Mid-Morning Art Thread

Jesus at Bethany
James Tissot

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 st

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 16, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

3 Stunning detail.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

4 Why do all the women look so sad?

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

5 Really nice. Thanks CBD.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 16, 2025 09:31 AM (SfhV1)

6 Bishes be bored......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

7 6 While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, 7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.

8 When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. “Why this waste?” they asked. 9 “This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor.”

10 Aware of this, Jesus said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 16, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

8 Crisp, high contrast. Seems to force deeper investigation and appreciation of the subject.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 16, 2025 09:32 AM (Em/SG)

9 Will this be on the test?

"Oh for My sake!"

Posted by: Tonypete at April 16, 2025 09:33 AM (NjFI4)

10 The anointing of Jesus feet which he said was to prepare him for burial. Very appropriate for this week. Would hang, thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 16, 2025 09:33 AM (6TePA)

11 Nice! Timely. Poignant, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 16, 2025 09:33 AM (Aqu9a)

12 And the Lord looked upon the women seated before him and said, "I'm sorry, am I boring you?"

* Note: Christ never said this, it's a joke which relies on the Lord's well known sense of humor (observe the platypus).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2025 09:34 AM (ExV1e)

13 The men:

How can we attain the skills to pull such poon like this?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

14 When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. “Why this waste?” they asked. 9 “This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor.”
Posted by: rhennigantx

According to one of the other gospels (John, I think), it was only Judas who said this. But he was the treasurer of the group, and stole from the money bag.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

15 Brooklyn Museum

James Tissot Nantes, France, 1836–1902, Chenecey–Buillon, France. Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Martha at Bethany (Jésus à Bethanie, Marie, Madeleine et Marthe), 1886–1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 7 15/16 x 11 3/16 in. (20.2 x 28.4 cm) Sheet: 7 15/16 x 11 3/16 in. (20.2 x 28.4 cm) Frame: 15 x 20 x 1 1/2 in. (38.1 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm).

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 16, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

16 Oh, thank you for this, CBD! I love Tissot, but I've never seen this one before.

**willowed**

MP4, wasn't it a wall from one of those DeMille epics that got re-used as the wall/gate in King Kong, and then burned down in Gone with the Wind?
Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 09:30 AM (77rzZ)

Not that I know of. I'll have to check.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 16, 2025 09:34 AM (Q0kLU)

17 The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part;
But the Sons of Martha favour their Mother of the careful soul and the troubled heart.
And because she lost her temper once, and because she was rude to the Lord her Guest,
Her Sons must wait upon Mary's Sons, world without end, reprieve, or rest.

It is their care in all the ages to take the buffet and cushion the shock.
It is their care that the gear engages; it is their care that the switches lock.
It is their care that the wheels run truly; it is their care to embark and entrain,
Tally, transport, and deliver duly the Sons of Mary by land and main. [...]

And the Sons of Mary smile and are blessèd–they know the angels are on their side.
They know in them is the Grace confessèd, and for them are the Mercies multiplied.
They sit at the Feet–they hear the Word–they see how truly the Promise runs.
They have cast their burden upon the Lord, and–the Lord He lays it on Martha's Sons!

http://tiny.cc/l9rg001

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 16, 2025 09:36 AM (mZtdJ)

18 Was it cold in Bethany?

Posted by: dantesed at April 16, 2025 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)

19 Was it cold in Bethany?
Posted by: dantesed at April 16, 2025 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)

I see no hardened nipples........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

20 11 The poor you will always have with you,[a] but you will not always have me. 12 When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. 13 Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 16, 2025 09:37 AM (gbOdA)

21 Two white doves on the ground there?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2025 09:37 AM (Q4IgG)

22 Fun fact I learned recently: Golgotha - "the place of the skull" - turns out to have had ancient (even by that time) origins for its name. Recall David's defeat of Goliath, and how the head was taken as a trophy...said head was placed on public display for all to see. Over time the flesh rotted away leaving the skull...and the skull remained there for quite a while, sort of an ancient tourist trap I guess...anyway, the place it was kept came to be named for it: "The place of the skull".

And if you think that was coincidence, I have a house made of fragments of the True Cross to sell you.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 16, 2025 09:37 AM (OUMaO)

23

Check out the Wikipedia entry on Bethany...

Posted by: Elderly Git at April 16, 2025 09:37 AM (HRQvT)

24 Why do all the women look so sad?

You asked for it:

https://tinyurl.com/3xzvfnvx

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 16, 2025 09:37 AM (Q0kLU)

25 "The place of the skull".

And if you think that was coincidence, I have a house made of fragments of the True Cross to sell you.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 16, 2025 09:37 AM (OUMaO)

Guess my Gatorland story just got shot down.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 16, 2025 09:39 AM (gbOdA)

26 Actually, that one woman at the bottom looks like she might be asleep.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

27 6 While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, 7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.

8 When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. “Why this waste?” they asked. 9 “This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor.”

Posted by: rhennigantx

I did not know the Disciples were democrats.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2025 09:40 AM (GxM4+)

28 Not what I was expecting during holy week.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2025 09:40 AM (NpAcC)

29 Fun fact I learned recently: Golgotha - "the place of the skull" - turns out to have had ancient (even by that time) origins for its name. Recall David's defeat of Goliath, and how the head was taken as a trophy...said head was placed on public display for all to see. Over time the flesh rotted away leaving the skull...and the skull remained there for quite a while, sort of an ancient tourist trap I guess...anyway, the place it was kept came to be named for it: "The place of the skull".
Posted by: Brother Tim

They changed the name once the Romans put their cavalry barracks there.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

30 Deuteronomy 15:11
New International Version
11 There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land.

Jesus was doing a little preaching from the OT.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 16, 2025 09:41 AM (gbOdA)

31 Two white doves on the ground there?
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Season opens in 30 minutes.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2025 09:41 AM (GxM4+)

32 From the archives, tangential to Jesus' earthly ministry:

Retirement sounds awfully delicious
A lifestyle that fulfills all your wishes
My buddy says it pleases
'Cause it makes him more like Jesus
Every day all he does is loafs ... and fishes!

Posted by: muldoon at April 16, 2025 09:41 AM (/iMjX)

33 Jesus performed His last public miracle in Bethany, when He raised Lazarus from the dead.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 16, 2025 09:41 AM (SfhV1)

34 Very well drawn expressions. Hadn't seen this one.

Posted by: From about That Time at April 16, 2025 09:42 AM (n4GiU)

35 Good morning, good people. May all effort from you result in maximal benefit and commensurate heartburn for the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 16, 2025 09:42 AM (hKoQL)

36 I did not know the Disciples were democrats.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2025 09:40 AM (GxM4+)

Then they would have sold the women to the Romans.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 16, 2025 09:42 AM (gbOdA)

37
Season opens in 30 minutes.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2025 09:41 AM (GxM4+)

"Wabbit Season!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

38 I did not know the Disciples were democrats.
Posted by: rickb223

Only Judas.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

39 I've posted before hard to find a biblical scenario that hasn't been painted multiple times.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 16, 2025 09:42 AM (VofaG)

40 Fun fact I learned recently: Golgotha - "the place of the skull" - turns out to have had ancient (even by that time) origins for its name. Recall David's defeat of Goliath, and how the head was taken as a trophy...said head was placed on public display for all to see. Over time the flesh rotted away leaving the skull...and the skull remained there for quite a while, sort of an ancient tourist trap I guess...anyway, the place it was kept came to be named for it: "The place of the skull".

And if you think that was coincidence, I have a house made of fragments of the True Cross to sell you.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 16, 2025 09:37 AM (OUMaO)

It also supposedly is where Adam's skull rests. You can ponder the symbolism and fulfillment of all of that for days It's just amazing

Posted by: LASue at April 16, 2025 09:42 AM (lCppi)

41 Well, it's one legend. There are several.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 16, 2025 09:42 AM (OUMaO)

42 White doves sometimes portend going to Heaven.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2025 09:43 AM (Q4IgG)

43 While religious art doesn't normally grab my attention, the garden depiction here is unusually good. Thanks CBD.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 16, 2025 09:43 AM (3BCV6)

44 Jesus was doing a little preaching from the OT.

**********

Jesus was doing ALL his preaching from the OT. The New Testament was not available yet.

Posted by: muldoon at April 16, 2025 09:43 AM (/iMjX)

45 >>I did not know the Disciples were democrats.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2025 09:40 AM (GxM4+)
___
Not quite. Democrats would have confiscated the perfume from the woman, sold it, and kept the money for themselves.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 16, 2025 09:43 AM (bNf8H)

46 I've posted before hard to find a biblical scenario that hasn't been painted multiple times.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Same with classical mythology.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)

47 Why do all the women look so sad?

Their cycles synced...

