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It occurred to a team of British scientists that it was a little unlikely for a white Aryan Messiah to be wandering around in Palestine.

Was Jesus really as pretty as we imagine? The Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus who lived around 34 A.D., tells us differently:

Both his nature and his form were human: for he was a man of simple appearance, mature age, short growth, three cubits tall (a little over 4 feet), with scanty hair, but having a line in the middle of the head after the fashion of the Naziraeans, eyebrows meeting above the nose so that the spectators could take fright, with a long face, a long nose, and with an undeveloped beard, dark skin, and hunchbacked.

It occurred to a team of British scientists that it was a little unlikely for a white Aryan Messiah to be wandering around in Palestine. They worked with a team of Israeli archaeologists and came up with the chap on the left.

Or if you prefer you can go for the blonde hippy of the Last Temptation of Christ. No slight on the superb acting of William Dafoe but you’d think the Bible would point out something as noteworthy as an Aryan Messiah…

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Bozo and the Storyteller

Imagine you, the room you’re in, the planet and everyone in it were all just a Story, figments of imagination in the mind of a Storyteller. But with Hoomanity set on self-destruction, the Storyteller’s health begins to fail and if he should die, what would become of the Story that he tells?

All hope for our world lies in the hands of a 9 year old boy and a foolish Bloon…

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