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Deacfreak07 said:
Isn't all beef grass fed?
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My steak loving self wants to slap you. Grass fed beef is fucking gross. Organic hipsters made this grass fed bullshit happen. Pretty much all of Whole Foods has grass fed beef, that's why it's basically the worst place to buy a steak. No marbling at all.
 
OldGoldBeard said:
I have no doubt that line serves as a rhetorical device. WRT to the text, my understanding is that early Christian communities transmitted the text almost exclusively through codices, with the sixteen-page quire (thanks, Kurt and Barbara Aland!) eventually becoming the standard. However, we have no idea how the gospels were originally recorded, and I've seen the ~35-foot scroll length bandied about frequently, and by some pretty good scholars, as a limiting factor. Maybe just speculation on their part
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I'd think that that rhetorical device -- and its playful antithesis occupatio (a favorite of trump) -- certainly derives some of its usefulness from the material limits of its medium, I just disagreed that that should be your primary response to numbers' comment.

I don't know much, if anything, about pre-tenth-century book circulation, but I'd imagine that in the earliest days of the new testament it was circulated in smaller booklets -- in fours and fives rather than octavo, as you/Aland suggest -- because they certainly wouldn't have been bound. The fourth and fifth century preference for lectionaries, bigger books for communal (viz. oral) performance, would very well have increased both size of script (so-called biblical majuscule) and size of book which would in turn require a change in quire composition. I'd be interested to know your thoughts about the length of individual "books" of the bible (e.g. Genesis or Luke) and how those factors contributed to change in codicological production (i.e. size of gatherings, script, book, etc.).

But my usual provocative comment to students is that the bible is actually an invention of thirteenth century Paris. It's true, and it blows their minds.

Also, I typed this up in like thirty seconds, so I very well may have fucked something up. Apologies if so, and I can clarify later tonight.
 
i heard Luke used one of these bad boys:

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it's weird to think of a religion starting, then spreading. like in 1000 years is pastafarian going to actually be a for real thing? like, hey guys, this other friend of ours was kinda badass and walked on water. let's worship him. and get killed about it sometimes but then tell more people about it, and then eventually millions on millions of people are raised up believing this thing that started in one time and place forever ago.
 
RollTheQuad06 said:
it's weird to think of a religion starting, then spreading. like in 1000 years is pastafarian going to actually be a for real thing? like, hey guys, this other friend of ours was kinda badass and walked on water. let's worship him. and get killed about it sometimes but then tell more people about it, and then eventually millions on millions of people are raised up believing this thing that started in one time and place forever ago.
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Just find a way to answer some hard questions and soothe some fears and you're good.
 
RollTheQuad06 said:
it's weird to think of a religion starting, then spreading. like in 1000 years is pastafarian going to actually be a for real thing? like, hey guys, this other friend of ours was kinda badass and walked on water. let's worship him. and get killed about it sometimes but then tell more people about it, and then eventually millions on millions of people are raised up believing this thing that started in one time and place forever ago.
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No, because back in the day it was all a big game of telephone and nobody could refute things immediately with the internet. You just had the faith that someone was telling the truth about what they saw, and there ya go.
 
lbE08 said:
No, because back in the day it was all a big game of telephone and nobody could refute things immediately with the internet. You just had the faith that someone was telling the truth about what they saw, and there ya go.
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Donald Trump being President of the United States kind of sinks this line of argumentation.
 
lbE08 said:
No, because back in the day it was all a big game of telephone and nobody could refute things immediately with the internet. You just had the faith that someone was telling the truth about what they saw, and there ya go.
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if there's anything after death, regardless of religion, Jesus and his bros are out there like "you guyssss they are still falling for it, this is great, I never thought it could go on this long"
 
HailToTheDeacons said:
Lol.

If you're not catching his Presser now, get on it. He's melting down.
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I don't even know how you would even begin to attempt to write a story summarizing this press conference. I feel like we are getting a look inside the mind of a crazy man.
 
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