Posted by: Pendulating Richard at April 16, 2025 09:44 AM (4FW37)

48 Don't you people have homes?

Posted by: Jesus at April 16, 2025 09:44 AM (cnVbw)

49 Is there something wrong with Jesus' eye?

Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2025 09:44 AM (NpAcC)

50 When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. “Why this waste?” they asked. 9 “This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor.”

Posted by: rhennigantx

That was one disciple in particular I bet you can guess which one.

Posted by: LASue at April 16, 2025 09:44 AM (lCppi)

51 Season opens in 30 minutes.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2025 09:41 AM (GxM4+)

"Wabbit Season!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

Can I get me a huntin' license?

Posted by: Jon Kerry at April 16, 2025 09:44 AM (Aqu9a)

52 That's odd, Jesus doesn't look like Robert Powell or Max von Sydow in this painting.

Posted by: dantesed at April 16, 2025 09:44 AM (Oy/m2)

53 muldoon, thank you for mentioning that.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 16, 2025 09:45 AM (yp8Vj)

54 Not sure of the floating white flowers in the background. Amid all the fine detail, the lattice fence for example, the flowers look off.

Posted by: From about That Time at April 16, 2025 09:45 AM (n4GiU)

55 The lower part of the post looks like somebody started making it into a totem pole.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

56 Same with classical mythology.
Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)

I haven't seen a painting of Jason fighting the skeleton army coming out of the ground. 😀

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 16, 2025 09:46 AM (VofaG)

57 LOL, and Goliath's name was a "your mom" joke possibly:

The Babylonian Talmud explains the name "Goliath, son of Gath" through a reference to his mother's promiscuity, based on the Aramaic גַּת (gat, winepress), as everyone threshed his mother as people do to grapes in a winepress (Sotah, 42b).

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 16, 2025 09:46 AM (OUMaO)

58 The broad front center has Fred Flintstone feet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

59 Jesus performed His last public miracle in Bethany, when He raised Lazarus from the dead.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 16, 2025 09:41 AM (SfhV1)

Of all the alternate tales of people present at the Crucifixion or having encountered Jesus during His lifetime, I find it interesting that no-one seems ever to have done a novel or movie about Lazarus.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 16, 2025 09:47 AM (Q0kLU)

60 Not sure of the floating white flowers in the background.
Posted by: From about That Time

They're not floating. They're attached to stalks.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

61 Very appropriate and extremely done well.

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2025 09:47 AM (KLwco)

62 Painting smaller than a sheet of copy paper.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 16, 2025 09:48 AM (VofaG)

63 Jesus was doing ALL his preaching from the OT. The New Testament was not available yet.
Posted by: muldoon at April 16, 2025 09:43 AM (/iMjX)

He had a pre-release of the KJB.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 16, 2025 09:48 AM (gbOdA)

64
I haven't seen a painting of Jason fighting the skeleton army coming out of the ground. 😀
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 16, 2025 09:46 AM (VofaG)

https://is.gd/O3jPhL

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

65 I love what Tissot does with light and color. They bring out the many details in the painting and sets a mood that grabs the viewer. This is a scene as Jesus is being recognized as the Messiah and it is a serious moment, but not overburdened by what is to come. The people are worshipful, awed, but the atrium is filled with life, with the flowers, trees and birds. That relieves what the audience knows will follow. So very effective.

It is so different from his scenes of life in Paris society and not as dark as some of his other Biblical images. I wonder how it was received by the public.

Posted by: JTB at April 16, 2025 09:49 AM (yTvNw)

66 Jesus was doing ALL his preaching from the OT. The New Testament was not available yet.
Posted by: muldoon at April 16, 2025 09:43 AM (/iMjX)

You'd have that if anyone could get an advanced copy it'd be Jesus.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2025 09:50 AM (ExV1e)

67 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 16, 2025 09:47 AM (Q0kLU)

It would have to be fiction like the movie Barabbas.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 16, 2025 09:51 AM (VofaG)

68 find it interesting that no-one seems ever to have done a novel or movie about Lazarus.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

That should be done. If done right, it could be amazing. Wonder if Angel Studios would try it? HEY!!! You could do a great screenplay and send it to them!!!!
I would actually go to a movie theater for that!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 16, 2025 09:51 AM (2J/Lj)

69 When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. “Why this waste?” they asked. 9 “This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor.”

Posted by: rhennigantx

That was one disciple in particular I bet you can guess which one.
Posted by: LASue

Sally Struthers?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2025 09:52 AM (GxM4+)

70 Speaking of ministries, I was out walking my pup last week and down the road a ways met a man out hosing down his driveway. His dog was leashed nearby and we started talking about our dogs. I then blundered by asking him what he did for a living. Well, he has a home studio for video/audio productions, he's a coach (not sure of what) and he's a self-appointed New Age Hebrew Rabbi who runs a ministry. His ministry is based almost entirely around revelation chapter 12 & 13. As he started expanding on this theme I began to slowly edge away. Yesterday the pup and I took a different route.

Posted by: muldoon at April 16, 2025 09:52 AM (/iMjX)

71 Jesus performed His last public miracle in Bethany, when He raised Lazarus from the dead.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 16, 2025 09:41 AM (SfhV1)

Agreed. I'm thinking fixing the guard's ear when he was betrayed in the garden wasn't really public.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 16, 2025 09:52 AM (W/lyH)

72 "Is there something wrong with Jesus' eye?"

Hey, buddy, pull the beam out of your own eye before worrying about the speck in mine! - Jesus.

Posted by: PabloD at April 16, 2025 09:53 AM (57fkQ)

73
Sally Struthers?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2025 09:52 AM (GxM4+)

"You can keep her."

- - - - Satan

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)

74 The broad front center has Fred Flintstone feet.
Posted by: Sponge

Gotta stop the car somehow.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2025 09:54 AM (GxM4+)

75 I found this:

Invited to Bethany, where the siblings Lazarus and Martha reside, Jesus finds respite from his ministry and peace to converse with friends. Intent on listening to Jesus, the Magdalene takes a place at his feet—much to the frustration of Martha, who expects her help with the guests, Tissot relates. The Magdalene’s devoted discipleship proves unflagging throughout the narrative from the ministry to the Passion and the Resurrection; and, accordingly, her posture here at the feet of Christ finds echoes in later episodes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 16, 2025 09:54 AM (gbOdA)

76 Agreed. I'm thinking fixing the guard's ear when he was betrayed in the garden wasn't really public.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 16, 2025 09:52 AM (W/lyH)

I've always gone with the ear miracle myself.

( was thinking of socking Van Gogh but I really consider it his last miracle)

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 16, 2025 09:55 AM (VofaG)

77 This reminds me of the illustration that was used in some of the Sunday school story books. It's nice.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 16, 2025 09:55 AM (2J/Lj)

78 Posted by: muldoon at April 16, 2025 09:52 AM (/iMjX)

Revelation is the only NT book that John Calvin never wrote a commentary on.

Make of that what you will.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

79 Hmm. Apparently, after his resurrection, Lazarus became a Cypriot bishop and lived another thirty years. He is a saint in the Greek Orthodox tradition.

https://tinyurl.com/3rvb2pbn

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 16, 2025 09:56 AM (Q0kLU)

80 rhenniganintx, Lazarus had two sisters. Martha and Mary.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 16, 2025 09:57 AM (yp8Vj)

81 80 rhenniganintx, Lazarus had two sisters. Martha and Mary.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 16, 2025 09:57 AM (yp8Vj)

thats they way my daughter pronounced he last name when she was 3 or 4 adding an ING to the end.

Yes Mary Magdalene.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 16, 2025 09:59 AM (gbOdA)

82 Lazarus is widely regarded as one of the two candidates for "the disciple whom Jesus loved." The other is John.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

83 My comment about the OT was a bit facetious. During Christ's earthly ministry he cited many Old Testaments scriptures, laws, prophets, etc. But he also preached about the things that were yet to come, so while not strictly preaching from the New Testament scriptural writings, he was preaching a ministry of hope, redemption and eternal life.

Posted by: muldoon at April 16, 2025 10:00 AM (/iMjX)

84 I don't know you naughty boy. I've never magdaled.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

85 Tissot did hands really well.

I must say.

Posted by: eleven at April 16, 2025 10:01 AM (0HaGk)

86 Still incredibly bummed about Jewells.

Posted by: eleven at April 16, 2025 10:02 AM (0HaGk)

87 I find it interesting that no-one seems ever to have done a novel or movie about Lazarus.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 16, 2025 09:47 AM (Q0kLU)

In 2021, they released a movie about Lazarus, which adhered very closely to biblical story, except that-

Lazarus was black and gained superpowers.

