Posted on 02/23/2007 5:50:36 AM PST by Rb ver. 2.0
Atmosphere, glass windows, water...
Anyway, the who discussion began over someone's tagline post (don't remember who, or I'd ping him) of the speed of light as not just being a good idea, it's the LAW!
To which I retorted that it's a changing law depending on where you are observing the light.
The really interesting thing about light is its energyless acceleration after it passes out of a slowing medium.
To answer both your posts. The biblical account is that soldiers guarded the tomb of Christ. But no matter who guarded it they had everything to lose if they permitted the theft of Jesus' bones.
Re: the bones of Buddha and mummies. Even cremation will not burn away all bone matter. Especially cremation not done in a commercial crematory. The cremains will contain bits of bone and of course there will be ash. So evidence of a body does remain. Also cremation was not a custom for body disposal in the ancient Middle East.
PS. I love the Mark Twain quote. Thanks for the laugh.
2,000 year old cave containing ten coffins. Six of the ten coffins were carved with inscriptions reading the names: Jesua son of Joseph, Mary, Mary, Matthew, Jofa (Joseph, identified as Jesus brother), Judah son of Jesua (Jesus son - the filmmakers claim).
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought in Jewish tradition at that time, they didn't have coffins. I read that they leave the body wrapped but exposed for about a year, then they retrieve the bones and put them in small boxes.
My favorite method of disposal of bodies is that of the Zoroasterians.
Their towers of silence exposed the bodies to carrion eating birds. Thus they would not contaminate any of the "four elements": Air,fire, earth or water.
My point was that the absence of a body does not prove presence of G-d.
I was only pointing at that it is actually vey difficult to get rid of all evidence of a body's existence.
The putting out the body for carrion birds could get popular again. Especially for hit and runs, I mean it works for racoon roadkill why not for Uncle Harvey?
Plus the practice is much cheaper than your average funeral. Less stress on the family too. Carrion birds do not demand a check in advance and they never foul up the eulogy.
thanks go to GoLightly and xcamel for compiling the list (thus far) of such topics:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789769/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1789966/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790456/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1790579/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1790608/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1790818/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790884/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1790953/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791244/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1791251/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791352/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791365/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791383/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791513/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791544/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791583/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791588/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791610/posts
I do look forward to his next film that will denounce Muhammad as a pedophile, demon possessed thug. /s
It's from a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill.
by Jodi Magness
Jodi Magness is the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received a Ph.D. in classical archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Archaeology and History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has participated on more than 20 excavations in Israel and Greece, and currently directs excavations in the Roman fort at Yotvata, Israel. Her publications include an award-winning book on The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Eerdmans 2002) and an article entitled "Ossuaries and the Burials of Jesus and James," Journal of Biblical Literature 124 (2005).
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