[Stealth]

Originally posted by an0n
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First of all, never call me a dumbass.

Secondly, if they wanted it to be so true-to-life, why isn't Jesus black?

you are a dumass, judging from what you said, which displays how uneducated and thick you are.

there's no official record of what race Jesus was, but you can guess by looking at the context (i.e. birthplace, heritage, etc.).

however, since many of the Bible texts were written in Aramaic, (yes, that's a face, go look it up), I guess that would explain why the movie's in Aramaic, and not English

[Grey Wolf]

If he was white, it'd be considered abnormal for the region. You think there'd be no mention of that anywhere? And you are right about the wrists, I mainly meant that it couldn't go through the hands, as shown in most depictions. Kind of deals a blow to the cons who claim to have the stigmata, if their holes are in the wrong place.

[an0n]

Uh...Stealth....that was my point you small-minded, redneck, little ****head.

There is no Aramaic language. It's all supposition and guess work.......like Dutch.

[Grey Wolf]

Weren't the only texts found written in Aramaic the Dead Sea Scrolls, with most of the rest being in either Greek or Hebrew?

[Stealth]

Uh...Stealth....that was my point you small-minded, redneck, little ****head.

There is no Aramaic language. It's all supposition and guess work.......like Dutch.

You don't have a point dumass.  your "point" was that no one knows how to speak Aramaic because it's a "dead language".  well believe it or not there's quite a few scholars and professors that know how to speak it.  Same with Greek, Hebrew, Latin, etc.

[an0n]

Y'know what? I don't give a ****.

You just keep being a moron.

And I refuse to be baited into a flame-war by a two-cent lady-boy like you.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by an0n
Y'know what? I don't give a ****.

You just keep being a moron.

And I refuse to be baited into a flame-war by a two-cent lady-boy like you.

You call me a moron, but you're the one that didn't know that anyone spoke Aramaic, because it's a "dead language".  what do you think they did for the entire movie, just make up words and call it aramaic?

OK dumass, that's good, because i don't want to get into a flame-war by a pansy moron like you

EDIT:  "moron" sounded better than "dumass".  I don't want to be repetetive

[Stealth]

Weren't the only texts found written in Aramaic the Dead Sea Scrolls, with most of the rest being in either Greek or Hebrew?

as far as i remember, Aramaic was found in many parts of the Bible, although not as much as Greek or Hebrew.  Also remember that the language the text was written in is quite possibly different from the language spoken at the time by the commoners.  i'm guessing that's where they got the idea to do the entire movie in Aramaic from

[an0n]

Originally posted by Stealth
You call me a moron, but you're the one that didn't know that anyone spoke Aramaic

Just because they assign phonetics to the letters and recite them doesn't mean they speak Aramaic.

It's like if someone claimed to be able to speak english but pronounced all E's as Q's.

And since everyone who knew Aramaic died a few thousand years ago, the pronunciations died along with them, therefore it is a DEAD LANGUAGE.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by an0n
Just because they assign phonetics to the letters and recite them doesn't mean they speak Aramaic.

It's like if someone claimed to be able to speak english but pronounced all E's as Q's.

And since everyone who knew Aramaic died a few thousand years ago, the pronunciations died along with them, therefore it is a DEAD LANGUAGE.

are you uneducated or just plain stupid?  it's hard to tell with you, but since you said you'd be leaving the thread, why don't you go ahead and leave, because i really don't feel like holding a pointless argument with a dumass like you

EDIT:  Tell me, what should they have done the movie in?  Spanish?  French?  English?  I'm sure it's a lot more effective to try to do it in the common language at the time, even if the absolute pronunciation of words is only guesswork.

[Knight Templar]

Could you at least spell your insults right? Please?

I mean, you don't have to, but it makes the irony that much more painful.

[an0n]

It'd make more sense if he read my posts too. I never said I'd leave, only that I'd not be baited into a flame-war.

And English would have been a better choice than using half-assed Aramaic just so they wouldn't have to compete with all the better films at the various Film Festivals and could just clear-up in the Foreign Language Film category.

[Thorn]

How can it be foreign language if its not native to any nation anymore? They'll have to create a Dead Language Film category or something...

[mikhael]

*sigh*
Sometimes you children are annoying.

Aramaic is NOT a dead language. Aramaic is still spoken by tribesmen in Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey.

Can you please move on?

[Stealth]

kthx Mikhael.  i rest my case that an0n's a dumass... or "dumbass" as squeak over there would rather me say

[Knight Templar]

Shut up already. You were both wrong.

[Stryke 9]

Cool. I read this thread, and then looked at Stealth's ignored posts, and the thread suddenly got 90% dumber. You really should try ignore-listing him, even with the stupid notifications there it improves the quality of the forum so much.

I should point out, though, that Latin's a thoroughly dead language, too, and yet we have a pretty clear idea of how it's spoken, because even though it's dead people have kept reading it and speaking it in order to access information that was written in the language- and since this has been going on constantly since the days when everybody actually used it conversationally, the verbal part has stayed, too. Same with most "dead" languages- the only thing that can make the spoken form of a language completely lost is to basically wipe out the civilization wholesale, and take basically everyone who spoke the language with it (like the Incas, Cretans, etc.).

[Knight Templar]

I do. And when my curiosity gets the best of me, I snap the little rubber band around my wrist.

It's sort of like christmas every time I look at the thread, except Santa is a 27 year-old, drunk, Texan, high school dropout who switched all my presents with boxes full of meatloaf and assorted spoiler/wing mount kits for the back of my car.

An unpleasant thing.

[an0n]

Originally posted by mikhael
Aramaic is NOT a dead language. Aramaic is still spoken by tribesmen in Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey.

I stand partially corrected.

They're still only dialects of the language.

It's like how you'd be hard-pressed to consider Geordie part of the English language.

[Stryke 9]

Hey, I like meatloaf.