Other than that, spot on.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2025 10:02 AM (iJfKG)

88 Lazarus is widely regarded as one of the two candidates for "the disciple whom Jesus loved." The other is John.
Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

Then why wasn't he invited to supper ?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 16, 2025 10:03 AM (VofaG)

89 That looks SO much like a telephone pole (front left).

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 10:03 AM (CQE5S)

90 Can't be Jesus. No lawn equipment.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 16, 2025 10:03 AM (XCUp7)

91 As it was in the Days Before Starbucks ...

Posted by: Dr_No at April 16, 2025 10:04 AM (ayRl+)

92 Lazarus was black and gained superpowers.

Other than that, spot on.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2025 10:02 AM (iJfKG)

Back to Wakanda

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 16, 2025 10:04 AM (gbOdA)

93 Posted by: muldoon at April 16, 2025 10:00 AM (/iMjX)

It's interesting that no one knows exactly when the canon of Jewish scripture was finalized. There used to be a widespread view that it was done at a rabbinical council in Jamnia late in the first century, but this has been pretty much discredited.

Of course, the Torah and the other books that Jesus quotes were considered authoritative, but it took a while for some of the others to be either accepted into the canon (e.g., Esther) or excluded from it (e.g., the Apocrypha). And nobody really knows when that process was completed.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

94 I like that this artist chose a palette and stayed within that range.

Very nice!

Posted by: kallisto at April 16, 2025 10:05 AM (dCxaZ)

95 Still incredibly bummed about Jewells.
Posted by: eleven at April 16, 2025 10:02 AM (0HaGk)

In heading to a local haunt for trivia night, there was an older lady driving some type of crossover vehicle who's license plate said Jewells.

I glanced skyward and winked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)

96 In truth the New Age Rabbi was a pleasant enough guy and I did engage with him in a bit of discussion. I suggested to him that I preferred to include the first-hand eyewitness accounts of the Gospels as the starting point rather than the highly symbolic and opaque dreams of John at Patmos. We parted on good terms.

Posted by: muldoon at April 16, 2025 10:06 AM (/iMjX)

97 In truth the New Age Rabbi was a pleasant enough guy and I did engage with him in a bit of discussion. I suggested to him that I preferred to include the first-hand eyewitness accounts of the Gospels as the starting point rather than the highly symbolic and opaque dreams of John at Patmos. We parted on good terms.
Posted by: muldoon

I hope you directed him to the Book of Limericks.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

98 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: SMOD at April 16, 2025 10:09 AM (RHGPo)

99 Jesus at Bethany

Good thing it's not Jesus at Berkeley. We'd see him assaulted by a bunch of Antifa wackjobs and fat they/thems with rainbow hair and bull rings. And then he'd get arrested for hate speech.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 16, 2025 10:09 AM (ycI94)

100 17 The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part;
But the Sons of Martha favour their Mother of the careful soul and the troubled heart.
And because she lost her temper once, and because she was rude to the Lord her Guest,
Her Sons must wait upon Mary's Sons, world without end, reprieve, or rest.
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 16, 2025 09:36 AM (mZtdJ)

Wonderful!

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 10:09 AM (CQE5S)

101 Good thing it's not Jesus at Berkeley. We'd see him assaulted by a bunch of Antifa wackjobs and fat they/thems with rainbow hair and bull rings. And then he'd get arrested for hate speech.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 16, 2025 10:09 AM (ycI94)

There would be salt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:09 AM (Zz0t1)

102 21 Two white doves on the ground there?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2025 09:37 AM (Q4IgG)

I think those might be dovecotes at the back, in the wall.

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 10:10 AM (CQE5S)

103 Two white doves on the ground there?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2025 09:37 AM (Q4IgG)

One looks like a mini owl.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:11 AM (Zz0t1)

104 Trump rallies have a better turn out.

Posted by: scottst at April 16, 2025 10:13 AM (qcvs8)

105 One looks like a mini owl.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:11 AM (Zz0t1)

Lazarus accepted to Hogwarts.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 16, 2025 10:15 AM (gbOdA)

106 Don't you understand. It was a rocket! Shaped like a penis! Spewing it's foul ejecta all over me.

Gail, how could you!??

Posted by: Gaia. at April 16, 2025 10:15 AM (n3lGV)

107 Trump rallies have a better turn out.

Posted by: scottst at April 16, 2025 10:13 AM (qcvs8

"I'm filling arenas! You like me! You really like me!!!"

- - - - - AOC

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

108 Democratic Official Plots to Take Down Party Incumbents: “Less than three months after the young political activist David Hogg was elected as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, he is undertaking a new project that is sure to rankle some fellow Democrats: spending millions of dollars to oust Democratic members of Congress in primary elections next year,” the New York Times reports.

Very Smart Kid. look at all the dems that are doing nothing to protect our democracy. Every one of these delinquent members of congress must go.

Great idea. Let’s force vulnerable incumbents to burn money and energy fending off primary opponents because they didn’t scream loud enough.

Progressive Democrats always face this from “Moderate” aka corporate Democrats. If your constituents like you, they will re-elect you.

The problem is, at this moment in time, *more* Democrats is much more important than *better* Democrats.

I like it. Sounds revolutionary. Were the French resistance fighters doing the Nazi's a solid by working against the Vichy?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 16, 2025 10:15 AM (ycI94)

109 99 Dems Are so Desperate That They Pulled Biden Out From Under the Bus of Negros.
Posted by: SMOD at April 16, 2025 10:09 AM (RHGPo)

added a point for clarification

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 16, 2025 10:16 AM (gbOdA)

110 Willowed:

Another idea about China:

LC Sign is exempt from tariffs as long as Tony is still employed there.

(Look up Tony, LC Sign on YouTube. Trust me.)
Posted by: NR Pax at April 16, 2025 09:24 AM (RjOoY)

Someone needs to get this idea in front of Trump.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 16, 2025 10:17 AM (2ocoG)

111
Very Smart Kid. look at all the dems that are doing nothing to protect our democracy. Every one of these delinquent members of congress must go.

Yes. Yes......continue down this path. Re-shape your party into the party of David Hogg and AOC.

DO IT!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

112 The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part;
But the Sons of Martha favour their Mother of the careful soul and the troubled heart.
And because she lost her temper once, and because she was rude to the Lord her Guest,
Her Sons must wait upon Mary's Sons, world without end, reprieve, or rest.
Posted by: andycanuck

I don't remember that from Scripture. Where is it from?

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:18 AM (77rzZ)

113 Allow me to rant for a moment about taxes, and not just because of tax season, but also because Holy Week.
The government, by withholding income, has put themselves before you and before God by grabbing first fruits. Not by your choosing or gifting, but by their power.
They've essentially said all money property and wealth belongs to us, and we'll take our share first. You can have what is left over.
The very act of withholding puts us in a subserviant position to the government and it bothers me that it doesn't bother more people. I'd guess that's due to the psychology of getting a refund, which to many seems like a bonus instead of table scraps tossed down to us dogs.

JJ's link to a NYP story and the picture of todays art thread brought this back to my mind.

...so anyways, how is tithing supposed to work in this scenario? Do we use gross or net pay?
(Now we find out who owns a mega-church)

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 16, 2025 10:18 AM (FCbAQ)

114 109 Progressive Democrats always face this from “Moderate” aka corporate Democrats. If your constituents like you, they will re-elect you.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 16, 2025 10:15 AM (ycI94)

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This is how AOC got to power.

The establishment should know this.

They should be pissy.

This is not a sign of a healthy party.

Moar popcorn, please.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

115 Oprah's minge-minder, Gayle King, says it's sexist to call her little venture with the girls into weightlessness for two minutes a "space ride" because no one calls it that when male astronauts are launched into space.

FFS, can this bint somehow be forced to STFU?

Posted by: one hour sober at April 16, 2025 10:18 AM (Y1sOo)

116 Megyn Kelly laughing hysterically about the "training" the all female 'astronauts' went through is quite entertaining.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

117 48 Don't you people have homes?
Posted by: Jesus at April 16, 2025 09:44 AM (cnVbw)

I LOLed.

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 10:18 AM (CQE5S)

118 “Less than three months after the young political activist David Hogg was elected as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, he is undertaking a new project that is sure to rankle some fellow Democrats: spending millions of dollars to oust Democratic members of Congress in primary elections next year,” the New York Times reports.

I can generally get behind this, except for a warning Michael Malice gave recently: the replacement for Nancy Pelosi isn't gonna be a Republican, it's gonna be AOC. The replacement for Sanders is gonna be Rashida Tlabia. And so on.

Unless of course DOJ does something about voting fraud in blue cities, in which case anything is possible.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 16, 2025 10:18 AM (2ocoG)

119 116 Oprah's minge-minder, Gayle King, says it's sexist to call her little venture with the girls into weightlessness for two minutes a "space ride" because no one calls it that when male astronauts are launched into space.

