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fallenmystic said:
I'm sure it's a different one because I just found that he's still alive! When I touched his legs, he wiggled them a bit before stopping all movements again.

Probably he's been too weak to move and just waiting for death for quite sometime. It could be that he's got sick, too old, or simply that he ate all the small flies buzzing around in my room and so he was starving. I don't know.

I always catch mosquitos alive and release them outside rather than killing them, and if I see a fly drowning in water I usually try to save it. But I guess there's nothing I can do for this old spider friend except for waiting him to die before cleaning up his place.

It feels a bit sad but probably it's just the way nature works. And our own death won't probably be much more cheerful than that when our time comes.

Anyway, so much for spiders and flies. Let's get back to squirrels and cats :)
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I had a spider called Esmeralda who lived behind the soup tins in my brexit survival cupboard. She seems to have vanished though :(
 
poem21045 said:
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A poll: Peeing on the Cross

How do you all feel about watching someone pee while on the cross? I am ambivalent about it. Watching a person losing control is one of the turn-ons of crux voyeurism. On the other hand, I kind of like thinking of the body on the cross as being idealized. Suffering, to be sure, but remaining in a sense model-perfect and without flaws. Peeing seems to degrade that aspect.

To give you some grist for your mill, here's Vera, a German crux model from a few years back. She must have had a lot of strong iced tea before mounting the wood.

Remember to turn on the sound!

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I love girls peeing upon crosses...it accentuates their helplessness and humiliation... ;)
 
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By the way.....
I'm STILL waiting, for my bloody Coffee.!! :mad:
Jeez,service sure is really slow around here.... :(
Are the naked bard grind-slaves being deliberately obstructive ??
If that is the case,I would politely suggest that you CRUCIFY those responsible,and find some new (unwilling) "volunteers"....!!
Just saying.... ;)
 
Eulalia said:
Matthew 26:18 is one of the most maddening verses in the whole Bible - 'Go into the city to a certain man an tell him "The Teacher says, my time is near. I shall eat the Passover at your house ..."' Who is this 'certain man'? How do the disciples know who he is and where to find him? Is that some kind of a password? We never learn anything more about him or his house, or how he came to play a rather crucial part in setting the stage for the story.
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Com' on, Eul. Haven't you ever read spy fiction? Of "safe houses?" That kind of double-blind Rendevous is de rigueur in those works.
"The Messiah Who Came In from the Cold."
 
Eulalia said:
Matthew 26:18 is one of the most maddening verses in the whole Bible - 'Go into the city to a certain man an tell him "The Teacher says, my time is near. I shall eat the Passover at your house ..."' Who is this 'certain man'? How do the disciples know who he is and where to find him? Is that some kind of a password? We never learn anything more about him or his house, or how he came to play a rather crucial part in setting the stage for the story.
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Mark does clarify a little. He says there's a guy carrying a water jar (usually only women did that) who will meet them and they should follow him. Maybe Matthew's guy runs right into them (kind of like a Monte Python routine) and they have no difficulty--but that's a supposition. There is a more problematic part, however, Both Matthew and Mark say it is "the first day of the unleavened bread", whereas John claims the whole passion happened on that day and the supper happened THE DAY BEFORE.

Mark 3:21 is the passage that really makes me wonder. It's translated various ways ("friends" in KJV, "family" in NSV), but basically I think the Greek says something like "and hearing about it THOSE BESIDE HIM came to seize him, saying he was beside himself". There can't be a bigger contrast between Jesus in Mark and Jesus in John, in my humble opinion--Mark's Jesus is a highly emotional, wild character, whereas John's is above it all.

I'd really like to have a time machine (and know Aramaic) to find out what really happened and what these people were really like.
 
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fallenmystic said:
I'm sure it's a different one because I just found that he's still alive! When I touched his legs, he wiggled them a bit before stopping all movements again.

Probably he's been too weak to move and just waiting for death for quite sometime. It could be that he's got sick, too old, or simply that he ate all the small flies buzzing around in my room and so he was starving. I don't know.

