was not good before God, and the world was filled with hurting each other.

 12 And God looked upon the world, and, check it out, it was not good; for all the bodies had broken his way upon the world.

 13 And God said to "No are", the end of all bodies is come before me; for the world is filled with hurting each other through them; and, check it out, I will kill them with the world.

 14 Make a water car of wood named like a ground breaking animal; rooms will you make in the water car, and will paint it within and without with black old dead tree water.

 15 And this is how big you will make it: The long side of the water car will be three hundred fingers to arm joins, the wide side of it five ten fingers to arm joins, and the tall side of it three ten fingers to arm joins.

 16 A window will you make to the water car, and in a fingers to arm joins will you finish it above; and the door of the water car will you set in the side there of; with lower, second, and third stories will you make it.

 17 And, check it out, I, even I, do bring a lot of waters upon the world, to break all bodies, where in is the breath of life, from under the place I like; and every thing that is in the world will die.

 18 But with you will I make my promise; and you will come into the water car, you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

 19 And of every living thing with bodies, two of every sort will you bring into the water car, to keep them living with you; they will be boy and girl.

 20 Of flying animals after their kind, and of food animals after their kind, of every quietly moving thing of the land after his kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them living.

 21 And take you to yourself of all food that is eaten, and you will bring it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.

 22 In this way did the water car man; following all that God told him to do, so did he.

See, you can turn almost anything into moderately acceptable blog content, it seems, it's easy! I’d love for you to join me over the next month joyful communal blogging. Pick a pace that you think might work and get typing. It’ll be fun, I promise. Catch you tomorrow for the beginning of Blaugust. Same bat time, same bat channel.

Blaugust 30/31: Children of "A damn"

This post is our penultimate contribution for Blaugust. I think it speaks for itself.

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 1 This is the book of the line of children of "A damn". In the day that God made man, in the form of God made he him;
 2 Man and woman made he them; and wished them well, and called their name "A damn", in the day when they were made.

 3 And "A damn" lived an hundred and three ten years, and had a son in his own form, and after his looks; and called his name "Set":
 4 And the days of "A damn" after he had "Set" were two lots of four-hundred years: and he had sons and daughters:
 5 And all the days that "A damn" lived were three lots of three hundred and ten years: and he died.
 6 And "Set" lived an hundred and five years, and had "He nos":
 7 And "Set" lived after he had "He nos" three lots of two hundred six tens and one years, and had sons and daughters:
 8 And all the days of "Set" were one less than twenty lots of three lots of two lots of two lots of two lots of two years: and he died.
 9 And "He nos" lived ten less than a hundred years, and had "Can an":
 10 And "He nos" lived after he had "Can an" a number of years that is also the number of the flying car from "Lost", and had sons and daughters:
 11 And all the days of "He nos" were a number of years which is the name of a song on The Who's "Who Are You": and he died.
 12 And "Can an" lived seven tens of years and had "Mad hall all hell":
 13 And "Can an" lived after he had "Mad hall all hell" a number of years two times that of a number used to mean burning and breathing not allowed leaves that make people feel relaxed, and had sons and daughters:
 14 And all the days of "Can an" were twenty and six lots of three tens and five years: and he died.
 15 And "Mad hall all hell" lived a number of years that is the lowest number that is also how big the long sides are on more than two right cornered three-sided forms with all sides whole numbers, and had "Go red":
 16 And "Mad hall all hell" lived after he had "Go red" ten years less than "Can an" lived after he had "Mad hall all hell", and had sons and daughters:
 17 And all the days of "Mad hall all hell" were one hundred and four twenties less one lots of five years: and he died.
 18 And "Go red" lived two times three to the power of four years, and he had "He knock":
 19 And "Go red" lived after he had "He knock" two less than ten hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
 20 And all the days of "Go red" were six times all smaller whole numbers and two lots of five times all smaller numbers and two years: and he died.
 21 And "He knock" lived the number of years "Mad hall all hell" lived before he had "Go red", and had "Me truth hell ah":
 22 And "He knock" walked with God after he had "Me truth hell ah" three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
 23 And all the days of "He knock" were the number of days in a year years:
 24 And "He knock" walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
 25 And "Me truth hell ah" lived a number of years that is also a number used to mean killing a person, and had "Lie met".
 26 And "Me truth hell ah" lived after he had "Lie met" two years less than the first seven numbers each to the power of three, and had sons and daughters:
 27 And all the days of "Me truth hell ah" were three tens and one less than ten hundred years: and he died.
 28 And "Lie met" lived as long as his father lived after "Lie met" was made, and had a son:
 29 And he called his name "No ah", saying, This same will relax us concerning our work and struggle of our hands, because of the ground which the god hath damned.
 30 And "Lie met" lived after he had "No ah" three ten and five lots of ten and seven years, and had sons and daughters:
 31 And all the days of "Lie met" were seven hundred seven ten and seven years: and he died.
 32 And "No ah" was five hundred years old: and "No ah" had "She him", "Him", and "Jump hairs".

