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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Easter whodunnit
- Message-ID: <12479@sorley.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 17:09:09 GMT
- References: <C12txJ.223t@austin.ibm.com> <1993Jan20.001942.24611@nmsu.edu>
- Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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- In article <1993Jan20.001942.24611@nmsu.edu> epowers@dante.nmsu.edu (POWERS) writes:
- >F. Karner (frank@austin.ibm.com) wrote:
- >: Suppose there were no guards. Suppose his followers dug a tunnel
- >: and stole the body that way. [...]
- >
- > Have you really read this post? If you suppose there were no
- >guards, you must give a reason why, as at least one witness of the time
- >said there were some.
-
- The most likely explanation is that the witness is lying. The reason
- that there were no guards is that it made no sense for there to be
- any. I can't imagine an officer who, short of being out of his mind,
- would send soldiers to guard the body of an executed criminal, as if
- it were some object of value or as if the army had nothing else to do.
-
- >The rules of this post are to treat it as a whodunnit,
-
- Exactly. So let's play according to the rules. In a whodunnit one
- assumes that people do things for which they have a motive. One
- doesn't assume, however, that everything everyone says is true. I
- have no positive knowledge as to what the Romans did with the bodies
- of crucified troublemakers, but the only reasonable guess is that they
- simply discarded them, to be devoured by street dogs or picked up from
- the rubbish heap and buried by friends and family.
-
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- `D'ye mind tellin me whit the two o ye are gaun oan aboot?' (The Glasgow
- Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu) Gospel)
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