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Word is made flesh as God reveals himself... as a fish
The Observer (U.K.) ^
| 03/16/03
| Edward Helmore
Posted on 03/15/2003 5:11:19 PM PST by Pokey78
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To: doug from upland; Mudboy Slim
We may need a SONG here...
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posted on
03/15/2003 6:34:58 PM PST
by
nutmeg
(Liberate Iraq - Support Our Troops!)
To: aculeus; Happygal; general_re; Pokey78
Just some feminist-
Faulknerian cult -- "My capital-M Mother is a capital-F Fish."
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posted on
03/15/2003 6:36:29 PM PST
by
dighton
To: Jeff Chandler
This story has been floundering for months....
NeverGore
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posted on
03/15/2003 6:47:54 PM PST
by
nevergore
(Stupid is as stupid does....)
To: Darheel
Well consider that many Christians eat God every Sunday in the form of a wafer.
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posted on
03/15/2003 6:55:02 PM PST
by
garbanzo
(Free people will set the course of history)
To: garbanzo
excuse me, there is a problem with that?
To: Pokey78
New Square? This is the town in which virtually every household is getting a federal government housing subsidy.
And this is the town that gave Hillary about 99% of their vote. And this is the town where Clinton commuted the sentences of four Hasadim who had defrauded the government.
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posted on
03/15/2003 7:04:12 PM PST
by
jackbill
To: Pokey78; dighton
It's not Crap..I mean Carp, that's SUSHI! ;-)
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posted on
03/15/2003 7:05:00 PM PST
by
Happygal
To: Pokey78
Slow news day?
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....
If you want on or off this list, please let me know!
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posted on
03/15/2003 7:06:46 PM PST
by
mhking
(Fasten your seatbelts....We're goin' in!)
To: Happygal
......Pronounced "croppy" in polite society.
;-)
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posted on
03/15/2003 7:09:26 PM PST
by
dighton
To: Pokey78
God appears in their midst -- and they butcher Him.
Anyone else get a strange sense of deja vu?
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posted on
03/15/2003 7:10:26 PM PST
by
TXnMA
((No Longer!!!))
To: dighton
Is that ''The Crappy (oops, I mean, Croppy) Boy''?
How nice, on the eve of St. Patrick's Day! ;-)
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posted on
03/15/2003 7:13:57 PM PST
by
Happygal
To: TXnMA
No joke...I mean, you hate to be stereotypical, but God shows up in their midst, and rather thatn rush him down to their rabbi, they fillet him and put him on the menu. That God is valuable, you know.
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posted on
03/15/2003 7:21:17 PM PST
by
way-right-of-center
(I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.-- Will Rogers)
To: Pokey78
Billy Bass with a beanie?
To: Pokey78
Bah, its nothing really at all that unusual....
http://www.yoot.com/
Amid the desert heat of Egypt and the river waters of the Nile Delta, an American-led team begins the search for the elusive Seaman. Finding the legendary creature may lend clues and help raise the veil of mystery that has surrounded the Seaman for over 4,500 years.
Scientists soon hope to be able to study and research the Seaman in its natural habitat, a feat never before accomplished on such a major scale. The expedition team, led by renowned American explorer Andrew Resnick, will be building upon research initially done by Professor Jean Paul Gassé in the 1930s. Gassé was the French scientist first credited with the discovery of the Seaman.
The key to the entire expedition will be to track down the Seamans natural habitat, which could cover various waterways and bodies along a 100-mile stretch of the Nile. No scientific eye within the modern world has recorded the life of the Seaman in the wild. Even Dr. Gassés research on the animal was done with eggs grown in captivity. The evolution of the Seaman holds many secrets and with theories linking the Seaman to ancient Egyptian civilization, the expedition team hopes to answer some of them.
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posted on
03/15/2003 7:24:07 PM PST
by
machman
To: tet68
To: TXnMA
Does this mean that there will now be a Third Coming?
To: TomGuy
John Cleese when asked to comment remarked, You mean the fish called Wanda?
To: Pokey78
More on the seaman.
Local legends in and around the Nile Delta Region tells of a mysterious animal called the Man of the Sea that spoke to humans and possessed great knowledge of the ancient world. Much of the legend and mythos surrounding the Seaman has to do with the fact that there is so little hard evidence on the creature. Even though one was bred in captivity and was on display in aquariums across Japan, it remains a mystery as to what the creature is or how it will evolve. Sightings of the creature are rare and interaction with one in the wild is even more so.
Many of the theories brought forth by Dr. Jean Paul Gassé (credited with the discovery of Seaman) and the Anthro-Bio Archaeology community help to support the legend and are still hotly debated today.
Much of the speculation surrounds Seamans connection to ancient Egypt. The greatest mystery of the ancient Egyptian civilization is the sudden appearance of an advanced society in the middle of the desert. Normally, intermediate steps can be observed in the development of any civilization. There have been, however, absolutely no such discoveries that could explain the development of ancient Egypt. Some people have even tried to tie the existence of these creatures to creatures from outer space. The reasoning behind their theory was that the ancient Egyptian civilization appeared suddenly, with unknown origins and was technologically advanced enough to build pyramids -- a feat of engineering that is challenging enough with modern equipment and technology.
Images of Seaman began appearing in ancient Egypt around 2600 B.C., after the ancient third dynasty, as wall paintings. The third dynasty is famous for being the beginning of the rush to build pyramids. Prior to that time, there is no record of the existence of Seaman, and after the later half of the third dynasty hardly any drawings of Seaman exist. There are, moreover, absolutely no records of how the pyramids were constructed.
Dr. Gassé hypothesized that because this creature could interact and speak with human beings, it served as a medium to transmit human knowledge. He came to believe that the knowledge necessary to construct the pyramids was somehow entrusted in Seaman, and then spread to other ancient civilizations as well. Considering all the conditions, Professor Gassé constructed the hypothesis that a living creature (i.e. Seaman) could take the knowledge that existed during the third dynasty, and cross oceans to spread the knowledge to other lands. Gassé even started to believe that the creatures spread knowledge to other civilizations that propagated and flourished. Moreover, he felt that it was through Seaman that ancient Egyptian mathematics were transmitted.
A rare underwater photo...
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posted on
03/15/2003 7:30:41 PM PST
by
machman
To: machman
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