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I thought that was the book of Thomas. I believe it said that he supposedly married Mary Magdeline, who according to completely unsupported Catholic lore was the same Mary mentioned as being the sister of Martha and Lazarus, and also the prostitute that washed Jesus' feet with her hair.
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See my sig for an excerpt from the Gospel of Thomas
At least, I think that's from it...
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Ah...that's what the game said, too. I was playing Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, blood of the Damned. It explained that the Church wanted to downplay the importance of Mary Magdalene, so they called her a prostitute and claimed all the Mary Magdalene & child statues were actually Mary, mother of Jesus, with black skin. I'll probably look this stuff up though. There's a reading list at the end of the game manual. Now there's a sight to behold.
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I'm glad you other folks responded. To be honest, I've read OF the book of Thomas, (and others) from what I consider a reliable source, but I haven't READ it, yet. I have a book called "The Hiram Key" which supposedly goes into more detail, but at the moment it's sitting on my desk with about 30 other books in my "To be read" pile, along with "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," "Civil War Fantastic," "Cthulhu 2000," "The Second Messiah," "Incredible Hulk: What Savage Beast," and many others.
Assuming I ever get to it, I'll let you know.
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A comic book? "Eee' gods doth amaze me! Ayyyy, ee silly Americans!" If you're wondering why I can speak so affluently in English English lately, I've been tiring away at Vantiy Fair, which is a parody of the English in itself. So, "I don't just 'earn it from n'e'boody, I 'earn from ee master." Heheee.
"Ayyy, bloody Americans! Ayy, if I canna could, I'd of shone ee something with my own two digits in '76. Eeeeee rebels! Eeeeee backstabing devils. Devil, devil, devil! The Deuce!"
LOL, I think I got out of my system for tonight. But you never know. LOL ....
{No offense to PsyLiam, but I am sure "'ill be 'suum n'e'ways"}
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A scene that was cut from last season's "Rock" episode, Tsumkatse: Rock: Do ya smell what the Rock's cookin'? Janeway: Mr. Rock, was that you? Tuvok: An intriguing smell ...
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I might be offended, if I knew what the bloody hell you were talking about.
Look, just go and see Chicken Run. Or watch Red Dwarf. Those are English accents, okay? The accents of Daphne's boyfriends resemble our accents about as much as Charles resembles a pie.
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Yeah, I can read all the "gospels" and the Koran in seminary. At the one I want to attend they require Muslim ministry (actual ministry) as credit.
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See? See? He said "gospels". This is exactly why the church discredits them. They love blinding people and leading them in the way they want to.
------------------ "The kingdom of God is inside you, and all around you; not in a building of stone or wood. Split a piece of wood, and I will be there. Lift a stone, and you will find me." -The Gospel of Jesus, Stigmata
quote:Look, just go and see Chicken Run. Or watch Red Dwarf. Those are English accents, okay?
Well, you see, I think that might be it. Those are London accents. I pretty much draw on the country English culture of Sussex, and other non-developed parts of England.
I know a Welshman who speaks just like that, and he's the most ammusing character. He's also a cultural treasure, stuck back in the days of Victoria it seems like.
quote:I might be offended, if I knew what the bloody hell you were talking about.
And thus the English are a jolly bunch, unoffendable.
------------------ -Small Computer Systems Interface "Scuzzy" Emperor
Operator of the Goulag Hotel, maintainer of the workhouses.
A scene that was cut from last season's "Rock" episode, Tsumkatse: Rock: Do ya smell what the Rock's cookin'? Janeway: Mr. Rock, was that you? Tuvok: An intriguing smell ...
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"Look, just go and see Chicken Run. Or watch Red Dwarf. Those are English accents, okay?"
'Well, you see, I think that might be it. Those are London accents. I pretty much draw on the country English culture of Sussex, and other non-developed parts of England.'
Er, no they're not. Rimmer and the Cat don't have much regionalisation in their accents (is that a word? It is now), but Lister is obviously a scouser. From Liverpool. Not London.
And hardly any of the accents in Chicken Run are London either. Most are from up north. The main give away is how they say "grass". Londoners (and other southerners) say "gr-arse", whereas the further north you go, the more it becomes "gr-ass".
And Sussex doesn't have a culture. They barely have intelligent communication.
------------------ "Why do you want to spend time with a deer? They're so stupid, they get hypnotized by headlights!" - Guido Anchovy
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