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Star Moore

I was wondering, if Jesus appeared today on earth as a man...who would he be like? resemble? Republican, Democrat or independent? or not political? or in a religion or not? Living Where? Angry, a warrior, or a man of peace and love?

tetrapod.sapien

he'd be like Jaffacake for sure.

i know it.

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DannyBloem

I am sure that if he was a JW he would be DF-ed. Even if he performed miracles.

DB

Gretchen956

Most like joelbear.

Sherry

tetrapod.sapien

okay, here are some more thoughts on this, regardless of whether they contradict my previous thoughts or not:

jesus was a rebel and an apostate.

he wasn't just a rebel to the pharasees, like so many people like to stress. he was also an apostate to a mental space. to a mind set that was conservative, and dead internally. white washed graves with defilement on the inside wasn't just a spiritual thought man. it was about *being* a human. a human. not a half god, half human. but a human.

if he was the son of god, or god himself, depending on which buffet you partake from, then it still stands to reason, that he was one of the greatest things to ever live. and don't stop reading there, because you will misunderstand me if you do:

he was the greatest, not because he was "moral", and "good" and "upstanding" and "thoughtful" and "spiritual". he was great because he was fearless. he was great because he stared life in the eyes and didn't flinch. it doesn't matter at what point in our history that a homo.sapien lives. if he/she ever does that, they are a saint.

jesus is just one of the ones saints who had a few books written about him. a phenomena of the time, perhaps. but none the less a saint, and a utensil-less poet.

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Narkissos

if he/she ever does that, they are a saint.
jesus is just one of the ones saints who had a few books written about him. a phenomena of the time, perhaps. but none the less a saint, and a utensil-less poet.

Or, perhaps, one of the many (literary? historical?) elusive embodiments of man's enduring dream.

tetra, have you ever seen Pasolini's Theorem?

tetrapod.sapien

embodiments of man's enduring dream.

yes! there are no more excuses tonight.

have you ever seen Pasolini's Theorem?

Teorema? Pier Paolo Pasolini? (the same pasolini of Sade's 120 days of sodom? Salo?) YES! love love that film. only a few hundred words in the film, and yet it says everything.

was the boy who seduced the family god?

no no no... first i want you to tell me why you asked me. go ahead....

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A Paduan

Wouldn't he be dressed in a suit, with short neat hair and no beard, moderately tall, very clean looking anglo male with some magazines in his hand for reference ?

Or would he have a beard, dark long hair and an ankle length robe covering most of his dark skin (like a middle eastern guy), and hang around with fishermen and publicans and the periphery of society - maybe we'd look at shooting him if he went to get on a plane, or put him in jail just in case, while we wait for the end of this wicked system of things.

BlackSwan of Memphis

John Lennon

meagan

Narkissos

was the boy who seduced the family god?
no no no... first i want you to tell me why you asked me. go ahead....

LOL. I just asked because I sort of knew you would love that movie.

Ambiguity is central to the main character -- god or demon, in a totally undecidable way. Strangely I think it captures very well the essential ambiguity of the Jesus character, especially in Mark -- before christos was drowned in chrestos ("good").

The social analysis of the explosive effects of the "divine-demonic" touch in a middle-class family -- from holiness to art, via catatonia and prostitution, is simply genial.

It took a Pier Paolo, Catholic, homosexual and marxist, to understand the "Gospel" so deeply.

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