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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461089" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Unwise Wise</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Proudly, fiercely, they guarded wisdom; <br>wisdom that had outlasted fashion, <br>the cults, the sects, the mass conversions, <br>the messaiahs, and the promises; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They had gathered this knowledge<br>in the days of garnered wisdom<br>250 years before that guy from Galilee; <br>and then around twice his lifetime upon earth<br>as numbers dwindled, they stored this knowledge<br>in a cave not so far from Jericho, <br>near the sea that died into a lake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Discipline, ritual, held them together; <br>and cleanliness; the communal latrine<br>was 1,000 cubits or a little more, say half a mile, <br>from the city where they lived; I guess<br>some walked, some ran<br>there from Qumran<br>– except on Saturdays, when<br>they were not allowed to leave the town<br>and therefore did not defecate that day..<br>then on return from the latrine, their faeces neatly buried, <br>a ritual, totally immersed bathing was required.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas, if these wise men had asked the Arab Bedouins<br>they would have known that, had they left their faeces<br>uncovered in the sun, it would have killed<br>the roundworms, tapeworms, whipworms, pinworms, <br>which, walked back on their feet and thriving in the ritual bath, slowly<br>killed this community of wise men from inside, <br>so that only 6 percent lived beyond forty years; <br>eventually depositing their wisdom on scrolls<br>(how few men left to place them there, that solemn day?) <br>to be uncovered after nearly two millennia<br>darkly in a cave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That is the story of Qumran. I guess it's one<br>for those who say, what you live by, that, you die by; <br>in this case, ritual.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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wisdom that had outlasted fashion, 
the cults, the sects, the mass conversions, 
the messaiahs, and the promises; 

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