Ish Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 “What is myrrh anyway?” 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckman Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 Let them eat cake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munkie Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 1 hour ago, Ish said: “What is myrrh anyway?” Easily the most useful of the gifts. Perfume those swaddling clothes. He might be the savior, but I bet his [big bad swear word] still stank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 1 hour ago, Munkie said: Easily the most useful of the gifts. Perfume those swaddling clothes. He might be the savior, but I bet his [big bad swear word] still stank. I'd rather use the Frankincense for that. Smells so much nicer than Myrrh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romans832 Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 Myrrh is actually an embalming fluid... go figure. The "Three Wise Men" didn't show up till he was 2 years old. That's why King Harod killed all boys 2 and under. Westernization of Biblical stories really kills what's said Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ish Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 There’s also the odd fact that the “Massacre of Innocents” is recorded only in the Gospel of Matthew. No other historical records of it exist, it’s not even mentioned in the other Gospels or referenced in any of the Pauline epistles... You don’t have to have any expertise in history to realize that the King of Judea ordering the massacre of every newborn child in his kingdom would have been mentioned by someone. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munkie Posted December 29, 2019 Report Share Posted December 29, 2019 18 hours ago, Ish said: You don’t have to have any expertise in history to realize that the King of Judea ordering the massacre of every newborn child in his kingdom would have been mentioned by someone. The parallels to the Pharoah ordering male Hebrew babies be killed in Exodus cannot be missed. More specifically, the sensationalized version of the event that modern Moses stories are based on, not what the bible actually says about it. In Exodus, it never actually mentions any babies being killed, but that the Pharoah was disappointed in the midwives for not killing the male babies as ordered. The story we're more familiar with (that the scribes warned the Pharaoh that an Isrealite child would threaten his reign, and the Moses was only saved because his parents had a premonition and hid him) are not in the bible. Whether or not male babies were killed is unclear, but the fact that Moses was hidden in a basket and stashed on a riverbank lends credence to the idea that there was some cause for concern. Within the greater context of the Book of Matthew, the reason why he'd use the expanded Pharoah story as the basis for his Massacre of the Innocents is pretty clear. Matthew's angle on Jesus's life and role within theology was an emphasis that his divinity was the fulfillment of OT prophecies and the realization of Jewish Law. Matthew was likely the 2nd Gospel written and at that time Christians were a sect within the Jewish community (by the time the Book of John was written, the tone changes and begins to focus on the growing divide between Christian and Jewish theology). Focusing on the common ground between Jewish beliefs and Christian beliefs makes framing Jesus's origin story as a re-imagining of Moses' origin story a pretty obvious narrative device. As for the historical consequences of distorting Herod's actions, there would've been no love lost between Jews and Herod's legacy at the time of the writing. 1) Herod had executed 3 of his sons and one wife, so he did have blood on his hands. What's a little exaggeration gonna hurt? 2) The local Jews had always chafed under Herod. He, like many rulers over the years, officially adopted Judaism but giving up a lavish lifestyle wasn't really in the King's nature. He didn't get them, and they didn't get him. 3) And finally, the Book of Matthew was likely written within about a decade or 2 of the sacking of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in the First Jewish-Roman war. Considering that Herod became a governor due to his father's relationship with Julius Caesar, and later named king by the Roman Senate, it's not hard to imagine the Jewish author of the book being willing (if not eager) to tarnish Herod's legacy a bit. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ish Posted December 29, 2019 Report Share Posted December 29, 2019 A crossover between the story of King Midas and King Oedipus would be pure motherf—ing gold. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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WestRider Posted January 1, 2020 Report Share Posted January 1, 2020 "Where do unshed tears go?", on a less than literal level, has the makings of an awesome power ballad. On a literal level, it's just kind of gross. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfestedKerrigan Posted January 1, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2020 In high school at my first job, a customer said "has anyone ever told you you look like Danzig?" I stared at him, all 6 ft of my being insulted at being compared to the tiny meathead lead singer of one of my favorite bands. The customer hesitated, "do you know who Danzig is?" Yes, I reply, unbuttoning my uniform revealing a die die my darling shirt. Just shocked at that comparison, sorry, you guys want free stuff? And "hook" them up. To this day, everytime I hear Glenn's voice, I think of that moment with the customer and remind myself that they clearly never saw him drop cold after starting problems with another band. edit: for those not in the know. