Which history would you visit? - Page 2

cosmo · 11-14-2004, 05:37 AM

I would like to have traveled with Abraham.

I would like to have seen the actual Hebrew exodus from Egypt.

cosmo

PersonaNonGrata · 11-16-2004, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by cosmo

I would like to have traveled with Abraham.

I would like to have seen the actual Hebrew exodus from Egypt.

cosmo

i would likely be the one that wrote'em

so which year that was? b.c. 2462 or something? do you guys believe in reincarnation ?

mirrorinthefog · 11-19-2004, 11:01 PM

Aw do I have to pick just one

Because I'd like have been through it all actually. lol. Plus it'd be fun to stir things up a bit at crucial times *evil grin*
Reincarnation is possible, but I don't think it's something we all experience. (I don't think I was-or will be-reincarnated.)

aladdin · 12-14-2004, 11:47 PM

I would like to visit the time period either late Medieval or right before the Reformation in Europe. (Bosch is one of my favorite artists

This is a neat time--crusades, black plague, the monasterys, there's a lot to experience. knights & castles & all that

Bandit · 01-14-2005, 07:46 PM

I would have like to have been there when they were translating the bible to English. Like somewhere from 1400 to 1600 AD.

It would also be neat to have been there sometime between 100 and 400 AD, when Rome was instituting beliefs and see how they came up with some of there ideas. Except for I would probably be one of those people who was murdered for not agreeing with them.

I rest in the middle with reincarnation. I think it is possible and sometimes it may happen, but not in the common teaching of it where everyone keeps coming back over and over...

Postmaster · 01-16-2005, 11:07 PM

I would like to go back to my homeland Cyprus as it was 12'000 years ago. Apprently it was Atlantis www.discoveryofatlantis.com , I want to see if the people had any similarity to us today and if they look anything like me

InLove · 04-29-2005, 07:10 AM

Yes, it would be interesting to take a closer look at Galilee during the first few decades AD.

Pre-Islamic Arabia might also be interesting.

How about the Mayans?

InPeace,
InLove

KnightoftheRose · 04-29-2005, 09:36 AM

Ancient India would be fascinating. So would Ancient Mesopotamia. I'd also like to see America during her frontier days.

I suppose the only history I would never want to visit would be 1300's European - the Black Plague would just be too horrible to witness.

dauer · 04-29-2005, 04:46 PM

Pesach! At the Beit ha-Mikdash! And Yom Kippur... I want to know what it was like for my ancestors back in the day, how they encountered God, what it was really like to do a coming-close, a qorban, with the incense and the Leviim singing and the noise of the crowd and the smell of the barbecuing meat. And I want to go earlier and offer up at one of the many slaughter sites too from my own flock. And I want to hear the prophets speak. And I want to go later in one of the first synagogues, davening by memory. And I want to go to the Beit Hillel and learn there. Oy that would be wonderful. Maybe too I should visit a concentration camp so that I really know. And maybe too I should visit the hasidim in Europe (I want to meet Reb Zuzya and see how much about his stories tell truths about his character.) And I'm sure I could keep going. My ancestral history pulls me in every direction.

Dauer

InLove · 05-02-2005, 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by dauer

Pesach! At the Beit ha-Mikdash! And Yom Kippur... I want to know what it was like for my ancestors back in the day, how they encountered God, what it was really like to do a coming-close, a qorban, with the incense and the Leviim singing and the noise of the crowd and the smell of the barbecuing meat. And I want to go earlier and offer up at one of the many slaughter sites too from my own flock. And I want to hear the prophets speak. And I want to go later in one of the first synagogues, davening by memory. And I want to go to the Beit Hillel and learn there. Oy that would be wonderful. Maybe too I should visit a concentration camp so that I really know. And maybe too I should visit the hasidim in Europe (I want to meet Reb Zuzya and see how much about his stories tell truths about his character.) And I'm sure I could keep going. My ancestral history pulls me in every direction.

Dauer

Shalom.Dauer,

Shalom, Dauer,

Yes, maybe the night when God instructed the nation of Israel to take nourishment from the sacrificial lamb “…with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand (Exodus 12:11). I think that that must have been something hard to retell, so even though it would have been unimaginably difficult, I am sure that it was also something glorious. I would have to say that it would be very interesting to study. In more than the many ways it has been presented.

InPeace,
InLove

InLove · 05-02-2005, 08:11 AM

To Dauer,

Sorry, I tried to edit my post, but the fonts kept messing up--or maybe it was me. Anyway, I needed to tell you that there is no hidden meaning there!

Just trying to cut and paste, and had trouble.

Shalom,

InLove

dauer · 05-02-2005, 10:42 PM

I would have to ask, what really happened there? There are modern scholars who suggest that originally there was a fertility festival in which a lamb was sacrificed in the spring and also a separate festival involving the simple unleavened bread, neither of which would have had to do with the Exodus. And then those who came into Canaan brought their stories and over time it all got mixed together, maybe not completely until the Babylonian Exile. THat's one possiblility.

I think it would be awesome to visit sacred history too, and I'm sure it's been done on Shamanic journeys. I know I've read a guided visual meditation about crossing the sea. But I want to know what it was really like for the real people, because I think as the approach to God shifts from generation to generation, it can get a little hard to connect with the older experiences, like the slaughter of an animal. But to actually be there and be a part of that, I can imagine it being deeply spiritual...

unless there's too much kibitzing, too much side chatter. I don't like that at shul. Then again, at the Beit HaMikdash things might be different. Maybe I would like it.

Dauer

Awaiting_the_fifth · 05-04-2005, 01:08 PM

I would watch, hidden from a distance as Shakyamuni reached enlightenment under the Bhodi tree, and then wait until Brahma and Indra came and begged him to turn the wheel of Dharma.

Then I would listen to him teach and I would understand his words even though I do not understand the language. I would become his disciple and learn the Dharma from the lips of the newly manifested Buddha and perhaps I would be liberated in that very lifetime.

InLove · 05-05-2005, 06:20 AM

Would anyone be interested in the Protestant Reformation? I think the whole thing would be fascinating--I wish I had a videotape of Luther hammering the proclamation to the door--so to speak.

As always,
InPeace,
InLove

InLove · 05-10-2005, 07:47 AM

Okay, Constantine, then, and the Nicaens? (sp?)

Just pushing the conversation--I really don't want it to get lost.

InPeace,
InLove