Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?

23 Dec 06 - 09:04 AM (#1917399)
Subject: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: The Shambles

Wolfgang -

Would I be safe to post that Jesus was born on 25th December?

For I think that he must have been a folkie - what with the beard, sandals, the wine drinking and all those thousands of hungry people camped-out on hillsides?

I reckon he played a mean banjo too.

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23 Dec 06 - 09:14 AM (#1917408)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: GUEST

No. I heard he was a Delta bluesman. Played a mean slide guitar.

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23 Dec 06 - 09:20 AM (#1917409)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Tinker

Rick Fielding has a great song where Jesus is a Country Bluegrass Singer.

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23 Dec 06 - 09:35 AM (#1917417)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: freda underhill

Jesus was in fact a bit of a lefty. How else could you describe someone who said and did the following;

(Matthew 1923-26; Mark 1023-27; Luke 1824-27).

"Again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."

(Luke 16:13).

"You cannot serve God and wealth"

(Matthew 6:19-20)

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasurer is, there your heart will be also."

(Mark 10:21)

When the rich man asked Jesus how he could get into heaven, Jesus replied "You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me."

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23 Dec 06 - 09:35 AM (#1917418)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: GUEST, ...

Folkies - wine drinking?
Well, yes, but mainly the ones who do French and Swedish dances.
The hardcore folkies drink BEER.

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23 Dec 06 - 09:49 AM (#1917422)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Sorcha

LOL! Born on 25 Dec? Probably not...there were lambs and shepherds....makes it more like Lammas in Feb.

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23 Dec 06 - 10:12 AM (#1917433)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: GUEST,huw

I think it was Judy Sill who sang "Jesus Was A Crossmaker". Now there was a singer songwriter of flawed genius.
Huw

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23 Dec 06 - 10:25 AM (#1917442)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Dave Hanson

He was definately a lefty but no male folky would be seen dead in a long dress instead of levis.

eric

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23 Dec 06 - 10:41 AM (#1917459)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: The Shambles

http://www.totalmusicmagazine.com/albumreviews/P-T%20Covers/Richard_Thompson.jpg

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23 Dec 06 - 11:23 AM (#1917480)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Uncle_DaveO

"Born on December 25"?

No, and no responsible authority says he was. It's uncertain. The Good Book gives no clear timing.

The December 25th date came later, when church authorities more or less coopted the solstice celebrations which appeared in a number of "adversary religions", such as Saturnalia. Just as they placed what we call Halloween and Easter on or around established holidays of cultures where Christianity was trying to make inroads.

Dave Oesterreich

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23 Dec 06 - 11:32 AM (#1917484)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: jeffp

Elizabeth wasn't born on the Queen's Birthday either, was she?

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23 Dec 06 - 12:08 PM (#1917502)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Ernest

Banjo? Slide guitar? No.

Jesus played cross harp.

Halleluja
Ernest

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23 Dec 06 - 12:18 PM (#1917511)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Genie

Of course Jesus was a folkie? Ya think the music he and his buds made or listened to was written as sheet music or released on CD?   

They prolly did a lot of a cappella singing. ;-D

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23 Dec 06 - 12:46 PM (#1917527)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: gnu

Banjo? Harp? Maybe, but thunder is the JC on the Hran.

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23 Dec 06 - 12:57 PM (#1917534)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Ernest

Definitely cross harp, gnu. Believe me - "we" are pope (as a famous newspaper put it) and so we are unfallible ;0)

But I admit your theory has at least something speaking for it: think of all the goats that are sacrificed in the bible.

On second thought: they might called a bodhran a goat after the animal which provided the skin and so in reality have sacrificed bodhrans.

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23 Dec 06 - 01:03 PM (#1917539)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Genie

Maybe JC played the bongos.

I mean the antelopes themselves.

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23 Dec 06 - 01:09 PM (#1917541)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: gnu

Ouch.

