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The May 16, 2012 article said surveys show a vast majority of Americans believe that "after death their souls will ascend to some kind of celestial resting place. But scholars on the right and left increasingly say that comforting belief in an afterlife has no basis in the Bible and would have sounded bizarre to Jesus and his early followers."
Wright, who teaches about early Christianity at Scotland's University of St. Andrews, has explored Christian misconceptions of heaven in previous books, and said, "An awful lot of ordinary church-going Christians are simply millions of miles away from understanding any of this."
Christopher Morse of Union Theological Seminary in New York said, "This is a very current issue — that what the church, or what the majority conventional view of heaven is, is very different from what we find in these biblical testimonies."
The Post also reported, "Wright and Morse work independently of each other and in very different ideological settings, but their work shows a remarkable convergence on key points. In classic Judaism and first-century Christianity, believers expected this world would be transformed into God's Kingdom — a restored Eden where redeemed human beings would be liberated from death, illness, sin and other corruptions."
Wright added, "We are so fortunate in this generation that we understand more about first-century Judaism than Christian scholarship has for a very long time. And when you do that, you realize just how much was forgotten quite soon in the early church, certainly in the first three or four centuries."
This revelation may surprise many readers, inasmuch as very few religious organizations ever share this kind of insight into Biblical theology. Since nothing in the Scriptures indicates that if Adam and Eve had remained faithful to God they would have had eternal life somewhere other than on earth, an earthly resurrection in physical bodies was the normal belief among God's chosen people, even when Christ walked the earth.
The 1971 Encyclopedia Judaica admits, "The belief that ultimately the dead will be revived in their bodies and live again on earth" is "a major tenet" of Judaism. In his article "The Old Testament view of life after death," Dr. Alexander Desmond, a lecturer in Semitic Studies at the Queen's University of Belfast in Northern Ireland, stated, "The after-life, if one can call it that, consisted of a silent existence in Sheol, the realm of the dead, where both righteous and wicked shared a common fate, isolated for eternity from God and the living."
This view of death without any conscious existence is reflected in the biblical words of Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10 where it states "the dead know nothing at all" and "there's no work, thought, knowledge, or wisdom in the grave (Sheol), which is where you are headed." — Common English Bible.
Since the person ceased to exist at death, the only hope of returning to life was in a bodily resurrection on earth. We see this again at Isaiah 26:19 where it says, "But your dead will live, LORD; their bodies will rise — let those who dwell in the dust wake up and shout for joy." — New International Version. Also, Daniel 12:2 states, "Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt." — New International Version.
So where did the idea of an immortal soul that survives the death of the body come from? The Encyclopedia Judaica added, "It was probably under Greek influence that the doctrine of the immortality of the soul came into Judaism." Wright affirmed, "Our picture, which we get from Dante and Michelangelo, particularly of a heaven and a hell, and perhaps of a purgatory as well, simply isn't consonant with what we find in the New Testament. A lot of these images of hellfire and damnation are actually pagan images which the Middle Ages picks up again and kind of wallows in."
As astonishing as this may sound to some believers today, Jesus Christ, who existed in heaven before coming to earth, had already made it clear whether anyone dead was existing in heaven as spirits, at John 3:13: "No one has gone up to heaven except the Son of Man, who came down from there." — Contemporary English Version.
This explains the conversation of Jesus and Martha regarding her deceased brother, Lazarus, at John 11:23-24: "Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.' Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day." — King James Version.
"Christianity gradually lost contact with its Jewish roots as it spread into the gentile world," Wright explained. "On the idea of heaven, things really veered off course in the Middle Ages."
Granted, there are Scriptures that require further explanations, but most Bible scholars will likely not be surprised by Wright's findings on this subject. The article reported Wright and Morse said they have both made presentations on their research at various churches and have been "surprised by the public's interest and acceptance."
While the early belief of returning to physical life on a restored paradise earth under the Kingdom of God finds biblical support, there is no question that God's Word also states at 1Peter 3:18 that Jesus Christ "was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit." — New International Version. As such, Jesus became "a life-giving spirit," as stated in 1Corinthians 15:45.
This opened the way for many of Jesus' followers to go to heaven after death and enjoy life as immortal spirit creatures "at the last trumpet," according to 1Corinthians 15:50-54. If Wright and Morse are not accepting this Biblical truth as well, I think these learned men are missing a very key point about the Kingdom of the heavens.
