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Skip to comments.Five big questions about the 'Jesus' wife' papyrus
Posted on 09/20/2012 6:02:24 PM PDT by count-your-change
In a surprise announcement that seemed scripted by novelist Dan Brown, a Harvard professor revealed an ancient scrap of papyrus on Tuesday that refers to Jesus' wife. The so-called "Gospel of Jesus' Wife" presents a dialogue between Jesus and his disciples, said Karen King, a respected historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School.
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King seems anxious to turn a few lines of unknown origin into new insights into early Christian belief, etc., etc.
"www.christianpost.com/.../the-gospel-of-jesus-wife-ancient-fragment" gives a few more details.
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Why do we need this fragment to tell us this? There are numerous references to the bride of Jesus in the accepted NT.
a 4th century parchment in coptic is highly questionable.
if it were a 1st century parchment in Hebrew/aramaic, maybe
There is no evidence that Jesus had a wife.
There is most likely no evidence that he did not have a wife.
One would think that the apostles would speak of Jesus' wife in later writings after Jesus had been executed. Yet there is no mention of a wife.
Teh only mention of this is from that crackpot Dan Brown.
Paul said his preference was that Christians remain single so that they could devote themselves to the issue at hand (spreading the gospel and serving the Lord Jesus). How much MORE focused would Christ, Himself, be about his mission? He did not come here to live a carnal life...he came to "seek and to save those who are lost." He came to die, and He knew that.
She is one of those people trying to discredit Christianity, so this should violate those blasphemy laws Obama wants.
Thank you. The link I had didn't work and yours does. Thanks!
If it's true, then some of us here could be his descendants!
Imagine 1500 years from now someone gets their hands on a few pages of the script for "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter" and it starts a big controversy that he was a vampire hunter.
i.e. this whole thing is quite literally laughable.
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Someone took mercy upon my fumbling, #5.
The quest to bring in the agenda that Jesus Christ had a wife is to try and destroy the the fact that he was GOD in the flesh, to marginalize his deity... it's the spirit of the anti-Christ at work.
That's just too convenient, Dear Watson.
If only there were this much attention paid to Obama's BC.
"Why do we need this fragment to tell us this? There are numerous references to the bride of Jesus in the accepted NT."
Well, yes, there are! However, The Bride of Christ as mentioned in the NT is his church.
"authenticated"? I suppose that was from her deep knowledge of the subject.
I smell a book deal somewhere in all of this, maybe another movie by Brown.
The Bride of Christ is the Church. Not any human.
***King seems anxious to turn a few lines of unknown origin into new insights into early Christian belief, etc., etc. ****
Yawn. Much like they tried to foist off on us the SECRET GOSPEL OF MARK and the Gospel of Thomas.
I'll pass until a brave scholar finds evidence that Mohammed took a 9 year child bride.
Yes I know. I'm suggesting there is no reason to think this meant anything different.
But Professors of Divinity get bored by accepted books of the NT. Those books are available to anyone at low/no cost and just don't grab headlines.
But find something mysterious and secretive that can be blown up into a "Gospel", well...that's something!
This is where I figured out she was clueless:
King speculates that the fragment may have been tossed in an ancient garbage heap by someone who objected to the idea of Jesus being married. Early Christians fiercely debated celibacy and marriage
With a little research she would have realized that Peter, the first pope, and the apostles that Jesus chose were, for the most part, married men.
This is where I figured out she was clueless:
King speculates that the fragment may have been tossed in an ancient garbage heap by someone who objected to the idea of Jesus being married. Early Christians fiercely debated celibacy and marriage
With a little research she would have realized that Peter, the first pope, and the apostles that Jesus chose were, for the most part, married men.
True; however, it is not inconsistent with the thought that Jesus was indeed human. (And that is an important point in Christianity, that God became a man in order to save the race of man.)
So, in the long run... it's really irrelevant if he had a wife or not.
Dan Brown is hunting for them.
Fragments of ancient papyrus have a value and are interesting in themselves, even this one. But to claim the history of early Christianity will now have to be revised is nonsense.
You know, I'm going to have to disagree; that he had a wife would only confirm that he was indeed fully human... which has been what Christianity has always claimed: that Jesus is both God and man, perfectly bridging the gap and therefore the perfect High Priest.
Besides, the spirit of the anti-christ is defined in 1 John:
1 John 4:3 [KJV]A little convoluted, but still understandable: the spirits which aren't from God are those spirits which do not confess to Jesus having come in the flesh.
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
Careful..a riot may be headed to your neighborhood. You haven't been drawing cartoons, have you?
No, Jesus was not married.
You're not suggesting....No......Surely not.
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Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.
Quick and easy response. Answers to the five questions:
1. No one has any idea. Therefore it is most likely to be a fake, whether faked long ago or more recently.
2. No.
3. Nothing.
4. No.
5. Who knows. It doesn't matter.
See, that was easy.
I have a feeling it will quietly be tucked away when it becomes apparent that it's worthless.
He did not come here to live a carnal life...
First, no one now knows if Christ was married or not.
