What do I say if someone asks why I took down pictures of false depictions of Jesus?
Betty T asked the question:
Jesus did not have light porcelin skin, green eyes, or long flowing silky smooth dark blonde hair. I have learned that he looked just like any other Jew of his era.
I do not want to sin by having flase depictions of him. I have never worshipped those pictures. The big main picture is this one(which always creeped me out!)…but the one I had has him with light blonde hair, and green eyes.. http://www.donatocalabrese.it/jesus/imago/Gesumise.jpg
I put the pictures in one my little boxes where I keep other items. I did not want to throw them away because my mother gave them to me & I don’t want to offend her. She has a picture of Jesus in her room where he is standing and has long blondeish hair, with light skin, and light colored eyes. I’ve talked to her & explained that this is not what Jesus looked like. But, she won’t take it down.
No one knows for sure what he looked like, but I know for sure that I have been lied to all these years. Even in churches there are pictures and sculptures of him looking like a white man. He had eyes like fire, most likely tanned skin if he was a carpenter and worked outside, and his hair probably curly, not straight.
I know I shouldn’t worry so much about what he looked like, but I feel led to & uncomfortable having all those pictures in my room. So, I took them down. Now, I’m worried my mother might say something about it. I have rights, and if I don’t want false depictions in my room I won’t have them. But, what do I say if someone asks me, “Why did you take down pictures of Jesus?! Put them back up!”
Okay Katya and Sherri Berri. I did not put those pictures in my room. My mother put them in my room since I was a child. Now, that I am an adult I understand the truth. It just bothers me that she worshipes the little picture in her own room. True she has the right to do whatever she wants, but it’s not right. I have never TOLD to take down the picture. I merely explained that is a lie. Whatever she thinks or does is her choice, but I don’t want my mother to be punished for worshipping that picture. Is that so wrong of me? Am I being prideful for worrying about my mother, and taking down pictures of a fake looking Jesus that I never put up in the first place??
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Help with history please?
Prepare the way asked the question:
11. Many of the features of the Parthenon can be found in what modern American monument? (2 points)
The Washington Monument
The Capitol building
The Lincoln Monument ———
The White House
12. The _____________ is the top feature of a column. (2 points)
Capital ———
Base
Entablature
Frieze
13. _________________ columns can be recognized by their double rams’ horn–shaped capitals. (2 points)
Doric
Ionic
Corinthian
Geometric———
14. The _______________ is a classic example of a Greek temple, with a simple rectangular building on a three-step platform.
Collosseum ———
Temple of Hera
Parthenon
Erechtheum
15. Myron’s Discobolus was originally created in: (2 points)
marble
limestone ———
bronze
plaster
16. Which of the following is NOT considered a Hellenistic sculpture?
Aphrodite of Milos
The Winged Victory of Samthrace
The Laocoon ———
Discobolus
17. Which of the following was the 2nd style of Greek vase painting to evolve?
Red-figure ———
Geometric
Black figure
Orientalizing
18. Which of the following is NOT a structure built on the Acropolis?
Erechtheum
Propylaea
Pericles
Temple of Athena Nike———
19. Early Roman art was strongly influenced by the _____________ civilization, which ruled Rome. (2 points)
Greek
Madedonian ———
Etruscan
Minoan
20. Romans first learned of wall paintings, also called ____________, from the Etruscans. (2 points)
Tempura ———
Mosaics
Frescoes
Sgraggito
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The evolutionary “spark of life”, does anyone even know about evolution?
Atom 74 asked the question:
Now I am not condoning far fetched ideals here. But I watched a BBC doc about evolution, and what I learned was that there are many mysteries in the evolutionary story. Now this is to prove that humanity is divine, not that God is a wrathful father with a million rules.
But there was mention of a dilemma. Humanity went from living in caves and hiding to very quickly creating tools and then creating huge mathmatical sculpture like Stonehenge.
K quickly compared to 30,000 years, you get the idea. But if there is a “quantum leap” which is a direct quote from the evolutionary expert, which is a gap that we don’t understand.
In my opinion it’s highly plausable that life is divine. This does not guarantee that heaven exists and this is all a trial run. But isn’t that sort of beautiful that science can hold just as much mystery as religion?
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Please feed my students: Looking for potential art market outlets?
M. Dawnsinger asked the question:
I am a college instructor in studio arts, and I have students who would like to learn about lesser known creative arts markets. I’m aware of SF&F/Anime/gaming -conventions and historical recreation groups, and there are a number of very small local shops that offer alternative clothing, jewlery, sculpture, etc… Are there any other *major* art market outlets for original or alternative functional art? My students make clothing, jewelery, personal accessories, sculpture, and multi-media two/three-dimentional wall art. Thanks for any and all useful suggestions!
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Whenever you make a sculpture, what do you learn from making that sculpture?
Grapy asked the question:
Clearly, what do you learn from making any sculpture?