Blaugust 23/31: Can was a worker of the ground

It's day 23 of Blaugust! The home straight is in sight!

 

The game we play on Sunday is the sharing of the on-going epic work that is The Up Goer God Book. We rejoin the story with "The Book of the Beginning of the World, Part 4".

 

1 And "A damn" knew "Even" his wife; and she made a baby, and carried "Can", and said, I have gotten a man from the god.
2 And she again carried his brother "Able". And "Able" was a man who looked after clothes animals, but "Can" was a worker of the ground.
3 And in way of time it came to pass, that the ground worker brought of the food of the ground an offering to the god.
4 And the animal worker, he also brought of the first young of his animal group and of the burning body parts there of. And the god had a liking to the animal worker and to his offering:
5 But to the ground worker and to his offering he had no liking. And the ground worker was very angry, and his face fell.
6 And the god said to the ground worker, Why art you angry? and why is your face fallen?
7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? and if you do not well, bad lies at the door. And to you will be his wants, and you will be in control over him.
8 And the ground worker talked with the animal worker his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that the ground worker rose up against the animal worker his brother, and killed him.
9 And the god said to the ground worker, Where is the animal worker your brother? And he said, I know not: Am I the man who looks after my brother?
10 And he said, What hast you done? the voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
11 And now art you damned from the world, which hath opened her mouth to take your brother's blood from your hand;
12 When you work the ground, it will not here forward give to your her power; a run away and a man with no home will you be in the world.
13 And the man with no home said to the god, My trouble is greater than I can deal with.

14 Check it out, you hast driven me out this day from the face of the world; and from your face will I be hid; and I will be a run away and a man with no home in the world; and it will come to pass, that every one that finds me will kill me.
15 And the god said to him, For this reason who so ever kills the man with no home , pay back will be taken on him seven times. And the god set a mark upon the man with no home , in case any finding him should kill him.
16 And the man with no home went out from the body space of the god, and lived in the land of "Nod", on the right of "Eat an".
17 And the man with no home knew his wife; and she made a baby, and carried "He knock": and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, "He knock".
18 And to "He knock" was made "Eye red": and "Eye red" had "Me who girl": and "Me who girl" had "Me truth a hell": and "Me truth a hell" had "Lie met".
19 And "Lie met" took to him two wives: the name of the one was "A dear", and the name of the other "See ah".
20 And "A dear" carried "Job ball": he was the father of such as live in clothes card houses, and of such as have food animals.
21 And his brother's name was "Just ball": he was the father of all such as handle the music thing with soft sticks you rub and the music thing that you hit the key and it puts sound in the big empty sticks.
22 And "See ah", she also carried "Two ball can", a person who told other people how to make things out of hard water you burn out of rocks which are either blonde and made by missing red and a little bit of grey rock water, or a more used grey rock water: and the sister of "Two ball can" was "Now mum".
23 And the man with two wives said to his wives, the mother of the music people and the mother of the hard rock water people, Hear my voice; you wives of the man with two wives, listen to my words: for I have killed a man to my cutting, and a young man to my hurt.
24 If the man with no home will be payed back seven times, the man with no home for sure seven tens and seven times.
25 And the man who lost a side stick knew his wife again; and she carried a son, and called his name "Set": For God, said she, hath sorted out another child for me instead of the animal worker, who the man with no home killed.
26 And the third son, to him also there was made a son; and he called his name "He nos": then began men to call upon the name of the god.

This has always been a troubling passage for me, since it seems monumentally unfair for the God god to prefer one type of offering to another given that he hadn't given the poor guys any guidance. That they'd offered anything at all seems pretty good to me, but somehow Can's offering is just poorer than Able's and he gets a pretty raw deal out of the whole thing. As someone who generally gives lesser presents than others because I'm just not good at presents, lot because I have any less love for the person being celebrated, I empathise with Can. Not that I'm going to go kill my brother over it just yet, though, that seems like maybe taking the issue a little far. Besides, he could probably take me.

Anyways, I like what been done just the names here. I hope that you do too, dear reader, as there's lots more where that came from given that Chapter 5 is a genealogy. 

Spoilers: There are Pokemon in the bible now.