Christ came to fulfill the law, one law was that a man marry. Jesus was called Rabbi. Although there are some examples today where a man might be an un-married rabbi but it would be rare, in the time of Christ ALL rabbis were married.
There have always been legends of Christ having children and them being carried off to southern France for their safety.
I would wonder why if Christ was married that from the cross He did not make an allowance for someone to take care of His wife and/or family, after all he did that for His mother and His mother had other sons and likely daughters to take care of her.
We don't know and likely will never know, but, what difference does it make? With the exception of Paul the other Apostles had families.
Celibacy was not popular in The Church for nearly a thousand years
I'm thinking you stand a very good chance of being right.
When they are done with it, it could be stored in the ossuary discovered a few years ago whose inscription said that it contained the bone of "Jesus, son of Joseph." (That would be like saying, "John Smith," today.) Both could be conveniently filed in the same place Indy's ark of the covenant was at the end of the first Indiana Jones movie or an equally accessible place.
The press has way, way too much time on their hands.
Read the Book of Jeremiah, it contains some information related to this.
"Then the word of the Lord came to me: You must not marry and have sons or daughters in this place.
Jer. 16:1,2
This is not a true statement. Christ was God with us in a flesh body. God created all souls, His children. It is likened to 'incest' for God in a flesh body to marry one of His children.
Furthermore, where in all of the Written Word, did God or Christ refer or call Christ 'rabbi'? There is great distinction in who does the talking.
And from what I understand about persecution during the time of Paul's writings, NOT getting married and having a family would be good advice on a practical, as well as "religious", level.
Now if the parchment just showed Jesus' wife to be a guy...why..we'd be on to something.
Ephesians 5:25-27 ESV
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
Everyone knows the Ark is in Ethiopia, it was on the Discovery Channel or something. Of course we'll just have to take some guys word for that since he wasn't giving tours.
I,m far from being an expert in such matters but I would think, in the traditions of Hebrew culture in the 1st. century a.d that Jesus would have had a wife or certainly one chosen for him. Perhaps the Gospel writers felt she wasn't important enough to be mentioned.
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"On the Internet, sometimes what appears to be an explosion is really just a fart. The accusations are totally without merit. A handful of people who have it in for Rick started a witch hunt against him, claiming he had written a scene in Captain America #22 that portrayed the Falcon engaging in what amounted to statutory rape. They used social media to spread the word, and we got some angry emails — about 90 percent which came from people who stated right out the gate that hadn't even read the issue, but were incensed by what they'd heard Rick had written.
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I just read this and on Wednesday I am going to drop all my Marvel books. I know no one cares but this is the type of reaction that pulls me away from Comic Books.
@Bizzle: Huh? What, specifically, is it about Alonso's response that makes you want to quit reading Marvel?
I mean, I've dropped most Marvel (and, for that matter, most DC) books for various reasons, from the companies' treatment of creators to the simple fact that they're mostly not selling the kind of books I want to buy. If you don't want to read Marvel comics anymore, I can't say I blame you. It's just that your two-sentence post gives me no idea whatsoever why you're making that decision.
To be fair most of the #firerickremender tweets I read we're making fun of it. Honestly, bravo to Axel for pointing out the ridiculousness of the whole time. It's time for push back against "Twitter outrage" the people behind it are fools. The whole notion of "this person has offended me so they should lose their job" is the height of selfishness and is perpetuated by a bunch of narcissistic crybabies. If you don't like a creator, don't read their books, it's that simple. But don't call for their firing because guess what? I might like said creator and I might want to read their books. What right do you have to say I can't?
A big hand to Axel and all the creators who exposed this so-called "movement" for the joke it is. I hope the same thing happens to the call for a creators firing. And for the people who start these things, your selfish clowns.
I am completely confused.
Man reads comic.
Man either does not understand comic, or willfully chooses not to understand comic
Man criticizes writer of comic, due to lack of understanding
Sheep do likewise.
There is a whole lot of stupid that does not recognize itself as stupid, here.
Alonso is dead on.
Who still reads this crap? Marvel comics long ago turned into poorly written soap operas with costumes and explosions.
Why does Alonso have to be rude in his response? Is it not enough to say "We disagree with the stance although we respect it." An attack on Remender is an attack on Marvel? Well here's an attack on Marvel: everyone there is a bunch of classless man-children who have their heads so far up their own backsides they don't know what common courtesy is anymore. Or better yet, the ability to just shut up and not demean your audience even if you disagree with them. If Remender's job was so obviously not in jeopardy, why does Axel have to take is so personally and not just let it slide off him?
What's there to respect about a stance that's built on incorrect information and a faulty understanding of the story in question or just plain old dishonesty?
Heh. Brian wants people to disagree without demeaning, while he disagrees while demeaning. I wonder if that's the classlessness he's referring to.
Cmon, guys – knock it off. Discuss the story.
I appreciate everyone coming on here to tell us they don't read marvel comics. Good job.
Alonso wasn't demeaning his audience. He was demeaning a small group of liars an people who blindly believed the lies and acted rashly.
It's appropriate not to respect that kind of behavior.
If you haven't read it or researched it, don't comment on it. Period.