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First set stars off with good, solid versions of Suzy, Buried Alive and Poor Heart. This was the first Suzy of the New Year. The taper levels and Paul were still settling in during an ok version of Ice. Sparkle was good. Alright! The first Forbin's of the year is great to hear and has an equally great story to go with it. I'm a big fan of this song. Unfortunately the Mockingbird that goes with it isn't that great, right from the transition onward. Rift was also a little rough tonight as Trey had some troubles. IDK sounded like Mike was missing from the mix, but comes in later to say "NO!" in a funny moment. Melt was well played. Fee was good, maybe a little off, and seemed to lack energy. Nice Jim to close up a decent first set.
After the dedication Llama false starts because Trey's amp was on standby, leading to some good laughs. The sloppy song features some good Page playing. FEFY is ok, not quite polished up yet. The Mind of its Own is a nice bust out for Mike and good for another laugh as he forgets parts. Reba gets sloppy from Mike and Trey, which leads to some funny singing parts. Really nice jam at the end of the song. Tweezer is good and pretty standard for this time period. The Ball Jam still doesn't quite have its official ending yet, but it's getting there. Glide was good as was YEM and Coil with a nice Page solo as usual. First Brain of the year brings out Fishman with a great vacuum solo and funny antics, right into a standard Tweeprise. Strange that there is no HYHU tonight.
Great moment as Trey calls out his sister's birthday, and dedicates a pretty good Grace to her, from what I could hear. Always tough to record the songs with no mics. The first Contact of this year is a little rough and maybe unpracticed as the middle section is messy. Mars is always fun and this one has a great count off section from Fishman.
I would give this show three and a half stars if I could, but the sloppy playing brings this one down just enough to my ears.

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So I chose a kind of a weird time to go on vacation. While some of the biggest decisions in recent Giants-fan memory were coming out, I was walking to and from the pool and kinda-sorta trying for a tan. (No luck there.) When I finally started catching up, I started looping my Enya and went to Twitter. It's probably a good thing I had the über-calming music going because, well, my jaw pretty much dropped at the initial 25 man news. And just as I was picking it up off the floor, I read the Chris Stewart news. I am still attempting to connect jaw to rest of head and it's not working terribly well. Whoa, whoa, whoa, for lack of a better way of putting it. I did not see any of this coming, but I am happy with it, all around. The Giants are looking pretty young and energized going into Opening Day and what else can you really ask for? (Other than pre-steroid scandal Ryan Braun starting in left, but hey, you can't have it all.)
I'm sad to see Chris Stewart go, because I was rather partial to him, but I am also always glad to see guys go the Yankees. It feels like sending them to a family member's house, rather than to a complete stranger, to use a slightly strange analogy. That is my inner New Yorker speaking, don't mind it. So in many ways, I'm actually happy for Stewart and wish him safe travels with the Yankees.
Here is my happy waving GIF, because if you don't laugh, you might cry. Not that I cry about baseball trades. Usually. Let's not talk Bengie Molina and I'll be fine. Don't get between me and my catchers, people. People being Brian Sabean.
And now! I'm a couple hours late this year, but I'm going to do some predictions now. I like to do them before the season kicks off, but just bear with me. It's not like the first few innings of a game give me any edge on the rest of you who predicted a few days ago, so!
National League
East: Philadelphia Phillies
Central: St. Louis Cardinals
West: San Francisco Giants
Wildcards: Colorado Rockies, Cincinnati Reds
American League
East: New York Yankees
Central: Detroit Tigers
West: Texas Rangers
Wildcards: Tampa Bay Rays, Cleveland Indians
See? No need to worry that I have an edge, prediction-wise. I am so terrible with 'em that the timing makes zero difference. But now I have put them out there and can cringe over them for the next six months or so and it just wouldn't be baseball season without that. Have you all made predictions? Put them (or a link to them) in the comments so we can commiserate/I can get completely jealous of your brilliance. 'K? 'K.
Happy Pappy Opening Day!
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I went and ate ice cream to celebrate the All-Star Break (because, you know, I've been working so hard) and I got to thinking: the All-Star Game adds a lot to the MLB season. As Aubrey Huff said recently, it may not be right to make something like the World Series depend on it (home field advantage) but it's a fun thing and it creates tons of buzz, for sure. And then I got an idea for something else that would create buzz and be fun. And this letter to the commissioner was born.