FFS, can this bint somehow be forced to STFU?
Posted by: one hour sober at April 16, 2025 10:18 AM (Y1sOo)

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If she's not being oppressed for taking a $250,000 ride into the lowest of low Earth orbits, is she even special?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

120 I find it interesting that no-one seems ever to have done a novel or movie about Lazarus.

Actually, thinking it over. A Lazarus story would be a tough one to right an interesting story about.

This isn't like 'Barabbas' or maybe "The Robe" where the main character(s) make major changes throughout their lives in the aftermath of Christ on Earth.

With Lazarus, well...to put it mildly...where's the doubt or the conflict within the character?

He's been dead. Knows what that's all about. He's been risen from the dead. He absolutely knows the truth about Christ. Christ is still at this point around.

There is almost nothing for Lazarus to dodo but follow Jesus and we already know what that's about as well.

I suppose he might wind up sacrificing his life confident in that he knows what's beyond or be martyred but...eh, I just don't see it.

it's tough to bring something new or interesting to theLazarus story. That's probably why no movie.

I suppose that Lazarus could be pissed off at Christ that he was raised from the dead. So...a weird comedy?

Don't see it as a great possibility.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2025 10:20 AM (iJfKG)

121 119 I can generally get behind this, except for a warning Michael Malice gave recently: the replacement for Nancy Pelosi isn't gonna be a Republican, it's gonna be AOC. The replacement for Sanders is gonna be Rashida Tlabia. And so on.

Unless of course DOJ does something about voting fraud in blue cities, in which case anything is possible.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 16, 2025 10:18 AM (2ocoG)

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A Democrat will win the presidency again. They will gain Congress again.

It'll be Biden's presidency all over again.

If we can survive both Biden's and Obama's presidencies and still have hope, then maybe every election isn't the most important ever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

122 Oprah's minge-minder, Gayle King, says it's sexist to call her little venture with the girls into weightlessness for two minutes a "space ride" because no one calls it that when male astronauts are launched into space.

I mean, male (and female) astronauts are actually in space. The Bezos dick-rockets can't go that high.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 16, 2025 10:21 AM (2ocoG)

123 If we can survive both Biden's and Obama's presidencies and still have hope, then maybe every election isn't the most important ever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

Phew.....At least I never have to waste my time voting ever again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:22 AM (Zz0t1)

124 Jesus at Bethany

Good thing it's not Jesus at Berkeley. We'd see him assaulted by a bunch of Antifa wackjobs and fat they/thems with rainbow hair and bull rings. And then he'd get arrested for hate speech.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 16, 2025 10:09 AM (ycI94)

That kinda happened when Jesus went back to Bethlehem to preach. They were going to toss him off a cliff at the edge of town.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 16, 2025 10:22 AM (FCbAQ)

125 > Megyn Kelly laughing hysterically about the "training" the all female 'astronauts' went through is quite entertaining.
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Launched in a penis shaped rocket, built by a bald, womanizing man, controlled by men and, yet... they feel 'empowered.' 🚀

Gurrrrl Powah!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2025 10:22 AM (Q4IgG)

126 I think a movie about Pilate could be interesting. According to later tradition, he became a Christian. The Ethiopian Church regards him as a saint.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

127 Really great write up on totalitarian origins:

https://tinyurl.com/bddkbhes

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 16, 2025 10:23 AM (gbOdA)

128 Preferred Itinerary for Senator Chris Van Hollen & Co Frolic to El Salvador:

1) After landing, plane held on runway for 10 hours before passengers allowed to disembark

2) Passengers held for 24 hrs in Airport Security room or Broom Closet until IDs confirmed

3) Reservations lost at Hotel. Van Hollen and Co referred to near-by flophouse.

4) Van Hollen & Co restricted to flophouse rooms for Security reasons.

5) 5 AM wake-up, and transfer to Gov't facility without breakfast.

6) Van Hollen &n Co held for 24 hrs in Security cells to reconfirm ID, and lack of any communicable disease.

7) Van Hollen suspected of carrying Monkey Pox. Group held in quarantine for 72 hrs.

Von Hollen given clean bill of health but must wear large protective diaper, instead of trousers.

9) Strip search conducted on all members of group. Pictures taken and mistakenly released to Press.

10)VH and crew taken to Meeting Room. Wait for 13 hrs before told that President of El Salvador had to leave for Emergency Golf Game with President Donald Trump at Maralago. Will return next week.

11) VH and crew held in flophouse for security reasons until President returns.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2025 10:25 AM (iJfKG)

129 Said it before and I'll say it again. A whole lot of people are searching for purpose. Something from which to derive personal meaning and validity.

Unfortunate - they've settled on political brand identity.
Posted by: Taking Notes

I'm fighting for human rights by posting on Reddit and transing my kids! I'm like Rosa Parks!

Posted by: AWFLs at April 16, 2025 10:25 AM (ycI94)

130 Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2025 10:20 AM (iJfKG)

Pretty good reasoning there.
Seems like enough for a skit or two, told from different perspectives, but not enough meat for a meal.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 16, 2025 10:25 AM (FCbAQ)

131 Preferred Itinerary for Senator Chris Van Hollen & Co Frolic to El Salvador:

They're going there with the stated intent of kidnapping a citizen of El Salvador. They should just be thrown in CECOT. We can then trade more illegals for their release. Win-win.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 16, 2025 10:26 AM (2ocoG)

132 ...so anyways, how is tithing supposed to work in this scenario? Do we use gross or net pay?
(Now we find out who owns a mega-church)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 16, 2025 10:18 AM (FCbAQ)

End paycheck deductions and make people write a check on the 15th and SHIT GETS REAL REAL FAST

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 16, 2025 10:26 AM (gbOdA)

133 Pretty good reasoning there.
Seems like enough for a skit or two, told from different perspectives, but not enough meat for a meal.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 16, 2025 10:25 AM (FCbAQ)

"The hot dog diet got me SHREDDED!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:27 AM (Zz0t1)

134 Geezer Golf yesterday was like Lazarus. Dead. But with no resurrection. The old boys laughed with glee taking my money.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 16, 2025 10:28 AM (W/lyH)

135 133 Preferred Itinerary for Senator Chris Van Hollen & Co Frolic to El Salvador:

They're going there with the stated intent of kidnapping a citizen of El Salvador. They should just be thrown in CECOT. We can then trade more illegals for their release. Win-win.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 16, 2025 10:26 AM (2ocoG)

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Give him the meeting. Record it. Don't tell the Senator.

Dude's been without contact with the outside world for weeks now.

A sudden meeting with a US Senator will be confusing at best. Could be funny to watch and post.

"Alright, kid. Now, you say that you are afraid for your life."
"Que?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 10:28 AM (GBKbO)

136 "The hot dog diet got me SHREDDED!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:27 AM (Zz0t1)

Dry scoop before you work out!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 16, 2025 10:28 AM (FCbAQ)

137 They're going there with the stated intent of kidnapping a citizen of El Salvador. They should just be thrown in CECOT. We can then trade more illegals for their release. Win-win.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 16, 2025 10:26 AM (2ocoG)

They're being very open about their desire to import people for their 3rd party murder all Americans until we're a communist nation plan.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:28 AM (Zz0t1)

138 113 The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part;
But the Sons of Martha favour their Mother of the careful soul and the troubled heart.
And because she lost her temper once, and because she was rude to the Lord her Guest,
Her Sons must wait upon Mary's Sons, world without end, reprieve, or rest.
Posted by: andycanuck

I don't remember that from Scripture. Where is it from?
Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:18 AM (77rzZ)

Kipling

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 10:29 AM (CQE5S)

139 127 I think a movie about Pilate could be interesting. According to later tradition, he became a Christian. The Ethiopian Church regards him as a saint.
Posted by: Bulg

I always sympathized with Pilate. Judea was an unruly place to rule, Rome focused on stability in its remote lands, and Pilate tried to come up with peaceful ways out of the dilemma (having Jesus pitted against Barabbas for his clemency). Life was pretty cheap back then, though, and sacrificing one innocent man to stave off potential (deadly) riots probably seemed like the right call.

Posted by: Military Moron at April 16, 2025 10:29 AM (ycI94)

140 it's tough to bring something new or interesting to theLazarus story. That's probably why no movie.

I suppose that Lazarus could be pissed off at Christ that he was raised from the dead. So...a weird comedy?

Don't see it as a great possibility.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2025 10:20 AM (iJfKG)

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Plot twist: Lazarus turns out to be Satan!

