Posts by TheHighPriest

"The essenian apocalypticism is remarkably close to that in the nt. Were they linked? Where the essens resided was considered 'the wilderness'. Jesus spent a month 'in the wilderness'. Hmmmm"

I read a book recently by B.E. Thiering called the cumran origins of the christian church or some such thing and in it she made a case that to my mind was very appealing. In this book she claimed that not only was the wilderness a place there but so was bethlehem, capernaum, gallile etc...
The interesting thing though was that according to her theory the scripture's was written by the pesharists in a way that gave it two dimensions. The first level would be for the uneducated and the higher level for those who knew how to interpret the scripture.
For example she claimed that loaves and bread were people and so when the story is applied with that in mind it takes on another dimension and gone is the miracle side of it. The same with stories like when Jesus cured the leper, it's got two levels as well one where jesus performs a miracle and one where Jesus simply reinstates a man who is considered unclean by some standard hence a leper but no miracle.
Things like wineyards and figtrees were institutions within judaism so when a figtree was planted in the wineyard according to this theory it was a merger between the two. The most interesting thing I thought was her theory of Jesus never actually dying on the cross but rather he survived. The way it was done was by administring some poison that made him appear dead and so he got taken down early and tended to. Also after the crucifiction Jesus rose to the office of the Word and as such plays a huge part in Acts where every time it speaks of the word the word is alive and well although by this stage he was being carried around. All this meant that they could preach a ressurection but only those who were familiar with the pesharist way of writing understood what really took place while others more ignorant put faith in a supernatural event.
Anyway I liked the book and thought it to be more than just interesting.

THP

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Euro-English

by TheHighPriest in

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i have heard from a reliable source that the eu commission stands unified by a 5 year plan to introduce what they call "euro-english".. the pom's have accepted saying there is room for improvement in our language:.

in the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c".

sertainly sivil servants will reseive this news with joy.

TheHighPriest

Damn this is getting popular I had this posted on Jun 27 and was merely repeating it. oooooops

THP

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Euro-English

by TheHighPriest in

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i have heard from a reliable source that the eu commission stands unified by a 5 year plan to introduce what they call "euro-english".. the pom's have accepted saying there is room for improvement in our language:.

in the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c".

sertainly sivil servants will reseive this news with joy.

TheHighPriest

I have heard from a reliable source that the EU commission stands unified by a 5 year plan to introduce what they call "Euro-English".
The pom's have accepted saying there is room for improvement in our language:
In the first year, "S" will be used instead of the soft "C". Sertainly sivil servants will reseive this news with joy. Also the hard "C" will be replaced with "K". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "PH" will be replased by "F". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mess of silent "E"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptive to steps such as replasing "TH" by "Z" and "W' by "V". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "O" kan be droped from vords kontaing "OU", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After ziz fifz yer, ve vil have a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls of difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

THP

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New Baby

by hippikon in

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lyall james was born at 12pm today @ 8.1 lbs.

mother is doing fine.

bubs is in the icu with a breathing problem but should be fine.

TheHighPriest

Congrats and well done to all three of you, I'll have to strap up a cigar for you, Hippi!

THP

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WHO SURVIVED...."75"..?

by OUTLAW in

who survived..."1975"...,i`m just curious,how many of us,are there?those of us that lived though this,will know what i mean.

TheHighPriest

I was seven years old but I never forget.

THP

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Is the Devil really that clever?

by TheHighPriest in

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people usually turn to god in times of distress and tend to forget about god when things are going a bit better,right?

so if the devil really wanted to succeed in turning people away from god all he would have to do is make life more comfortable for all of us.

i mean lets face it if everyone was loaded with money had access to every convenience, if health was not an issue we all had to confront would we look to god for salvation then?

TheHighPriest

Cygnus,

It's funny but I always thought his character changed in the new testament as opposed to the old testament and I guess you just confirmed that. But then again God changed rather dramatically himself, must have been some major restructioning of the heavenly office.

THP

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Is the Devil really that clever?

by TheHighPriest in

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people usually turn to god in times of distress and tend to forget about god when things are going a bit better,right?

so if the devil really wanted to succeed in turning people away from god all he would have to do is make life more comfortable for all of us.

i mean lets face it if everyone was loaded with money had access to every convenience, if health was not an issue we all had to confront would we look to god for salvation then?

TheHighPriest

People usually turn to God in times of distress and tend to forget about God when things are going a bit better,right?
So if the devil really wanted to succeed in turning people away from God all he would have to do is make life more comfortable for all of us.
I mean lets face it if everyone was loaded with money had access to every convenience, if health was not an issue we all had to confront would we look to God for salvation then?
If we all lived in a paradise and had unlimited time for ourselves and our children would we take time out for God and go door-knocking?
If you did go door-knocking under such circumstances how could we convince people about the need for God and his paradise kingdom?
I could go on painting this scenario but I think you get the drift.
It seems the devil has not thought of this yet and surely with everything that is ascribed to him this would be easy for him to arrange. But maybe the truth is that he is not that powerful, maybe the truth is that we like to have someone to blame when things aren't quiet so swell and maybe we need badness and evil to be able to have a measure on good and goodness.

THP

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I Said Goodbye

by Farkel in

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my father was rushed by ambulance from his rest home to st. marks hospital in salt lake city, utah friday, but i only just heard about it.

i received a call from the floor nurse and she told me he is not expected to live.

his lungs are filled fill up with fluid and are continuing to fill u with more fluid: he has pneumonia.

TheHighPriest

My heart goes out to you and your mum, Farkel.

THP

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Protector of pedophiles

by Norm in

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jehovah, high protector and god of the pedophile.. in biblical days, when women and children, male children excepted of course, being considered little more than cattle and livestock, to have sex with children was just one additional privilege of the male.

you know, those who had the good fortune to be born with a penis.

in a society like that you had to be quick and start at an early age to be able to "scoop up" a virgin.

TheHighPriest

Great stuff Norm,

The thing no one has commented on yet is the fact that some of these girls ended up as human sacrifice on the altar.
Just read the account for yourselves it's right there.

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