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your Epiphany meditation
[Poll #902312]
*Yes, yes, I know, the locusts were probably actually the fruits of the carob tree, not the swarmy crawly things with eyes. But the honey was probably actually honeydew, which is even closer to being bug pee than *normal* honey, so it evens out.
**I have been giving the people in my Sunday School coloring pictures brown skin for a long time now.***** One of the kids called me on it today for the first time, and said Jesus and Mary were white, and when I asked him why, he said, well, for one thing, they always are in every picture he'd ever seen of them. I hope I managed to both teach him a little about the limits of race and teach him to think twice about things that are just "always" without, you know, confusing him even further. (At least he wasn't bored!)
Besides, we don't have any peach markers left.
***Actually, hasn't he been on the Report yet? Stephen should totally invite him if he hasn't.
****Well, it's a better explanation than the one in Matthew, anyway! And I've read some interesting Biblical analyses which point out that Christ, and the early Church, and probably John too, were bankrolled largely by wealthy widows.
*****I also colored my Temple all bright and stripy today. I'm on a one-woman mission to remind people that all those old ruins used to be painted! Pretty colors! Because they were. And then maybe it'll catch on and when I do my house all frescoes and murals the neighbors won't complain.
*Yes, yes, I know, the locusts were probably actually the fruits of the carob tree, not the swarmy crawly things with eyes. But the honey was probably actually honeydew, which is even closer to being bug pee than *normal* honey, so it evens out.
**I have been giving the people in my Sunday School coloring pictures brown skin for a long time now.***** One of the kids called me on it today for the first time, and said Jesus and Mary were white, and when I asked him why, he said, well, for one thing, they always are in every picture he'd ever seen of them. I hope I managed to both teach him a little about the limits of race and teach him to think twice about things that are just "always" without, you know, confusing him even further. (At least he wasn't bored!)
Besides, we don't have any peach markers left.
***Actually, hasn't he been on the Report yet? Stephen should totally invite him if he hasn't.
****Well, it's a better explanation than the one in Matthew, anyway! And I've read some interesting Biblical analyses which point out that Christ, and the early Church, and probably John too, were bankrolled largely by wealthy widows.
*****I also colored my Temple all bright and stripy today. I'm on a one-woman mission to remind people that all those old ruins used to be painted! Pretty colors! Because they were. And then maybe it'll catch on and when I do my house all frescoes and murals the neighbors won't complain.
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Q: "Very Secret Disciple Diaries" - good or bad idea?
PS: whatever happened to that WNRY chapter that was up and I was going to come back to?
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LJ has been wreaking havoc with my custom groups ever since Gerald Ford died, so, hrm. I will email you the whole shebang this morning. I'm SO ALMOST FINISHED. With the first draft, ARGH.
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(Actually I'm in no way committed to the idea that the people of Nazareth looked noticeably un-white (or at least un-Caucasian) - it could go either way really - but it's a darn sight easier to color them that way with a basic 8-color marker or crayon set!)
Bugs I've heard a couple of stories. But really, if you go with the non-bugs story, it turns out he was basically living on the equivalent of home-made *chocolate sauce* and how awesome is *that*??