The Shroud Of Turin

[Archaic]

Oh, I was thinking about the pongy fish wrapper. I really hope "pongy" is not a dirty word in your neck of the world.

Hi Cel. English friends have kindly taught me some dirty UK slang so i will teach it to you and hopefully save you from committing forum hari-kari.
Funny how the dirtiest words seem to be the most innocuous sounding.

Robert, how much you want for that JC postcard? I'm interested. Thinking of starting up a collection.



Cheers,
Archaic

[Stephen Thomas]

Null pwaarnts for that one Robert

[Robert]

As in "The Eurovision Pong Contest."

[Stephen Thomas]

Oh, I was thinking about the pongy fish wrapper. I really hope "pongy" is not a dirty word in your neck of the world.

Hi Celesta

Pong=bad smell. Pongy=bad smelling

[Celesta]

Hi Celesta

"Tuck" is public school slang for "food" or "goodies."

I don't think they had postcards in Jesus' day, though it's quite possible the Post Office will deliver a card tomorrow 2000 years late - and that with a first class stamp.

Dear dad

I'm fed up with slumming. I must have earned a knighthood by now.

All the celebrities are sleeping out with the poor. It's no fun any more.

I need a hot bath.

Yours

JC

Oh, I was thinking about the pongy fish wrapper. I really hope "pongy" is not a dirty word in your neck of the world.

[johnjobie]

thanks tom but i dont think the vaticans hiding the fact that there are gay priest are not really conspiracies everyone know there gay hahahhahhaha and i dont believe in god so hows that? i think what we should refer as gods are those people who attain an ultimate place in everyone's mind and heart and we shoud not believe in the word of god in bible because its not true because the original bible has been burned long time ago

[Robert]

Hi Celesta

"Tuck" is public school slang for "food" or "goodies."

I don't think they had postcards in Jesus' day, though it's quite possible the Post Office will deliver a card tomorrow 2000 years late - and that with a first class stamp.

Dear dad

I'm fed up with slumming. I must have earned a knighthood by now.

All the celebrities are sleeping out with the poor. It's no fun any more.

I need a hot bath.

Yours

JC

[Celesta]

I thought Tuck was the royal postcard producer. Are you saying he & company went from fish-wrappers to postcards?

[Robert]

Suzi, I have the holy tuck box. The loaves have gone stale and the fishes pong a bit, but hey, it's 2000 years.

[Suzi]

I'm an agnostic, so I suppose I could be deficient in religious feeling. But, well, we've had the holy foreskin, and the holy grail, and now it's the holy shroud, with for all I know the holy toenail clippings still to come. Doesn't all this interest amount to something bordering on idolatry?

Not to mention the Holy Tuck Box confiscated on that Thursday night by Matron!!!

[Robert]

I'm an agnostic, so I suppose I could be deficient in religious feeling. But, well, we've had the holy foreskin, and the holy grail, and now it's the holy shroud, with for all I know the holy toenail clippings still to come. Doesn't all this interest amount to something bordering on idolatry?

[Jonathan H]

Ally, I'm talking about secondary, not primary sources.

To Celesta,

Thank-you, very interesting.

[Celesta]

Elaine Pagels wrote about Mary, Thomas, and the Gnostics, but, as I haven't read her books yet, I hesitated to mention her. I did read the Gospel of Thomas and The Gospel Of Mary. While I see some similarities in the teachings, they're also different in tone from the NT. I've never been able to warm up to the Gnostics and have only read one book on them, The Gnostic Gospels by Tobias Churton and that was several years ago.
This sounds rather different than the NT to me, from The Gospel of Mary.

Then Peter said to him, "You have been explaining every topic to us; tell us one other thing. What is the sin of the world?"
The Savior replied, "There is no such thing as sin; rather you yourselves are what produces sin when you act in accordance with the nature of adultery, which is called 'sin.' For this reason, the Good came among you, pursuing (the good) which belongs to every nature. It will set it within its root."
Then he continued. He said, "This is why you get si[c]k and die: because [you love] what de[c]ei[ve]s [you]. [Anyone who] thinks should consider (these matters)!
"[Ma]tter gav[e bi]rth to a passion which has no Image because it derives from what is contrary to nature. A disturbing confusion then occurred in the whole body. That is why I told you, 'Become content at heart, while also remaining discontent and disobedient; indeed become contented and agreeable (only) in the presence of that other Image of nature.' Anyone with two ears capable of hearing should listen!"



The tone of it is a bit more complex than the Gospels, or so it seems to me.

[Celesta]

In my opinion, the shroud came out of Battlecrease.

Isn't that where they make the cereal, Robert? Battlecrease, Michigan?


So good to see you here.

[Ally]

To Ally,

Simply because being professional they have written something I can access, as opposed to something which is unpublished and not accessible.

What do you mean unpublished and not accessible?

http://www.gnosis.org/library/marygosp.htm