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23 Dec 06 - 01:09 PM (#1917543)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Ernest

On third thought: the newspaper I referred to in my last post (and chorus) can also be described as infamous.

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23 Dec 06 - 03:34 PM (#1917626)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp

We apes figure Jesus was a pretty nice guy, and all that. He had a lotta good ideas. Still, he was human. Accordingly, he don't rank all that high in our estimation. Not like King Kong, for example, who will always be "the King", and who died tragically in order to make it crystal clear to all that human beings are the main problem on this planet!

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23 Dec 06 - 03:54 PM (#1917640)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Common Tater

According to one of John Stewart's (the banjo player) lyrics:

"Jesus hung with the harlots
and walked with the hoodlum side ...."

"Jesus ran with the hard-line gang
Jesus knew the songs they sang...."

(From "Jesus Is A Friends of Mine"

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23 Dec 06 - 03:57 PM (#1917642)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: fat B****rd

I thought he was a boogie man.

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23 Dec 06 - 04:06 PM (#1917651)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Little Hawk

Then you must be very easily frightened. ;-)

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23 Dec 06 - 04:08 PM (#1917655)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: fat B****rd

True, true. LOL

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23 Dec 06 - 04:27 PM (#1917674)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: John MacKenzie

Can I as a non Christian, and not as a dig at Shambles, say that I think this thread is in poor taste?
Giok

Sits back and waits for the flak.

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23 Dec 06 - 05:32 PM (#1917723)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Gurney

Sure you can say it, Giok.

Jesus was a protester, a reformer, and of sometimes unreliable temper. He was known to have a go when he was riled, so didn't totally rely on peace and love. So he was hardly a Traddie either, He supped wine.
It's in the Bible.

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23 Dec 06 - 05:54 PM (#1917746)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: John MacKenzie

All right I modify that post, MOST of it is in bad taste. To some people this is a very important and special time of year, and I feel that they are being dissed somewhat.
Giok

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23 Dec 06 - 06:07 PM (#1917753)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Peace

This thread is no more disrespectful than the "Jesus Christ`s birthday (Dec. 24th)" thread became. Of course, Shambles didn't start THAT thread, did he?

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23 Dec 06 - 06:46 PM (#1917782)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Little Hawk

Heh! If only people were as objective and unbiased as they like to imagine themselves to be...

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23 Dec 06 - 08:26 PM (#1917872)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: *Laura*

I thought Jesus was born in September

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23 Dec 06 - 08:37 PM (#1917879)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: GUEST

Yes - folkie and Morris Dancer - he was also wiccan - but the Vatican is suppressing their part in the the situation.

http://www.prince.org/msg/105/212076?jump=7&pg=1

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23 Dec 06 - 08:58 PM (#1917894)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: GUEST

Spoken like someone for whom the solstice was just too much. Put the bottle down and crawl away from the computer.

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23 Dec 06 - 10:31 PM (#1917918)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: number 6

I thought he was Scottish and tone deaf.

biLL

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24 Dec 06 - 03:31 AM (#1917985)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Gurney

That's the other Big Yin.

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24 Dec 06 - 04:40 AM (#1917997)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: John MacKenzie

Gee thanks for all the support and understanding there guys¦¬]
G.

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24 Dec 06 - 09:15 AM (#1918102)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: GUEST,GS

And Jesus was a sailor, when He walked upon the water,
And He spent a long time watching, from His lonely wooden tower.
And when He knew for certain, only drowning men could see Him,
He said all men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them.
But He Himself was broken, long before the sky would open,
Forsaken, almost human, He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone.

Suzanne (Leonard Cohen)

I say Jesus was very 'down to earth'

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24 Dec 06 - 12:40 PM (#1918199)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Cluin

Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods.
He believed in love and peace and never wore no shoes.
Long hair, beard and sandals and a funky bunch of friends.
Reckon they'd just nail him up if He come down again.

       ~ Kris Kristofferson

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24 Dec 06 - 12:40 PM (#1918200)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Cluin

oh.

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