Deja Vu all over again!

[chris]

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 10:13 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
> On 07/05/2011 09:44 AM, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 09:29 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
> >> On 07/05/2011, Ric Moore wrote:
> >>>>>   One time I told some cracker[1] that I had seen God and she was black.
> >>>>>   His head exploded.
> >>> Could you attach a picture??<chuckles>   Ric
> >>
> >> And Jesus, if he existed, being of Aramaic stock, would be short, dark
> >> skinned with black curly hair.
> >
> > I remember when Nat Geo did an article on a police sketchup of what
> > Jesus would look like... just as you described, based on his race,
> > ethnicity, etc. I bet a bunch of heads blew up. :) Ric
> >
> >
> 
> It is natural for people to depict deities that resemble themselves. In 
> the far east, buddha is depicted as a short bald potbellied grinning 
> cheerful chinese looking chap but Siddharta (his real name) is actually 
> a melancholy tall skinny full haired (curly) indian fella who had always 
> insisted he was a mere mortal.
> 
> Ah, the lengths we go to deceive ourselves.
> 
> -- 
> And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,
> Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die,
> Lift not thy hands to *It* for help---for It
> Rolls impotently on as Thou or I.
>            -- Omar Khayamm
> 

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