Hey clad

[cladking]

And if I think about it, I see why it is a closely-guarded secret. You don't want every asshole living a thousand years. Jesus, that is 910 extra years of fucking misery. You know those fuckers didn't give their wives any gold salt. Dirty bastards. I bet there is a "salt test" you have to take before you get the good stuff. Everybody else just gets Kosher salt...

I believe it was figs and wine.

1511a. anointed with the best ointment, clothed in [purple],
1511b. living on figs, drinking wine.

They also called the "Tree of Life" "The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil". This might be because extended life leads one to the knowledge of good and evil. Eating the figs apparently cured one of most diseases and could even reverse some defects. It also affected the mind so that it wasn't just an extra 900 years of misery according to Enoch;

1 And he said unto me: 'Enoch, why dost thou ask me regarding the fragrance of the tree,
2 and why dost thou wish to learn the truth?' Then I answered him saying: 'I wish to
3 know about everything, but especially about this tree.' And he answered saying: 'This high mountain which thou hast seen, whose summit is like the throne of God, is His throne, where the Holy Great One, the Lord of Glory, the Eternal King, will sit, when He shall come down to visit
4 the earth with goodness. And as for this fragrant tree no mortal is permitted to touch it till the great judgement, when He shall take vengeance on all and bring (everything) to its consummation
5 for ever. It shall then be given to the righteous and holy. Its fruit shall be for food to the elect: it shall be transplanted to the holy place, to the temple of the Lord, the Eternal King.

6 Then shall they rejoice with joy and be glad,
And into the holy place shall they enter;
And its fragrance shall be in their bones,
And they shall live a long life on earth,
Such as thy fathers lived:

And in their days shall no sorrow or plague
Or torment or calamity touch them.'


The mountain referred to above is G2 on the Giza Plateau.

No doubt that it was the strongest who got the figs and couldn't be dislodged once they got a good taste of them. But surely most would have wives. A couple hundred years of a differenmt beautiful young woman every night might get old. People wouldn't want to leave untold thousands of bastard children around who look like them so everytime there as a death they would think it was one of their own. Mankind had to have been "tamed" by some means so it stands to reason that marriage is a "natural" state of affairs just as is suggested in the Bible. Wives who ate figs could be of the same generation and would tend to be able to stay young and healthy with you. There's no real evidence for how the aging process proceded for the fig eaters so much of this is guess work but it's likely that they were as healthy as possible at every single stage. It's difficult to say what killed them and it could have been old age. There's a story from ancient Egypt which might be from a very old fig eater that almost sounds like a too old man dying of old age.

Ain't life something?