02-15-2022, 10:43 PM
Troubling.
"The Infancy Gospel of Thomas" was one of the seeds of Islam. Snippets of it can be found in the Qur'an. Mohammed evidently got bits and pieces of what he perceived as "Christianity" from all over, and blended them together - the right and the wrong alike - into his newly invented religion.
On a more personal level, my genealogical paper trail has branches leading straight to God through the daughter of Jesus and Mary Magdalene (shades of Dan Brown!) on both my mother and my father's sides of the family - now all that is in turmoil!
Just kidding - the paper trail is really there, but whomever worked it out based it entirely on hearsay and mythology. They didn't really have birth certificates back then to keep track of things, now did they? It is interesting to note, though, that I do have DNA that links me to the Merovingians (comparison between my DNA and DNA extracted from some Merovingian graves), alleged to be descendants of that same daughter, so who the hell knows? It could also be that that DNA just links us both to Ukrainian Scythians from long, long ago.
On the subject of James, brother of Jesus, we know that he did actually exist, as he was the first leader of the Jerusalem Christian-Jews before Christianity branched off from Judaism, but after Jesus died. James took over. I had never heard the claim he was an older brother, though. That's news to me.
The other Apostles spread out into the world, going here and there, but James stayed in Jerusalem and took over the shop there.
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"The Infancy Gospel of Thomas" was one of the seeds of Islam. Snippets of it can be found in the Qur'an. Mohammed evidently got bits and pieces of what he perceived as "Christianity" from all over, and blended them together - the right and the wrong alike - into his newly invented religion.
On a more personal level, my genealogical paper trail has branches leading straight to God through the daughter of Jesus and Mary Magdalene (shades of Dan Brown!) on both my mother and my father's sides of the family - now all that is in turmoil!
Just kidding - the paper trail is really there, but whomever worked it out based it entirely on hearsay and mythology. They didn't really have birth certificates back then to keep track of things, now did they? It is interesting to note, though, that I do have DNA that links me to the Merovingians (comparison between my DNA and DNA extracted from some Merovingian graves), alleged to be descendants of that same daughter, so who the hell knows? It could also be that that DNA just links us both to Ukrainian Scythians from long, long ago.
On the subject of James, brother of Jesus, we know that he did actually exist, as he was the first leader of the Jerusalem Christian-Jews before Christianity branched off from Judaism, but after Jesus died. James took over. I had never heard the claim he was an older brother, though. That's news to me.
The other Apostles spread out into the world, going here and there, but James stayed in Jerusalem and took over the shop there.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’