Give me a break. Alonso was pretty restrained in his response here considering this was a story completely driven by classless idiots that took their irrational love of cartoon characters to new heights of creepy stupidity. These people, upset that they don't like Remember's writing, decided to plaster libelous rumors all over twitter and submitted them to the effing media in order to force Marvel's hand. In turn, they damage and disparage Marvel as a company by accusing them of publishing things they never published. And people expect respect? Alonso gave them too much respect. There is a two word sentence that sums up this whole situation for these mini-terrorist liars and that starts with an "f" and ends with a "you". They need to get lives, get over their petty obsessions and join the real world where I imagine they'd be horrified to find people outside their place of work petitioning for their dismissal based on totally trumped up and false charges.
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The business groups may sense victory, but the measures they are cheerleading would have very little stimulative effect. The AMT patch is a yearly Congressional ritual that provides no stimulus, while the home-buyers credit amounts to a "house-flipping subsidy." These are ill-advised tax changes that were rightfully eschewed in the House's stimulus. Incidentally, the Senate bill would create between 430,000 and 538,000 fewer jobs than its House counterpart. But, hey, who's counting, as long as big-business groups get what they're looking for?


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Russian Reunion 2011 (ebook)
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Heather Bryce is a native Texan with degrees in Electrical Engineering, Business, Anatomy, and Chiropractic. She has had a number of careers, including engineering, marketing, management, owning a Chiropractic clinic, teaching and writing. She lives in Texas with her husband, Bill, and son. She tries to escape as often as possible. Her daughter lives all over the world, but is presently in Washington D.C.


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Fox Host: Dem Convention Needed Lots Of Patriotic Colors To Counter Claim That Obama "Did Not Put America First"
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Politico Magazine reported that while the Republican National Convention is pushing the narrative that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will "make America work again," the U.S. economy has actually done well since 2009, with millions of jobs created and a reduction by half of the unemployment rate.
"Make America Work Again" was the theme on July 19, the second night of the Republican National Convention, but Politico pointed out that "one of Trump's many challenges will be convincing non-Republicans that America isn't working even though nearly 15 million more Americans are." Politico interviewed Republican convention delegates about their thoughts on the economy and found "they all seem to agree the Obama economy is a ghastly mess. Except for the economy wherever they happen to live."
The publication noted that, rather than giving credit to President Obama, convention delegates and Trump credited Republican mayors and governors for local "economic progress." That includes Trump's running mate, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, whom the nominee praised for job gains in that state even though "Indiana's unemployment almost perfectly mirrors the national trend." From Politico Magazine (emphasis added):
Just as most Americans say they hate Congress but routinely vote for their local congressmen, most Republicans seem to detect a national economic malaise while — with some exceptions in places like coal country and the oil patch — touting the economic progress in their local communities. They square that circle in a variety of ways — crediting their Republican mayors and governors, accusing Obama of manipulating data, or citing legitimate weaknesses in the recovery from the Great Recession. But with unemployment down from 10 percent to less than 5 percent since late 2009, one of Trump's many challenges will be convincing non-Republicans that America isn't working even though nearly 15 million more Americans are.
Trump illustrated this problem last week when he introduced his running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence. He said the "primary reason" for his choice was that Indiana's unemployment had dropped by 3.4 percentage points in four years under Pence, and that its labor force had grown, which he said was "very unusual" for a U.S. state.
"It's always bad, down, down, down," Trump said. "Down 40 percent, 50 percent, 60 percent in some cases." In fact, the drop in Indiana's unemployment almost perfectly mirrors the national trend. And the labor force has grown in all but nine states with the worst drop only 3 percentage points in oil-dependent North Dakota. In February 2009, Obama highlighted the free-falling economy he inherited by visiting Elkhart, Indiana, where unemployment was nearly 20 percent; he recently returned to Elkhart to highlight America's recovery, and unemployment was 4 percent.
Talking points bashing President Obama and the American economy have been central to the Republican convention. On the first night, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) claimed America is "an economic disaster" because middle-class incomes are down since 1999. Yet Sessions was rebuffed by CNN's Christine Romans, who noted that middle-class income "began declining actually under George W. Bush" and "more recently, it has started to climb again." Sessions' misleading talking point seemed to be taken directly from Fox News, which regularly blames Obama for income stagnation witnessed during the Bush administration and promoted the exact same fallacy just last month.
The Republican National Convention has come under intense scrutiny from the media for its antics and lack of coherence or coordination. The second night of the convention -- with the theme "Make America Work Again" -- drew ridicule from journalists for not actually talking about the economy, and media denounced the night's "mock trial" against Hillary Clinton, which featured delegates shouting "lock her up," as a "mob" and a "festival of hating Hillary." The first night of the convention saw even more intense pushback, with media calling the evening "disastrous" for its lack of message and saying the plagiarized speech by Trump's wife, Melania, turned the "night into a catastrophe."
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After three police officers were killed in Baton Rouge, LA, conservative media immediately blamed President Obama, claiming that he has added "fuel to the flame of racism."