Dear Mr. Selig,
For a while now when I go to the ballpark, I've thought, Something is missing. When I saw this picture from the Strikeouts for Troops holiday party last year, I thought, We're missing cheerleaders! So I got to thinking and here are my top 5 reasons we ought to have some MLBettes (just one idea for the name):
1. Morale. Cheerleaders add an upbeat, fun aura to the field.
2. Jobs. As of April 2010, we have a 9.5% unemployment rate in the US. Let's create some jobs, MLB! Besides the actual cheerleaders, we're creating jobs for the people who make their costumes, run their limos etc. Doing something positive for our community is always something MLB has promoted and cheerleading totally plays into that.
3. Charity work. We need some of our own pretty faces (besides the players, of course) to support the charities, which there are sort of an abundance of in the American Pastime.
4. Ban the football cheers. I've been wondering why we say "chaaarge!" at baseball games. Hate to break it to you, but we don't really, exactly "charge" in baseball. We need some of our own cheers, tailored just for baseball! (Please see below for some baseball cheers, courtesy of my little brother's Little League team.)
5. Girl jobs. In this era of equality, some girl jobs on the field are definitely in order. And what better girl tribute than sparkly MLB uniforms and pom-poms?
If you're not already convinced, I'd like to volunteer to be a one-woman squad for a few games- at no cost, my pleasure- and see what the reception is. I will await your call.
Diamond Girl
Some cheers to get you started:
48's his number!
Pablo is his na-ame!
He's one of the reasons
We're gonna win this ga-ame!
Hey super-man with a bat in your hand,
Knock it out! (clap, clap) Knock it out! (clap clap)
We're red, we're hot
We're R-E-D, we're H-O-T,
we're number one as you can see!
We're good, we know it
We're here, to show it
And what you see is what you get
and you ain't seen no nothing yet!
Go, go Giants! Go, go, go Giants!
(when someone gets a ball called on them)
G-DOUBLE O-D-E-Y-E [emphasize EYE)
Good eye, good eye, good eye
(when someone gets a strike called on them)
You seen it, you saw it, now put your bat right on it!
You saw it, you seen it, now hit it like you mean it!
(when someone gets out)
That's alright, that okay,
we can win it anyway!
Extra, extra read all about it!
Timmy's gonna get a hit, no doubt about it!


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How The Hills' Spencer Pratt Landed at the Center of a Complex Piece of Twitter Performance Art
For the past three weeks, the Twitter account of The Hills' Spencer Pratt has sounded nothing like the notorious MTV villain we all love to hate. Typically comprised of random bro-ish missives and retweets from celebrity magazines with links to articles about the antics of he and his wife, Heidi Montag, the tone of his Twitter began to change as soon as 2013 hit. What exactly happened to the infamous Mr. Pratt?
On January 1st, Ms. Montag tweeted that, following a New Year's Eve blowout, Mr. Pratt had lost his phone in London just before the duo were set to tape a season of Celebrity Big Brother. The next day, January 2nd, Mr. Pratt began tweeting again, but he sounded nothing like himself. "Testing…testing…," he wrote. "Yes, cheers, everyone, this is actually Spencer Pratt!" Read More


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This is the first installment of a complete critical edition of Godwin's ten contributions to his Juvenile Library. It makes available for the first time since 1824 the first text that Godwin both authored and published under his own imprint, Fables Ancient and Modern. Adapted for the Use of Children from Three to Eight Years of Age (1805), along with a comprehensive introduction and extensive notes by the editors. While literary historians have long been aware that radical author William Godwin wrote and published children's books, these works are substantially less visible than his novels and philosophical writings. Yet, the profound cultural impact of Godwin's children's literature—especially as an expression of his social politics—necessitates their reproduction and welcomes further critical inquiry.
Part Four, covering the period 1810-1815, was a crucial one for Southey's career and reputation. It has, however, never before been fully documented or fully understood. By 1810 he was established in Keswick – a Lake Poet by residence if not by inclination and one whose interests and connections engaged him in global networks and exchanges. The years 1810-1815 were exceptionally busy ones for Southey. His output was, even by his own standards, prodigious and diverse, encompassing history, reviews, biography, polemics and chronicles of contemporary events. A productive time for Southey the prose writer, the period also saw the revitalisation of his poetic career with the publication of two long poems (The Curse of Kehama in 1810 and Roderick, the Last of the Goths in 1814), new editions of earlier works and plans for new verses aplenty.
