These images may have been intended to inspire, but to me, they are rather disturbing...
<img src="http://members.aol.com/jesusimages/ImagesJan05/Trucker_.jpg">
That guy seems somewhat creeped out.
<img src="http://members.aol.com/jesusimages/ImagesJan05/Bodybuilder_.jpg">
This seems... suggestive...
<img src="http://members.aol.com/jesusimages/ImagesJan05/Surgeon_.jpg">
Either A: Jesus seems to be a playful sprite if he's just sort of guiding a surgeon's hands rather than simply curing the guy. Or B: Jesus should probably leave the job to the guy with the actual doctorate.
<img src="http://members.aol.com/jesusimages/ImagesJan05/Clown_.jpg">
Haha! Clowns are funny.
<img src="http://members.aol.com/jesusimages/ImagesJan05/Welder_.jpg">
Considering the all around "look" of that guy, it seems Jesus is always there to help you build that nuclear warhead to SHOW THEM ALL!
<img src="http://members.aol.com/jesusimages/ImagesJan05/Expectant_.jpg">
"I loves ya baby, but I can't be held back by a child. I have heaven things to do. See ya!"
<img src="http://members.aol.com/JesusImages/ImagesJan05/Farmer_.jpg">
"Don't worry cows. All is going according to plan. The farmer won't suspect a thing."
Starring Kevin Smith as Jesus!
Most of these people look like they'd be the type to call Jesus a "goddamned hippie".
Dark Jaguar Wrote:"I loves ya baby, but I can't be held back by a child. I have heaven things to do. See ya!"
those are good...wish i could draw/color pencil that well
I think they are drawn by the same guy who illustrated those "Scary Stories to tell in the Dark" books.
Am I the only one read the bible? A jewish middle eastern man does not look like that! just because leonardo devinci painted him to be a white long haired man in a toga DOES NOT MAKE IT SO.
But yeah, very frightening. Apparently he not only turns your water to wine and put ears back on people, he can also spot weld and perform open heart surgery, and give babies to clowns.
God: son, i dont think they understood the message... they think you're white and you help people drive stick
Jesus: 4 on the floor or 3 on the tree? Rigged an 8 head in a Miata once.
God: I should have made you a woman
Jesus: what
God: nothing, nothing... oh hey I hear someone in need of a 'spot' at the World's Gym in San Diego, why dont you go 'save them'
Jesus: alright! i can work on my lutes!
God: fine. Oh, and bring me back a flawless lamb
Jesus: lol
God: no seriously, i need them. Cerberus wont anything with flaws.
Cerburus: *Spike lee, Dan Ackroyd and seinfeld* ...suddenly the aboriginal hominid is enlightened and releases the quasar before disrupting the positronic sub-structure therfore - fuck white people, let's get pizza, no dominos, no chuckey cheeses, new york style pizza, made by black people and served by.... oh... served by white people, shit that's a movie right there - well the chuckey's cheese place i can understand. I mean who wants to eat a restaurant sponsored by a rat? - bitch larry david carried your ass, you tell a joke and people thank god they was born black.... shit that's a movie right there.... - I'm getting hungry, Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Bovidae, Caprinae, Ovis Linnaeus on my plate in 5 minutes or so help me, i will allow human beings to reach beyond the gates of the netherworld and reclaim their unholy family members until a hellish orgy covers the earth in vile pornographic sin - ...and what's with the mint jelly? why ...the mint jelly? you cant serve lamb, witho - YO SHUT THE FUCK UP
By now it seems pretty well accepted by people who aren't morons that, if a Jesus existed, he most assuredly didn't look like that.
The crazy fundamentalists I know won't admit it.
They're always like "there's some white people in the middle east"
they're called tourists, or relocated german Jews. both of which were not around in that whole 'BC to AD thing', the only people in in jeruselum and surroundings areas were dark skinned, black haired, brown eyed, short, chubby, Jewish middle easterners with the occasional Roman caravan who would go through and randomly cause panic and death who got bored wth zeus and adopted the hebrew faith except made their God in to a living God who seemed an awful lot like hercules/alexander minus the club and tiger cowl and then spread panic and death through the most powerful religion of all time: Republi I mean christianity or 'Why white is better than brown, the possibly true story of the living God that may have existed as several different people rolled in to one though we dont tell anyone that'
Does it really matter what Jesus looked like?
However, something that's interesting to note is that the middle east was much more racially diverse prior to the Arab wave of immigration in the 7th century. Arabs "semitized" a region that was, at the time, populated by a wide range of different peoples (anybody who's ever invaded anything usually ends up in the middle east) including a large number of Greek settlers that came first by boat, and then with Alexander's army. Something I recall reading is that redheads were common in places like Antioch (the capital of the Greek kingdom of Syria), where foreign settlement was most prominent. Now, Jesus assuredly wasn't one of those foreigners, but it's possible that imagining him as a lighter-skinned man wasn't that far-fetched in the early centuries of the church.
Stuff like that is pretty widespread around the Mediterranean - I myself had red hair when I was 2-3 years old, and my great-grandfather (from southern Italy, where most people are squat and olive-skinned) was a full-blown redhead.
Great Rumbler Wrote:Does it really matter what Jesus looked like?
