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May 25, 2012 15:45:51 GMT -6
Post by auntym on May 25, 2012 15:45:51 GMT -6
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/25/jesus-crucifixion-date-possible_n_1546351.html?1337974887&icid=maing-grid7 Jesus' Crucifixion Date Possibly Friday April 3, 33 A.D., According To Earthquake Study
The Huffington Post By Samreen Hooda Posted: 05/25/2012 A new study suggests that the Biblical date of Jesus' crucifixion is, in fact, possible to confirm. The International Geology Review investigated an earthquake that was said to have occurred the same date as Jesus' crucifixion; which was most likely Friday April 3, 33 A.D. In Gospel of of Matthew, Chapter 27 says: “And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open.” According to Discovery News, geologist Jefferson Williams of Supersonic Geophysical and colleagues Markus Schwab and Achim Brauer of the German Research Center for Geosciences, analyzed earthquake activity in the area by studying three cores from the Ein Gedi Spa beach. The research confirmed that two major earthquakes have hit the area specified, one during the period between 26 BCE and 36 CE, and could be the one referred to in the Gospel of Matthew. However, the earthquake data alone doesn't fully confirm the date. Williams, Schwab, and Brauer admit that the earthquake implied in the gospel could be allegorical, referring to the earthquake that occurred sometime before or after the crucifixion. TO SEE SLIDESHOW & CONTINUE READING: www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/25/jesus-crucifixion-date-possible_n_1546351.html?1337974887&icid=maing-grid7
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Sept 26, 2013 14:08:58 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Sept 26, 2013 14:08:58 GMT -6
www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/alien-jesus-the-pre-modern-history-of-outer-space/279982/'Alien Jesus': The Pre-Modern History of Outer Space A 16th-century monk saw a universe full of Christs.Benjamin Breen Sep 25 2013 A few weeks ago on The Toast, Mallory Ortberg wrote a piece called “Another Lifeless, Empty Planet Found.” Beginning as a faux news report about scientists announcing their discovery of earth-like planets, it ends up sounding like Werner Herzog writing for The Onion: “In some ways,” Travers said, trying to light a cigarette with stained and trembling fingers, “it’s more of a punch in the gut than ever, finding a sun so much like our own, and a planet that exists well within the conditions to produce life but doesn’t. Like it’s a blind and gleeful mockery of our own existence. Like looking at your own empty grave and seeing your name erased from the headstone.” She lit a new cigarette from the dying embers of the old one. “There might be ice, though,” she added hopefully. Aside from being a clever satire of the “it’s a wonderful universe” school of science writing, it also raises a good question about what we expect from nature. Does everything we learn about the universe have to make us feel good about ourselves? In many ways, the history of science is the history of humans getting progressively more freaked out by their own cosmic insignificance. Most cultures' origin stories tend to be about a plucky band of survivors overcoming the odds and becoming the chosen people — or, at least, the people who really matter. Understandings of humanity’s place in nature tended to follow the same pattern: whether we’re being made out of corn by the gods of the Popul Vuh so we can “keep the days” or being given command over all the other animals by Yahweh, we like to see ourselves as being kind of a big deal in the grand scheme of things. Giordano Bruno, a renegade sixteenth-century monk from the Kingdom of Naples, stands out as a true eccentric in this regard. Even today, his ideas sound slightly crazy: just last spring, in fact, I befuddled a lunch table of distinguished scholars at the Huntington Library by inadvisedly bringing up Bruno’s “alien Jesus” theory. Let me explain.In his 1584 book On the Infinite Universe and Worlds, Bruno theorized that there is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call Void; in it are innumerable globes like this one on which we live and grow. This space we declare to be infinite… In it are an infinity of worlds of the same kind as our own. CONTINUE READING: www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/alien-jesus-the-pre-modern-history-of-outer-space/279982/
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Apr 10, 2014 12:34:01 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Apr 10, 2014 12:34:01 GMT -6
www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/science/scrap-of-papyrus-referring-to-jesus-wife-is-likely-to-be-ancient-scientists-say.html?_r=0 Papyrus Referring to Jesus’ Wife Is More Likely Ancient Than Fake, Scientists SayBy LAURIE GOODSTEIN APRIL 10, 2014 A fragment of papyrus, known as the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife,” has been analyzed by professors at Columbia University, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who reported that it resembled other ancient papyri. Credit Karen L. King/Harvard University, via Reuters A faded fragment of papyrus known as the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife,” which caused an uproar when unveiled by a Harvard Divinity School historian in 2012, has been tested by scientists who conclude in a journal published on Thursday that the ink and papyrus are very likely ancient, and not a modern forgery. Skepticism about the tiny scrap of papyrus has been fierce because it contained a phrase never before seen in any piece of Scripture: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife...’ ” Too convenient for some, it also contained the words “she will be able to be my disciple,” a clause that inflamed the debate in some churches over whether women should be allowed to be priests. The papyrus fragment has now been analyzed by professors of electrical engineering, chemistry and biology at Columbia University, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who reported that it resembles other ancient papyri from the fourth to the eighth centuries. (Scientists at the University of Arizona, who dated the fragment to centuries before the birth of Jesus, concluded that their results were unreliable.) The test results do not prove that Jesus had a wife or disciples who were women, only that the fragment is more likely a snippet from an ancient manuscript than a fake, the scholars agree. Karen L. King, the historian at Harvard Divinity School who gave the papyrus its name and fame, has said all along that it should not be regarded as evidence that Jesus married, only that early Christians were actively discussing celibacy, sex, marriage and discipleship. “I took very seriously the comments of such a wide range of people that it might be a forgery,” Dr. King said in an interview this week. She said she is now very confident it is genuine. “When you have all the evidence pointing in one direction, it doesn’t make it 100 percent, but history is not a place where 100 percent is a common thing,” Dr. King said. The new information may not convince those scholars and bloggers who say the text is the work of a rather sloppy forger keen to influence contemporary debates. The Harvard Theological Review, which is publishing Dr. King’s long-delayed, peer-reviewed paper online on Thursday, is also publishing a rebuttal by Leo Depuydt, a professor of Egyptology at Brown University, who declares the fragment so patently fake that it “seems ripe for a Monty Python sketch.” Dr. King presented the fragment with fanfare at a conference in Rome in September 2012, but was besieged by criticism because the content was controversial, the lettering was suspiciously splotchy, the grammar was poor, its provenance was uncertain, its owner insisted on anonymity and its ink had not been tested. CONTINUE READING: www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/science/scrap-of-papyrus-referring-to-jesus-wife-is-likely-to-be-ancient-scientists-say.html?_r=0BOSTON GLOBE: www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/04/10/new-tests-show-evidence-forgery-gospel-jesus-wife/IusII8b4eI86HgDTKipLhN/story.html
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Mar 9, 2015 23:07:05 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Mar 9, 2015 23:07:05 GMT -6
www.ancient-code.com/researchers-believe-to-have-found-the-home-of-jesus-christ/Researchers believe to have found the home of Jesus Christby Ivan Petricevic March 8, 2015 British archaeologists from the University of Reading claim to have found a cave in Nazareth where Jesus christ supposedly lived. According to the magazine “Biblical Archaeology Review” the discovered site that is believed to be the place where Jesus was raised, was actually found in 1880 under a church but was only explored in 2006, and dates from the first century. Even though scientific evidence is something that lacks almost completely, it is believed that rulers of the Byzantine Empire ordered the building of the church to protect the site where, presumably, Mary and Joseph raised their son, who afterwards became, according to the Bible, the spiritual leader of Christianity. Researchers have found a text on the site which reads: “VII De Sanctis Locus” which is a pilgrim text identified from the year 670 AD which provides more likelihood of this assumption to be accurate. According to Ken Dark, director of the project, the excavation revealed a “home court” that was carved into the natural rock and complemented with stone walls that were built. Many of the original features remain intact inside the residence, including doors and windows. At the archaeological site, researchers have discovered tombs and a cistern. The researcher teams maintains distance from the presumption that this is in fact the house of Jesus Christ. According to Ken Dar, “given the current archaeological grounds it is impossible to say if this is in fact the place that Jesus Christ once called home, but there is also no archaeological evidence which would point to the contrary, so given the current details it is a possibility that should not be dismissed,” he concludes. CONTINUE READING: www.ancient-code.com/researchers-believe-to-have-found-the-home-of-jesus-christ/
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Feb 15, 2017 10:58:49 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Feb 15, 2017 10:58:49 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/02/apparition-of-jesus-appears-in-sky/ Apparition of Jesus Appears In Sky February 11, 2017 by MJ Banias / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/mjbanias/ A small village in the Polynesian kingdom of Tonga was graced with a divine vision. A cloud, which was similar to the image of the Virgin Mary or Jesus, hovered over the village of Halaleva. A local resident, Joey Mataele, snapped the photograph of a golden figure in the sky. Mr. Mataele stated that people in the village could clearly see a head, body and feet. It was a clear outline of the human like figure. Mataele’s niece, Onelua, told 7 News Online, We all thought it was an image of Jesus. While some people attribute