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Arriving at the Wheaton Horse Stables....about 5 minutes from me home.

Those are some womanly hair, hips and buttocks you have there, buddy.

Wouldn't a smaller floating piece of ice have major stability problems when a 125-150 lb person is walking on it? And would the ice made under such circumstances be thick enough to support him anyway? While the phenomenon is interesting, the idea that this is somehow the way Jesus supposedly did his...

Im not misinterpreting anything here; im pointing out why its silly to think Josephus would have received his information from Christians. The Antiquities 20.9.1 is not about Jesus. It's not even about James, really. Its about how a Jewish High Priest lost his job, something significant for a Phari...

So, was that helpful, or just a bunch of esoteric bs?

Lord Zentei wrote: Bah.

Though truth be told, I'm more for Wagner than either of the two.

I love a lot of Wagner, but truth be told, I'm very much inclined to agree with Rossini when he said:

"Wagner has good moments, but bad quarter-hours."

His 2nd Symphony is one of the few pieces which can literally make me try and stop my breathing to capture every nuance in the final movements. I like his 5th, in fact overall I like it better overall than the 2nd but it doesn't give the emotional sucker-punch like the Resurrection does. I'm not to...

Erm, just because someone is a shitty director doesn't mean they can't appreciate a good movie when they see it. I'm a shitty piano player, but I heartily recommend Van Cliburn...

Find a voice teacher and take some lessons. It's pretty much impossible to learn anything about proper vocal technique just by reading about it. It's something that is shown to you, and you need to feel it. A good teacher can listen to you and correct as needed. [/responsible singer] CONTRADICTING T...

How about the resetting of all our post counts?

Please note today's date.

Of course it would be silly to deny the logical possibility of Josephus receiving his information from Christians. But how probable is this? How probable is it that a Palestinian Jew in high standing would have to learn of the circumstances of Ananus's replacement from an insignificant group of rel...

I'm an opera singer. And excessive vibrato is a sure sign of bad technique. Could you tell this to the music theater majors at my school? Please? Pretty please? I'll do what some old school voice teachers would do in such a situation--wrap my hand around their throat and squeeze. If a young singer,...

How funny that you post this, as I just heard my school's orchestra play Mahler 1 tonight! The only lousy thing was that one of the timpani heads was out of tune with it's self, so the D's in the beginning of the third movement between the timp and the solo bass were out of tune with eachother. Did...

He was a bit verbose, musically speaking. I mean, those have to be some of the longest symphonies on record. :lol: Well, Bruckner had been writing symphonies just as long and musically inferior decades before Mahler. I think that's one of Mahler's greatest aspects--his ability to meander with music...

Who here loves him as I do? You have to be out there. Let's discuss!

Or, I can educate the unitiated. A whole new world awaits you.

"We have such sights to show you!"

I'm an opera singer. And excessive vibrato is a sure sign of bad technique. Vibrato is NOT a product of vibrating the vocal chords, as many singers do. It's a result of proper resonance. Singers with huge vibratos (i.e. Sarah Brightman) are rightfully mocked. That being said, opera RAWKS. Don't figh...

I stand corrected...I obviously need read a bit more about the Titanic. I'm getting rusty To be fair, there is a lot of misinformation out there from even reputable sources. Try arguing with a devoted Titanic enthusiast about the supposed nobility of the whole affair and see what happens. One of th...

Yeah, because the downfall of Ananus is such an important part of Q and Pauline theology. :wink: Well, my general point was to say that there were certainly "Christians" around at that time, from whom Josephus could have gotten his information, whether it be features in Paul's writings, t...

I don't know much about sealing, but is it feasible for a sealer to be operating out in the middle of the Atlantic, hundreds of miles from the nearest shore? Do seals go out that far? At any rate, I find the attempts to exculpate the Californian with the "18 mile" theory rather thin. The ...

I fail to see how Josephus is proof of anything other than that Josephus was familiar with some stories already circulating about Jesus, many decades (or perhaps longer) after the fact. He was, after all, not contemporary to the events in question. He certainly did not know Jesus personally, but th...

Oh, and I didn't read the post on the Californian carefully enough--they did NOT think the rockets were shooting stars. Their logs and the testimony of the crew was clear that they knew they were rockets being fired by another ship (after all, they saw a steady stream of them for an hour or so). The...

I don't know much about sealing, but is it feasible for a sealer to be operating out in the middle of the Atlantic, hundreds of miles from the nearest shore? Do seals go out that far? At any rate, I find the attempts to exculpate the Californian with the "18 mile" theory rather thin. The b...

My favorite theory about the Titanic sinking was that it wasn't actually the Titanic which sunk at all, but her syster ship the Olympic. The theory goes that the Olympic had been in several incidents which had damaged her hull, and the White Star line was nervous about getting the Olympic insured. ...

I fail to see how Josephus is proof of anything other than that Josephus was familiar with some stories already circulating about Jesus, many decades (or perhaps longer) after the fact. He was, after all, not contemporary to the events in question. The comparison that familiarity with the events 30+...

FYI, the updated photo of Baghdad was taken from a hotel balcony in the Green Zone...as in, the same places that right-wing chickenhawks have the gall to say are safe zone for "cowardly" reporters who don't want to leave their hotel rooms. Also, the picture was taken a year ago, and since ...