I always catch mosquitos alive and release them outside rather than killing them, and if I see a fly drowning in water I usually try to save it. But I guess there's nothing I can do for this old spider friend except for waiting him to die before cleaning up his place.

It feels a bit sad but probably it's just the way nature works. And our own death won't probably be much more cheerful than that when our time comes.

Anyway, so much for spiders and flies. Let's get back to squirrels and cats :)
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oho maybe u will be like this spider when ur spider friend esmeralda go sand meow? :oops: :cat: :conejo: :mouse: :spider:
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Frank Petrexa said:
THOSE BESIDE HIM
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hoi par'autou, I'd translate as 'those around/ about him' - I guess the phrase (or its Aramaic source) probably did mean something like 'kith and kin', 'friends and family'. However, later mss re-word it, inserting the Scribes (mentioned in the next verse) and the crowd as the ones 'around him', implying some uncertainty even in the early church.
 
Eulalia said:
hoi par'autou, I'd translate as 'those around/ about him' - I guess the phrase (or its Aramaic source) probably did mean something like 'kith and kin', 'friends and family'. However, later mss re-word it, inserting the Scribes (mentioned in the next verse) and the crowd as the ones 'around him', implying some uncertainty even in the early church.
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Or, as the media would put it these days: "Sources close to him..." :D
 
Frank Petrexa said:
Both Matthew and Mark say it is "the first day of the unleavened bread", whereas John claims the whole passion happened on that day and the supper happened THE DAY BEFORE.
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Remember the day started at sunset. But there do indeed seem to be some chronological discrepancies between John and the Synoptics. There may have been some vagueness or confusion - just as there is in our own time about which when exactly Christmas starts, so which night is Twelfth Night.
 
Eulalia said:
hoi par'autou, I'd translate as 'those around/ about him' - I guess the phrase (or its Aramaic source) probably did mean something like 'kith and kin', 'friends and family'. However, later mss re-word it, inserting the Scribes (mentioned in the next verse) and the crowd as the ones 'around him', implying some uncertainty even in the early church.
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But the verse before, 3:20, says that there was such an immense crowd and bedlam around his house that he couldn't even eat. "Hearing it, those around him..." take action. It does sound to me like folks in the house were the ones worried about it. But it is ambiguous, which creates work for biblical scholars. As you say, it isn't even clear that "Mark" wrote it (or who Mark was--the lost Pappaias text is apparently the best source, or whether "Mark" was "fixed up" by later writers: the evidence that "Mark" was a committee is in the fact that the first ending of "Mark" doesn't have much on the Resurrection, and so there is a "longer ending" to remedy that, and hints of a "secret gospel"). But, Mark was probably first, and closest to the events, and probably before theologians re-worked the real Jesus to fit the evolving doctrine. It's too bad we don't know. Jesus might have been an accidental celebrity (like Joseph Smith of the Mormons), but he was certainly a remarkable person who had a lot of leadership qualities (like Paul, whom I wouldn't want to meet at all).
 
fallenmystic said:
I'm sure it's a different one because I just found that he's still alive! When I touched his legs, he wiggled them a bit before stopping all movements again.

Probably he's been too weak to move and just waiting for death for quite sometime. It could be that he's got sick, too old, or simply that he ate all the small flies buzzing around in my room and so he was starving. I don't know.

I always catch mosquitos alive and release them outside rather than killing them, and if I see a fly drowning in water I usually try to save it. But I guess there's nothing I can do for this old spider friend except for waiting him to die before cleaning up his place.

It feels a bit sad but probably it's just the way nature works. And our own death won't probably be much more cheerful than that when our time comes.

Anyway, so much for spiders and flies. Let's get back to squirrels and cats :)
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Oh, please don't worry. I just woke up to find him gone somewhere else. And I don't have a bath in my tiny 3 square meters home so you don't have to worry about that either :)

I didn't expect him to get back to his feet (and eight of them) again after that, but I'm glad he did. The other one is still there but her lair is in a more secluded place so I won't bother her with or without a contract.

It's time to clean up, I guess.
 
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