# I'm going to undertake a six-month occult ritual - ask me anything

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**Created:** [April 1, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-undertake-a-six-month-occult-ritual-ask-me-anything/1016475 "2025-04-01T22:10:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-undertake-a-six-month-occult-ritual-ask-me-anything/1016475/112 "2025-05-06T00:36:09Z")

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> [@Smapti](#):
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> I’d like to take this opportunity to tell everyone that I’m more or less taking a six-month hiatus from this board

For those playing from home, the six month hiatus from using the board for anything more than to update this thread lasted one week.

> [@Cool Math Thing in the Bible](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-math-thing-in-the-bible/1017847/17):
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> This seems like a good place to point out that in the Hebrew text of Exodus 8, it says “frog” instead of “frogs”, which prompted Talmudic scholars to debate whether or not Moses had God unleash one really big frog that wreaked havoc on Egypt’s crops, which in turn prompted a metaphorical argument about the Bar Kochba rebellion. Sometimes the Bible is just weird like that. (This counts as my one post for this week. Hi, everybody!)

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