Posted on 09/17/2024 3:06:27 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Immortal mystery man reported in 18th Century London, Paris, virtuoso violinist, multilingual, never explained his origins. Voltaire mentions him as a man who never dies.
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There can be only one.
Are you sure you don’t mean ‘The Seventh Seal’ directed by Ingmar Bergman, the Swede? I saw it a ‘ton’ of years ago.
Black & White.
I tried that line at the DMV to explain why I didn’t have a birth certificate.
They didn’t buy it.
LOL for real!
And a Rolling Stones song about sympathy for someone...
“There can be only One.”
Maybe he’s the one.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s
The Haunters and the Haunted covers this quite nicely and was in before all the others, I believe.
Well, He died. Got better, though.
There are a bunch of them in legend and literature. The Wandering Jew, Elijah who revisits the earth on special occasions and for special people, The Ancient Mariner, the Flying Dutchman, The White Browed Elder who founded the Bok Mei Pai (”white browed elder”) school of Kung Fu (see Tarantino’s Kill Bill), and of course Elvis and Kenny on South Park.
Perry Rhodan science fiction series had a man named Atlan who was over ten thousand years old. He had a cell refresher inserted in his body which continually refreshed his cells with younger cells. Immortality
Nah, Elvis died when Lisa Marie married Michael Jackson.
There was a shyster in Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco who made the same claim. Other occultists “outed” him.
I remember an old skit about longevity on the Milton Berle Show. When he shows scientists the fluid that keeps him young one of the scientists grabs it and gulps it down!
Berle says: “You were supposed to soak your feet in it!”
I always wondered if Lazarus might be wandering around to this day.
Lazarus died and was raised from the dead.
The Bible states that it is ordained for man to die but once.
Lazarus did die and Jesus raised him from the dead. Would Jesus allow his friend Lazarus to face death a second time?
The Bible does not mention Lazarus again so we are left to guess the answer to that question.
I would think that if Lazarus was taken to heaven we would have been informed of that by the gospels.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17953/pg17953-images.html#VI
The Haunters and the Haunted story. Great read!
Let’s not forget the Wandering Jew, condemned to live and wander the earth until Jesus comes again.
“Weird, I saw this video about this very guy the other day.”
So did I. Watched the movie. Very hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKtjZxAp5lk
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