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Who is the artist/photographer who creates art solely with objects found in nature? He then destroys it after?
Julie W asked the question:
I learned about him in my fundamentals of art inquiry class, and i can’t for the life of me remember his name. Apparently he is an artist/photographer who creates these beautiful arrangements and sculptures out of materials found in nature. An example: he laid on a road while it rained, he then got up and photographed the image of his body outline. His pieces last long enough for a picture, but they are not permanent. His photography books are extremely expensive. If anyone could help me out, i would be so happy. I just cant figure out what his name is. THANKS!!!
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Cant remember her name. Artist help?
megg asked the question:
She worked with wood and scrap metal to create sculptures, usually just black or white. She made giant ones in parks and stuff too. She smoked and always wore crazy eye makeup. I learned about her and loved her work, but I cant remember her name. If you could halp me that would be great. Thanks
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Do you know of some good resources to learn more about the history of art and rituals of Goddess worship?
B Bear asked the question:
I have read art history books for various time periods and they briefly mention art and sculptures related to goddess worship, but they don’t get into details about how they might have used art in relation to their worship & what their rituals might have been like. What fiction and non-fiction books do you recommend, for any historical time period?
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Good stories/jokes?
Wildgurl! asked the question:
There’s a lot. If you read any, star if you laughed******
> Nine year old Junior comes home from school one day and his mother asks what he learned. “Oh, mom,” said Junior, “I learned how to fuck today!” Mom is furious and sends him to his room explaining that he has to wait till his father gets home. Well, dad gets home about an hour later and is met by his irate wife. “Go talk to YOUR son!” she demands.
Dad goes up and finds his son sitting on the bed and asks what had happened. “Dad, all I told her is that I learned to fuck today,” says Junior. “That’s my boy!!!!!” dad blurts out, but after thinking a moment he says, “Well, your mom is really upset about this, so I’m gonna have to ground you for a week. But, I see you’re following in your father’s footsteps. I’m quite proud of you.”
The next day at the construction site, dad is bragging to all his co-workers about his nine year old son getting laid. “A chip off the old block!” he beams . “Of course, I didn’t start till I was ten, but he’s already becoming a man!!”
Dad comes home from work that night, proud as can be, barely kisses the wife’s cheek as he rushes up to his son’s room. “Well, son,” he asks, “did you do it again today???”
“Oh, no!” exclaims Junior, “my butt still hurts from yesterday!”
ØIt was the nursery teachers birthday and the students decided that they would each buy their teacher a gift.
The first student, whose parents own a florist shop, gave her a present. She held it and said “I guess that it is flowers”. “How did you guess?” asked the little boy. She laughed and thanked him.
The second student, whose parents own a sweet shop, gave her a present. She held it and said, “I guess that is some sweets.”
“How did you guess?” asked the little boy. She again laughed and thanked him also.
The third student, whose parents own a wine outlet, gave her a box which was leaking. The teacher touched the liquid with her finger and tasted it. “Mmmmm is it wine?” she asked.
“No,” said the little girl.
So she tasted it again. “Is it Champagne?” she asked.
“No,” replied the little girl, “It is a puppy.”
ØAn old man was critically ill. Feeling that death was near, he
called his lawyer. “I want to become a lawyer. How much is
it or the express degree you told me about?”
“It’s $50,000,” the lawyer said. “But why? You’ll be dead soon,
why do you want to become a lawyer?”
“That’s my business! Get me the course!”
Four days later, the old man got his law degree. His lawyer
was at his bedside, making sure his bill would be paid.
Suddenly the old man was racked with fits of coughing and
it was clear that this would be the end. Still curious, the
lawyer leaned over and said, “please, before it’s too late,
tell me why you wanted to to get a law degree so badly before
you died?”
In a faint whisper, as he breathed his last, the old man said,
“One less lawyer . . .”
ØAn off-duty police officer, familiar with radar guns,
drove through a school zone within the legal speed limit
when the flash of a camera went off, taking a picture of
his license plate.
The officer, thinking the radar was in error, drove by again;
even more slowly. Another flash. He did it again for a third
time, at an even slower speed. Same result.
“This guy must have screwed up the settings,” the off-duty
officer thought.
A few weeks later, when he received the violations in the mail,
he discovered three traffic tickets:
Each for not wearing a seat belt!
These are actual stories written in essays by kids in their history classes:
Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.
The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn’t have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.
Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.
Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice.
They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java.
Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.
Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: “Tee hee, Brutus.”
Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing the fiddle to them.
Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw. Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offense.
In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer
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Will George Bush be remembered as the best president ever?
Timmy Bananas asked the question:
seriously, he has been pretty good right?
I am considering building a sculpture of him out of play-doh and string cheese for my local library in honor of this great man who helped me learn to read a few years ago in the Leave all the Kids at Home program.
you have all warmed my balls with your answers…thank you. I will not pour mayonnaise over my play-doh slash string cheese George Bush sculpture.
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