European Daily Language Blooper
In a Rome laundry:
"Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good
time."
In a Czechoslovakian tourist agency:
"Take one of our horse-driven city tours - We guarantee no
miscarriages."
In a Swiss mountain
inn:
"Special today - no ice cream."
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Review - Group Thoughts
1. You are off to the theater and must enter a row in
which you pass in front of someone already seated. You should always
pass them facing them, for it would be rude to do so otherwise. Where
are you?
2. In this same country, what does whistling signal?
1. Family Tree Reports continue.
2. Watch excerpts from:
The Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls; and
The Unknown Jesus.
The first video suggests that writings from the first century by
other scholars can cast light on the history of the period in which Jesus lived
on earth. These new scrolls were not discovered until the twentieth
century.
The second video discusses the early history in the life
of Jesus, as well as what happened to Jesus between the ages of 12 and 27.
A. Four books characterize the modern gospels of
Christianity - those of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, though these were not
agreed upon until the third or fourth century. But what of the writings of
Peter, Thomas, and Phillip? The Dead Sea Scrolls and the manuscripts found
in Egypt give us a 1st Century version of Christianity.
3. In preparing your 2nd book
report, consider the words
from Margaret Meade mentioned in the summary pages to And Keep Your Powder Dry
found on the PSY-119 course homepage..
1. The Dead Sea Scrolls can tell us additional
information about the historical times in which Jesus Christ lived.
A. Where is heaven? The gospel of Thomas has an
unusual answer.
B. The choice of December 25th as Christmas has an
invented beginning, and the journey to Egypt of the Holy Family tends to put
Jesus through the same sort of historical process which had happened to
Moses. Did the writers have a purpose other than one based in fact in
telling us these things?
C. At least two writers tell us Jesus journeyed toward
India and another myth says that Jesus and Joseph traveled to
England.
E. Some people feel that the Lord's Prayer and the
Beatitudes were inspired by words written earlier in a monastery several miles
east of Jerusalem. These stories might lead one to view Christianity with
more tolerance for divergence of opinion, and with less dogmatic belief in what
one already knew and believed.
1. Read Chapter Seven "Alcohol, Drugs, and Religion"
pages 34-38 in Cross-Cultural Perspectives in America. Answer the
following questions in your notebook:
