Tuesday, January 04, 2005
of course, every day is a year's anniversary since that day the previous year. so why is jan 1st so important? i dare say there's probably a real reason but since i cant be cocked to google it, i'll just state mine for the record.
if you include the 25th itself, the 1st of jan is 8 days after the little baby jesus, apparently YOUR lord and YOUR saviour, first came into the world. Like all the best magicians (Moses, Houdini, Gerry Sadowitz, um...Davids Blaine+Copperfield), he was (and remains) Jewish which means he must have been circumcised. That happens, let's see, oh yes, 8 days into life.
Aside from the more twisty, theological problems of god himself being both cut and non-cut (one presumes, since Adam was made in god's image), it seems a bit weird that 2000 years ago a little baby god got his foreskin sliced off and as a direct result we go out and pour stiff drinks down out throats all night until we dont quite die.
or maybe that's not so weird after all?
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if you include the 25th itself, the 1st of jan is 8 days after the little baby jesus, apparently YOUR lord and YOUR saviour, first came into the world. Like all the best magicians (Moses, Houdini, Gerry Sadowitz, um...Davids Blaine+Copperfield), he was (and remains) Jewish which means he must have been circumcised. That happens, let's see, oh yes, 8 days into life.
Aside from the more twisty, theological problems of god himself being both cut and non-cut (one presumes, since Adam was made in god's image), it seems a bit weird that 2000 years ago a little baby god got his foreskin sliced off and as a direct result we go out and pour stiff drinks down out throats all night until we dont quite die.
or maybe that's not so weird after all?
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