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfestedKerrigan Posted January 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2020 The older I get, the less I love the story of Robin Hood: Or How I came to forget the Young Kings Rebellion, and future revolt of Richard, the never present. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted January 7, 2020 Report Share Posted January 7, 2020 I usually don't mind the stringy white gunk in between segments of orange, but when there's a lot of it, it does kind of pith me off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfestedKerrigan Posted January 8, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2020 @Romans832, King Richard the Lionheart was a piece of crap King. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ish Posted January 8, 2020 Report Share Posted January 8, 2020 14 minutes ago, InfestedKerrigan said: @Romans832, King Richard the Lionheart was a piece of crap King. Did someone mention something vaguely related to Twelfth Century England! Quickly, Robin, to the Rant-Mobile! Only domestically... and only because he was hardly ever there. He delegated almost all domestic governance to his chancellor, William de Longchamp, who served as a de facto regent. Then John Lackland forced de Longchamp out, took over, and promptly lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the totall collapse of the Plantagenet empire and boosting the power of their generations long rivals in the Capetian dynasty, who would come to dominate the next century. Cap it all off with the baronial revolt at the end of John's reign, which forced him to consent to Magna Carta and effectively end the kingship as it had been known since Cerdic of Wessex. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted January 8, 2020 Report Share Posted January 8, 2020 6 minutes ago, Ish said: Did someone mention something vaguely related to Twelfth Century England! Quickly, Robin, to the Rant-Mobile! Only domestically... and only because he was hardly ever there. He delegated almost all domestic governance to his chancellor, William de Longchamp, who served as a de facto regent. Then John Lackland forced de Longchamp out, took over, and promptly lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the totall collapse of the Plantagenet empire and boosting the power of their generations long rivals in the Capetian dynasty, who would come to dominate the next century. Cap it all off with the baronial revolt at the end of John's reign, which forced him to consent to Magna Carta and effectively end the kingship as it had been known since Cerdic of Wessex. I'd count absenteeism to such an extent that it allowed someone else to take the throne as grounds for being a crap King. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ish Posted January 8, 2020 Report Share Posted January 8, 2020 Yeah, it’s just that he got usurped by a crappier king. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfestedKerrigan Posted January 8, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2020 If you consider dying abroad being successfully usurped, sure. I don't think he was a crappier king. I think he may have been petty, and considering his pedigree, and the horse crap that the Nobles put him through time after time, it is surprising that he didn't go full Roman on his constituents. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted January 9, 2020 Report Share Posted January 9, 2020 My mom's listening to audiobooks on her phone while recovering from eye surgery, but because it's on her phone, the overall impression is that she just called someone and had them read to her. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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InfestedKerrigan Posted January 20, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2020 I'm rewatching Star Trekula, and god damn if they don't love showcasing T'pol's tits. She also can't play a Vulcan to save her life; stop smiling! At least Scott is there to act for the entire cast. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ish Posted January 20, 2020 Report Share Posted January 20, 2020 The trick to enjoying Enterprise is to watch the pilot episode (“Broken Bow, Pt. I” and “Broken Bow, Pt. II”) and then skip immediately to the third episode of Season 4 (“Home”) and watch the remainder of the series... You don’t miss out on all that much good stuff, but you skip a lot of bad stuff. Or just save a lot of time and hassle and just watch Deep Space 9 on a continuous loop. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted January 20, 2020 Report Share Posted January 20, 2020 There's a Chinese restaurant around here called Pau's. Every time I see it, I think it should be T'pau's. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy Posted January 20, 2020 Report Share Posted January 20, 2020 6 hours ago, WestRider said: There's a Chinese restaurant around here called Pau's. Every time I see it, I think it should be T'pau's. There's a Vietnamese place across the street, Pho Ton torpedo. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted January 20, 2020 Report Share Posted January 20, 2020 4 hours ago, andy said: There's a Vietnamese place across the street, Pho Ton torpedo. Somewhere, there apparently is a Vietnamese place called Viet Nom Nom. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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