Does it matter in the context of a discussion about what Jesus looked like? It's a possibility.
n-man, to be Jewish is to be part of the blood lines. it's why it's so difficult for a non-jew to convert which was only alllowed recently (last century or two). to be a jewish man who had pure jewish blood, no greeks, no egyptian, no anything but the blood lines from early mesopotamia and babylon. Ie: negroid who branched off becoming classified as as a cross of ancient negroid and the ice age survivors (caucasion) (loss of permanent pigmentation, then regaining it in the middle east). you're not looking at the total scope, Sargon of Akkad basically started what would be become the jewish people and that only pure blood jews can call themselves as such. jewish people today come in a wide array of colors, but thousands of years ago it was not the case. i agree that settlers moving through the middle east could have been many different colors from all around that known world, but a jew only came in one package, and that package was not white, and Jesus is the king of the Jews, the single man that started the rebelion that would eventually destroy Rome.
In other news, the greeks and therfore the persians are from a slight variant of the middle eastern nomad, slightly lighter and less heavy features in the face. probably caused by a shit ton of inbreeding but asian influence is working theory but it doesnt explain the problems with the interbred features, in that came the blue eyes and blond hair or very light brown/red hair, before that it has not been recorded anywhere on earth. Everyone was dark, everyone had black unmangible hair, and everything pretty much sucked because if you were lucky you lived until you were 5 years old, before being eaten by dragons. all eye colors, skin colors, hair colors, etc that are not dark are either mutations or neccesary alterations in surface genomes to increase survivability in ice age conditions (white skin, more actual fat cells than per norm) and all that fun stuff.
very few nonjews ever went to jeruselum, it was under roman occupation for much of it's life before being sacked by everyone (Rome as well, whore of babylon, etc) but the romans just wanted slaves for construction and made money off the temples through differennt things, specifically the trading of flawless lambs for Roman coins, which is what jesus got so pissed about and threw a tantrum in the temple because he, like most Jews at the time, hated Rome with all their heart for making profit off of traditions and faith.
i know your catholic, so dont dare try to make jesus white. For fuck's sake white is relatively new. he's still just as magical and fairy like all you want regardless of him being white or not. Although if you actually followed jesus you would realize that the catholics are the enemy of God's plans, but then again you guys get the censored version of the bible that doesnt even have revelation.
Quote:In other news, the greeks and therfore the persians are from a slight variant of the middle eastern nomad, slightly lighter and less heavy features in the face. probably caused by a shit ton of inbreeding but asian influence is working theory but it doesnt explain the problems with the interbred features, in that came the blue eyes and blond hair or very light brown/red hair, before that it has not been recorded anywhere on earth. Everyone was dark, everyone had black unmangible hair, and everything pretty much sucked because if you were lucky you lived until you were 5 years old, before being eaten by dragons. all eye colors, skin colors, hair colors, etc that are not dark are either mutations or neccesary alterations in surface genomes to increase survivability in ice age conditions (white skin, more actual fat cells than per norm) and all that fun stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race
Interesting, I didn't realize that there was that much contraversy over the term 'Caucasian'... I'd have said "people from Europe or the Meditteranean region", and included Middle Easterners in the category, but I hadn't thought of Indians too as Caucasian, though in the broadest definition they are... the most interesting part, though, is how in Europe the term isn't used and instead they use 'White European' instead... and Caucasian for people from the Caucasus...
Anyway, the people of the Middle East are certainly within the broad "Caucasian" group... though of course then you get into the whole debate about what human "races" are anyway and if they really exist, which just confuses everything again.
Anyway, Jesus would have been Middle Eastern/Meditteranean, and not 'white European' as he is usually depicted as. That still makes him Caucasian under some definitions of the term, however, if sometimes not the most commonly used one... but the whole issue of "races" is a pretty contraversial one.
yeah, its confusing when you take the time-line of events in to consideration, since the negroid is the base-structure of human beings everything else is a spin off, for either survival or just 'keeping it in the family' a little too much. of course then you have the respected theory of how during the major ice age, there was less than 10 thousand people on EARTH. so you can imagine that there was a whole lot of inbreeding going on and creating odd structures in the physical human.
Yep, the "negroid" (and wow, that is a term that is about ten nanoseconds away from ostrasizing you from modern society if you don't check every last p and q in all human existance) is the "original" model of humans, back when our species lived in Kenya. Spreading around, our species were isolated. Different traits became advantagous and were selected for around the globe. Today, we have removed the isolation and as a result all these differing traits are being amalganized into a collective genetic pool. It's an interesting genetic history we have. And, those most offended by it (racist hicks) have total ignorance of it.
Very true, although just to see how borderline offensive I can be (since I already know I can piss off thousands at a time, borderline might be interesting for a change), I think lighter skins that adapt to change are..... superior..... to darker skins that do not adapt. In other words, lighter skinned peoples, especially .......white people....... have a huge advantage when it comes to climate extremes and lack of or too much sunlight. Though even with my skin for example, it's darkest peak is still hovering around the light olive range, so in extreme sunlight conditions (ie: Africa), i'd be getting sick often and the darker skinned peoples, especially........ negros....... would have the advantage.
*waits for lord shockwave to bust in like a nerd version of Sam L. Jackson*
Well there you go. It's all a matter of the situation. There are genes that are better in more situations and worse than others. In evolution, that's actually the majority of gene alterations. Very few are always good or always bad alterations.
Also,
http://www.seuss.org/seuss/freud.seuss.html
That second pic's a new one.
What?! Old people use computer?!
thats why she needs Jesus (who really needs to shave and condition by the way)to help
Come on! As far as beards go, that one seems well kept! Sure as a general rule they seem... European... but eh, some people seem to like them. And conditioner? That man has hippie hair! It's conditioned with LOVE! (No seriously, it looks washed and brushed, what's wrong with it?)
lord...why are you so sensitive, did you draw um?
*please note the sarcasm ^^^*
I suppose that conveying that I was saying that in a comical tone in type is kinda hard to do.