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Watchers in unlikely places
Oct. 11th, 2006 08:49 amEver run across something so unexpected and unrelated to what you were doing (or supposed to be doing) that you just scratch your head in amazement?
That happened to me just now. I was on Perlmonks.org, but instead of reading the dry technical stuff like I should have been doing, I had gotten off on a side tangent and was happily downvoting some Perl poetry plagiarized by a couple of particularly egregious offenders. And in the course of this oh so work related pursuit, I ended up in a completely different thread, relating to how people picked their screen names for the monastary.
And a half hour reading down the thread, was the name "Enoch", and the ( wikipedia link )
And there, the contents of said book are laid out. First part of the Book of Enoch? "The Watchers." Just skimming it, it looks fascinating. Enoch, for those who care, was a son of Adam, one who walked with God and was taken bodily into heaven without having to experience death. So a "Book of Enoch" (if really by him-- whole Biblical Scholarship discussion there) would be incredibly old. Seems to deal with the fall of the Angels and how they sorted themselves after into camps.
I don't have time to read more now-- I really do have to get some work done today. As long as I'm here. But I offer it to the curious, (or, in glim's case, the unbeliveably bored.)
Hob
That happened to me just now. I was on Perlmonks.org, but instead of reading the dry technical stuff like I should have been doing, I had gotten off on a side tangent and was happily downvoting some Perl poetry plagiarized by a couple of particularly egregious offenders. And in the course of this oh so work related pursuit, I ended up in a completely different thread, relating to how people picked their screen names for the monastary.
And a half hour reading down the thread, was the name "Enoch", and the ( wikipedia link )
And there, the contents of said book are laid out. First part of the Book of Enoch? "The Watchers." Just skimming it, it looks fascinating. Enoch, for those who care, was a son of Adam, one who walked with God and was taken bodily into heaven without having to experience death. So a "Book of Enoch" (if really by him-- whole Biblical Scholarship discussion there) would be incredibly old. Seems to deal with the fall of the Angels and how they sorted themselves after into camps.
I don't have time to read more now-- I really do have to get some work done today. As long as I'm here. But I offer it to the curious, (or, in glim's case, the unbeliveably bored.)
Hob
