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Can you, like, put spaces between your sentences? Please? You're a good newbie and all, not intended as an insult or anything, but it'd help readibility.
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quote:Originally posted by Cartman: The pope can go to hell.
You're totally out of line! What did the pope ever do to you?!?
At least say "Fuck that fucking Pope bastard!"
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No Liam, no full stops, but, like this thread, it will wonder aimlessly about, looking for a topic to attach it's parasitic self to.
We need a brass serpent to gaze upon.....
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Omega friend,I'm still very new to typing on this sort of keyboard. I never was much for typing and haven't writen much outside of signing checks or making short notes for many years. Know of any online tutorials that might help? Even when I get the paragraphs looking right on the pad when I post,it all just runs together. Using a regular typewriter seems to be different, got no real problem there. P.S. contary to popular belief most ancient cultures practised personal hygene. After a few days in the wilderness anyone is going to smell,but as long as there was water around bathing was even more frequent than it is for modern city dwellers. Also perfumes and the like were common in the Middle east at the time. That was one of their best exports.
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The middle East version of "personal hygene" is a far cry from our western one. Living in that region and walking from town to town with few belongings and no right guard meant they were SUPA FUNKY! As anyone non french can tell you, hosing yourself with perfume when you reek will NOT make you smell good.
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Bathing was as common to the people of that time as it is is most countries today. Look up the Archaeology of the region sometime, bath houses, hot springs, spas.The Funkyness of modern city dwellers in Europe is not indicative of how people lived back then either. Even the ancient Celts were known to have been very clean people. They invented soap BTW. A man of Jesus' stature in the local society would have made a point of being clean.Perfume was far too expesive to slather on in the manner you have discribed any way. The Romans,the greeks, and others lived there as well. They are well known to have been fanatical about personal hygene,and never missed the opportunity to mention any lack of it in those they met. Any way if you have doubts about it just study the known historical facts.
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I have. Romans used oils to cover their bodies and act as a kind of antipersperant (sweat jusy kinda oozed off: uk.). The adverage Middle Eastern person living in the sticks today has better hygene than those of waaay back then but sure are'nt up to western standards. I'm not talking about European standards, just middle eastern. There's no mention of their sench because it was everywhere and universal. I'd be like mentioning fashon trends in te bible.
Ever seen the Discovery Channel's show "The face of Jesus"? They do a good job of forensically reproducing a plausable representation of a man of Jesus' region and era.
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Well, that's your problem right there, we never let a little thing like facts stand in the way of our threads here....
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As far as the Romans go the oils that they used in the baths were scraped from the body with dull bronze blades,this was to remove dirt and dead skin. They did not have soap until the Celts showed them how to make it. Then they soaked in hot stand up baths fed by hot springs where possible and by running streams that flowed into baths heated by furnaces that were under the stone floors. They built these baths every where they settled,even army bases. This has been known for many years. The Bath houses in England from which the city of Bath gets its name are a prime example. As far as Jesus' appearance goes I believe that a first hand eye witness account by an uninvolved observer is a little bit more likely to hold water than a reconstruction even if based on good evidence of the general type of people that lived in the area. A Nazarene of the house of David was not likely to share many characteristics with those who had interbred with the earlier tribes that the Israelites had displaced,or the Greek and Minoan people such as the Philistines. Semitic people came in several varities back then. Herod Was of the dessert people and had no real family ties among those he ruled,thats why the romans put him in power.
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Surely you don't believe Jesus looks like the european version as represented by the Jyro crucifix and Miceangelo's paintings do you?
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Things are taking a creepy racial turn here, it seems.
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Not at all.The stereotype of Jewish appearance is what I'm getting at. And the other Racial types as well. Take the modern Iraqi as an example. They are not Semetic at all. Their ancestors were Scythian same as the ancient Goths and their decendents the Modern Spaniard. Compare them to the Saudi Arabians who are Semites. Now look at the Tuarag and the Berber. All these people have been lumped together as if they were one race when all they really have in common is their religion and the general area in which they live. The palistinian of today has no real genetic tie to the Cananites that Israel drove out when they settled there. Cultures last much longer than bloodlines. Jesus did not look like the stereo type jew. As a Nazarian he would have had different characteristics to most other Hebrews as well. Light brown hair grey-blue eyes, why not. No reason to disbelieve a Roman merchant reporting having met a jewish priest by chance at the home of another Roman. Some African Americans insist he was Black, based soley on an ebony figure of him on a crucifix.BTW red hair is as common among the desert Berber as it is among the Scots. Hitler was from a group Known as the Black Dutch Also decended from Scythian stock, in that case mercenaries that garrisoned Roman outpost near the time that Rome fell.
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He was Chinese. Just like Santa Claus and all the other fictional holiday characters.
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