A distinctive feature of Southey's shorter poems from this time is a move towards and investment in the contemporary. It was a move prompted by his controversial decision, in November 1813, to accept the Poet Laureateship. The letters we publish here make it possible for the first time to chart how and why that decision was made, how the resulting disputes were ignited, and how Southey responded to them. In so doing, they show how Southey's high hopes for the Laureateship foundered on the rocks of reality and thus provide new insights into the vexatious relationship between Romantic poets and the public sphere.
Note: With the publication of Parts 3 and 4, Technical Editor Dr. Laura Mandell has added indexes that allow finding all letters by names of addresees, names of people mentioned in them, and names of places mentioned in them. Visit the Correspondents, Biographies, and Places files to see these indexes at work. A dynamic graphing tool called "Relate" indicates relationships among members of the Southey Circle, and an article by Mandell and Pratt describing how to use that tool will be available in the next few days at Digital Studies / Le Champ Numérique, a special issue concerning data visualization.


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Ringling College Announces Beginning of Major Renovation on Sarasota Museum of Art, National Search for Museum Executive Director and SMOA 'THE BASH!' Date on January 18th
November 17, 2014 – Ringling College of Art and Design president Dr. Larry R. Thompson and Wendy G. Surkis, president of the Sarasota Museum of Art/SMOA, a division of Ringling College, announced that major renovation work has begun today on Ringling College's Sarasota Museum of Art (SMOA) in the historic Sarasota High School building.
In addition to approving the renovation plan, the SMOA Board has initiated an extensive search for an executive director for the museum with a recruiting firm with proven experience in the art museum leadership field.
SMOA's historic Sarasota High School building has been undergoing an adaptive re-use engineering assessment by structural preservationists over the past two months in preparation for beginning renovation on Monday, November 17th. The SMOA Board intends to preserve the architectural integrity of the iconic high school building and anticipates completion and the museum opening in the first quarter of 2016.
Sunday, January 18th, 2015 was also announced as the date for SMOA's 'THE BASH!' which will be held on the museum grounds to celebrate the progress made in bringing a modern museum of contemporary art to Sarasota and to look ahead to the future. 'THE BASH!' event committee leaders are: Brad and Mary Beth Goddard; Jean Martin and Doc Werlin; Mary Ann and John Meyer; Sherry and Tom Koski; Kat and Florian Schuetz; and Wendy Surkis and Peppi Elona. Brooke Callanen and Dottie Baer Garner, who chaired the inaugural SMOA BASH in 2013, are honorary co-chairs for 'THE BASH!'
"We are excited that our communities' support has brought us to this point in the realization of a contemporary art museum for our region," said Ringling College of Art and Design President Dr. Larry R. Thompson. "The tireless effort and infectious passion of SMOA President Wendy Surkis since well before the keys to the high school were handed over to Ringling exactly six years ago today has been instrumental in bringing this to fruition and facilitating even deeper levels of engagement for Ringling College and our community. As SMOA Board Member and Ringling College Trustee Elaine Keating said, "Ringling College may not have a football team, but the Sarasota Museum of Art will be our football field highlighting contemporary and modern art.""
"The response of our community to the call for support of the SMOA concept was nothing short of remarkable," said SMOA president Wendy Surkis. "Over 57% of SMOA donors are first-time contributors to Ringling College and 'THE BASH!' on January 18th is designed to applaud all of our supporters to date while getting them excited about SMOA's upcoming debut. We deeply appreciate the support of our community in the SMOA construction campaign which raised $22,531,033.04 and exceeded our goal by over half a million dollars. We look forward to celebrating with you and 'THE BASH!' sponsors: PNC Wealth Management, Gulf Coast Community Foundation, Rudd International and Sarasota Magazine on January 18th."
On Sunday, January 18th 'THE BASH!' will be held on the grounds of historic Sarasota High School and represents the first opportunity to celebrate SMOA with the broader Sarasota community and to get further enthralled about what's to come. Paving the way for SMOA's anticipated debut, the casual dress event will feature a variety of food and libations, dancing and surprises. The brilliant yellow invitations designed by the Design Center at Ringling College are going out on November 18th. More information is available at www.SarasotaMuseumOfArt.org and interested benefactors and participants are welcome to contact Special Events at Ringling College at email@example.com or 941.309.4728.