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 16, 2025 10:29 AM (SCRHn)

141 I really prefer to be called "Simon of Bethany" if it's all the same to you guys.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: Simon the Leper at April 16, 2025 10:29 AM (W5ArC)

142 I wonder how much space curb rash there was on the wheels when the lady space ship return to erf.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 16, 2025 10:30 AM (DKKgv)

143 143 Plot twist: Lazarus turns out to be Satan!
Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 16, 2025 10:29 AM (SCRHn)

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Put a chick in it. Make it gay and lame.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

144 "China unexpectedly (lol) anoints new trade negotiator amid US tariff war...China on Wednesday unexpectedly appointed a new trade negotiator key in any talks to resolve the escalating tariff war with the United States, replacing trade tsar Wang Shouwen with its envoy to the World Trade Organization.

Li Chenggang, 58, a former assistant commerce minister during the first administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, takes over from Wang, the human resources and social security ministry said in a statement... It was unclear if Wang, 59, who assumed the No. 2 role at the commerce ministry in 2022, had taken up a post elsewhere. His name was no longer on the ministry's leadership team, according to the ministry's website as of Wednesday..."

Wang Who ???

Posted by: runner at April 16, 2025 10:30 AM (g47mK)

145 138 "The hot dog diet got me SHREDDED!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:27 AM (Zz0t1)

Dry scoop before you work out!
Posted by: OneEyedJack

I choke them down as often as I can, but still haven't seen any GAINZ.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at April 16, 2025 10:30 AM (ycI94)

146 > Unfortunate - they've settled on political brand identity.
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The Democrats identify with the ideology more than the politics leftism espouses. It's a lot like Islam in that the ideology is very strict, there's permitted no deviations and everyone must abide.... or die.

The way the left uses "othering" to ostracize people they dislike is right out of Alinsky... but the intolerance the left demonstrates for "others" is Jihadi-like.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2025 10:30 AM (Q4IgG)

147 So, how long before the Demoncrats demand a declaration of war against El Salvador when Bukele doesn't give them their precious MS-13 member?

Posted by: XTC at April 16, 2025 10:30 AM (UnA8+)

148 Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 16, 2025 10:18 AM (FCbAQ)

...so anyways, how is tithing supposed to work in this scenario? Do we use gross or net pay?

I've seen heartbreaking testimony from people living on the edge trying to decide whether they should tithe from their gross or net pay. I'm like...what?? Just go to your church pastor and ask for financial assistance. Any church authority that REQUIRES tithing is a POS.

if it's voluntary, fine. But when these people think they'll be eternally damned if they steal food from their children's mouths because they don't give ten per cent to the pastor, that's a form of spiritual abuse and extortion.

Posted by: kallisto at April 16, 2025 10:31 AM (dCxaZ)

149 > I suppose that Lazarus could be pissed off at Christ that he was raised from the dead. So...a weird comedy?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2025 10:20 AM (iJfKG)

Angry because the resurrection totally screwed up his carefully-designed tax strategy. Now he's going to have to pay those bastard Romans a lot more money.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 16, 2025 10:31 AM (W5ArC)

150 It would be cool if the senator started a hunger strike to release the gang banger. 🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 16, 2025 10:31 AM (DKKgv)

151 Life was pretty cheap back then, though, and sacrificing one innocent man to stave off potential (deadly) riots probably seemed like the right call.

Posted by: Military Moron at April 16, 2025 10:29 AM (ycI94)

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"And this is why I assassinating Trump and Musk is justified! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 16, 2025 10:32 AM (SCRHn)

152 Do the Dems understand that even if ms13 daddy is returned he will still be deported to another country?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 16, 2025 10:32 AM (DKKgv)

153 "Gayle King, says it's sexist to call her little venture with the girls into weightlessness for two minutes a "space ride" because no one calls it that when male astronauts are launched into space."

Fine. I will call it your extra high altitude joy ride.
Oh wait! I just remembered......

I don't care. I will just keep ignoring the whole stupid stunt.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 16, 2025 10:32 AM (2J/Lj)

154 It would be cool if the senator started a hunger strike to release the gang banger. 🤣
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 16, 2025 10:31 AM (DKKgv)

"Never happen."

- -- - - Senator Chowing Down a $185 Fillet Mignon on The Taxpayer Dime

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:32 AM (Zz0t1)

155 “Why this waste?” … According to one of the other gospels (John, I think), it was only Judas who said this. But he was the treasurer of the group, and stole from the money bag.
Posted by: Bulg

John 11:2 It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair…

John 12:4 But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would betray Him, said, “Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it.

Meaning no disrespect to the author of John's gospel, I do have some doubts about the thief accusation. I think Matthew kept the accounts, Judas just held the bag. The betrayer was vain and out for his own glory, but probably not a petty pilferer. Truly, his criticism was not out of love for the poor. He was already nitpicking in preparation to betray Jesus. He was no doubt extra miffed when Jesus scolded, “Let her alone…”

Posted by: mindful webworker - Just IMAO at April 16, 2025 10:33 AM (dlb43)

156 It would be cool if the senator started a hunger strike to release the gang banger. 🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 16, 2025 10:31 AM (DKKgv)

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Unless he self-immolates in front of the White House, I doubt his sincerity and commitment.

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 16, 2025 10:33 AM (SCRHn)

157 Li Chenggang, 58, a former assistant...

That's onomatopoetic, since his name is the noise his new cuff links will make.
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Wang Who ???
Posted by: runner at April 16, 2025 10:30 AM (g47mK)

too easy. Wang Chung.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 16, 2025 10:34 AM (FCbAQ)

158 Jesus at Bethany, James Tissot
Thank you. It's certainly appropriate for Holy Week, but I'd pass hanging it.
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Got Questions dot Org: What is the significant of Bethany in the Bible?

In small part, "Bethany is probably best known for being the hometown of Jesus’ good friends, Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. Bethany was the place where Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead (John 11:1, 41–44), it was the home of Simon the leper (Mark 14:3–10), and it was the place where Mary anointed Jesus’ feet with perfume (Matthew 26:6–13). Other references to Bethany are Mark 11:1 and Luke 19:29, which describe the preparations for Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the cursing of the fig tree in Mark 11:11–13, and the place where Jesus stayed overnight during His final week of earthly ministry, between His triumphal entry and His crucifixion (Matthew 21:17).

The name Bethany is translated by some to mean “house of figs,” as there are many fig trees and palms in the area; others translate it as “house of misery,” speculating that Bethany was a designated place for the sick and those with contagious diseases."

Posted by: L - No nic, adores Musk and Miller at April 16, 2025 10:35 AM (NFX2v)

159 > Wang Who ???
Posted by: runner at April 16, 2025 10:30 AM (g47mK)

You know, that guy whose new job is spreading human waste in a rice paddy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 16, 2025 10:36 AM (W5ArC)

160 Fine. I will call it your extra high altitude joy ride.
Oh wait! I just remembered......

I don't care. I will just keep ignoring the whole stupid stunt.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 16, 2025 10:32 AM (2J/Lj)

Kate Upton did it better.

https://is.gd/ZpIgZi

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)

161 Unless he self-immolates in front of the White House, I doubt his sincerity and commitment.

/only half-joking
Posted by: ShainS

Reminds me of one of my favorite South Park moments: https://tinyurl.com/bddcrfns

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 16, 2025 10:36 AM (ycI94)

162 "Gayle King, says it's sexist to call her little venture with the girls into weightlessness for two minutes a "space ride" because no one calls it that when male astronauts are launched into space."

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Yes.

Congratulations on understanding how teasing works.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men's resources matter to women, women's weight matters to men at April 16, 2025 10:37 AM (rlK7S)

163 I always sympathized with Pilate. Judea was an unruly place to rule, Rome focused on stability in its remote lands, and Pilate tried to come up with peaceful ways out of the dilemma (having Jesus pitted against Barabbas for his clemency). Life was pretty cheap back then, though, and sacrificing one innocent man to stave off potential (deadly) riots probably seemed like the right call.
Posted by: Military Moron at April 16, 2025 10:29 AM (ycI94)

If only he'd used the code phrase "do you know who I am". -- Pilate

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2025 10:37 AM (ExV1e)

164 "Gayle King, says it's sexist to call her little venture with the girls into weightlessness for two minutes a "space ride" because no one calls it that when male astronauts are launched into space."

Difference being, they actually go to space.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2025 10:37 AM (GxM4+)

165 Kate Upton did it better.

https://is.gd/ZpIgZi
Posted by: Sponge

You, Sir, are a great American.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

166 What's aggravating is Chris Van Hollen's little adventure will probably be on us, the taxpayers. Presuming he follows through. The evidence is pretty strong his MS-13 man-crush was properly disposed of.

