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Posted on 12/21/2023 12:15:38 PM PST by CottonBall
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Why, exit!
I’m appalled!
I’m dismayed!
I’m disappointed!
I’m over acting!
I’m also DELIGHTED!
*evil grin*
Ohhhhhhhhhh Pax!
Exit’s starting trouble in The Canteen on New Years Day!
Would you have a word, please??
*snicker*
Just read about DeWine veto
decades ago he as so promising when he attended our mentor meetings
Sad
Do you remember joe Benning. ? He was activated back to coast guard in Cleveland.during DssertvStorm He was a chief PO n all the chiefs sold hot dogs at Browns games with profits to families of fallen. I helped quite a bit. Very cold
He was head of maintenance at University chicago prior. After gulf war ended he stayed in Ohio Moved to middle of state & does farming. Lots of critters. Not sure he’s on FR any more n I can’t recall his screenname. See him on FB now n then.
I couldn’t understand what he was talking about in that clip. I thought I heard him say that he speaks to someone regularly. Maybe someone asked him if he ever spoke with Obama.
Hi Sweetie!
Happy New Year!
It says “not found.”
Hmmm.....
freepmail when you have a minute please and thank you!
Oh dear. I shouldn’t post when like this
I was not doing that great yesterday or today. AFib acting up. I need to go to mt Airy (maybery RFD) to get a key for my Toyota van. keys don’t open door just remote. Electrical issues wear on battery. My cardiologist is in same area so I’ll drop in if heart doesn’t get in Rhythm by then
No hangovers. We got up late and felt fine. For our main meal, I made pasta and Italian sausage in my red sauce. Had a little red wine too to top it off.
It hit 72 today, but we're headed back down with some rain on the way. Didn't feel any of the earthquakes.
I use the Smith and Wesson firm.
From a friend from school
Jesus a Jew not Palestinian
I’m seeing a lot of commentary about how “Jesus was Palestinian” - even from friends I would otherwise consider academics. I’m also seeing pics of nativities where baby Jesus is wrapped in a Keffiyeh (I have feelings about that). So, I’m taking the rare step of chiming in because this actually is my wheelhouse (my two degrees being in Religious Studies and Genealogy).
First, let me say the (hopefully) most obvious part out loud: Jesus was a Jew. This is actually not up for debate. The real, historical Jesus (actual name: Yeshua ben Yosef) was a Jew born in the Roman province of Judea (translate: “Land of the Jews”) to a Judean Mizrahi Jewish father (Yosef) and a Galileean Mizrahi Jewish mother (Miriam). We know that he wore the tzitzit and was well-versed in Torah - enough so that his followers called him “Rabbi”. We also have an extensive genealogy that traces his lineage to King David of the Tribe of Judah (we cannot prove this to current genealogical standards, but even without the genealogy we can solidly say Jesus was a Judean Jew).
I get it. Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, lies in what is NOW the Palestinian West Bank. That does not make him magically, retroactively, a Palestinian. Actually, the words “Palestine” and “Palestinian” would have been meaningless to Jesus and his contemporaries, as the moniker “Syria-Palestina” was not placed on the region until approximately 100 years after Jesus’ death - and it was only done by the Roman Empire as an insult to the Jews and in an attempt to alienate them from their homeland. Furthermore, the term “Palestinian” used to refer to a cohesive ethnic identity didn’t occur until the 1960’s. Just to be clear, that’s about 1,930 years after Jesus’ death.
Let me put it this way: saying “Jesus was Palestinian” is like saying “Pocahontas was a citizen of the United States of America”. It’s not only historically inaccurate, it’s also pretty offensive.
Now, bear with me because I’m about to get even more genealogical on you. The people we currently call “Palestinians” trace their heritage back to the Bronze Age Canaanites. By the Iron Age, the region was split into the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judea (both ethnically-religiously Jewish). In the 7th century BCE, the Assyrian army captured a portion of the Kingdom of Israel, known as Samaria. This is where we start to see a clear ethnic schism. The population of Samaria mixed heavily with the Assyrian conquerors and became distinct (genetically and religiously) from their Jewish neighbors. This brings us to the time of Jesus. While Jesus was very clearly NOT a Samaritan, having no Samaritan relatives and not being born nor raised in Samaria, modern day Palestinians, you might have guessed, can trace much of their heritage to the Samaritans. But it goes even further than that. About 600 years after the death of Jesus came the Muslim conquests of Israel. At this time, a great deal of Arab and Persian influence (cultural, linguistic, and genetic) entered the region while the Jews were pushed out (violently, if they did not flee of their own accord). In much needed summary, the Palestinians are descended from the indigenous Samaritan population mixed with the Arab conquerors. Mizrahi Jews remained as an ever-constant presence in Israel and the Levant, albeit under heavy oppression, while the Jews of the exile mixed to an extent with their host countries (giving us the Sephardic Jews and Ashkenazi Jews).
So, regardless of where Bethlehem now lies geo-politically, Jesus was not a “Palestinian”. You cannot retroactively change someone’s identity based on ever-flowing political boundaries. Not ethnically, not regionally, not religiously. Having said that, I think most scholars of Jesus would agree that, were he alive in the flesh today, Jesus would be absolutely horrified by the violence being perpetrated on both sides of this disgusting conflict. During his three year ministry, we know that Jesus ministered to his fellow Jews, he ministered to the Samaritans, and he even ministered to the Gentiles. Jesus was about building bridges between people and breaking down societal barriers. He undoubtedly would have recognized that Jews and Palestinians have more in common (and this is true genealogically) than they have differences. They are, in a very real sense of the term, cousins.
To quote the shortest verse in the New Testament:
“Jesus wept.”
Star Trek NTG
To Boldly Go Where NO Man Has Ever Gone Before!
Hey!
This is kinda Stupid fun!
Lol Ms.B., I don’t know what happened to you last night, but I’m not keeping up with the program at all lol. What’s in those black-eyed peas anyway? Star Trek? Sup with that?
StarsandStripesFOREVER
stars & stripes forever
Sun of a gun
There’s really two FReepers with the same name, differing only slightly? Wow.
Thanks Judy!
Just came to bring in the NEW Year 2024 to You and All!
Let’s Make AMERICA GREAT AGAIN WITH PRESISDENT TRUMP 2024!
God Bless and Happy New Year!
My brother in El Paso
I told him to be careful he said why?
I said illegals migrants
He laughed and said you don’t believe all that Trump nonsense? There’s no problem at border. Trump is the reason there was when Biden took over
Brother Duane- He’s got it bad
President Trump 2024!
President Trump 2024!
Those decade birthdays give us pause.
60 was really hard for me mentally. I was still fully active but it just seemed so OLD
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