Popular Post MickinMD ★ Posted November 24, 2017 Popular Post Share #1 Posted November 24, 2017 My 9 year-old nephew, Adam, is very bright: he's been the banker when we play Monopoly ever since the age of 5 and last year, after a baseball practice, asked me, "Why do people buy stocks?" So this Thanksgiving I thought he was ready for a thought provoking topic: what the REAL names of Jesus and Mary were in their original language: Yeshua and Mariam. "Adam, you're studying Spanish, right? Well, we call him 'Jesus' in English, but it's not pronounced like that in Spanish is it? "Hey-zoos," he replied. "But," I said, "Jesus and Mary didn't speak English or Spanish. They spoke a language called Aramaic. What do you think Mary called Jesus?" He smiled and replied, "Son." 6 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedalphile Posted November 24, 2017 Share #2 Posted November 24, 2017 I have a biblical forename, pretty cool as it goes, even better in some foreign languages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted November 24, 2017 Share #3 Posted November 24, 2017 It might be ok to be familiar with biblical names, but generally speaking, parents that only give out biblical names are freaks. I have a cousin that got married to one and they had three kids, all with biblical names. The family will not consort with non-christians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted November 24, 2017 Share #4 Posted November 24, 2017 1 minute ago, Randomguy said: It might be ok to be familiar with biblical names, but generally speaking, parents that only give out biblical names are freaks. I have a cousin that got married to one and they had three kids, all with biblical names. The family will not consort with non-christians. "Consort" in the biblical sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted November 24, 2017 Share #5 Posted November 24, 2017 15 minutes ago, donkpow said: "Consort" in the biblical sense? It is like announcing to the world that you are an insufferable asshole if all your kids are theme-named. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted November 24, 2017 Share #6 Posted November 24, 2017 1 hour ago, Randomguy said: It might be ok to be familiar with biblical names, but generally speaking, parents that only give out biblical names are freaks. I resemble that remark. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted November 24, 2017 Share #7 Posted November 24, 2017 3 minutes ago, Longjohn said: I resemble that remark. "Longjohn" is not a biblical name. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted November 24, 2017 Share #8 Posted November 24, 2017 2 minutes ago, Randomguy said: "Longjohn" is not a biblical name. You speak and read Aramaic? Darn RG, you are impressive. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted November 24, 2017 Share #9 Posted November 24, 2017 1 minute ago, Razors Edge said: You speak and read Aramaic? Darn RG, you are impressive. Tom Aramaic is my middle name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted November 24, 2017 Share #10 Posted November 24, 2017 Just now, Randomguy said: "Longjohn" is not a biblical name. First John is so is John the Baptist. Benjamin and Levi and Daniel and Joseph and Samuel are all biblical names. That would be us. So is Esther. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted November 24, 2017 Share #11 Posted November 24, 2017 1 minute ago, Longjohn said: First John is so is John the Baptist. Benjamin and Levi and Daniel and Joseph and Samuel are all biblical names. That would be us. So is Esther. Well, you are the exception. I did say "generally", but I like freaky people, too! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted November 24, 2017 Share #12 Posted November 24, 2017 1 hour ago, Randomguy said: Well, you are the exception. I did say "generally", but I like freaky people, too! * Crawls back into his hole a slides a rock over it * 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted November 25, 2017 Author Share #13 Posted November 25, 2017 8 hours ago, Randomguy said: It might be ok to be familiar with biblical names, but generally speaking, parents that only give out biblical names are freaks. I have a cousin that got married to one and they had three kids, all with biblical names. The family will not consort with non-christians. Note that most people's names in the USA tend be the English, Spanish, etc. versions of Biblical names: Michael, John, Mary, Joshua, Anna, Peter, Paul, etc. My nephew attends a Catholic Elementary School and has religion class every day. But they haven't taught "only Catholics can go to heaven" for a couple generations. I'm babysitting that nephew right now and he just told me about the Greek Myth of Persephone, whose father was Zeus and whose mother was Demeter goddess of the harvest. Hades, god of the underworld, kidnapped and married Persephone and Demeter was angry and want her daughter out of the underworld. Finally, a compromise was reached where Persephone lived with Hades for half a year, then with her mother for half a year. During the time Persephone is with her mother, Demeter is happy and the Earth is fruitful (Spring, Summer). During the half-year with Hades, Demeter is upset and the Earth's plants go into decline (Fall, Winter). Of course, they didn't know about the Southern Hemisphere having the opposite seasons in Greece when they came up with that. As far as shunning other religions, there have been older-generation people like that in my family but they're all passed away by now. My sweet fraternal grandmother would never again speak to her elder daughter after she married a great guy because he wasn't Catholic. My maternal grandmother was angry with her eldest daughter because she married a guy in a church that was a renegade Catholic church that stopped recognizing the Pope. Eventually she reconciled to it, but the daughter of that marriage, my first cousin Dorothy, told me just last week that it took a long time for our grandmother to warm up to her: our grandmother had two grandchildren named Dorothy and she said to the Dorothy I talked to last week when she was a teenager, "I wanted the other Dorothy to be as smart and pretty as you because her parents were married in a Roman Catholic church and she deserved it!" I was too young when she died and lived in a different state and didn't get to know that grandmother well and maybe I didn't miss out on much! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted November 25, 2017 Share #14 Posted November 25, 2017 1 minute ago, MickinMD said: Note that most people's names in the USA tend be the English, Spanish, etc. versions of Biblical names: Michael, John, Mary, Joshua, Anna, Peter, Paul, etc. Amazing how that tide is turning - maybe more so with baby girls than baby boys (top 20 of 2017 so far below). But here is a good source to spice things back up. 1 - Emma - Liam 2 - Olivia - Noah 3 - Ava - Logan 4 - Isabella - Lucas 5 - Sophia - Mason 6 - Mia - Oliver 7 - Amelia - Ethan 8 - Charlotte - Elijah 9 - Harper - Aiden 10 - Aria - James 11 - Ella - Benjamin 12 - Evelyn - Sebastian 13 - Abigail - Jackson 14 - Emily - Alexander 15 - Avery - Jacob 16 - Scarlett - Carter 17 - Madison - Jayden 18 - Sofia - Michael 19 - Chloe - Daniel 20 - Lily - William Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slow_Guy_On_Bike Posted November 25, 2017 Share #15 Posted November 25, 2017 As far as Biblical names go, you have Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. What comes next? The axe (Acts). After four of 'em, it needs to be cut. Thank you ladies and gentlemen, I'll be here all week. LOL!! ignore me, I'm sleep depraved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted November 25, 2017 Share #16 Posted November 25, 2017 1 minute ago, Slow_Guy_On_Bike said: As far as Biblical names go, you have Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. What comes next? The axe (Acts). After four of 'em, it needs to be cut. Thank you ladies and gentlemen, I'll be here all week. LOL!! ignore me, I'm sleep depraved After Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John it’s time to switch gears and have a Lydia, Esther, Naomi, and Ruth 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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