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Journal Hypes Co-Op Failures To Show Public Option Cannot Work, Failing To Mention Co-Op Funding Was Slashed
The Wall Street Journal's editorial board assailed President Barack Obama's call for a "Medicare-like" public health insurance option as "radicalism" that would "wipe out anything resembling private insurance," when in reality a public option would likely increase competition, lower costs, and expand access to health care for American consumers.
In an article published by The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on July 11, President Obama wrote about the accomplishments of his signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or "Obamacare," since it became law in 2010. The article, the first scholarly work ever authored by a sitting president, noted that the uninsured rate has dropped 43 percent (from 16.0 percent in 2010 to 9.1 percent in 2015), that the law has contributed to greater financial security for Americans and that it has actually led to better public health. But the president also noted that there is still work to be done on health care reform, including the need for a "Medicare-like public plan" that could compete with private insurance. On July 9, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton publicly reaffirmed her support for the "public option," a policy she has championed since 1993.
With the Democratic Party coalescing around the public option as the next step for health care reform, the Journal's editorial board claimed the introduction of a publicly run insurer into the individual health insurance exchanges would lead to a "market exodus" by private insurers and eventually to a "government-run single payer" universal health care system. Hypocritically, the Journal claimed both that the public option would inevitably destroy private insurance and that the failure of several nonprofit health care co-operatives set up by the existing law stood as proof that government-run insurance systems could not work. From the July 12 editorial (emphasis added):
Mr. Obama is re-endorsing what he had hoped in 2010 would be a way station for government-run single payer that would gradually wipe out anything resembling private insurance. Insurers can't outbid a "free" program that is open to all or most and has the unlimited access to the Treasury that Medicare enjoys. A market exodus would be inevitable.
Democrats claim this would merely be another choice, but they tried a trial-run public option with ObamaCare's co-ops, which were given up-front federal cash infusions and then were supposed to operate like normal companies. Of the original 24 co-ops, only nine are alive—and most of the survivors are ailing.
Even after jettisoning the public option, ObamaCare passed the Senate with a bare 60-vote majority and the House 219-212, though Democrats commanded their largest majorities since the Great Society. Republicans couldn't stop anything, but they did oppose the public option for the same reasons as the business community and moderate Democrats: Over time, its radicalism would annex all of U.S. health-care finance.
The Journal's fearmongering that competition from public option "radicalism" would usurp the private insurance market lacks evidence: Research suggests a public insurance plan would lead to lower premiums and reap enormous benefits for American taxpayers.
According to Kaiser Health News, increasing competition in individual health care marketplaces has shown to lower prices for consumers, and less competition in a state can lead to "substantially higher premiums." In an op-ed published by The Hill, Richard Kirsch of the Roosevelt Institute noted that a public option can keep costs down without limiting provider options, since the government already pays for care at most of the country's doctors offices and hospitals for Medicare beneficiaries. Unlike private insurers with limited provider networks, a government-run plan would already have the infrastructure to provide low-cost competition nationwide.
In addition to increasing competition and driving down costs, a public option could dramatically decrease government spending on health care, research suggests. According to an October 2009 policy brief by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley's Center on Health, Economic & Family Security, a public option would be so beneficial for the American health insurance market that it would "most likely both expand coverage and reduce costs to employers, individuals, and the government." The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) came to the same conclusion in a March 2012 working paper, which included "a public insurance option" among progressive reforms that together could save the government an additional $278 billion over 10 years. Likewise, a November 2013 analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted that adding a public option to existing Obamacare insurance marketplaces could actually reduce federal spending by $158 billion over 10 years.
The Journal claims the introduction of a public option would lead to universal single-payer health care, but it fails to provide either any proof that the public option would do that or an explanation of why that would be detrimental. The Journal does use the problems faced by government-assisted nonprofit insurers -- called co-ops -- as proof that a public option would not work, but it doesn't mention that Republicans in Congress cut co-op funding. Meanwhile, though the president has not advocated a national single-payer health plan, economist Gerald Friedman estimated that such a system could save the American economy as much as $592 billion a year, most of which would come from "slashing the administrative waste associated with the private insurance industry."
In 2009, when Congress was still vetting the public option for inclusion in what would become the ACA, opinion polling often showed large majorities in favor of the provision. Right-wing media outlets assailed the provision for months as part of their coordinated campaign to derail health care reform, but even after several years the abandoned option remains popular.
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Appearing alongside former president George W. Bush in Dallas, Texas, President Obama eulogized police officers targeted in a "hate crime" last week during a Black Lives Matter march. Right-wing media figures immediately lashed out, calling Obama's speech "bullshit," labeled Obama the "divider-in-chief," and claimed his statements "gave a middle finger to the cops."
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After nearly four years of right-wing myths about the September 2012 attack on an American diplomatic compound and CIA compound in Benghazi, Libya, and as Republicans and Democrats on the House Select Committee on the attacks release their reports, Media Matters has compiled a list of more than 50 myths and facts regarding the origin of the attack, the security surrounding the compounds, the Obama administration's handling of the attack during and after its occurrence, attacks on then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and other lies and misinformation regarding the Benghazi attack.


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How many of you were able to find a cause?
