Srinigar

[poliphilo]

I was thinking about the Jesus tomb in Srinigar and how I can't assess whether it's a fake or not because I don't know how Srinigar works.

People in Kashmir have oral traditions about how Jesus came to their country. OK. In the west if you test an oral tradition to destruction you find- as often as not- that it actually goes back about fifty years. Tops.

But maybe in Srinigar it's different.

The mystic east and all that.

If the tomb were in Rennes le Chateau or even Jerusalem I'd be able to get a handle on it.

But Srinigar is outside my experience. It's not in my 'hood.

I know what a conman sounds like- but only if he's wearing a business suit or a Roman collar. Put him in one of those Islamic robey things and I'm kerfuffled.

Comments

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

This is fascinating. I shall Google a bit myself.

I trust everything Google finds for me, since it's on the Net.

But only if the grammar is correct. One misplaced apostrophe, and I get judgemental.

:)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

If it's on the Net it must be true.

Did you see what seraphimsigrist has written below? Apparently Jesus is also buried in Japan

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I'm going to start looking around in North America. Maybe a piece of Jesus is over here, too.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's getting to seem like all sorts of people made it to the States before Columbus- the knights templar, the Vikings, the Phoenicians; so why not Jesus?

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Why not?

Maybe I'm related to him! I'm a J1, which means my haplogroup traveled north from Africa and hung around in the middle East.

I'm probably from the House of David, which explains why I like church so much.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Sing us a psalm, Jackie!

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Sing us a psalm, Jackie!

Let me find my harp.

When I think of psalms, I always remember the mean ones: "Smite them, O Lord!"

I can so relate to those!

I was once in a divorce support group, and one of the women told us her tale about her awful husband, and then said a spontaneous psalm:

"I know justice is Thine, O Lord,
But let me be there to watch."

[zoe-1418.livejournal.com]

hmmmm....
Jackie, I think it's "judgmental." But I trust YOU. ;-)

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I trusted Google's Spellchecker!

Oh, dear. "Judgmental" looks more correct.

Please don't tell anyone!

Judge not, lest...

[zoe-1418.livejournal.com]

Well, my 10th edition of Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary shows both spellings if the word is "judgment" ("or judgement"), and doesn't comment on the -al form, giving only the one without the "e." I really think you're fine, and it's judgemental of me to quibble!! ;-)

Re: Judge not, lest...

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Whew!

"Judgment" is an awkward word for me...

[zoe-1418.livejournal.com]

Also, I googled "kerfuffled," not believing it was a real word. But I found this!

http://www.slangsite.com/slang/K.html

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's a fun site.

Kerfuffle is long-established. I'm pretty sure I was using it back in the fifties.