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[apocalypsos]

Due to my ongoing nausea (punctuated by the fun mini-spew I did this afternoon at work ... ew), I'm home from work a good three hours early. It's just me, a box of pretzel sticks, some Sprite, and the last bits of the PoA computer game to finish. *happy sigh*

EDIT: You know how many times I told someone I threw up today and a few sentences later had to add, "Let me put it this way ... if I'm pregnant, it'll be the first virgin birth in two thousand years"? *sigh*

Comments

[errantman.livejournal.com]

Of course, Jesus wasn't really a virgin birth. Mary just had moral values a couple thousand years too early (or several thousand years too late.)

The whole misconception (pun intended) came from a mistranslation where someone mistook "unwed" to mean "virgin." Considerably like saying the war in Iraq was a success.

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

*squints*

La Bamba, right?

[errantman.livejournal.com]

You're actually the first person to get it correctly.

*applauds*

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

A fluke really, I'd just heard it on the radio and was still humming the lyrics when I saw your icon.

[errantman.livejournal.com]

Commendable no less, to my mind.

[akacat]

For real?

Not, being pagan, that I ever really thought it was a virgin birth.

[mareklamo.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'm Catholic, and I don't think it was a virgin birth either. (Am I going to hell now?)

[errantman.livejournal.com]

Yep. Source: Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths we Never Knew by Bart Ehrman on NPR.

This was a couple of weeks ago, but as I recall it was the original greek to hebrew or something like that, and they mistranslated it optomistically in the light of a long time fortelling that the savior would come in the form of a virgin birth. Turns out Mary was just indescriminate. Kinda cheapens the whole deal a bit. But think of the possible bumper stickers: "Your messiah was a bastard. Literally."

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

Gah, I totally hear you. I've been feeling sick all week too. Either there's something going around, or being reasonably intelligent presupposes one to nausea.

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

Weak ginger tea might help.

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

im so glad im not the only one who has to deal with that question every time i feel a little ill. grrr. its gotten significantly worse now that im married.

[azurelunatic]

*snork*

I used to be paranoid about that when I was a virgin and my period came late... who knew?

Then I got better.

[natgel.livejournal.com]

If there even *was* a virgin birth two thousand years ago!




~Nat, Jewish Conspiracy, Inc.