We do not have a cause for DS's mild-mod bilat loss. He had the Connexin test which was negative. He had an eye exam and an ECG as an infant. We did not have the MRI or genetic counseling done. The treatment would not have differed at the time and so far he has not had advancing loss. We had enough to pretty much rule out syndromes with HL as a symptom.
SAHM to a boy 11-26-2006 and a girl 1-1-11
We found a genetic cause for ours. Any of our kids have a 1 in 4 chance of getting the same thing. There are minor thyroid issues (goiter) he could have later in life but that is easily managed. These are reasons I'm glad we found the cause. Also, it tells us his hearing may change over time.
One big plus for me was knowing it was not something I did during pregnancy. But now we're waiting to have more kids to see if we can handle the extra work.
William born 3/2010
James born 10/2011 with moderate-profound hearing loss due to EVA/Pendred's Syndrome
Our daughter had a genetic screen done to test for connexin 26 which came back positive. My Husband and I have not actually been tested ourselves, but since she was positive it is assumed that we are carriers and therefore any pregnancies have a 25% chance of resulting in a child with hearing loss. Our daughter had a CT scan done prior to the genetic test which showed No anatomical abnormalities which is why we proceeded with the genetic test. Some folks never know the source of their hearing loss for various reasons, but for us as parents who intended on having additional children we needed to do all we could to determine what the source of our daughter's hearing loss is in the event it could affect future pregnancies. I am glad we made those efforts and got an answer as it provided answers for us at that time and we are prepared now for possible outcomes of the delivery of our second child this coming March.
Wife to Brad, Mommy to Kaitlyn (12/08/08) and Eric (04/09/11)
May I ask how you have gone about such testing? I am thinking about it but don't know how it works.
We see an ENT who is at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC. They do all the testing at the different branches of the hospital. Our ENT was VERY aggressive in suggesting several different tests, mostly to rule out more severe syndromes than finding cause. We have to verify at each appointment still, at 6 years old, that we don't want the more invasive/sedated tests done.
SAHM to a boy 11-26-2006 and a girl 1-1-11
Married to my prince charming Nate. Our Little princess, Raelyn was born 9-4-09
We haven't had testing done, but we know it is genetic. It comes from dh's family. His sister and niece are also hearing impaired. His dad and multiple aunts and uncles are also hearing impaired. Not really a coincidence. It doesn't affect one gender over another. I guess we could get tested but it isn't a priority. We have 5 kids, 3 who have hearing loss. Its kinda obvious to us that its genetic.
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Babygold- our audiologist referred us to an ENT who set up all the testing.


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"You can be OK too," says the acclaimed memoirist and survivor of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge. "I'm not saying it will be easy, but you can be OK too."
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologistby William R. Maples, Michael Browning
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From a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was dispatched, and, ultimately, the identity of the killer. In Dead Men Do Tell Tales, Dr. Maples revisits his strangest, most interesting, and most horrific investigations, from the baffling cases of conquistador Francisco Pizarro and Vietnam MIAs to the mysterious deaths of President Zachary Taylor and the family of Czar Nicholas II.
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I seldom have nightmares. When I do, they are usually flitting images of the everyday things I see on the job: crushed and perforated skulls, lopped-off limbs and severed heads, roasted and dissolving corpses, hanks of human hair and heaps of white bones all in a day's work at my office, the C. A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory of the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida. Recently I dreamed I was in a faraway country, trying on shoes, and the leather in the shoes was so improperly prepared that the laces and uppers were crawling with maggots. But there was a simple, ordinary explanation for this phantasm: one of my graduate students was raising maggots as part of a research project.
I have gazed on the face of death innumerable time, witnessed it in all its grim manifestations. Death has no power to freeze my heart, jangle my nerves or sway my reason. Death to me is no terror of the night but a daylit companion, a familiar condition, a process obedient to scientific laws and answerable to scientific inquiry.
For me, every day is Halloween. When you think of all the horror movies you have seen in your entire life, you are visualizing only a dim, dull fraction of what I have seen in actual fact. Our laboratory is primarily devoted to teaching physical anthropology to graduate students at the University of Florida, and is part of the Florida Museum of Natural History. Yet, thanks to the wording of the 1917 law establishing the museum, we often find ourselves investigating wrongful death, attempting to dispel the shadows surrounding murder and suicide. All too often in the past, under the old coroner system, the innocent have died unavenged, and malefactors have escaped unpunished, because investigators lacked the stomach, the knowledge, the experience and the perseverance to reach with both hands into the rotting remnants of some dreadful crime, rummage through the bones and grasp the pure gleaming nugget of truth that lies at the center of it all.
Truth is discoverable. Truth wants to be discovered. The men who murdered the Russian Tzar Nicholas II and his family and servants in 1918 imagined that their crime would remain hidden for all eternity, but scarce sixty years had passed before these martyred bones rose up again into the light of day and bore witness against their Bolshevik assassins. I have seen the tiny, wisp-thin bones of a murdered infant stand up in court and crush a bold, hardened, adult killer, send him pale and penitent to the electric chair. A small fragment of a woman's skullcap, gnawed by alligators and found by accident at the bottom of a river, furnished enough evidence for me to help convict a hatchet murderer, two years after the fact.