As Sarasota's first art museum devoted to modern and contemporary art, SMOA will interweave exhibitions, educational programs and community outreach initiatives to engage a diverse audience and serve as a stimulating hub for creative discovery. Ringling College and SMOA are transforming the former Sarasota High School building into nearly 60,000 square feet of exhibition space, a 110-seat, multi-purpose auditorium, sculpture court, indoor/outdoor café, classrooms and studios providing education programs for adults and children, and meeting spaces.
SMOA has already been engaging and educating the community through the ARTmuse program which has featured artists Lisa Hoke and Patrick Dougherty. Their public works exemplified the power of art to engage residents and visitors, with hundreds of volunteers helping both Lisa and Patrick create their works and thousands visiting and walking through their creations. Additional ARTmuse artists were: Judy Pfaff, Seth Randall, Janet Echelman and Lesley Dill as well as Museum professionals Karole Vail, Curator from the Guggenheim and Stephen Brown, Curator from the Jewish Museum.


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this week, the Oakland A's will join the rest of Major League Baseball in
paying tribute to one of America's great civil rights pioneers. On April 15, every team in baseball will
honor Jackie
Robinson by wearing his familiar No. 42
on their game jerseys. Here in Oakland, the A's will
welcome nearly 500 Bay Area elementary and middle school students, teachers and
parents as their guests at the game for their recent participation in the
Jackie Robinson "Breaking Barriers Essay Contest," which was co-sponsored by
Major League Baseball. Through this
essay contest, it is our hope that these youngsters will learn why Jackie is
such an important figure in our country's history and also that they, too, can
overcome barriers.
Jackie became the first African American to break the color barrier in baseball
in 1947, consider this: Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 18 years old at the time, almost ten years before he would lead the
Montgomery Bus Boycott, and 16 years
before he would deliver his famous "I Have A Dream" speech during the March on
Washington in 1963. Without question,
Dr. King met tremendous resistance during his fight for civil rights. But can you imagine the climate in this
country when Jackie Robinson first suited up as a Brooklyn Dodger?
By Commissioner Selig mandating that every club retire Jackie's number
back in 1997, it absolutely sent the right message to everyone involved in the
game. Jackie's story needed to be heard
then and it continues to be as pertinent today as it was more than a half
century ago. It heartens us to see youngsters
like eighth grader Rosario Abonce of Rancho Medanos
Junior High School in Pittsburg
and fourth grader Monica Martinez of Tara Hills Elementary School in San Pablo write in their essays about how his
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Froome and Wiggins have really fought back against nibs.
Indians can't bowl - Where has the rumour come from as I myself and many indian friends arwe competent fast bowlers ?
With the English bid I said: Let us be brief. If you give back the Falkland Islands, which belong to us, you will get my vote. They then became sad and left
hahahah what the hell froome
Froome is into 2nd. Wiggo been dropped, i reckon cos froome has kicked so much. dunno whether hes gonna wait for him now.
Froome is such a monster lol.
Funny how the team mates are both looking better than wiggo and evans.
so i guess evans is out of the two horse race. froome v wiggins.
You get the feeling that froome could have caught rolland and won the stage if he had wanted to.
still a great ride by rolland. and pinot as well.
So anyway, Evans is gone. Let's go Nibs!
Nibali and Wiggins making friends at the end there, how lovely.
Anyway Rolland making me a bit of money.
Team Sky were superb yesterday but iw would be a shame is Froome was never again in a position to win the Tour - bar a puncture and team orders, he's be within touching distance of Wiggins and probably the favourite going into the Pyrenees
Problem for him and others is that it's rumoured the course will be much tougher next year and they will also have to contend with the returning Schleck and Contador
N Pickup reminding us of the last time a team won 3 stages in a row.
That sums up just how interesting today's race has been - that I've been driven to trawling through every single stage winner for the last twenty years to answer a trivia question that nobody else in the world could be bothered to find the answer to.
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Who's ****ing great idea was it to stick 2 pretty decent sized mountains at the beggining of a stage and then have a flat run in? Shocker.
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Hoffman: I took my camera and my notebooks, and set off for one of the remotest places on earth. I travelled the same rivers, visited the same villages that the son of New York's governor Nelson Rockefeller...
Hoffman: The Dutch government and the Catholic Church covered up the truth. But I found the documentation. I found personal witnesses. This was one of the great mysteries of the 20th century. And I believe I've solved it.
George: So, Carl to begin I thought I'd ask you, because this book encompasses so many journeys. There's the journey of Michael Rockefeller, there's the journey of the Asmat people. There's your journey. It's such a huge puzzle, but can you begin to talk a little bit about what you sort of pieced together.
