Wed 16 Jun 2010
The Adventures of Pocket Jesus
Posted by anaglyph under Pocket Jesus
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Episode 4: Manna From Heaven.
*But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
I love teh intertubes. So, I do a search for the word ‘mushroom’ in the Bible and find that fungus does not appear to come under God’s purview at all. Anywhere. God did not create mushrooms, apparently. Well, not explicitly anyway. He created the animals and the plants, but as we know, the fungus inhabits a Kingdom in its own right – if anyone should know this, it’s God – Him being omnipotent and all that. You’d think it was worth at least a mention.
Well, even if HE doesn’t care to embroider mushrooms into Biblical history, I discover that this does not prevent the many advocates of the psychedelic theories of religion from going to all kinds of lengths to write them into the Good Book, whether their appearance is justified or not. ((I remember reading The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross in high school and thinking that it sounded feasible, but I’m inclined these days to view the hypothesis as a bit of a stretch…))
One chap even puts up a compelling case for the ‘manna’ in the Bible being the Terfezia desert truffle (not to be mistaken for dessert truffle ((The dessert truffle was created by God in later times, in order that luxury hotels would have something to place on guest’s pillows. This is not mentioned in the Bible either.))), which, the legend goes, is created by lightning striking the ground.
I also got to look up bdellium, which is now surely my favourite word. But even after looking it up I’m not certain what colour it is.
The mushroom patch into which Pocket Jesus has ventured above is another manifestation of fungal weirdness that continues to manifest in our backyard. The Bleeding Tooth fungus that I mentioned in recent despatches has now turned into an unattractive brown slimy sludge and this little display has popped up close by. We have a veritable fungal festival going on here.
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Just as long as it’s only in the backyard :p
The other thought provoking Jesus news I ran across today was that of a 19m high Jesus in Ohio that was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. The insurance company declared it “an Act of God”…
Yes, I saw that. But that was a BIG Jesus – Pocket Jesus is in no fear being struck by lightning. Fear of being eaten by a duck, maybe, but lightning not so much.
I, too, have had tree-caused fungus in my backyard. However, I must admit to some fungal envy–mine is nowhere near as cool as yours. It’s just plain white and, well, mushroom-y. No ooze or color. Maybe if I pour some of those homeopathic colored waters on them…
That’d do it – plus, you’d cure all humankind’s woes. Just stay clear of the red ones with white spots – we have altogether too many lunatics hanging around the Cow these last weeks.
Oh for goodness sake. What is this bdellIum colour coyness? I hereby royally declare that it is browny caramel – in fact, cow-coloured.
Well… it depends whether you’re talking about the resin, the plant or the jewel. The resin is brown, the plant is green and the jewel is possibly a pearl and therefore ‘pearl’ coloured. God leaves an awful lot open to interpretation, as we have seen before on the Cow.
“It’s Heaven’s bread,”
Some fokes have said,
“Thus proving God, this manna.”
Some othr goof
Put forth, as proof,
A engineerd banana.
That Ray Comfort video always makes me cringe. What a tool.
Ray and his banana realy earnd th wrath of El;
But Ray was no blasphemer — just a fool.
And thus was Ray not sent to live among th fires of Hell,
But simply made to go to Summer School.
Many people still declare
The Bible as the Word of God
But that it fails to mention shrooms
Is something I find slightly odd.
You King Jamesers search th Holy Scripture for th ‘shroom
And, finding not a refrence, then infer
That since it didnt come from God, we’d hafta then presume
By some ungodly ackt did ‘shrooms ockur.
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We Catlickers have Maccabees, and in Book 2 we’ve got
One Antiochus’ death in chaptr nine.
God made him decompose; and we assume, amid th rot,
Sprang up a mushroom thoroughly divine.
Sitting on a toadstool was a toad of royal blood,
Which did a maiden kiss, cuz she was bored.
To her surprise, ’twas not a prince that stood there in th mud,
But just a tiny version of th Lord.
Are you on Shrooms?
I always though Jesus was a fun guy.
Boom tish.