The science of forensic anthropology, properly wielded, can resolve historical riddles and chase away bugbears that have bedeviled scholars for centuries. Reluctantly but carefully, I examined the skeletal remains of President Zachary Taylor, who died in 1850, and helped lay to rest persistent suspicions that he was the first of our presidents to be assassinated. The sword-nicked skull of the butchered Spanish conquistador, Francisco Pizarro, came within my field of inquiry, and I have held in my hands the bony orb that once enclosed vast dreams of gold, blood and empire. The gargoyle-like skull and skeleton of the Victorian-era "Elephant Man," Joseph Merrick, furnished me with pictures and impressions so poignant and vivid that I almost seemed to be conversing with the man himself.
But I do not seek out the illustrious dead to pay them court or borrow their fame. To me, the human skeleton unnamed and unfleshed is matter enough for marvel. The most fascinating case I ever had involved a modern, love-struck couple with very ordinary names: Meek and Jennings. It fell to me to extricate their bones, burned and crushed and commingled in thousands of fragments, from a single body bag, and put them back together again as best I could. When I was finished, after a year and a half's work, what I had was what lies deepest within all of us, at our center; that which is the last of us ever to be cut, burned, disassembled or dissolved: that which is strongest, hardest and least destructible about us; our firmest ally, our most trustworthy companion. our longest surviving remnant after we die: our skeleton.
Chapter Two: Talkative Skulls
One of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most amusing short stories, "Crabbe's Practice," deals with the desperate attempts of a young doctor to set himself up in the world and acquire patients. Hoping to burnish his academic reputation, he publishes a deep and erudite paper in a medical journal, with the bizarre title, "Curious Development of a Discopherous Bone in the Stomach of a Duck." Later he confesses to a friend that the paper was a fraud. While dining on roast duck, the young doctor discovered that the fowl had swallowed an ivory domino, and he had turned the experience into a research paper. "Discopherous" is just a Greek term for "circle-bearing," and refers to the circular dots on a domino.
Conan Doyle was a doctor himself and knew whereof he spoke. Anyone who works in science knows the dull desperation and sharp anxiety of the early days in one's career. Few of us do not look back on those pinched, scraping times without a secret shudder, followed by a pang of relief that they are past. The miserable pay and financial woes; the long nights of study and the battles against sleep; the frightful hurdles of examinations: the climactic defense of one's doctoral dissertation; the hissing, malignant envy that is the curse of university life at all times and in all places; the constant struggle to get published, to win tenure, to carve out a niche and be recognized in one's field--all these torments are well known in Academe, and have been known to drive some people mad, even to suicide. Some people. Not me.
My early experiences riding shotgun in the funeral parlor's ambulance in Texas had shown me a side of life no book could teach. These dreadful sights gave me a certain balance, along with reserves of strength that I could call on in the ordinary trials of life at the university. When you have seen bodies burned to cinders in fires, or pummeled to jelly under a truckload of bricks, or reduced to empty skins whose bones have been squeezed from them by the terrific force of plane crashes, then the bumps and bogies of academic life l-old few terrors for you. "It could be worse," you tell yourself: and when worse is the thing you saw lying dead in a highway culvert scarcely twelve hours earlier, you know you are telling the truth.
The first time I was asked for my considered opinion about a skull came when I was still in graduate school, still working under Tom McKern in his laboratory. It was a watershed moment for me, because for the first time McKern was treating me I will not say as an equal, but very nearly as a colleague whose independent opinion he valued.
On that morning when I came into the laboratory McKern presented me with a cranium, a skull without the lower jaw. It had been found in Lake Travis near Austin with a fishing line tied around the zygomatic arch, the cheekbone. The other end of the fishing line was tied to a large rock.
As I handled the still damp cranium, my attention was drawn to the palate. More than anything else, the shape of that palate struck me. It stood out, to my eyes, in a very unusual way. Looking at it, I was racked by doubts. I felt very insecure because obviously McKern was going to judge me on my response. More than that. I was insecure because I was about to give him an answer I felt was intrinsically improbable. At last I summoned up my courage and spoke:
"I think it's Mongoloid, probably Japanese," I said. McKern looked at me for a long moment. Then at last he said: "That's what I think too."
Whatever pride I felt was immediately dampened by McKern, who went on to point out all the other things I had missed. With the sure touch of a true master of forensic anthropology, he demonstrated one detail after another, details which I had seen but had not observed. At such times McKern was truly dazzling and I shall never forget those lucid,
decisive moments in which he practically made that old skull speak.
I had not observed that some of the teeth had been glued into their sockets. I had not observed the scorching on the outer cranial vault. I had not observed the very simple fact that the skull had been attached to a fishing line tightly tied to its zygomatic arch, which meant that it was dry, unfleshed bone to start with, when it was plunged into the lake.