Hoffman: Well, it is a long, complicated story. You know there's no smoking gun in this story. It's, it's an accretion of a lot of small details. I mean, the essence of it is that there were two villages Otsjanep and Omadesep who lived about five miles apart. And they had been fighting each other for years. And the Asmat lived in this world of reciprocal violence, and one death always had to be balanced by another. Complicated story, but they massacred each other, and 124 guys went out in boats, and about 11 came home. And because of that the Dutch at the time, who were just moving into, it was their last colony in the East and this Dutch patrol officer named Max Lepre decided he wanted to teach them a lesson, and showed them that the government was powerful and that they shouldn't kill each other. So, he went and he killed a bunch of guys, and it turned out they were incredibly important people. They just, they weren't just anybody, they were five jeus, five longhouses, five clans essentially, and the leader of each of those jeu would be the most important man in the village, or in each clan. And he killed four out of the five jeu leaders of the village. And that set up this need for balance and reciprocity, and things get even more complicated. And Michael ultimately is travelling across the mouth of a river with a Dutch anthropologist in a homemade catamaran, and gets into rough water, and overturns, and drifts for 24 hours and then swims for... says, "I think I can make it." And is never seen again. But in reality he swims up, and just happens to swim up when there are 50 men from Otsjanep who are, the men who act... literally replace the jeu leaders, and were related by blood to the men killed by Lepre. That's right when Michael would have swum up, and yes, I mean the story told by the Asmat, now as well as told in the original reports were that he swam up to them and they killed him, yeah. And went through a pretty prescribed ritual of butchering, and dismembering, and, and cannibalizing him.
George: And to me, it's so interesting because you're a Westerner, thinking about this, reading your account. There was a part of me that went, "Wait, we're talking about murder here. This is murder." But then there's another part. And you go to great pains in the book to kind of talk about this. There's this whole worldview. There's this whole gestalt that this act is a part of. And in that context it's different.
Hoffman: For the Asmat it wasn't murder. For the Asmat it was a sacred act, that helped them restore balance to the world, and, you know, allowed life to flow into the community. You know it was, it was as fundamental to their sense of wholeness as, you know, take your pick, I mean you know, watching a Redskins game, or going to church or whatever it is that, you know, having Christmas dinner, whatever it is that we Westerners do and celebrate. So, for the Asmat, every incursion of the Dutch, and of the priests was, you know, was disrupting the very fabric of their lives. Yeah. You know I have these photos that Michael had taken, and Michael had been to the village before, that's why he had these photos. And, you know, they were able to identify people listed as having participated in the killing of Michael in the photos. So I knew that people listed as having killed him, he had met before, and they knew his name. How did the journey of this book start for you? Well, for me, I was 23 years old, the same age as Michael when I first started travelling, and I, it was on those journeys that I first heard about the story of Michael disappearing. And I was always just haunted by the story. As I travelled more and more, I ultimately became a journalist, and travelling all over the world and to, strange places, often; Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan. Even those kind of crazy places were pretty benign and friendly places. And it began to occur to me that, you know if something had happened to Michael, if he hadn't just drowned. There had to have been some weird cultural miscommunication. And that made me more and more curious. And on it went.
George: Yeah. And it eventually led you to this amazing research effort. And reading your book, I was just stunned trying to think about all of the interviews you must have done, the diaries and manuscripts you've poured over, the places you'd had to go. So could you recount for us, kind of summarize the shape and the scope of the research you did for the book?
Hoffman: You know, if you Googled Michael Rockefeller a couple years ago, before I got involved in the project, you know, there'd be a million hits that come up, and all these scenarios. And all of those, to me, had these huge holes. They all, for instance, mentioned a Dutch raid that had taken place, and that had ended up killing, some very important men, in a village, though it really didn't say who those men were, didn't say who the Dutchman was, it didn't say what organization he worked for. There was nothing. So, you know, if there is a government raid, then there have to be government documents. So, I actually hired a researcher in the Netherlands. He disappeared in the Western half of the island of New Guinea, which was originally a Dutch colony, is now part of Indonesian Papua. So it was a Dutch colony at the time. So, Eric started going into the archives of the Dutch government, and the Catholic Church, and we started finding things. I mean one document after another, and then we found witnesses. These, you know there were three really important people. Two missionaries and another Dutch patrol officer. One of those, and who had investigated the case in great detail at the time, and written, long detailed reports, reports that named names who killed Michael, who had his skull, for instance, who had certain body parts. And, they filed those reports to their superiors both in the Church and the government, and then the government had said, "Keep those secret." And so we found all those documents, and we found those witnesses. And those witnesses told us of other... They would say, "Well, I filed a report to, you know the apostolic vicar, my boss, Tillemans, and he told me not to say anything." Well, that was 50 years later, an 80-year-old man saying this to me. He didn't have any of the documents with him. So, we would go and look for... Eric would go into the archives and he would look on Tillemans, and he would find there was, you know, Von Peij the missionary's reports. And there was Tillemans' letters saying, "This is secret, don't tell anything." And that went on and on for, for a, really a year, year and a half of, you know, pretty deep archival research. And those documents became what make it real. You know it's not, for the first time, it's not, a lot of conjecture, you know. It's based on real documents.
