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(5,016 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)pokerfan
(27,677 posts)It began as a parody of the Westboro Baptist Church...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church#Parodies
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Thanks for pointing me to it.
aquart
(69,014 posts)Perfectly innocent tree, doing its best, murdered because it couldn't bear fruit out of season.
AND, BTW, killing it did NOT get Jesus any fruit. So, a nasty, spoiled brat illogical pointless curse.
The fig, tree of knowledge in Eden, was Juno's tree. Bacchus' tree. The hieroglyph for woman was a figure with a basket of figs.
To "make the fig" is a highly sexual gesture in the region.
But the biggie is "pes" (pesh) in Sumerian. Because that word...aside from meaning "fig" and "fig tree" also means
2. to breathe
3. grandson
4. descendant
5. to give birth (to)
6. (to be) pregnant
7. pregnancy
8. to gather
9. (to be) thick
10. (to be) wide
and "three" which is the sacred number of Christianity.
Now why would the gospel writers want to mess with figs?
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)janlyn
(735 posts)LOL,thanks for the laugh!!!
elleng
(135,477 posts)couldn't see it clearly on my phone, so went to google images and VOILA!!!
randome
(34,845 posts)Hilarious!
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)He shows up when figs aren't in season and of course there were no figs on the tree but he felt there should have been for him because he was so special so he cursed the tree.
Gee, I guess that means he really likes figs after all.
Just not that particular tree.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)He's supposed to have made quite a few billion of us over the years.
Doesn't find a single one of us acceptable.
But he blames us and not himself!
GoneOffShore
(17,578 posts)This must be making the rounds as two other people did as well.
elleng
(135,477 posts)rurallib
(63,085 posts)The Wielding Truth
(11,420 posts)Freddie
(9,587 posts)I'd love to put on FB but it may be borderline offensive to my pastor
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)*ping!
got it now.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)of the year!
jillan
(39,451 posts)limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)elleng
(135,477 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(9,755 posts)I LOL'd.
MADem
(135,425 posts)transcription error...it said CELEBRATE...not CELIBATE!
D'OH!
old soul
(12 posts)OMG...(leaving the F out for...um...respect... )
heaven05
(18,124 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)I never have understood that story about the fig tree. Never have found a satisfactory explanation of it anywhere.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)This is not the first time this has happened, either.
elleng
(135,477 posts)but my reaction to reading daughter's "OMFG" text (which I posted here,) got some attention, fortunately just at home!