After McKern had pointed out all these things, the answer became clear. The skull before us was almost certainly a World War II trophy skull that some serviceman brought back from the Pacific Theater. The scorching had occurred during battle, perhaps by the action of flamethrowers or as the result of a fiery plane crash. The teeth had fallen out as the skull dried out and had been glued back in. Finally, either the serviceman himself had sickened of his gruesome relic, or he had died and his heirs wanted to get rid of the thing. But how to dispose of it? If they put it in the garbage it might be found. Burning it was too much trouble. Burying it would be bothersome and might leave traces. Best to throw it in the lake! Tie a rock to it for good measure! And so the skull went overboard, bubbling down into the depths of Lake Travis, only to be found again by the purest chance.
I am certain that, somewhere in Japan today, there is a family wondering what became of an uncle, a father, a long-lost relative who marched off to war more than half a century ago. They will never know. And the Japanese man whose skull this was, how could he have dreamed that, after great and fiery battles in the middle of the vast Pacific, the bony vessel enclosing his dreaming brain was destined to end up tied to a rock and drowned in a cool American lake, then fished up onto a bright laboratory table at the University of Texas?
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Meet the Author
Until his death in February 1997, Dr. William R. Maples was distinguished service professor and curator-in-charge of the C. A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, Florida. He was president of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. A scholarship fund has been established in his honor. After his death, his students painted a large tribute on a memorial wall at the University of Florida, saying simply: "We have stood on the shoulders of a giant."
Michael Browning was East Asia correspondent for Knight-Ridder Newspapers from 1983–1992. He now works for the Palm Beach Post and lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
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Having read this book once again I come away in aw as to how the human mind works. I also have gained a better understanding of the field of Forensic Pathology and how through the advances in science we are able to not only determine cause of death but the many methods used even from the smallest fragment of bone. If you are a student of Forensics or Police Sciences or just the curious type that finds this to be a truly fascinating field then this book is a MUST READ. Reader beware though as this is not a book for the faint or weak stomach individual it is very graphic in every detail.
I couldn't put this book down. I often traded sleeping at night for reading another chapter. While the details of the murders were very disturbing, at times even grizzly, it was amazing to see how the finest detail left on a crime scene can enable a victim to identify his assailant to investigators, post-mortem. One of my favorite quotes from the book is when the author states, 'Short of the Last Judgement, when the dead shall rise up and be cloaked anew with flesh, and all our doubts are scheduled to be resolved in the twinkling of an eye, we may say that the mystery... is solved as nearly as it is likely to be.' This accomplishes the ultimate goal of the forensic detective, 'With the capture and punishment of the criminal responsible, the families and relatives of those slain can win a small measure of peace amid their infinite sorrow.'
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i had to read this book going into my junior year as a summer homework project, i picked this one because of the catchy title and thinking its just some book a guy wrote in order to get his DR. BUT I WAS DEAD WRONG! this is a wonderful fact filled book that kept me hooked the entire way i was pleased with every turn love it!
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales is an excellent read-- a real page turner. I couldn't put it down once I got started. It's full of minute details that you would not normally get elsewhere but from someone who's been there and done that. Fantastic!
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on 9/22/2015 9:52:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
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I love this blue! My sister picked it up because it reminded her of the TARDIS from Doctor Who, and I couldn't agree more. It's a rich, deep true blue that's classy but still makes a statement. It went on in two coats, the formula is nice and even, and it has good wear. I haven't seen another color like it. Definitely would buy again, especially at the great price. :)
on 7/12/2015 11:21:00 AM
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i love this blue but it also pretty much the same color as of LA colors Navy. I realize this when i got home and sat down to do my nails at my vanity set. LA is thinner than this one i found this a bit on the thick side but I love the results non the less. It true blue to the end......
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on 4/13/2015 11:45:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Dry, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
I love this color! I did two coats over two coats of Nail Envy and no other basecoat with Seche Vite on top. It was easy to apply and dried in a normal amount of time (I try not to touch my nails for about an hour). I should have wrapped the tips because I can already see a tiny bit of wear, but that's not the fault of the nail polish.
And the color. Oh, man, the COLOR. I saw this under the intense fluorescent lighting at Target and was immediately charmed. I brought it home to the windowless, dim, and very yellow room where my nail polish lives and was disappointed to see that it wasn't as intensely blue as I remembered, but once I put it on and saw it in natural light I remembered how amazing it is. It's an intense, rich, beautiful blue color that's almost multidimensional. It's hard to see the true color in pictures -- you really have to see it in natural or bright, cool light. Plus, it's cheap as hell.
on 1/5/2015 12:29:00 AM
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Endless Blue seems like a pretty popular color and I can see why - it's very fun and pretty. The formula is pretty good; very pigmented and a little thick but not hard to apply. Like most SC cremes it does take a while to dry though. It lasted about 5 days for me until chipping started, which I think is a decent amount of time. If you're looking for a good basic pacific blue polish then definitely try this out.
on 11/20/2014 12:23:00 PM
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I applied this color for a vacation to Mexico. It covers completely in one coat but I applied two. I used CND Sticky base coat and no top coat because I didn't have time. After 5 days of sun and swimming this polish didn't chip! I couldn't believe it! The color is gorgeous! So much so that 3 of my friends asked to borrow it for their pedicures. I have polish from all the high end brands and none last as long as this one.
