Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's my understanding that under Roman law, unauthorized prophesying was a crime against the state. The various methods of divination and prophesy were a political activity. Interfering with the process of the state usually elicited the death penalty. Hence, Paul being a Roman, received the appropriate punishment. S.d. On May 8, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Chris Saganich wrote: > Yea, these days we are supposed to make sure first that we aren't > having some sort of private psychotic episode before proclaiming > the miracle. Those guys hadn't read "The Brothers K" obviously. > > > At 08:40 PM 5/7/2009, Gary Todoroff wrote: > >> Chris - if you were riding down the road, then suddenly blinded >> and knocked off your horse, you might tend to be a bit "biased", >> too. And Walt, "second coming" ? - did I miss something? >> Gary Todoroff >> Tree LUGger >> >>> And I personally believed he was biased in his intrepretation! >>> >>> At 09:39 AM 5/7/2009, Walt Johnson wrote: >>>> Reporting hasn't really changed much since Paul documented the >>>> second coming of Christ. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Chris Saganich MS, CPH > Senior Physicist, Office of Health Physics > Weill Medical College of Cornell University > New York Presbyterian Hospital > chs2018 at med.cornell.edu > http://intranet.med.cornell.edu/research/health_phys/ > Ph. 212.746.6964 > Fax. 212.746.4800 > Office A-0049 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information