March 25: HEADS – Tip *OR* TAILS – Anything that rhymes with Tip
But now, on Monday her new blog tells us the category is “Surprise”.
Well, the surprise in this case is I’m going with tip which would rhyme with “trip”…and this new blog of hers has been a trip. rofl. But seriously people, I am now grabbing at straws here ’cause in slang ‘trip’ is not necessarily going somewhere, other than ‘down’…I have fallen and I can’t get up!!!. LOL [oh give me a break...I've done a blooper, blunder, boner, bull, bungle, fall, false move, false step, faux pas, fluff, idiocy, indiscretion, lapse, misstep, mistake, slip. In other words, I have stumbled. But good.]
So, my trip…errrrr, um….surprise is the TIPS I learned from watching a TV program on cables “History” this past Easter. Surprise!!!!!
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Sunday night, after dinner, and the evening had become a quiet place, and peaceful, the whole family had their time of watching. I was watching a special on The History Channel, themed for the holiday since it was…Easter; the act of Crucifixion. While our ‘children’…the two furbabies in the family had their eyes on…their entertainment.
It was just after we ate our dinner, the cats had been fed their usual ‘wet’ canned cat food for the night, and they both went to their respective corners. Bud was cleaning up the kitchen. I, on the other hand, was in the living room, tuned into The History Channel.
It was just the previews for now, so I took my water glass out to the kitchen for Bud to load it to the dishwasher. And I grabbed the camera…
Just outside the dining room windows our kitties have a full view of the patio. And on the patio beam hangs a filled bird feeder. It was kinda early still, just 7PM, and still a filtering of the daylight remained. And Winnie [Winston] had his favorite ‘perch’ to watch and be entertained. He is fascinated with the activity this evening. I peeked out the window, and there were three white winged doves still searching for fallen seed that gets thrown out of the feeder onto the cement of the patio floor. Ya, ya, I know…that IS his special bench. And that IS his special blanket. Oh and just to the right of the bench, on the floor…yes, that IS an Easter toy that was knocked off the table [by accident?] –a plastic Easter Egg that was being tossed and chased after just a bit earlier.
Then, to the right of Winston, and beyond the back door, you step down to another room. Off to the left shoulder is the huge patio doors. At night, the vertical blinds are pulled closed…but when it’s nice outdoors, the hurricane shutters are left open for sunlight. Well this night, the shutters still remained open, and Tahoe knew that. This….this, is one of her favorite spots!! She too enjoys the outdoor activities. And watches everything diligently. From birds to lizards to neighborhood cats. And the only time she’ll leave the area is when I tell her the blinds are shut for privacy! She jumps up, meows, and leaves. If I’m really ambitious then, I’ll step out the back door and shut the hurricane shutters.
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Historically we have little to no information concerning the crucifixion of Jesus outside of the Gospels. And I have had several questions about the accuracy of some stories [and more so -art] being ‘true to word’ since there have been so many different translations from languages. To me, it’s highly possible and quite probable that the King James version of the biblical epics are somewhat distorted in translation, confusing at times and ‘jumbled’ because of being translated. I’m not saying it’s not the truth, which through history it’s proven to be true; what I’m saying is the words, the writ perhaps is unjustifiably inaccurate because of one [or several] translations of the Hebrew Gospels into modern day English. As with the modern art of the crucifixion of Jesus on its own.
Being Easter and knowing that our Jesus Christ was of Jewish descent, the Christianity is sometimes a mixture of misrepresentation and error in transcribing the Hebrew to a King James English. As I said, we were all watching something Sunday night of profound interest. The cats and their bird watching….But me…I’m watching this very interesting program. All about the history of crucifixions. And mixed in there was speculation and testing on the cross of Jesus, the nails used, the stone box of remains of a man’s body [found just this past decade, in the '90s --etched on the side was the Aramaic word for -"Jesus"], the heel of the skeletal remains still had a 4″ spike going through the bone –perhaps someone nailed to a cross?. And on another stone box [found in the 1960's], the words, in Aramaic, ”Ya’akov bar Yosef akhui diYeshua,” were carved; the box itself known as an ossuary, which presumably once held the bones of a man named James who died in the first century A.D. etc. etc. etc. And, from years past, I agreed with the science of the nails/spikes used in crucifixions…they most likely DIDN’T go through the palms as art tells us —the tissues and bones would certainly have torn and broken from the weight of the bodies [even if a kind of rope were used]!! It’s all too scientifically correct, which shows us that the art we see today is quite possibly, totally incorrect. In this particular program the subject of the spikes and palms versus wrists was explained in great detail.
Also, the scientists/doctors now, with the intelligence we can use from research, would explain why Jesus died so suddenly on the cross [it's been known that once nailed to a cross, the one being crucified remained alive and breathing for days, even weeks!! - yet Jesus died on Friday...] Then, with their speculation on ‘forensic science’ –they now mostly agree with Jesus carrying the cross through the streets to his crucifixion…as the Bible states, and he fell. With the fall, and the extreme weight of the cross beam [yes, just the top beam, not the most likely 'falsified' entire cross itself which is explained on the program and what I will state in a bit]…when he fell, the weight of the cross beam bruised his heart as he fell to the stone!!!! Which, in just a short time, the heart would form an aneurysm. The ‘pocket’ or bubble in the heart would then fill with fluid! And eventually, a shortened survival time. And in turn, that would explain the sword or spear that was thrust into Jesus’ side on the cross…the blood and fluid that washed out of his body. Also shown by demonstration on this program. With another, also tested, the nails in the feet as we see in art today—the bone that was found in the ossuary just recently, the spike/nail was going through the heel! not the frontal area of the foot. Again, weight has a lot to do with the misinterpreted paintings of today. And they demonstrated the spike going through the heel…and nailed to the SIDE of the cross! Oh, and with the crucifixion itself, science now tells us that with the arms and hands raised above the head, the human would soon suffocate. Or eventually suffocate! Here again, the heart aneurysm would come into being, because we know from the Bible that Jesus spoke his last words…if one was suffocating, speech could not exist!!
What totally kept my interest going in this two hour special was the fact they gave us an inkling of how ‘untrue in art’ the cross that Jesus carried to his crucifixion really was. Of course, again, it was only speculation, but it made a whole lotta sense to me. There, at the time of his death, were two different styles of crosses used. In art and sculpture, Jesus is depicted with the one version…the ‘small “T” cross” but in most likely scenarios it would have been the Yao Cross that both Jewish and Romans used [the capital "T"]—[the photo above is something I snapped on the camera from the TV program I was watching] all explained because of weight and logic being that once nailed to the beam, it would be more practical to then lift the cross beam with the body up onto the already buried upright. In all, to me, this made a whole lotta sense!
One very interesting and educational program for me. And so appropriate for the night. In school, I never really cared much for history because as I said many times, you learn only the teacher’s point of view and if you [at least back in my school days] if you begged to differ…well, it just wasn’t kosher!! Today, I can read, watch, listen and learn more and more points of view which in turn makes me a ‘more educated’ person…even if my opinion differs from others…that is what history is….based on opinions. Unless fact is as you speak. And then again, facts can be twisted as I am finding out…translating and several languages later, those stories can become twisted and often inaccurate. [and not just the good book! All history books - hence the learning process and believing in what you believe is what counts] Not to mention the inaccuracies of art form.
I ask….is the infamous Mona Lisa really smiling as so many ‘experts’ suggest? I know, I know, that is not of this issue I’ve written about at all, but the question still remains…how accurate is the infamous art formations with which we live? If I were posing for Leonardo painting me, my look would surprise you!!!