this event to a divine message from heaven, skeptics state its simple pareidolia; the brain tricking the eyes into seeing familiar objects in patterns or textures. Pareidolia is pretty common. People see images of Jesus in pancakes and toast a lot. Even the so called “man on the moon” is an effect of this common visual matrixing. The fact of the matter is that it is the sign of a healthy brain when pareidolia occurs. The ventral fusiform cortex, the part of the brain where this processing occurs, is pretty efficient, and designed to establish patterns almost immediately. The average time it takes for a person to establish a pattern, especially a facial pattern, is between 130 and 160 milliseconds. This is a good thing from an evolutionary standpoint. In a fight or flight situation, a person does not really have a lot of time to sort out a friend from a guy who is going to put a stone axe into your skull. In the case of seeing Jesus or the Virgin Mary in the clouds, it really depends the the viewer. If that pattern is established by experience, imprinted in a person’s brain by their culture, then their brain will naturally use it as a data source to form the image. That means that if someone has never seen an image of Jesus before, the cloud would be perceived totally differently. Image of the Messiah or not, it’s better to err on the side of caution… so Hallelujah! Praise be! mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/02/apparition-of-jesus-appears-in-sky/
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Feb 16, 2017 14:40:57 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Feb 16, 2017 14:40:57 GMT -6
www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2017/02/daily-2-cents-white-bearded-humanoid-in.html 'Jesus' in the SkyPosted by Lon Strickler / plus.google.com/+LonStricklerWednesday, February 15, 2017 A photograph has surfaced appearing to show a divine figure in the sky above the Pacific island nation of Tonga. The image was taken by local resident, Joey Mataele, on New Year’s Day above his brother’s house in the village of Halaleva in Tongatapu. With a clear outline of a head, body and feet, and a golden glow from the sun, Mr Mataele believed it was a sign from the heavens. “This is an image that was unexpected and I know it's a miracle in my life. Thank you Lord for everything you've provided for me and my family,” he captioned the photo. Mr Mataele’s niece, Onelua, told 7 News Online that her family interpreted the image as Jesus. “They all thought it was an image of Jesus,” she said. “They were shocked, it was pretty random to see that.” Ms Mataele, 23, said her uncle took two photos of the figure as the shape was developing. In the first photo, the figure in the sky is less prominent, and is surrounded by other clouds. But it was enough for Mr Mataele, a devout Catholic, to see an image emerging. “He took one photo and then it kept getting brighter,” Ms Mataele said. In the second photo, the rest of the clouds have vanished and the shape of a person can be seen. Ms Mataele has spent most of her life living on the property in Tonga, and said she has never seen anything like it. - 'It's a miracle': Divine figure appears in clouds over Tonga MORE: www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2017/02/daily-2-cents-white-bearded-humanoid-in.html
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Feb 29, 2020 15:45:40 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Feb 29, 2020 15:45:40 GMT -6
www.ufoinsight.com/religion-politics-and-bloodlines-the-jesus-conspiracy/ Religion, Politics, And Bloodlines – The Jesus Conspiracy March 6th, 2019 Written by: Marcus Lowth The story of Jesus Christ has fascinated much of the world’s population for thousands of years. Some have followed interpretations of his life blindly and without question. Others have dismissed any notion of such a man just as hastily. Some, though, particularly throughout the twentieth century with the diminishing threat of “The Church” and accusations of heresy largely a thing of the past, have questioned both sides of those stances. Like many tales shrouded in purposeful ambiguity and enigmatic riddles, the apparent truth lays somewhere in between the unquestioning belief and the outright rejection. And furthermore, it would also appear that certain societies, families, and mysterious individuals throughout history have also known this truth. And kept it hidden from the population at large. Indeed, it would appear there is still more to learn, of the past and the future to come. And the knowledge, wisdom, and secret writings to understand exactly why this bloodline is so special in the first place. Perhaps we should start looking at the Jesus Conspiracy by returning to the around 325 AD at a time when the Roman Emperor Constantine began what would be the Christian movement, making Christianity the official religion of Rome, and in turn, over the centuries, of much of the Western World. Constantine and Sun WorshipConstantine is largely seen as having united people behind Christianity. Indeed, his title “Constantine The Great” is an apparent reflection of this. In truth, however, not only was Constantine not of the Christian faith, (at the time an “off-shoot” of Judaic teachings since the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD), his version of it was merely a mask for the ancient Sun religion whose followers worshipped the sun god, Sol Invictus. Constantine was a high priest of this ancient religion and remained so until his death. It was also a way of maintaining control over the people of Jerusalem as well as of those who practiced many