George: Do you remember your feeling when you read those first, really authoritative documents that sort of said, this is who killed Michael, this is where his bones are?
Hoffman: Yeah, it was amazing to go to Asmat, it's a really difficult place, and it's hard to talk to them. But, one night, early in my experience in Asmat, we came upon this older man, and I had not told the... my guide, or my boatman, or my translator, that I was anything about Michael Rockefeller, or that I was... I just said, "I'm, I'm, I'm sort of, wanted... I'm a writer from America, and I want to wander around Asmat, and can you take me around?" And this old man walked into, a house we were staying at. And, turns out he was from the village of Otsjanep, and that he was in his 60's, and I couldn't help myself. I said to Amates, "Ask him about if he remembers a Dutch raid, when he would have been a small boy." And, he remembered it, and he started telling the story. And the Asmat are these wonderful storytellers, they get super graphic and, fire bows, and just... with spears. And, he, you know, told me this story of these people getting killed, and he named them. And I knew the names from the documents, but we've never had a discussion about the documents.
George: One of the things you discovered in the course of your research on the ground was that you were sort of replicating the same mistakes that probably Michael Rockefeller made. Can you talk a little bit about that?
Hoffman: You know, for all the time that I'd spent away. I'd really been only in the village for a few days at a time here and there. And, you know, I couldn't speak the language, and I was relying on a translator. I didn't know what, my translator's name was Amates. I didn't know what Amates was really saying or not saying. And the whole idea of cannibalism...What? What's cannibalism? And why were the Asmats, they're not cannibals anymore, but, you know, why were they then? All these big questions. I didn't... I was grappling with. So I decided I had to go back. So I found an Indonesian language teacher, and worked really hard at Indonesian, Bahasa Indonesian, which is actually a really easy language, relatively speaking. And I found an anthropologist, who I started working closely with to try to get a much deeper understanding of culture, and Asmat, and cannibalism. And so, I went back.
This is actually the village of Pirien. I spent a month in that village, which isn't even a very long time, but it was a completely different experience.
George: That, to me, is the really amazing thing that you did. The step that you took; to go and live with these people for a month, and when I was reading the book, I was trying to imagine...So every day for that month we're sitting like this, talking together .I don't know what you were wearing, but if I were a native, I'd be pretty much naked. I might have shorts on, maybe be smeared with pig grease or something like that, and have a big bone in my nose. I'd have some kind of cassowary head dress or something. I'd have, like, dog's teeth around my neck, right? This was your reality for a month. I just tried to put myself in your head doing that.
Hoffman: Yeah, I was really lucky, because for the month coinciding with my arrival in the village, they were building a new jeu, a longhouse, the men's house. It's sort of in...the jeu is the center of where all, the world of the living, and the world of the spirits come together. And they were building a new one, and that's a time of huge feasting and celebration, and drumming, and singing and dancing, and because they were doing all that, they were really getting decked out. And they would drum and sing for 24 hours straight, routinely. I mean, just go...You know, they would just do this beautiful, incredibly intense songs and drumming, and sometimes all night long.
George: Yeah. And you lived that reality. Did they accept you? And pretty much you became a part of the village.
Hoffman: Yeah, I mean, in a way a thousand times more than during my first visit, first visits, when they were actually very cold almost. I spent huge amounts of time with them, and they were pretty uninhibited around me, and would ask me to photograph things, and you know, do small gestures; feed me, give me food, which were gestures of respect. But you know to...I wasn't really one of them. I never really became one of them. I mean, I think there was always a pretty big gulf between us. And I, I felt that gulf, and I was aware of that gulf. Yeah...And, so there can be this incredible sort of cultural misunderstanding.