Trump's administration oughta' pull any/all support and make Van Hollen pay his own way to El Salvador.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2025 10:38 AM (Q4IgG)

167
You, Sir, are a great American.
Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

I try.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

168 Did Shatner actually go into space, or was he also suborbital like the gals?

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

169 > because no one calls it that when male astronauts are launched into space

1) You're not an "astronaut", scrunt.

2) Male astronauts (and also genuine female astronauts) go to space to do jobs. You went as a publicity stunt. You contributed no more to the mission than a sack of commemorative beanie babies would have.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 16, 2025 10:39 AM (W5ArC)

170
Trump's administration oughta' pull any/all support and make Van Hollen pay his own way to El Salvador.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2025 10:38 AM (Q4IgG)

He'll do what he did to Pelosi and cancel the flight as they sit aboard it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

171 Did Shatner actually go into space, or was he also suborbital like the gals?
Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

I believe it was a similar flight.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

172 Wang Chucked

Posted by: steevy at April 16, 2025 10:39 AM (KQk9m)

173 "Gayle King, says it's sexist to call her little venture with the girls into weightlessness for two minutes a "space ride" because no one calls it that when male astronauts are launched into space."

Fine. I will call it your extra high altitude joy ride.
Oh wait! I just remembered......

I don't care. I will just keep ignoring the whole stupid stunt.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 16, 2025 10:32 AM (2J/Lj)
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Nobody called it a joy ride when that female astronaut (who got stranded) went into space either. This has nothing to do with sex. It has everything to do with what the "astronauts" are doing on the ride. If they're actually piloting the ship, then they're real "crew" and it ain't a joy ride. If they're giggling THOTs in tight catsuits who don't do a thing other than sit in a seat, then they're passengers on a joyride.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 16, 2025 10:39 AM (iFTx/)

174 It's a curious choice that the artist draws your eye first to near center, where the women's garments have such beautiful deep colors set off by the white wraps. You can spend a while looking at those details and you sort of get to know those women a bit. And then having done that, after quite a pause, you glance to the right!

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 10:40 AM (CQE5S)

175 Still incredibly bummed about Jewells.
Posted by: eleven at April 16, 2025 10:02 AM (0HaGk)

Same here. I treasure the times she and I were able to "talk" here.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 16, 2025 10:40 AM (Q0kLU)

176 Tissot was a very devout man. Years ago the Brooklyn music did an exhibit of his works. All Biblical and all astonishing.

Posted by: Vivi at April 16, 2025 10:40 AM (Egz6Y)

177 The Chosen.

Posted by: Come and see at April 16, 2025 10:41 AM (T2poH)

178 Kate Upton did it better.
https://is.gd/ZpIgZi
Posted by: Sponge

169 Did Shatner actually go into space, or was he also suborbital like the gals?
Posted by: Bulg

You know, Whoopi Goldberg was in space on the Enterprise, too. Maybe we could do a zero-g sexy lingerie shoot with her?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 16, 2025 10:41 AM (ycI94)

179 ----
Wang Who ???
Posted by: runner at April 16, 2025 10:30 AM (g47mK)

No no.....It's FANG!

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at April 16, 2025 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

180 Posted by: kallisto at April 16, 2025 10:31 AM (dCxaZ)

I wouldn't belong to a church that demanded I open my books to them.
Nobody but the Lord will know if I tithe or not, which according to many sermons is not a determiner of whether you get saved, but more a way to ensure blessings.
Malachi 3:10

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 16, 2025 10:41 AM (FCbAQ)

181 Shatner took the same trip.

Posted by: steevy at April 16, 2025 10:42 AM (KQk9m)

182 So, [bhow long before the Demoncrats demand a declaration of war against El Salvador when Bukele doesn't give them their precious MS-13 member?
Posted by: XTC

2025 is shaping up to be a weird year.

I did NOT have "become a Salvadoran ally" on my bingo card.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2025 10:42 AM (GxM4+)

183
You know, Whoopi Goldberg was in space on the Enterprise, too. Maybe we could do a zero-g sexy lingerie shoot with her?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 16, 2025 10:41 AM (ycI94)

You are sick AND twisted.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)

184 I like that they learned nothing from Barbara Streisand.

The best thing for pro vagina-space-ride supporters to do here is to move on and pretend it never happened, and definitely stop drawing attention to the "this is why it's perfectly reasonable that women are paid less than men" aspect of the story. But they can't.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men's resources matter to women, women's weight matters to men at April 16, 2025 10:42 AM (rlK7S)

185 "Gayle King, says it's sexist to call her little venture with the girls into weightlessness for two minutes a "space ride" because no one calls it that when male astronauts are launched into space."

The reality that she rode into space on a penis shaped rocket ship is lost on her.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 16, 2025 10:42 AM (N39Ws)

186 179, Yep, The Chosen . Go watch it.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 16, 2025 10:42 AM (yp8Vj)

187 183 Shatner took the same trip.
Posted by: steevy at April 16, 2025 10:42 AM (KQk9m)

======

So did one of the twins from Dude Perfect.

If Dude Perfect is taking the trip...it's not that special.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

188 You contributed no more to the mission than a sack of commemorative beanie babies would have.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 16, 2025 10:39 AM (W5ArC)

How dare you, sir. You shall be contacted by our attorneys. -- Union of Spacefaring Beanie Babies, local 423

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2025 10:42 AM (ExV1e)

189 185
You know, Whoopi Goldberg was in space on the Enterprise, too. Maybe we could do a zero-g sexy lingerie shoot with her?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 16, 2025 10:41 AM (ycI94)

You are sick AND twisted.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)

Ted Danson perks up.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 16, 2025 10:43 AM (N39Ws)

190 Male astronauts (and also genuine female astronauts)

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People might start noticing things regarding that, too.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men's resources matter to women, women's weight matters to men at April 16, 2025 10:43 AM (rlK7S)

191 @144/runner: "Wang Who ???"

https://youtu.be/L1k8oHxM_6Y

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 16, 2025 10:44 AM (O7YUW)

192 I notices that all Biblical Epics on TV right now, The Cosen, David on Amazon, replace Jews with Arabs - arab actors. I am sure it's purely innocent....

Posted by: runner at April 16, 2025 10:44 AM (g47mK)

193 *I noticed

Posted by: runner at April 16, 2025 10:44 AM (g47mK)

194 Of note, both are on Amazon.

Posted by: runner at April 16, 2025 10:45 AM (g47mK)

195 Story of Laz? As living proof of Jesus' power, Lazarus was hounded by the anti-Jesus Establishment, had to leave Bethany, change his identity. Did not have a peaceful afterdeath.

Posted by: mindful webworker - and then...? at April 16, 2025 10:45 AM (dlb43)

196 David is played by an arab, Jesus is played by an arab.

Posted by: runner at April 16, 2025 10:46 AM (g47mK)

197 >>"Gayle King, says it's sexist to call her little venture with the girls into weightlessness for two minutes a "space ride" because no one calls it that when male astronauts are launched into space."

Key word is "astronauts."

She and most of the people on that ride were space tourists, just as men who've paid their way onto a space launch have been.

She was asked to do it because of her celebrity, but now chafes at the idea that she's not taken seriously because. . . she was asked to do it as a celebrity.

She could just laugh it off and say something like, "Well, fame has it's benefits. It was an honor to be part of it." But no, she insists we take her seriously.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2025 10:46 AM (Cki93)

198 Trump playing 80/20 rules with dems.

Now with dems going to save terrorist gang member in El Salvador they are moving in to the 90/10 rule.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 16, 2025 10:46 AM (gbOdA)

199 I think a movie about Pilate could be interesting. According to later tradition, he became a Christian. The Ethiopian Church regards him as a saint.
Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

There's a wonderful book from 1951, His Passion Forever, by Daniel Lord, S.J. (I know, I know), which treats Passion Week and the people involved as if it were a stage play, with people carrying out the assigned roles He gave them.

The chapter on Pilate is particularly touching, as Lord shows us how close Pilate came to being the first Roman convert (and possibly first martyr), and who might have ended up as a saint who would have been spoken of in the same breath as Michael the Archangel for his courage.

Well worth reading, if you can find a copy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 16, 2025 10:46 AM (Q0kLU)

200 179, Yep, The Chosen . Go watch it.
Posted by: Ben Had

I've read some Conservative Christian commentators who believe it is blasphemous to make or watch any depictions of Jesus. That would include today's art, as well as shows like The Chosen.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

201 Whats the big deal ? I've taken 100s of women for a ride on Space Mountain.

Posted by: Ric Flair at April 16, 2025 10:47 AM (pYqfI)

202 Shatner took the same trip.
Posted by: steevy at April 16, 2025 10:42 AM (KQk9m)

======

So did one of the twins from Dude Perfect.

