[gcruse]

True lies.
One of the central themes of "Crack in the Cosmic Egg," a new age mystic book from the seventies, was that what we discover is dictated by what we want to find. We create reality by wishing it so. Of course, the fate of alchemy refutes this neatly, but, hey, it sounds to groovy to say.... "I love the Mommas and the Papas, and the..," oops. Sorry.

Anyway, the ossuary Jesus inscription is a phony as proved by the patina. All else is Magical realism, aka, true lies, aka, wishful thinking.

[SJackson]

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[ruoflaw]

I like you alot but I disagree with you on this. Some archaeologists do try to prove an artifact is something it is not however, you can always tell when there is an important find because the experts will argue their points for years and all to often, they make it personal instead of dealing with just the facts. I am not into new age msystic stuff but I do have a large carton of artifacts in my house just waiting to be cleaned and identified and I can always use expert help....but none of it has a patina