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I always felt sorry that the parts about the town and Prince Lir's 'birth' were not included.

(For little good reason the song "Levon" reminds me of it.)

-Kushana

A good recent article by Dr. Magness:

http://bib-arch.org/bswbKCtombmagness.html


Yours,
Kushana

.... wouldn't they contain different DNA? I suppose it depends on what you make of the 'fully human' component of the Incarnation. (Although human parthanogenisis, if it were possible, would result in a daughter, not a son.) I've got to guess it would look like anyone else's DNA ... unless it spell...

Jude wrote:

Have you read "The Jesus Dynasty" by James Tabor?

I did, but for the life of me I can't recall what he said -- I'll have to look at it again.

-Kushana

/K chuckles I always wrestle with my wish to be a public citizen and my desire to travel in peace -- I have moments of wanting to pick the dullest and most technical aspects of my field and stupefy my audience as promptly as possible. (At the moments the link between Plotinus and Gnosticism and whet...

I have a bit of news, not much: 1) The codex discovered at Luxor (the Al-Gurna find) will not be translated or published any time soon. Exposure to moisture has made it a paper-mache brick that no one knows how to safely separate into pages. (This was done once, in the early 20th century, by Dr. Hug...

Here is a bit better report, from before the involvement of Titanic 's director: record.com Some articles say bones were found and genetic tests were done -- I have a lot of questions, however: 1) Tell me everything the bones can tell us -- when did these people die? What are their respective ages? ...

Lidless wrote:

At the end of the trip I detrained and ... a complete 50yo stranger came up to me and said that was the most entertaining conversation he'd ever overheard.

Bless your heart -- and we get to talk to you for free!

(K. feels most honored)

Yours,
Kushana

Dear ToshoftheWuffingas, I'm glad to see you, too. :) I sympathise. While interesting and fruitful conversations can be struck up, that subject can lead to a tirade of 'what I think' that must be tiresome. Yes, I've had wonderful conversations -- but often I've muttered to myself "I bet Raymond...

Each time I take my seat in an airplane, I am faced with a problem of existential proportions. It is a dilemma, really, one brought on not by fear of flying or anxiety about the physical integrity of the plane or its pilots (I try not to think about those things). My flying dilemma is borne of the ...

Dear Ara-anna, I have no new Mary Magdalene news. I can only recommend a good recent roundup of what we know: The Gospels of Mary: The Secret Tradition of Mary Magdalene, the Companion of Jesus by Marvin Meyer and Esther A. De Boer. I haven't read Meyer's Gnostic Discoveries , but it may say a bit m...

I came here to report that the standard, scholarly edition of the Gospel of Judas (complete with about life-sized photos by National Geographic) will be published this coming Spring. (In fact, it will not be the be-all-end-all edition that such scholarly editions are supposed to be: there are still ...

My sympathies.

(Invite them to play "Munchkin"? http://www.sjgames.com/munchkin/game/)

-Kushana

I would like to see a pledge (the original pledge, if you will) that all Americans could take with a clear heart, be they of Aboriginal or Tribal religions, Agnostics, Atheists, Baha'is, Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, Jews, Mandeans, Muslims, Neopagans, Sihks, Taoists, Theosophists, or Zoroastrians -- or...

Axordil, this is a great question -- I wish I knew why... My quick, off-the-cuff answer would that religions are always part of a larger society and history, in the context of a government and an economy. Many of them have said, per the divine, that certain injustices and inequalities should be refo...

Doesn't tolerance include those things that people choose? Most people have chosen (or at least reflected on and voluntarily adopted) their degree of cultural and ethnic identification, their political, spiritual, and personal loyalties, and their relationships (even relationships with family are re...

I'm sorry to hear about the email, how unkind.

I remember thedaimonlucifer/noob's posts and I sorry he is gone.

-Kushana

"Would you go to your death calmly and willingly if you knew you had no chance of survival?" Not while I have adrenal glands, no. (Erm, what kind of context are we talking about? And how much warning?) I have almost died, already -- it's given everything after a great deal of meaning. I b...

All hail the River Horse!

(And his post count!)



-Kushana

Lady_of_Rohan wrote:

Made 250 copies of the wrong language.

Start a membership drive in the target langauge!

-Kushana