on 8/25/2014 12:14:00 AM
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Beautiful blue that is slightly darker than Sally Hansen's OLD formula for Pacific Blue. Very beautiful intense blue that reminds me of the ocean and always gets comments. Very classy and easy to work with.
on 3/10/2014 12:22:00 AM
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This color is so beautiful! I just could not stop staring at my nails, and I got a ton of compliments on my nails from other people as well. When I saw this shade in the store, I immediately knew I wanted it. Endless Blue is a gorgeous really bright cobalt blue, my favorite color as of right now. The formula is great, it's opaque in one coat, but I did two just to be safe. I like the brush, it's not too thick or thin. If other Sinful Colors polishes are this good, I'm definitely going to pick up a few more colors. At $2 a pop? Definitely. :)
on 1/30/2014 4:33:00 AM
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Eyes: Brown
Sinful Colors Endless Blue is one of my holy grail polishes - it's a gorgeous, deep medium blue creme that applies to complete opacity in one coat! Wear time is great and it's a useful base for nail art, particularly stamping, as the one coat dries quickly even without a fast dry top coat.
One thing to be watchful of is application - if you have too much polish on the brush, it pools into the sides of the nails - so be sparing and maybe even dip the brush twice.
I love, love, love this polish and, for the Sinful Colors price, it's definitely worth picking it up!
on 12/27/2013 8:53:00 AM
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This np is a medium blue. It is truly endless in my opinion. When I put it on my nails though, it creates lots of bubbles. This is why I did not give it a full five stars.
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This is one drugstore gem, that is going to make you happy. This is my happy blue, reminds me of summer vacations, beaches...well that's just me :) Endless Blue is a bright cobalt blue crème. This color is so freakin amazing. For under 3 dollars, this polish rocks!!!! Now for the one and only con with this product is, the consistency is a little thick and goopy. But I can work around that problem...Unless I find an exact dupe for this polish, will stick with this.
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Survey: Gay and lesbian population has unique religious profile
Mormon teachings hold that while homosexual behavior is a sin, those attracted to the same-sex can be in full fellowship with the church if they do not engage in homosexual behavior.
"With love and understanding, the church reaches out to all God's children, including our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters. All are welcome in our congregations," said LDS Church spokesman Dale Jones.
But the politically heated debate over same-sex marriage has likely eclipsed efforts to welcome LGBT adults, at least for the Catholic Church, Reese said.
"The Catholic bishops have made a decision to make gay marriage a big political fight. That has caused a lot of negative feelings among LGBT folks," Reese said. "I am not surprised by the results of the (Pew) survey at all."
The survey found 74 percent of LGBT adults strongly favor same-sex marriage and 52 percent said they would like to get married some day. Also, those LGBT adults who were legally married were more likely to be religiously affiliated (54 percent) than those who were not (43 percent).
Affiliation and conflict
The high numbers of unaffiliated LGBT adults is no surprise to Stephen Merino, a sociology professor at the University of Texas-Pan American who has studied the attitudes of religious organizations toward the LGBT population.
"The unaffiliated are that way for a reason," he said. "They see religion as hostile" to them.
Pew found that the LGBT population that identifies as either atheist, agnostic or religiously unaffiliated is double that of the general unaffiliated population. And that holds true across all age groups.
Two-thirds of those LGBT who are 18-29 years old identified as unaffiliated, compared with 31 percent in the general population. In the 50-years-and-older bracket, 39 percent of LGBT are unaffiliated compared with 13 percent among the general public.
More than half of lesbians (53 percent) and gay men (52 percent) were religiously affiliated, and the proportion of affiliated LGBT adults is highest in the South (57 percent) and West (53 percent).
The LGBT population does reflect the general population when it comes to religious breakdown — the largest group (42 percent) of LGBT church-goers are Christian, while the majority of Americans also identify as Christians. Most religiously affiliated LGBT adults are Protestant, and most of those belong to mainline Protestant faiths.
According to the survey, religiously affiliated LGBT adults felt most welcome at non-evangelical Protestant churches.
The perceptions of the unfriendliness of religion tracks the attitude of religious Americans toward homosexuality. Pew stated that 48 percent of those who attend a worship service at least once a week have a negative view of homosexuality.
But church isn't the only place where LGBT adults find that faith conflicts with their sexual orientation, according to those who shared their experiences in the survey.
"The only thing holding me back from being open about my sexuality is the very strong religious Christian views that most of my family has," said a 26-year-old gay man. "I am confident that the religious members of my family will judge me based on their conservative and radical views of their religion and will end their relationships with me, and I'm not prepared to lose such a large part of my family over it."
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North Shore–Long Island Hospital Will Not Be Rescuing St. Vincent's
The deal is DOA.
After St. Vincent's hospital shuttered last April, North Shore–Long Island Jewish Hospital entered talks to lease St. Vincent's former emergency room and use it as an urgent-care center. But the talks are over: The two parties could not come to an agreement, and the North Shore Hospital's center is moving to a building on West 20th Street. [NYP]
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