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Post by mouse on Mar 1, 2011 3:49:10 GMT -5
thinking more about this...i would like to be able to see for my self what sort of people the leaders of the three abrahamic religions were really like moses.jesus and mohammed...though like dewy i wouldnt mind ""going west"" or riding with the great khan..observing cochise would be another on my list.....so many things to choose from and taking a camera and bottles of water with me
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2011 8:50:03 GMT -5
Prashna, you seem to be exceptionally brave, but maybe, just maybe, you're more interested it the awe of it all than your own needs. It would probably be a quirk of fate that you'd survive without a scratch from a rusty nail, and those of us who are self-protective would perish. Not at all, Beth. I am quite squeamish. For example, I cannot ride on any roller coaster. When our boys were little we took them to Alton Towers. I styed with my feet plnted on terra firma, movie camera in hand while the boys went on the spin. Someone had to accompany them and my long-suffering wife volunteered. So she is much braver than me, by all accounts. However, in this instance I can account for my apparent bravado. It's not brave at all- but common sense. Rusty nails - you are really talking about the possibility of tetanus poisoning. Since I keep up my anti-tetanus vaccinations (these are effective for years I believe) I am taking no risk in that respect. Water - boiling will kill all bacteria. Besides I share my love of green coconut juice with sadie. That's foolproof. Toothbrush - My father had sound teeth even in his eighties. He always brushed with a branch from the Neem tree. I must have inherited my exceptionally decay resistant teeth from him I agree with you that some anti-biotics are a useful precaution. However, 24 hours are not enough to contract any disease in depth. Long before it took hold, I shall be back in 21st c Britain, with its full array of antibiotics. Malaria - I shall have acquired immunity in advance, with the normal course of anti-malarials. I would resume the course on return. No problem there. What else? Can't think of any! But you must take whatever you feel is necessary. After all, the whole object is to relax! Regards. Prashna
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Post by sadie on Mar 1, 2011 22:54:46 GMT -5
Ok.....I'm going with Prashna but just to hold the coconuts!!! Also....he needs someone for the scary parts (love roller coasters, bungee jumping and all that stuff)....and I need someone to keep me from getting beheaded or burned at the stake......
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Post by Erasmus on Mar 1, 2011 23:26:27 GMT -5
Please suspend your skepticism in favor of reflection .. IF YOU COULD Travel into times past for 24 hours ... Where would you go and why? If I could find it in time, then to what all this Jesus Crucifixion was about. I reckon there was a person at the core, like King Arthur and Robin Hood but only became significant after the Jewish Uprising failed and then only two writers out of many felt the need to relate their ideal to a possible real person and got their dates about 20 years apart. The Churches choose Matthew because Luke makes actual historical sense. But 'The Christ' is far greater than any real historical 'Jesus'. St Paul overlaps him in time, was in Jerusalem opposing his movement when he was supposedly preaching - but never says a thing about any living Jesus. I reckon that says enough that 'Jesus' was a symbol like Orpheus but in the Jewish context. Jesus is Everyman.
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Post by beth on Mar 1, 2011 23:32:19 GMT -5
Erasmus, I know some might see this as almost sacrilege, but go back and read the pertinent chapters of The Master and Margarita and you'll feel close to being there. An extraordinary experience, I thought.
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Post by beez0811 on Mar 2, 2011 0:30:31 GMT -5
I would go back and convince myself to not date anyone in high school and to study my butt off.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2011 7:22:53 GMT -5
Ok.....I'm going with Prashna but just to hold the coconuts!!! Also....he needs someone for the scary parts (love roller coasters, bungee jumping and all that stuff)....and I need someone to keep me from getting beheaded or burned at the stake...... To hold the coconuts, Sadie? So who's going to climb the dizzy heights of a single stemmed coconut palm, about 40-50 ft tall as I recall. I can collect them on the ground as you sever the nuts from the tree top. But afterwards I would need someone to cut the top off with a sharp dawa (kurki like implement). As you know I am no good with sharp instruments. Ok afterwards, you can have the lion's share, or lioness' share in your case, of the coconuts! Oh BTW, no roller coasters in 700 CE Kerala, nor stakes or beheading. But plenty of cobra, crocs, elephants and wild cats. So no shortage of excitement!Regards. Prashna
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Post by Erasmus on Mar 5, 2011 23:07:35 GMT -5
Erasmus, I know some might see this as almost sacrilege, but go back and read the pertinent chapters of The Master and Margarita and you'll feel close to being there. An extraordinary experience, I thought. I don't recall reference to history there, but I admit that I only know a dramatization and couldn't make a lot of sense of that. In any case, it would be filtered through the Russian Orthodox Church to attack Stalin. One thing I am sure of - Fundamentalist Protestantism as preached in the USA is Satanism in terms of its values, and Fundamentalist Islam misguided but slightly less evil reduction of sublime transcendental ideals to personified egotistical hatred.
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