What did the Christ family do with all the magi swag?

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When I heard a version of that on Prairie Home Companion a few years ago, the words were " I, a king of Orient is . . ." and the final verse was “Former kings of Orient are”

I don’t remember the details, but something about “I, a king of Orient is” gave me the giggles so bad . . .

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[QUOTE=Eve]
What did the rubber cigar symbolize? It was loaded; it exploded.
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The plight of a celibate young man. :wink:

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Since there is no answerable General Question here, let’s try MPSIMS.

samclem

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[QUOTE=samclem]
Since there is no answerable General Question here, let’s try MPSIMS.

samclem
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So, you’re saying the son of God is mundane and pointless? You heathen! What about the Pit, I mean we’re told that he was in hell for 3 days after being crucified…fine fine, I’ll quit digging my hole now…

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This far and nobody’s recited anything from the opening lines of The Life of Brian?

Shame!

“Myrrh? What is that stuff anyways?”

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Sold them on ebay.

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[QUOTE=don’t ask]
Sold them on ebay.
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Yes, and bought Malt Liquor & Lottery Tickets, like I said.

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[QUOTE=jimmmy]
IMO if you absolutely need to read the story literally, there is no reason for the gifts to be “swag” they are clearly meant, even in the story, to be symbolic (even if we have lost the exact meaning of this symbolism) and the wise men can be thought of as more less Steven Hawking, Richard Dawkins and The Amazing Randi showing up at an Atheist’s Baby birth and noting him as a great learned man and leaving gifts: cool & symbolic but I would hardly expect them to be valuable enough to set the kid up for life or even to finance a big trip (IOW it is not like Buffet, Gates & The Sultan of Brunei were the gift givers). There is no reason that the three mentioned gifts need to be extraorinarily valuable, life changing or thier disposition notable in a notable life.
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I was visited by the Magi and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.

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[QUOTE=Jodi]
The plight of a celibate young man. :wink:
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Curses! You stole my joke! shakes fist

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A lot of Chirstmas Myrrhth in this thread.

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[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
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When I was little, I thought there was a country called “Orientar.”

I also assumed St. Mary was really fat. “Round yon virgin . . .”

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My mother told me that when she was young, she thought her next door neighbor, John Burges, was Santa Claus. He looked the part, and he was in that Christmas carole ('round John Burges…") but he clearly wasn’t Jesus. Who else could he be?

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[QUOTE=Eve]
What did the rubber cigar symbolize?.
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

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I raises hand am the one who hadn’t heard the rubber cigar version; I LOLed. The version I always heard was “We three kings of Orient are/Trying to sell some cheap underwear/So fantastic, no elastic/Just $3.99 a pair.”

Now would a family of carpenters be prosperous or not? I would have thought they would sell the GF&M and live high off the hog (well, not the hog) for a while.

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Oh here’s something interesting from Wikipedia:

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[QUOTE=42Geek]
actually that’s inaccurate. There’s a whole bunch of Gospels that weren’t included in the canon. A comitte decided which stories would be put into the offical 'church sanctioned" Bible. I remember reading an excerpt from when Jesus was a little boy…it was almost exactly like that Twillight Zone episode about that little boy who nobody can cross, and who does all this naughty stuff! :eek:
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Meh. Historians agree that these later “gospels” – including the infancy gospels – have little or no historical value. The only one that might have signficant historical merit is the so-called Gospel of Thomas (not to be confused with the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which is the text that you described).

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[QUOTE=JThunder]
Meh. Historians agree that these later “gospels” – including the infancy gospels – have little or no historical value. The only one that might have signficant historical merit is the so-called Gospel of Thomas (not to be confused with the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which is the text that you described).
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That depends on how you define “historical value.” The non-canonical Gospels are perceive as having a great deal of historical value in the kind of information it gives us about the development and diversity of christianity in the first three centuries. It is true that historians do not regard the narratives themselves as being historical but they don’t think much of the Canonical narratives are historically accurate either.

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[QUOTE=42Geek]
actually that’s inaccurate. There’s a whole bunch of Gospels that weren’t included in the canon.
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Indeed. Here’s a link to an excerpt from the Gospel of John*.

  • John Prine, that is