Posted on 03/18/2006 4:40:46 AM PST by billorites
It's still "Booz" in the King James Version.
"So.....Michelangelo was a fag. I did not know that."
Apparently he was, from all reports.
I have it on good authority that Don Wildmon of the AFA is going to call for a boycott of the Vatican, especially the Sistine chapel, for supporting the homosexual agenda. Watch for the press release.
Maybe he was Booz when they gleaned the grapes, and Boaz when they gleaned the wheat.
LOL!
Stopped reading after this ...
You're not the only one...
Don't know about old Michelangelo, but the joker who wrote this article sure is!!
That is, if he'd be allowed to explore and exploit his artistic gifts in whatever medium it took him to. Speaking as an artist, I can say that no matter how good you may be with one medium, you can't force yourself to be as good with another. Michelangelo, from what I know, was one of those rare artists who could pick up pretty much any form of artistic expression and excel at it. And these days, everyone seems to want art "just so" and to heck with expressing yourself in the way you want to; follow the trends! What I do doesn't follow the trends, not really. I don't think Michelangelo would, either - and thus, he likely wouldn't become famous if he did this art now instead of when he did.
Of course, if he'd been born today, he probably wouldn't've needed to be so discreet about his preferences, and who knows whether his art would then show such appreciation of the male physique?
But really, this is all speculation :P
~Moshi-chan
Thanks for the ping :)
~Moshi-chan
That's a good point. Many of the great men and women of history happened to be at the right place at the right time. It doesn't detract from their accomplishments, but it does add an element of luck.
Had George Washington been born in Thailand, for example, odds are we'd never have heard of him and he might not have ever accomplished anything noteworthy.
Exactly - and I doubt his name would've been "George Washington", lol!
It's every bit as much the setting the person lives in and grows up in as the person themself that influences their work. It's been shown again and again in history. :)
~Moshi-chan
(hmmm)
Leni
"Anyone who knows the details of the Nagasaki mission, original target
was Kokura, knows that that claim is bulls***."
OK, I'm wrong.
The cathedral was not the aim sight.
I went back and spent about a hour googling and it seems that the
aiming sight falsehood grew from the story of the Catholic chaplain that went
pacifist after WWII. (an example of the chaplain's POV is at
http://chrisbroussard.blogspot.com/)
So that my error won't be repeated by others, here's plenty of
documentary evidence that the cathedral was NOT the aiming sight.
http://www.lycos.com/info/nagasaki--cities.html
At 11:02, a last minute break in the clouds over Nagasaki allowed Bock's Car's bombardier, Capt. Kermit Beahan, to visually sight the target as ordered. The "Fat Man" weapon, containing a core of ~6.4 kg of plutonium-239, was dropped over the city's industrial valley. It exploded 469 meters (1,540 feet) above the ground almost midway between the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works, in the south, and the Mitsubishi-Urakami Ordnance Works (Torpedo Works), in the north, the two principal targets of the city.
http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/earns/olivi.html
The "Fat Man" weapon, containing a core of ~6.4 kg of plutonium-239, was dropped over the city's industrial valley. It exploded 469 meters (1,540 feet) above the ground about halfway between the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works in the south, and the Mitsubishi-Urakami Ordnance Works (Torpedo Works) in the north, the two principal targets in the city.
Well, someone's ignorant. Check Matthew 1:5. You'll find old Booz there in the geneology leading to Jesus.
It's always good to check before writing.
Oh, really. In the book of Ruth which is the author's reference the name in the KJV as well as other popular translations is always rendered Boaz. Only in Mt and Lu is the Gr name Boes or Boos translated Booz in a few renderings of the KJV. But Booz sounds so much more clever.
"Oh, really. In the book of Ruth which is the author's reference the name in the KJV as well as other popular translations is always rendered Boaz. Only in Mt and Lu is the Gr name Boes or Boos translated Booz in a few renderings of the KJV. But Booz sounds so much more clever.
"
See, the thing is that I know that, already. It's one of those funny little things about the KJV. Those old Elizabethans just couldn't keep their names straight.
I've seen the Booz error, or mistransliteration, in every copy of the KJV I've owned. It's just an amusing thing...not even an error. Just a mistyping. It does make you wonder a bit how many more little "goofs" there are in the KJV.
I don't make many mistakes in referencing Matthew. I once had it, and the other three Gospels commited to memory. I can't recite them any more, but I can tell you chapter and verse for any KJV quote from them. How's that for a useless skill?
In his day he was known as old Boozie
"In his day he was known as old Boozie"
Careful. Those Old Testament guys were pretty good at smiting folks. Heck, one Old Testament prophet, Elisha, called up a bunch of she-bears to tear some young boys limb from limb. Their crime? They taunted him with "Go up, bald one." They were referring, of course to Elijah, Elisha's mentor, who had been taken up into heaven in a cloud. But Old Elisha took serious offense to their taunts and cursed them. Boy, I'll bet those boys were surprised when the she-bears showed up and killed them. That'll teach children not to tease their elders, I bet.
Read all about it in II Kings. One of the good stories in the Old Testament. A cautionary tale with which to caution disobedient and insolent children. "Cut that nonsense out, you kids, or the she-bears'll getcha!" Bet you didn't learn that one in Sunday School.
And I didn't even know there were bears in that part of the world.
I was threatened with a pit of lions
Yah, that's pretty scary, too. My parents, atheists that they were, just stuck with the run-of-the-mill bogeyman, and skipped all the cool Old Testament stuff.
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