Posted on 11/18/2018 5:32:36 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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“There was no “First Thanksgiving,” as we want to believe it happened...”
Actually, there was a first Thanksgiving. The Puritans were starving because of imposed socialism and when they gave that up and went into individual farming, they had a bumper crop and celebrated it with a large cook out.
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The mystique of the first "Thanksgiving" of the Pilgrims is just one of many historical events that bear little or no resemblance to actual event. It's just the way it is. People like their history in neat little packages.
It's like the common scene of Jesus being born in a manger with three Wise Men immediately coming into the birth scene bearing gifts and riding camels after following a star in the sky. It likely didn't happen exactly as neatly as that. But these are the images conveyed to us over the centuries. And they end up sticking.
Did their guests bring buckets of KFC?
The Pilgram Lions, playing a crude form of football, lost to the Redskins that year.
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I had to look for a couple of minutes to figure it out myself!
Thanks. Happy Thanksgiving to you, too.
That was a nice article.
The Puritans escaped persecution in England. Only to do the very same thing here they escaped from.
My ancestors from England. 3 of them signed the death warrant for King Charles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWoL0oGXHUM
Abraham Temple came to the new world and landed at Salem MA 1635-36. He had been financed by William Finnese (SIC) who wanted to establish a title in the Conn area and become lord of the area. Abraham ducked out and stayed in Salem, and then moved to Concord where his son, Richard, had a sawmill on Spensors brook. That was the start of the family line in the forest products history in the USA.
....I had to look for a couple of minutes to figure it out myself!
Yoda, you seek Yoda
Seriously.
The 1599 Geneva has been recently released. i use it as my main English Bible. The study notes are exceedingly helpful. It was reproduced by Tolle Lege Press, and at a quite reasonable price.
My wife and i both have a copy and use it. It was less than $60.
The only changes have been that the spelling and certain changes (such as the apostrophe to indicate possession) have been moderenized. However, the text is original 1599 Geneva.
The images might be tidy and neat and unable to convey the messy realities. Yes, the tidy images are the best on planet earth. No images in Buddhism, Hinduism, etc. are as powerful as Thanksgiving Pilgrims and Christmas shepherds.
“They also left a lasting legacy through the separation of church and state.” Lame.
They left a lasting legacy of the hierarchy with church and state where the state’s politicians assist the church leaders who prepare society for the Lord. Get with the program. Yes, Bible Gateway is awesome.
3 years later my ancestors came on the New Netherland to New York,,,most of the passengers were Walloons/Huguenots and had known the Pilgrims at the same church in Leyden, Holland where they had fled from France...
BTW there were at least 4 Huguenots on the Mayflower...
Jamestown was up and running for a decade before these glory hog Pilgrims stopped for a beer run at Plymouth Rock.
Thanks Tolerance Sucks Rocks.
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