Yeah, you know I'm with you... all the made up stuff bothers me too. I cringe every time I see "white baby Jesus" with snow falling.No, actually we have to be bombarded with the 'Believer' version including all of the above.
The Bible gives no specific date (like the 25th of December), just what was going on around "Mary & Joseph" and why they were traveling.
"Mary & Joseph" on the way for Roman Census, middle of March, or 'Ides Of March'
"Shepards In The Field", the only time shepards stay in the field is birthing season, end of April/Beginning of March.
"Mary & Joseph" were middle eastern Jews, before plastic surgery, so they would look like middle eastern Jews.
Common sense on that one...
Anymore discussion should move over to the Christian thread.
In this game of staying as long as we want, and potential mental scarring I would assume that the knowledge gained would also 'stick'. I would go back to the library of Alexandria and stay as long as it took to catalog all the information before it was razed. Then I'd bring back that knowledge and rebuild it.
I'd like to watch a week's worth of lectures at Cornell by Carl Sagan
Listen to Edgar Allen Poe recite some of his work.
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I go back in time and I hand John Moses Browning a high-end laptop with the latest engineering software.
I do not know what kind of firearm that he will make, but I know it will always work AND it was have no moving parts.
Easter being yesterday, I think being a witness to the Last Supper, passion, death, and resurrection of our Lord would certainly deepen one's faith.
I go back in time and I hand John Moses Browning a high-end laptop with the latest engineering software.
I do not know what kind of firearm that he will make, but I know it will always work AND it was have no moving parts.
Gettysburg and Normandy flashed thru my mind but I reconsidered. Pickett's charge and Omaha Beach were basically a slaughterhouse. Watching it would change most people. It is a dark curtain that can't be put back once you remove it. It seems some can witness it without issue and some are never the same.
Man would this be so cool. Even just having the opportunity to observe so many critical events in human history would change your life.
I have personal life events id also choose but for the sake of discussion ill just list some historic events. Not in any order of importance or time.
Surrender of the japanese
Too bad we can't interact with the people and change history. There's a whole bunch of John Connors in history I'd like to see terminated.
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Woodrow Wilson, Saul Alinsky...