of the “off-shoot” Judaic teachings. Until Constantine’s reform of the ancient texts and scriptures into what would become the New Testament, even those in the “pre-Christian” groups observed many Jewish traditions. The day of the Sabbath, for example, was on Saturday. However, Constantine would have this moved to the day of his ancient Sun worship – Sunday. The sun god, Sol Invictus was celebrated on 25th December, and so Jesus’s birthday was placed at this date accordingly. Even the Roman stories of Romulus and Remus were modified and became Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Depictions of divinity would also begin to appear with a halo. This, in reality, was another reference to the sun and Sol Invictus. Nobody questioned these changes, and it allowed those such as Constantine to follow their own ancient, mystic teachings, secretly in plain sight. The masses, in the meantime, those who saw Jesus as their savior, who had stood against Roman occupation, could now worship him under that same Roman rule. Although in reality, the traditions they were observing were not Christian or Judaic at all. A Land Riddled With Political UnrestIf we take divinity out of the equation, why was Jesus so important to the people of Jerusalem even before Constantine’s reforms and creation of the Christian faith? It is accepted by many historians – mainstream and alternative – that “Jesus” did exist roughly around the time the ancient texts tell us he did. His being the “son of God” to a “virgin mother”, however, are largely parts of the twists and additions at the behest of Constantine. At the time of Jesus’s life, Palestine was under Roman rule and had been for almost half a century. However, they had their forces in various parts of the world and couldn’t rule directly. Instead, they appointed “kings” to rule for them. The first of these was Antipater, who ruled from 63 to 37 BC. Following his reign, Herod The Great would rule until 4 BC. After his death, Rome would divide the region between his three sons, and his sister. However, by 6 AD, Judea (which included Jerusalem) would come under direct Roman rule. Whereas the population enjoyed general freedom under the puppet kings of the Romans, the Romans themselves were much more heavy-handed. According to the book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, any rebellion was met with strict penalties and around 3,000 such rebels were crucified as a warning to further uprising. By the time Pontius Pilate assumed control in 26 AD, the situation was descending into chaos. Although the rebellion had temporarily quietened, persistent rumblings continued. Ancient writings tell us that many different sects and cultures existed in Palestine at this time. However, closer study suggests that these different groups were one and the same. Furthermore, ancient records show one of their political and revolutionary leaders, had the name, Jesus. CONTINUE READING: www.ufoinsight.com/religion-politics-and-bloodlines-the-jesus-conspiracy/
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Jun 24, 2020 12:23:21 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jun 24, 2020 12:23:21 GMT -6
www.popularmechanics.com/technology/design/a32933633/new-last-supper-details-jesus-painting-feet/?utm_campaign=socialflowTWPOP&utm_medium=social-media&utm_source=twitter New Details in 'The Last Supper' Revealed, Including Jesus's Feet See the legendary painting in a whole new light.By Courtney Linder / www.popularmechanics.com/author/223442/Courtney-Linder/Jun 22, 2020 an image of jesus's feet in a restored version of leonardo da vinci's "the last supper" Google Arts & Culture *Google worked with the Royal Academy of Arts in London to digitally remaster the closest known replica of The Last Supper. *One of Leonardo da Vinci's understudies created this replica, meaning it's probably the most responsible proxy for study. *New details have emerged through this work, including a spilled salt dish, Judas's coin purse, and even the shoes on Jesus's feet. Explore the full work here. artsandculture.google.com/story/explore-the-last-supper/sAKCB2AzvHUmKQLeonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is one of the most iconic works of art known to humankind. But since the late 15th century, the painting has also been slowly deteriorating at its home in the Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery in Milan, Italy. That means detailed analysis of the composition is more or less futile. So engineers at Google Arts & Culture have constructed an exceptionally detailed digital copy, turning to the closest known reproduction to extrapolate the most minute details from Leonardo's original, including spilled salt shakers, Judas's coin purse, and even Jesus's feet. CONTINJUE READING: www.popularmechanics.com/technology/design/a32933633/new-last-supper-details-jesus-painting-feet/?utm_campaign=socialflowTWPOP&utm_medium=social-media&utm_source=twitter
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Feb 11, 2022 17:47:01 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Feb 11, 2022 17:47:01 GMT -6
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Feb 12, 2022 6:46:41 GMT -6
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Post by jcurio on Feb 12, 2022 6:46:41 GMT -6
This, is a repeat article (and why there is no date at the top).
I did enjoy going through the gallery of pictures 😊.
(Click on the blue heading that is provided by Auntym for the actual article. When you look at the first picture there, click on the arrow on the picture to go to the next slide).
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