1 Kings 1:1-4
King David was now an old man, and he always felt cold, even under a lot of blankets. His officials said, “Your Majesty, we will look for a young woman to take care of you. She can lie down beside you and keep you warm.” They looked everywhere in Israel until they found a very beautiful young woman named Abishag, who lived in the town of Shunem. They brought her to David, and she took care of him.
Discuss.
Nasty old pervert.
I’ve got to check to see if my long-term disability insurance provides for a benefit like that. If not, I’m changing plans.
This would be one way to increase Medicare benefits AND put young people – who are disproportionately underemployed – to work.
@2…I was thinking of calling Medicare tomorrow morning to check on this potential benefit.
@4
That service is not available in the gold or silver Medicare plans. It is not available in the Platinum plans.
It is only available in the Unobtainium plans, and you don’t have enough assets to qualify for one of those.
My take-away from this is that Biblical marriage is great if you are the king.
It is good to be the King, but it kind of sucks to be a young woman in David’s kingdom.
“She can lie down beside you and keep you warm.”
It’s definitely good to be king!
You humans are so jealous!
No, we merely know a good thing when we see it.
Humans are very adept at sharing ideas. We should encourage the sharing of good ones, like this one.
He’d be better off if they just threw another blanket over him. Blankets don’t give you backtalk. Anyone who thinks women don’t whine and fuss under the sheets has never been under
the sheets with a woman. That goes for female rabbits, too.
Oh shit, Mrs. Rabbit just woke up, I’m outta here! I just remembered I have an appointment in Oregon.
It’s the only thing the jews have ever gotten right… Bring on the young stuff!
You know… If the christofreaks can get out of covering contraception by hiding behind the bible… Maybe there is legal standing here…
Your honor… The bible clearly prescribes a young woman…
This bit of Scripture doesn’t seem to provide the slightest indication of what Abishag thought of the arrangement. Shunem might well have been the armpit of creation, and looking after a rich old king might have seemed perfectly fine by comparison.
1 Kings 1:1-5
And Abishag said to the king “do you wanna shag?”
re 14 Porter Waggoner: What if your employer was a Christian Scientist? He could offer a health plan that doesn’t cover anything — based upon his moral precepts, of course.
One of the things that completely blows my mind about the death of Paul Crouch, is that people are rationalizing his wealth by saying things like, “well, no matter what else he did, he still preached the Gospel, and that excuses everything else he did, as he deserved the money for being such a wonderful preacher”.
Actual reply to me in another forum:
Some people just deserve to be ripped off I guess. They demand it. They don’t feel like they are worthy of the label “christian” if they aren’t bing fleeced by a professional charlatan and swindler like Paul fucking Crouch. These folks would rather buy a rich man a $200,000 motorhome for his wife’s dogs, than feed their own kids a decent, healthy meal.
The Dunning-Cruger effect.
This strikes me as being quite similar to Stockholm syndrome. Being so terrified of being harmed, that they accept their captor’s influence on their own thinking. They agree with the murderer or the kidnapper, and accept the criminal’s rationale for his or her actions.