RE: Regarding Jesus
July 8, 2014 at 11:00 am
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2014 at 11:01 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 8, 2014 at 10:47 am)Confused Ape Wrote: What's complicated about it? A grief hallucination starting an urban legend about a messiah doesn't strike me as any odder than people thinking they saw Elvis after he'd died. Also, an urban legend that got passed round and ended up with different versions would explain why the four gospels have so many contradictions. The writers could have just recorded the travellers' tales they happened to hear.Or- again, it's just a story.
Quote:If it's just a story based on nothing how did it get started? Who made it up and why? Another vague possibility is that there was a real person underneath the Paul of Tarsus myth. Maybe he decided to start a new cult because some people do that.Since when is any story "based on nothing"? Conversely, is Dracula "based on" vampires...or Vlad Tepish? No.
Quote:PS: I live in the UK where there are a lot of ghost stories and legends about real people. I suppose that's why I don't think that the idea of a grief hallucination starting an urban legend is complicated.Plenty of legendaries in the US as well. Some of which actually have no relation to the character upon which the legend is formed - and were ensconsed in absentia of knowledge on that front with regards to anything but the characters name. Some were self promoted. All were stories, no more and no less. No one hallucinated Paul Bunyon or Big John or Wild Bill, eh?
(and consider for a moment, the one that we do know existed in a concrete way- bears the least resemblance to his story double)
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