If Dude Perfect is taking the trip...it's not that special.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)
______

The whole PR stunt backfired. The idea was clearly to gain some positive buzz for private "spaceflight" by ... sending a gaggle of TMU bimbos into "space." Why anyone thought this was a good idea is beyond me. But whatevs. This is what they decided. The whole stunt (predictably) cratered into revolting wokeism and inevitable whiny accusations of sexism when the vast majority of people saw this for what it was. You'd think smart men like Bezos would learn from woke disasters like Blow Right. He didn't.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 16, 2025 10:48 AM (iFTx/)

203 “ He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.”

Isaiah 53:7

Posted by: Marcus T at April 16, 2025 10:49 AM (Edo3/)

204 Michael the Archangel for his courage.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

How did Michael the Archangel show courage?

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:49 AM (77rzZ)

205 65 The people are worshipful, awed, but the atrium is filled with life, with the flowers, trees and birds. That relieves what the audience knows will follow.
Posted by: JTB at April 16, 2025 09:49 AM (yTvNw)

I had thought this was a village square, but I think you're right, it's an interior garden.

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 10:49 AM (CQE5S)

206 Posted by: runner at April 16, 2025 10:46 AM (g47mK)

the guy who plays Jesus in the Chosen is Syro-Lebanese/Irish.. he is Christian

Posted by: kallisto at April 16, 2025 10:49 AM (dCxaZ)

207 The best thing for pro vagina-space-ride supporters to do here is to move on and pretend it never happened, and definitely stop drawing attention to the "this is why it's perfectly reasonable that women are paid less than men" aspect of the story. But they can't.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men's resources matter to women, women's weight matters to men at April 16, 2025 10:42 AM (rlK7S)

They’ve spent their entire lives being told they are victims. Despite their fame and wealth, they still think they are victims.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 16, 2025 10:49 AM (l3YAf)

208 Bulg, they are entitled to their opinion. 220 million people don't think so. Sounds more like an islamist viewpoint.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 16, 2025 10:49 AM (yp8Vj)

209 204 The whole PR stunt backfired. The idea was clearly to gain some positive buzz for private "spaceflight" by ... sending a gaggle of TMU bimbos into "space." Why anyone thought this was a good idea is beyond me. But whatevs. This is what they decided. The whole stunt (predictably) cratered into revolting wokeism and inevitable whiny accusations of sexism when the vast majority of people saw this for what it was. You'd think smart men like Bezos would learn from woke disasters like Blow Right. He didn't.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 16, 2025 10:48 AM (iFTx/)

======

Remember the weirdly unnatural moment during the climax of Avengers Endgame when all of a sudden all the girl superheroes were together on the messy battlefield for a combined girlpower moment?

Yeah, that was ridiculed. And people loved that movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

210 I've read some Conservative Christian commentators who believe it is blasphemous to make or watch any depictions of Jesus. That would include today's art, as well as shows like The Chosen.
Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)
====================
Really?

Posted by: Charlie Hebdo at April 16, 2025 10:50 AM (BEm4f)

211 I assume that Michael showed courage by booting Lucifer from Heaven. And of course, he's viewed as the Guardian of the Church.

Posted by: American Hawkman at April 16, 2025 10:51 AM (9VDxG)

212 Donkey Entering Jerusalem Glad To Be Finally Getting Recognition He Deserves.

Posted by: The Babylon Bee at April 16, 2025 10:51 AM (T2poH)

213 I compare their ride to tandem parachute jumps.

exciting to be strapped inside a rocket but they were just along for the ride.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 16, 2025 10:51 AM (VofaG)

214 I like this. The people seem to be reflecting on the words of Christ, perhaps internalizing them and understanding where they have room to be better. The doves are also listening, reminding of the peace Christ brings.

Posted by: Piper at April 16, 2025 10:51 AM (QzINz)

215 I never heard of Gayle King before she started pouting and whining and crying and bitching and moaning. Now I wish I still never heard of her. What an ungrateful toxic THOT.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 16, 2025 10:51 AM (iFTx/)

216 I've read some Conservative Christian commentators who believe it is blasphemous to make or watch any depictions of Jesus. That would include today's art, as well as shows like The Chosen.
Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

Yeah. I think most of that belief is based on Old testament stuff carried forward, but I can't opine with more than a WAG.
What is it called Iconoclast? Anyways, someone here smarter than me was opining recently how Muslim bans against such affected the Christian church during the centuries of strife.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 16, 2025 10:52 AM (FCbAQ)

217 Sounds more like an islamist viewpoint.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 16, 2025 10:49 AM (yp8Vj)

some of these offshoot sects profess decidedly islam -tinged doctrines. Almost as if they are inspired by the same, umm..."spirit".

Posted by: kallisto at April 16, 2025 10:52 AM (dCxaZ)

218 No dog. Not art.

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 10:52 AM (CQE5S)

219 OT
I have heard from some anti-Trump officers that it is acceptable for them to challenge Trump and be “disloyal” to him on political matters because while the enlisted oath of office includes the phrase “that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States,” no such words regarding the president appear in the officer oath of office. This idea is highly disturbing.
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To get to having to take the Officer Oath of Office means the person has already taken the Enlisted Oath so no repetition is necessary. I don't see anything in the Officer Oath that repudiates the first oath.

Posted by: Ciampino - Logical at April 16, 2025 10:52 AM (sPQoU)

220 >>I've read some Conservative Christian commentators who believe it is blasphemous to make or watch any depictions of Jesus. That would include today's art, as well as shows like The Chosen.

Well. . . First, hearing the words spoken in character is very affecting. Even if you have quibbles with their interpretation or whatever, it's a compelling medium for the message for people who are already familiar with the Bible, etc..

Second, this feels sorta like the forever conservative purity critics? This is an excellent way to reach non-believers, and it can introduce them to the faith in a medium they're used to (streaming) and could be a first step on a path to faith. Is that so awful? I'll take this over all of the woke compromises so many churches are making to lure in new people - the pride flags, the BLM flags, the trans ministers and drag storytimes, etc..

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2025 10:52 AM (Cki93)

221 David is played by an arab, Jesus is played by an arab.
Posted by: runner

House of David (2025)
David - Egyptian
Saul - Arab

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2025 10:53 AM (GxM4+)

222 I assume that Michael showed courage by booting Lucifer from Heaven. And of course, he's viewed as the Guardian of the Church.
Posted by: American Hawkman

Michael is an Archangel, an immortal being. I don't think the term "courage" is an appropriate term to use for a being that has no need to fear death. Maybe "boldness" or something similar would be better.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

223 Lizzy, Amen

Posted by: Ben Had at April 16, 2025 10:54 AM (yp8Vj)

224 Remember the weirdly unnatural moment during the climax of Avengers Endgame when all of a sudden all the girl superheroes were together on the messy battlefield for a combined girlpower moment?

Yeah, that was ridiculed. And people loved that movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

they all synced up IYKWIM

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 16, 2025 10:54 AM (VofaG)

225 How did Michael the Archangel show courage?
Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:49 AM (77rzZ)

Poor phrasing on my part. I meant Pilate's courage in embracing Jesus and turning his back on Rome and the Sanhedrin.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 16, 2025 10:54 AM (Q0kLU)

226 Today's art is really beautiful. I keep getting drawn back to look at it

Posted by: kallisto at April 16, 2025 10:54 AM (dCxaZ)

227 I have heard from some anti-Trump officers that it is acceptable for them to challenge Trump and be “disloyal” to him on political matters because while the enlisted oath of office includes the phrase “that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States,” no such words regarding the president appear in the officer oath of office. This idea is highly disturbing.

"Serves at the pleasure of the President"
Game. Set. Match.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2025 10:55 AM (GxM4+)

228 Very Smart Kid. look at all the dems that are doing nothing to protect our democracy. Every one of these delinquent members of congress must go

The phrases protecting and saving our democracy is now squarely in the obnoxious territory. Politicians won’t do this, we the people do this.

Posted by: Piper at April 16, 2025 10:55 AM (QzINz)

229 183 Shatner took the same trip.
Posted by: steevy at April 16, 2025 10:42 AM (KQk9m)
--------------

I recall his reaction to the flight was that he much preferred being on Terra Firma.

Posted by: WisRich at April 16, 2025 10:55 AM (G0vdT)

230 http://tiny.cc/l9rg001
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 16, 2025 09:36 AM

I got into it with classmates about this Kipling poem, pointing out that it was based on the mischaracterizing of Mary and Martha (who was not rude to Christ). Since my classmates were heathens, they had no idea about the Gospel but proceeded to argue with me that it was unnecessary to know allusions to "get" the poem.

The prof stayed out of it.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 16, 2025 10:56 AM (fxCK2)

231 They made the whole trip a joke by who they selected to take it.

Shatner took the same flight, never declared himself an 'astronaut,' and was grateful for the experience having portrayed a spaceman his entire career.

