I've been sick that last couple days. So that pretty much means I've been playing a lot of World of Warcraft, watching documentaries, and reading books.
World of Warcraft is pretty much the only computer game I play anymore. Right now I'm playing my 60 troll priest on the Kalecgos realm, his name is Rustynail. I'm in the Art of War guild, and we're an end game raiding guild, doing Zul'Gurub, Molten Core, and the Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj. We're currently focusing on downing Ragnaros (got him to less than 30%) and seeing how far we can get in the Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj.
Anyways, yesterday I was invited to a horde raid group that was going to kill Lethon, the toughest of the world dragons. Took us 3 attempts, but we got him down. A couple of alliance showed up, but they didn't do much.



I also got some time to read more of The Hiram Key. It's getting pretty good now. Right now its talking about how the name Jesus Christ is actually the greek version of the man's name. His actual name would have been something like Yeshua, or Joshua. The word "christ" is actually the green translation of the hebrew word "messiah", which means "king of the jews". The jews at the time of Jesus were awaiting a messiah, because they wanted a jewish king that would liberate them from Roman rule.
Where this gets interesting is when you come across Jesus Christ being tried before Pontius Pilate. Remember when Pilate came before the people and asked them who should be released, Jesus Christ, or the murderer Barabbas? Well it turns out that in greek, Barabbas translates into "son of the father", and that Barabbas had a first name: Jesus. So Pilate had actually brought two men named Jesus before the crowd. One of them was viewed as the messiah, or liberator of the jews -- and the other was the son of the father, or son of god (abba meaning god). Pretty wierd stuff.

I also started reading Stephen Mitchell's version of Gilgamesh. The Epic of Gilgamesh was written over 4000 years ago, 500 years before the bible. It tells the story of Gilgamesh, the 5th king of Uruk (Babylon). In the story, Gilgamesh is portrayed as 66% deity and 33% human, standing 16 feet tall, and being the strongest of all men. However, his people begin to complain to the god Anu that Gilgamesh is becoming tyrannical, and so Anu comes up with a plan. Anu tells the god Aruru to create a new man, a man that will be Gilgamesh's twin. So Aruru creates Enkidu, a naked wild man who is super strong, 16 feet tall, and lives and runs with the animals. One day a young trapper comes across Enkidu and goes to tell his father about what he saw. His father tells him to go to Uruk and tell Gilgamesh about this wild man, and he will know what to do. So the young trapper goes to Uruk and speaks to Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh tells him to speak to Shamhat at the Temple of Ishtar. Shamhat is a temple priestess, who will seduce Enkidu and prove to the animals around him that he is not one of them. So the trapper and Shamhat go to find Enkidu, and when they do, Shamhat seduces him in front of all of the animals (they go at it for 7 days straight). Afterwards, all of the animals leave Enkidu because they no longer view him as one of them. Shamhat takes Enkidu and cleans him up a bit (gives him cloths, cuts his hair, gives him bread and beer) and then takes him to meet Gilgamesh. When the two meet, they wrestle around for a few minutes and when Gilgamesh has Enkidu pinned down, Enkidu tells him that he wishes to become friends with Gilgamesh. Because the two have so much respect for each other, they quickly become best of friends.

I'm at the part now where Gilgamesh wants to go hunt down the monster Humbaba that lives in the Cedar Forest. Enkidu warns him against doing so, because Humbaba was placed there by the god Enlil to protect the forest. But because Gilgamesh wants so badly to make a name for himself, he pressures the elders of the city to bless his journey, and convinces Enkidu to help him. We'll see what happens next.