Religion
Related: About this forumThis is how The Jefferson Bible ends.
62: Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
63: There laid they Jesus,
64: And rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefJesu.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=17&division=div1
All arguments aside, this has always struck me as one of the saddest passages ever written.
rrneck
(17,671 posts)but sometimes sadness is more real. Maybe it's just m my brain chemistry, but sadness has a concrete quality we can embrace. I can't express it adequately except that we don't naturally daydream about sad things. It seems we have to find it in the real world.
rug
(82,333 posts)rrneck
(17,671 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)After re-visiting Monticello this year, I got the impression of a stoic.
Happy Easter to you!
rug
(82,333 posts)(Maybe this is why it's called a Happy Easter.)