The Marriage(s)(?) of Jesus

[myboynoah]

Here we have a photo of a woman that might fit a similar mold. No comment is made about her appearance, although it is clear that a lot of inferences were made. People jump up to protest but the protesters are the ones that make the most blatant emphasis on this woman's attractiveness. How can you protest something that was never said unless you, yourself feel that this woman is unattractive?

Me too.

Comments were made and inferred about her appearance.

[wuapinmon]

I can only speak what local Mexicans mean when use the term. I do not pretend to speak anything elegant in regards to Spanish but instead speak a gutter Spanish, where guys speak about sticking their chorizos in special places. Pendejo to them is not polite and you're just mincing words. You were not being polite to DDD but instead were behaving directly to him in the manner of which you were accusing him. The locals also say things like, Chingole cabrones, chupamelos, culero, chupa tu mader, pendejo, but that is not polite either.

Did you really have a point, or were you just trying to dabble in moral relativism? So what if I called him a pendejo...he's here to defend himself, and my judgment is based on his actions, not whether or not his body is attractive. Huge difference there. If you can't see that then I can't help you.

[Topper]

Did you really have a point, or were you just trying to dabble in moral relativism? So what if I called him a pendejo...he's here to defend himself, and my judgment is based on his actions, not whether or not his body is attractive. Huge difference there. If you can't see that then I can't help you.

But you are attacking him for something he didn't say. And then you stoop to personal insults. You have tendency to launch insults if you don't like an argument or something somebody does.

DDD can be clever, smug, or smirky, but he usually desists from being directly rude to the person he is debating.

You accuse him of demeaning somebody he has never met and with whom he is not conversing. Then you attack him in a language he doesn't speak.

Now you are attacking his personal physique, which according to some witnesses is quite attractive. What is your point? You desire to have some grounds for moral outrage against a perceived opponent of yours?

[Moliere]

DDD is a jerk? That's news to me. Any word on whether or not IPU is a conservative?

[TripletDaddy]

my judgment is based on his actions, not whether or not his body is attractive.

[TripletDaddy]

Don't argue with him. He'll play coy all night long and try and lay the blame on those attacking him. He's already attempting to cast a negative light on us by claiming that we're bad because we too think she's ugly. Whether we do or not is irrelevant to the fact that if we do think so, we had tact enough to not mock the woman for it.

Tact when it comes to posting about women? I wonder what we would find if we explored some of your old posts that involve women.

I don't think you are bad for any of this, btw. As I stated earlier, I just think you are projecting.

[Jeff Lebowski]

DDD: that was a rude comment
Wuap: you overreacted.

Now can you two just hug it out and knock this off? TIA.

[old_gregg]

I genuinely hope it's not also the salient characterstic of your offline life.

[RC Vikings]

I'm guessing he was married and i'm also guessing this is why we have the 3rd commandment.

[SeattleUte]

3D is very funny.

I still don't why this is news, why it rates a NY Times front page story.

[SeattleUte]

I'm guessing he was married and i'm also guessing this is why we have the 3rd commandment.

Jesus was an archetype.

[Indy Coug]

Jesus was an archetype.

So at least you have that in common with him.

[Sleeping in EQ]

One of my mentors, who was well-versed in ancient languages and traditions, was convinced he was married and polygamous. The Church told him not to publish his conclusions. Ehrman however makes a convincing argument to the contrary.

My view on this isn't dogmatic; if I think the evidence warrants a change in my view, I'll make it.

[cowboy]

The unfortunate irony in this little dustup is that, having spent considerable time with wuap and DDD in person, I consider them to be two of the kindest, most gracious people I know. Wuap occasionally appears to overreact because what you see is what you get with him, and he'll tell you what he thinks. DDD is easily one of the most intelligent people I have ever met, and kind of like a Chuckie Miller - a natural smartass who reels off wisecracks as a reflex and plays cat a mouse out of boredom, but always with a smile on his face.

If we're all honest with ourselves, Dr. King is no Kate Middleton (although we can't be certain until we see Dr. King topless) and those of us who still have a locker room sense of humor have to admit that DDD's crack elicited at least an internal smile. We should be ashamed of ourselves for smiling, but we smiled nonetheless.

Now enough drama, can we please return to the proper way to roll our sleeves, the reason BYU football sucks but not as much as so-and-so's bishop/stake president, and whatever it is you people talk about in the Breaking bad thread? By the way, I spoke with landpoke the other day, and he refuses to post here again until HFN takes back whatever insult he texted him the other day. I didn't catch it all, something about a prosthetic phallus or some such thing.

[Topper]

My view on this isn't dogmatic; if I think the evidence warrants a change in my view, I'll make it.

I agree. I can make various arguments why the evidence may or may not exist. The orthodox were relatively effective in eliminating evidence of materials they did not want to survive.

Other than intellectual curiosity, I don't really care. It's an interesting question, which academics won't solve conclusively in all probability.

The recent fragment could have come from a "heretical" group. It doesn't sound gnostic in that Christ was not considered tangible so marriage wouldn't make sense for the gnostics.