mleku on Nostr: i literally have been thinking about how i should sit and watch some video while my ...

i literally have been thinking about how i should sit and watch some video while my shoulder is so bunged up it's hard to type (have to carefully lift my arm gently to keyboard position)

i just confirmed as i suspected, that the trickery in mother rebecca encouraging jacob to deceive Isaac by bringing him a goat bbq dinner - in the Jasher version he doesn't wear any funny leather, he just says he's esau! still a lie tho

but i'm wondering if in fact the real story was simply that Isacc was so far towards losing his mind he just didn't remember or listen properly, probably half deaf, blind and poor memory all in one

because the rest of the whole story seems to be about esau's certainty that jacob "stole the blessing" and this led to bad luck somehow

in Jasher the story continues further and it is very clear that Jacob is not the kind of person who would engage in fraud knowingly, the way he defeats Esau's anger with kindness and generosity just doesn't seem like trickiness, and not only that, in Jasher it repeatedly says that Esau was a hairy redhead, and was tricky and conniving!

i forget which of Noah's sons was tricky and conniving but in Enoch he is also a redhead, and quite hairy

also, nothing to do with CO2 levels, these tall white skinned blonde/red haired humans with big heads (and brains, i assume) simply mastered science well before Adam and both genetics and medicine meant they were able to live for ~1200 years