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What happened to Matthew's zombies?
#71
RE: What happened to Matthew's zombies?
Quote:If someone had made up the story of people coming out of the tombs they would have given more details and told what happened to these people.

Oh, Theo..you putz...

Quote:12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.

Ezekiel 37

Just more shit borrowed from the OT by this most jewish of gospel writers.
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#72
RE: What happened to Matthew's zombies?
If I was going to write fiction and pass it off as a real event, I'd deliberately make it as vague as possible without obscuring the details too much. Brevity isn't merely the soul of wit; it sells a lot of bridges as well.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#73
RE: What happened to Matthew's zombies?
If I was going to write fiction and pass it off as a real event, I might bribe a few people to write their own "independent" accounts so that my fiction isn't so easily dismissed. It's not 'Matthew's' brazenness that makes the story suspect-- it's the fact that what should have been a monumental event gets no other mention anywhere. No one else --Jewish, Christian, or whatever-- found it amazing that men of renown had risen from their graves? No wonder they crucified god... they were pretty damned tough to impress!
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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#74
RE: What happened to Matthew's zombies?
Well, that's sort of how urban myths get started. Not so much from any material incentive, though, usually. You only have to browse the CreepyPasta wiki to see the birth of some effective modern ones - Slenderman springs to mind.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#75
RE: What happened to Matthew's zombies?
Wasn't there a Jerusalem scene in World War Z?
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#76
RE: What happened to Matthew's zombies?
(August 4, 2014 at 12:25 pm)Cato Wrote: Wasn't there a Jerusalem scene in World War Z?

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#77
RE: What happened to Matthew's zombies?
You think this is something that the Romans would have WRITTEN DOWN?
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#78
RE: What happened to Matthew's zombies?
You speak as if the Romans never wrote down stupid shit.

Quote:The Vestal Rea was ravished by force, and having brought forth twins, declared Mars to be the father of her illegitimate offspring, either because she really imagined it to be the case, or because it was less discreditable to have committed such an offence with a god.[3] But neither gods nor men protected either her or her offspring from the king's cruelty. The priestess was bound and cast into prison; the king ordered the children to be thrown into the flowing river. By some chance which Providence seemed to direct, the Tiber, having over flown its banks, thereby forming stagnant pools, could not be approached at the regular course of its channel; notwithstanding it gave the bearers of the children hope that they could be drowned in its water however calm. Accordingly, as if they had executed the king's orders, they exposed the boys in the nearest land-pool, where now stands the ficus Ruminalis, which they say was called Romularis.[4] At that time the country in those parts was a desolate wilderness. The story goes, that when the shallow water, subsiding, had left the floating trough, in which the children had been exposed, on dry ground, a thirsty she-wolf from the mountains around directed her course toward the cries of the infants, and held down her teats to them with such gentleness, that the keeper of the king's herd found her licking the boys with her tongue.

-- The Early History of Rome Titus Livius
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