Yellum Notnef

Somebody a lot younger than the both of us could probably explain it better,but "bling bling" is a term used by rappers and their fans to describe big flashy gold jewelry.

Are you sure you work with kids? I mean I don`t have or want anything to do with kids,nor do I like rap music or anything much to do with it,but I somehow know what this is and you don`t?

spurly

Yep, I'm sure I work with teenagers. However, I am 35 and thus twice the age, or almost twice the age, of the students I work with. They are constantly having to bring me up to date on the latest lingo. I appreciate your help in this area as well.

Kevin

Amos

Hinduwoman is right and the bible is right on this because the Catholics wrote it! Jesus died because the Jews convicted him to be crucified and Pilate reluctantly handed him over to the Jews.

Treacle Worshipper

I stopped wearing a cross a couple of years before I left the church, 'cos I'd spent a lot of time staring at a crucifix while at church in Germany and it made me realise that crucifixion was pretty gruesome, to say the least. I wore a fish instead, and sometimes an ankh, which fools most Xians round here
In response to Evangelion, I was taught that Catholics wear crucifixes 'cos they concetrate on the crucifixion and Protestants wear crosses 'cos they concetrate on the Resurrection (sp?). Also that the cross/crucifix symbol didn't become widely used until after crucifixion ceased to be a common method of execution.
I have also heard that during the Reign of Terror some French people took to wearing little guillotines as a symbol of their freedom from the nobles and the church. People are pretty sick sometimes.
TW

Infidelettante

Pilot was a blood thirsty tyrant. The very idea that the Romans gave way to the Jews and allowed Jesus to be executed even though they thought him innocent is in direct contradiction of the way we know the Romans governed Judea. The Romans executed Jesus as a subversive who had begun to rouse the people against their Roman oppressors. The authors of the Gospels took their lead from Paul and did their best to shift the blame to the Jews. If the fledgling religion was to survive it had to do so in a Roman world and it could not afford to offend the Empire by saying it had killed their God who then proved it ineffectual by coming back to life. Forty years later the Romans showed no hesitation in destroying Judea when faced with an uprising that differed from Jesus' only by its' degree of success.

JT

oriecat

Last night I read that the Bible doesn't even mention a cross or a crucifix. I wonder if christians realize that.

2tadpoles

Umm.... I have kids and I work at a restaurant, which means I work with older teens and young adults. If the other poster doesn't interact with rap fans or the otherwise ghetto-fabulous, he isn't likely to pick up those terms. I've never heard the term used except for when my husband makes fun of rappers. He had to explain it to me, too.

BrotherMan

Matthew 16:24
Matthew 27:32, 40 and 42

Cthulhu forbid you should have to read that book yourself.

Fiach

Christians wear crucifixes or crosses because in the Christian mythology Jesus was killed in the hey-day of the Roman Empire in 29 CE. Romans used crosses and crucifixion for execution. So Christians wear crucifixes/crosses to celebrate Jesus' death. Crikey, they celebrate the poor bloke getting nailed to a pole, how sadistic.

If Jesus had been born in 800 CE to 1400 CE, he would have been beheaded and christians would wear axes on necklaces.

If Jesus had been born in 1400-1700 he would have been burned at the stake. How do children wear a burning stake? Maybe a red coloured piece of wood?

If Jesus had been born from 1789-1880 in France he would have been guillotined. Children would wear little scale model guillotines around their necks.

If Jesus had been born from 1770 to 1910 in America, he would have been hung. (no sexual pun intended.) Children would be wearing nooses around their necks.

If Jesus had been born from 1920-1960 or 1970 in America he would have been electrocuted. Christian children would be wearing scale model electric chairs around their necks.

Now in America Jesus would be executed by lethal injection. Christian children would be wearing little 6 cm Gurneys with a little man and IV lines attached to his arm.

In 2070, criminals will not be executed. Instead there will be one or more nanobots and nanotubule microchips inserted into the frontal lobes of the brain to inhibit rage and misbehaviour. Jesus if he came back then would have the chips implanted for his barmy claim to be God. Christian children would wear an enlarged model of a computer-nanocarbon chip around their necks.

Fiach

Cthulhu

Yeah, what did the Romans ever do for them? (Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system and public health.)



No, I don't forbid it. On the contrary, I recommend it as a form of torture.