Founder of European Graphic Novels+, Aug '23 on Lemm.ee. With super-gratitude towards some ‘Blazing & Rimming’ Dudes for enabling our move, in which now we can abide. :D
Let’s rewind a bit, shall we? I wasn’t expecting any conspiracy theories, but when the commenter above stated:
Also, they want to drown out legitimate sources.
That sounded like an interesting assertion, possibly hinting at a group-level effort, which is why I asked them. Thanks for adding in your opinion, I guess.
Easy, now. I do think that chatter in this thread has produced some good candidate groups, however.
Haha, it felt a bit shades of ((((they)))), yes. Anyway, I was just curious if you had any particular group in mind.
It’s not a significant question, so no worries!
Yeah, I’m just curious who you suppose the people in question might be. Just a random distribution, or could there be some type of pattern there?
they want to drown out legitimate sources.
Who would “they” be, in these cases?
TBC, he’s a professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology, so yes, a type of biologist.
As for the people ‘hoping’ that humans might one day evolve in to the sixth form of crab, he also points out that all five existing crabs developed from Decapods (10-legged arthropods). So humans already have a load of work to do simply getting to that starting line!
But then you’re making up new standards of evidence for historical characters, and only applying them to Jesus.
Absolutely false, right from the get-go, Bob.
(hmm, “gecko…?,” but anyway)
The whole point of what I said above is to understand things from an historians and archeologists’ POV. You know-- the ones who generally try their best to strictly adhere to known facts & reality?
Such criteria is commonly applied to virtually EVERY significant figure in history, Bob. So then, are you actually (haha) asking for a special exception for someone possibly known as Y’shua ben Josef during his lifetime, who later got turned in to an almost impossibly, legendary figure by political, financial and religious institutions…?
You know, that “Jesus Christ” figure, later whitewashed in to being a tall, pale Euro-type dude, and not the actual short, Semitic dude which he almost certainly was. (if he ever existed in the first place)
I sure hope not, anyway, because that would not be the “Bob” we all know and love.
Which is fine as far as it goes, yet does very little if anything to address the body of the above concerns.
While “Jesus” likely had something to do with an actual person who once lived, nailing down the details of his life and history seems highly problematic from a scholarly & historical POV, and as for embellishment, amalgamation and distortion… all such things are highly possible, and even highly likely, AFAIK.
I like this reasoning a lot, however:
#2. In terms of there being a real-life Y’shua, AFAIK it’s hard to know if such a person ever really existed in the first place, or if they were in fact more of an amalgamated ‘King Arthur’ / ‘Robin Hood’ type, very much inspired by earlier legends & mythology, and greatly elaborated upon in later years, via oral traditions, before finally being documented hither & tither by various writers scattered around the region.
AFAIK there is no archeological evidence whatsoever for that exact person’s existence, and no contemporaneous writing from the time, describing his life.
Hmm, you’re not mixing up the robotic-looking guy who has a ‘face,’ with the deranged lunatic who recently made things ‘more efficient,’ are you? First row, second column:
https://www.celebheights.com/s/M24.html