TheMarkFrost
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Uncovering The Inconvenient Truth
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Post by TheMarkFrost on Apr 1, 2014 11:08:21 GMT -5
Hello all, I don't usually come into this forum section, but I thought this might be interesting all the same. Don't know if it's true or false but let me know. The Full Article
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Post by wonderqueen on Apr 1, 2014 12:30:38 GMT -5
Hang on... I saw a guy drink out of that cup and turn to dust... Indiana jones part 3... true story
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Post by kat on Apr 1, 2014 13:04:47 GMT -5
It's amazing what lengths some people will go to when the tourist industry isn't what it used to be.Also the holy grail is just a metaphor for certain religious beliefs and not an actual drinking vessel as we see here.
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Post by augustusmasonicus on Apr 1, 2014 23:47:30 GMT -5
Borrowing from Indiana Jones here...does that really look like the sort of cup a Middle Eastern carpenter would make or use? Particularly one as poor and selfless as Jesus? Far too extravagant. And personally, I'm not quite convinced that the grail is not actually a Sang real...a child of royal blood. Hahaha, Akragon thought of the same movie. Great minds, my friend...
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Post by yourpresident on Apr 2, 2014 0:31:36 GMT -5
I'd guess that this is not the holy grail. I bet the holy grail is made out of polished stone and may even look like a mug.
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Post by holygrail on Apr 2, 2014 0:39:42 GMT -5
Hang on... I saw a guy drink out of that cup and turn to dust... Different cup. They're digging in the wrong place!
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Post by texasrangers on Apr 2, 2014 12:36:28 GMT -5
They are exaggerating their achievement.
It's very plausible that they can "prove", or at least show the probability, that this cup was celebrated as the Last Supper cup by the church in Cairo. That is not at all the same thing as showing that it really was the Last Supper cup, which is very implausible indeed. The real cup would have been much more humble.
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Post by sexykiller on Apr 2, 2014 12:45:00 GMT -5
I'm like everyone who saw the third Indiana Jones and realize that the cup would not be all ornate like that. I call shenanigans on that #.
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Post by ikillosama on Apr 2, 2014 13:04:25 GMT -5
The 'Holy Grail' has always made me smile simply because it could simply have been a cup used in the house where the Last Supper was held and not any particular drinking cup, or indeed a cup used regularly by Christ and the Disciples.
It seems highly unlikely that Christ and his Disciples travelled with their crockery in a sack and there is no record of them owning a house at which they 'lived'. It just seems yet another get-rich scheme by the Papists, that has captured the more whimsical's imagination.
The cup in the photograph, whether a cup within a cup, looks rather grand and opens up the argument that perhaps Christ was being thought of as a King of the Jews.
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Post by lastsupper on Apr 2, 2014 13:13:17 GMT -5
Funny I went to the library for the first time in a long time Saturday and got a book (fiction) about a search for the Holy Grail and then see this story today.
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