People responded in kind with "hey, that's pretty cool."

These idiots are trying to portray themselves as something they're so incredibly not, it's offensive.

Their training consisted of "getting in and out of the pod" and "putting on and removing the seatbelts."

They basically experienced the pre-flight instructions from a flight attendant.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

232 188 179, Yep, The Chosen . Go watch it.
*******
My wife got us started watching it last week. It's a good production. It's serious yet Jesus has a lot of subtle humor.

Posted by: Cosda at April 16, 2025 10:56 AM (nl8Bw)

233 To get to having to take the Officer Oath of Office means the person has already taken the Enlisted Oath so no repetition is necessary. I don't see anything in the Officer Oath that repudiates the first oath.
Posted by: Ciampino - Logical at April 16, 2025 10:52 AM (sPQoU)

Is that true? I was never an officer so I don't know.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2025 10:56 AM (ExV1e)

234 Pilate, nor Judas for that matter deserves any sympathy. Notice I did not say forgiveness, as that is up to the Lord. They allowed the devil to take hold and drove their decisions. Pilate let pride and his on well being in the form of politics drive his decision to put Jesus to death. He washed his hands of it only as a political matter because he lacked the courage and fortitude to let Jesus live. His gambit to free either Jesus or Barabus was simply another part of his inelegant scheme of self preservation. It was foretold in the earlier Bible (Isaiah, et al) because God knew the nature of man.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 16, 2025 10:56 AM (Edo3/)

235 What is truth?

Posted by: Pontius Pilate at April 16, 2025 10:56 AM (T2poH)

236 Shatner took the same trip.
Posted by: steevy at April 16, 2025 10:42 AM (KQk9m)
--------------

I recall his reaction to the flight was that he much preferred being on Terra Firma.
Posted by: WisRich

Tell me you're an actor playing an astronaut without telling me.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2025 10:57 AM (GxM4+)

237 The whole PR stunt backfired. The idea was clearly to gain some positive buzz for private "spaceflight" by ... sending a gaggle of TMU bimbos into "space." Why anyone thought this was a good idea is beyond me. But whatevs. This is what they decided. The whole stunt (predictably) cratered into revolting wokeism and inevitable whiny accusations of sexism when the vast majority of people saw this for what it was. You'd think smart men like Bezos would learn from woke disasters like Blow Right. He didn't.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 16, 2025 10:48 AM (iFTx/)

======

Remember the weirdly unnatural moment during the climax of Avengers Endgame when all of a sudden all the girl superheroes were together on the messy battlefield for a combined girlpower moment?

Yeah, that was ridiculed. And people loved that movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)
______

I hated Endgame. Long, boring, woke, insulting, stupid mess.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 16, 2025 10:57 AM (iFTx/)

238 My annual Eastertime plugola for my 2013 webwork:

Jerusalem Report
Reporting on miraculous events one week in Jerusalem.

A ~~cartoon~~ graphic not-strictly-scriptural-adherent sorta-steam-punk take on the crucial week, if they had t.v. and cell phones.

https://bit.ly/jeru-report

Reporter: Well, looks like that "Jesus Revolution" is alll over, folks…

Posted by: mindful webworker - Squeaking of "art" (for certain definitions thereof) at April 16, 2025 10:57 AM (dlb43)

239 I never heard of Gayle King before she started pouting and whining and crying and bitching and moaning.

She was the Willie Nelson of female keyboard players back in the day.

Posted by: Taking Notes at April 16, 2025 10:58 AM (pYqfI)

240 They’ve spent their entire lives being told they are victims. Despite their fame and wealth, they still think they are victims.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

-

I saw a Nike (IIRC) commercial recently of all these professional female athletes with million dollar sponsorships and constant free stuff being given to them and the message on the commercial was something like

"You'll never win, so go win, ladies!"

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men's resources matter to women, women's weight matters to men at April 16, 2025 10:58 AM (rlK7S)

241 To get to having to take the Officer Oath of Office means the person has already taken the Enlisted Oath so no repetition is necessary. I don't see anything in the Officer Oath that repudiates the first oath.
Posted by: Ciampino

Not all officers are prior enlisted. What about those who come out of the academies and ROTC?

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:58 AM (77rzZ)

242 Perhaps on Good Friday, CBD will use Ecce Homo as the art piece.

**looks at clock**
One more hour to go.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 16, 2025 10:58 AM (Q0kLU)

243 They made the whole trip a joke by who they selected to take it.

Shatner took the same flight, never declared himself an 'astronaut,' and was grateful for the experience having portrayed a spaceman his entire career.

People responded in kind with "hey, that's pretty cool."

These idiots are trying to portray themselves as something they're so incredibly not, it's offensive.

Their training consisted of "getting in and out of the pod" and "putting on and removing the seatbelts."

They basically experienced the pre-flight instructions from a flight attendant.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)
____

Don't forget the pre-flight training of sucking rich men's dicks for their ticket ....

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 16, 2025 10:59 AM (iFTx/)

244 I'd certainly take a ride on the penis rocket....

Posted by: Pete Buttpluger at April 16, 2025 10:59 AM (Q4IgG)

245 I don't shed many tears for Pilate. He was one of Sejanus' BFFs. He was there to lock the place down for Sejanus when he made his move for Empire.
It's not like Tiberius was a virtuous soul himself, but Sejanus was awful and we can expect similar for his cronies.
Jesus sure chose a fine moment to mess around in the Temple.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 16, 2025 10:59 AM (gKWVE)

246 Pilate and Judas were bit players. The script was already written and not subject to change.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 16, 2025 10:59 AM (yp8Vj)

247 What is truth?
Posted by: Pontius Pilate at April 16, 2025 10:56 AM (T2poH)

You really wanna have this argument?

Posted by: Humpty Dumpty decides who is to be master at April 16, 2025 10:59 AM (FCbAQ)

248
Don't forget the pre-flight training of sucking rich men's dicks for their ticket ....
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 16, 2025 10:59 AM (iFTx/)

Hollywood prepped them for that well in advance.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

249 .
NOOD

Rant Time

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 16, 2025 11:00 AM (O7YUW)

250 If Dude Perfect is taking the trip...it's not that special.

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And his "training" was probably "What day? Cool. We'll be there at 8am."

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men's resources matter to women, women's weight matters to men at April 16, 2025 11:00 AM (rlK7S)

251 I'd certainly take a ride on the penis rocket....
Posted by: Pete Buttpluger at April 16, 2025 10:59 AM (Q4IgG)

Oh my !!!

Posted by: George Takei at April 16, 2025 11:00 AM (pYqfI)

252 MONKEY TIME

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2025 11:01 AM (KLwco)

253 Proving their utter ignorance beyond what the glowing box tells them to think, the left is spouting the following as a Great Point:

"If a judge orders me to pay $1200, can I ignore that?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 16, 2025 11:02 AM (d0Edb)

254 She could just laugh it off and say something like, "Well, fame has it's benefits. It was an honor to be part of it." But no, she insists we take her seriously.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2025 10:46 AM (Cki93)

She should try out that Titan submersible to prove her worth.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 16, 2025 11:02 AM (i24o9)

255 Now ‘Climate Change’ is Responsible for… Schizophrenia!?

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I thought it was vice versa..

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 16, 2025 11:06 AM (L/fGl)

256 I've read some Conservative Christian commentators who believe it is blasphemous to make or watch any depictions of Jesus. That would include today's art, as well as shows like The Chosen.
Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

I guess they are entitled to their opinion, and I am no where near as well versed in scripture to counter this with something from the Bible. I do think art is a medium to convey emotion. You remove a method in which hearts may be touched by Jesus in doing this.

Posted by: Piper at April 16, 2025 11:06 AM (QzINz)

257 Other, lighter images of this painting online show that the black smudge at upper right between the two men is a person clad all in black!

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 11:10 AM (CQE5S)

258 *at upper left

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 11:11 AM (CQE5S)

259 I see that Jewell, bless her, has made the Absent Friends list and yet vic remains absent in totality.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 16, 2025 11:12 AM (jc0TO)

260 Grump928, please go read comment # 70 on this morning 's tech thread

Posted by: Ben Had at April 16, 2025 11:13 AM (yp8Vj)

261 The ‘Experts’ Are Finally Admitting That ADHD Is A Scam

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The global warming of the mind.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 16, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)

262 Grump928, please go read comment # 70 on this morning 's tech thread
Posted by: Ben Had at April 16, 2025 11:13 AM

He's dead, you know.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 16, 2025 11:36 AM (jc0TO)

263 HE HAS RISEN

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 16, 2025 04:13 PM (wGqjj)

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