George: Right. Which, which is really the theme of the puzzle that you began to put together piece by piece by piece. And one of the things you've alluded to a few times is the whole sort of spiritual world, and that whole eco-system. And I'm just wondering how you got into it yourself. How you were able to get your head into it; and then, how you went about recreating it for us, who don't even have the privilege of being among them, as you did. How do you possibly recreate that world for people who don't know it?
Hoffman: Yeah, I don't know how to do that. And I don't even know...I mean, I don't want to say that I really got into it. I mean, I was always thinking about that there's a doorway here. And I'm a, I'm, you know to be honest, I'm an atheist. I'm not a very spiritual person. But it was, you know, I knew that they had this world, and that they were part of this world. You can say it was all their imaginations, but it doesn't matter. It was powerful and real to them. And, you know, I wanted to see it. I wanted to see what they saw and understand, and hear what they heard. And I couldn't. But, you know they say that the singing and the drumming is a bridge, a bridge between worlds, and a bridge to the ancestors. You know you sort of let yourself go. You know it felt very organic, really. You know it felt like it was sort of, coming from the trees and the mud. You know you could lose yourself in that tribal sort of musical reverie. It becomes sort of trance-like.
George: Well I'd like to open the floor up for questions from the audience now. Right in the front here.
Man: I know that what you described, you described how important the spirit world, and the dream world were for the Asmat. When you were talking to them, and trying to get the facts of what happened, how could you, how did you manage to separate the dream world, the spirit world that was so important to them, and try to also get the facts of what happened?
Hoffman: If you assume that Michael never made it to shore, and was never, and that...you know, was not in fact killed by the men from Otsjanep, and that there had, that there was no body, and that they made all this up. You have to get into, you have to create a much more complex, and a much more convoluted story than the much simpler story. That's one thing. The other is that because of the documents, I had all this information about the village, and not just the...you know, not just the Lepre's Dutch raid, not just the government machinations, from high on, but these journals from missionaries who were there. And because I had those, I could ask all these questions that were not even about Michael Rockefeller, but they were about the events surrounding Michael Rockefeller. They were about the history of the village, and the structure, the political structure of the village, and who these people were that had been killed by Lepre. And who the people were who had been named as having killed Michael, and how those two groups of people were related. I think you can eliminate, what...the tall tales.
George: Let's see. yes...Right over there.
Woman: When you started, asking about Michael Rockefeller to the local people, what was their reaction initially? Were they willing to talk about it? Were they reticent? Because it could have been troublesome for them.
Hoffman: It depends who you ask, and where you are when you ask it. If you ask the men in either Otsjanep or Pirien, you know, about Michael Rockefeller, they get very quiet, and they'll say, when you really press them, they'll say, Well, we've heard the story, but we don't know anything about it. If you ask in other places in Asmat, It'll be, "Oh, men in Otsjanep killed him, everybody knows that." And a lot of things are secret in Asmat, and you know, these are forbidden stories, and these are stories you don't tell anyone, and if you tell them, you know, you could die. You know, the... the taboo on telling them is really powerful.
George: My last question is: how this experience has changed you as a person, and your, your sense of humanity.
Hoffman: The book is also, I think, a narrative of, an evolving idea that I had which was starting with sort of a very romantic and, sort of...uneducated idea of the primitive. And that I was fascinated by primitive people, so called primitive people and you know, jungles, and bows and arrows, and you know, sort of a childlike...fascination. And as I go through the book, I think I, that, you know, I learn that that's an inadequate word, and that these are incredibly complicated people. And, you know, I had this fantasy of kind of bonding with them actually. 'Cause I feel a little bit like an outsider in normal life, you know. And I've always felt that way since I was a child. And, you know, there's always been a tension, of sort of wanting to belong, but not, and wanting to stay away from the group. And, and you know that's a constant tension. And so you know, I sort of had this idea that I would go to this place and be kind of one with the native, that I would find a sense of community, with those people that I didn't find in my own life. And, and I, you know, it's not really like that. I mean, you know, I'm just this white guy, in this world. And I barely speak their language, and that was completely naive of me, and you know we were incredibly different. And I didn't really, you know, I mean I could never belong in the world of Asmat.
George: Yeah. Wow. Thank you for transporting us with you tonight.
Hoffman: Thank you so much. Thanks for your time.
George: Thank you.
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