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(Some Dead Guy)   Astonished Greek Orthodox bishop excited about colleague who's been dead for 15 years but refused to decompose. "Even his soft parts are intact"   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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Pope George Ringo
2006-04-23 4:54:51 AM  
Yecch. Looks rotten in the bigger pic.
 
Nibbled to death by gerbils
2006-04-23 6:03:37 AM  
all he needs is a little bit of BBQ sauce
 
Fourdoorlovemonkey
2006-04-23 6:03:48 AM  
>insert Joan Rivers joke here
 
Zasko
2006-04-23 6:05:52 AM  
yuck! I'm eating and I didn't need to see the mummy.

/thankfully not eating jerky
 
Cyber_Junk
2006-04-23 6:07:36 AM  
Umm, anyone else imagine this bishop poking at the dead guy's 'soft parts'...

ewww
 
yellow_rain
2006-04-23 6:11:27 AM  
i'd hit it
 
bbcrackmonkey
2006-04-23 6:11:33 AM  
He looks pretty decomposed to me, what with being all black and brown and withered. Looks mummified, in fact. They've found that most of the 'saints' whose miracles include not having gone through the full stage of decomposition were mummified (dried out) instead. Some of them were very intentionally dried out and they've conducted scientific experiments on some of these saints corpses, finding signs of purposeful mummification like chemical agents on the skin and removal of internal organs. Many saints simply died and their bodies went through a natural mummification process because of the climate where their body was placed.
 
AgentPothead
2006-04-23 6:13:33 AM  
That guy looks like he's been dead for 15 years. If all it takes is a dead corpse to drive people into a religious frenzy then I wish somebody would just drop the bomb already.
 
Jargon Filter
2006-04-23 6:17:38 AM  
wow. I sure hope he wanted his corpse to be put on public display.

friggin morbid
 
bbcrackmonkey
2006-04-23 6:19:01 AM  
AgentPothead: That guy looks like he's been dead for 15 years. If all it takes is a dead corpse to drive people into a religious frenzy then I wish somebody would just drop the bomb already.

You obviously never had the luxury of going to Catholic schools. They inundate you with crap 'miracles' like this, and each semester you are required to take a 'religion' class, which isn't really a religion class, just teaches you about the Catholic religion, and a very white-washed version.
 
Stealthdozer
2006-04-23 6:27:02 AM  
Leave his soft parts alone!!

Freaking necrophiliacs.
 
Idiot Child
2006-04-23 6:27:51 AM  
Of course his part is soft...he's dead
 
little_wing
2006-04-23 6:29:27 AM  
What a lame miracle. Seriously, what good does that do anyone.

/looks pretty rotten to me
 
zlfam12000
2006-04-23 6:31:58 AM  
[image from telegraph.co.uk too old to be available]

/not impressed
 
ArmyCop
2006-04-23 6:33:27 AM  
Zasko: thankfully not eating jerky

[image from img228.imageshack.us too old to be available]
He's teryaki style!
 
CokeBear_CA
2006-04-23 6:33:44 AM  
And here I was expecting a pic of Eddie Van Halen...
 
LeadHindenburg
2006-04-23 6:40:22 AM  
Chop him up and stick all his different bits in churches everywhere!
 
Mr_Smartypants
2006-04-23 7:04:49 AM  
I went to Greece, to see the ancestral homeland and all that, and I saw one of these dead-monk-dioramas. The guy looked like he'd been through a blender. In his defense, he was a few hundred years older or something.

/"rational vs. religious " -- WTF?
//"Church of Greece" -- WTF?
///Vissarionas Korkoliakos -- With that many sylables, he was probably the second-coming.

///Christos Anesti!
 
Khardynyl
2006-04-23 7:17:03 AM  
It's a miracle! HE wont rot away after 15 years! WE are all saved by this somehow! God exists after all, another pointless trick that does no one any good at all proves it!

How about some good miracles you idiot?
 
RandomExcess
2006-04-23 7:30:43 AM  
Non-believers will not be impressed by any miracle at all.
 
Grabastic
2006-04-23 7:36:33 AM  
it has happened before.
 
Tatarize
2006-04-23 7:37:57 AM  
In Orthodox Christianity mummies prove that the person was holy. It's a pretty silly idea, apparently King Tut was a saint or something. No odder than other religions, but Orthodox do seem much more impressed by very mundane things.

I once had an Orthodox tell me that his religion was true because you could have somebody with HIV drink some water from a blessed cup, then have somebody else drink after that person, and not catch the disease! Needless to say, I couldn't shout "YOU CAN'T CATCH IT THAT WAY REGARDLESS WHAT KIND OF CUP!" loud enough.

This "miracle" is right up there with a cracker, having somebody say a few words, remain a cracker.
 
Day_Old_Dutchie
2006-04-23 8:03:45 AM  
Tatarize

I once had an Orthodox tell me that his religion was true because you could have somebody with HIV drink some water from a blessed cup, then have somebody else drink after that person, and not catch the disease! Needless to say, I couldn't shout "YOU CAN'T CATCH IT THAT WAY REGARDLESS WHAT KIND OF CUP!" loud enough.

He chose WISELY...
 
Cauchy_Riemann_equations
2006-04-23 8:11:18 AM  
Mr_Smartypants

Christos Anesti!

Having made my Easter bread and made hard-boiled red eggs let me say: Alithos Anesti!

Also my last name has all the vowels and they're all in order.
We got cable yesterday, it's an Easter Miracle!
 
Mr_Smartypants
2006-04-23 8:18:55 AM  
Heh, some of my distant cousins came over in the '20s and stuck a sylable in their name to celebrate the occasion or something.

And how about that, the first orthodox-related article I've seen on fark in years and it's on Easter!
 
NoImSpartacus
2006-04-23 8:20:17 AM  
Y'know, in some cultures, bodies that don't decompose are considered a sign that the person in question rises at night to feed on the blood of the living. Clearly, he's not a saint, he's a vampire.
 
Johnny Golgotha
2006-04-23 8:29:24 AM  
I bet every couple weeks, they murder a guy who looks like the monk, and switch the bodies when nobody is looking.
 
Lerxst2k
2006-04-23 8:34:34 AM  
With religiosity like this floating around Anti-Christ will make short work of humanity when he come to power.

Good luck heathens.
 
plywoodjungle
2006-04-23 8:45:51 AM  
It's a miracle! God be praised! Oh, wait, it's a dehydrated dead guy. Nevermind. Who wants a Hotpocket?
 
panoplos
2006-04-23 8:53:12 AM  
Mr. Smartypants

Was that in Kalavrita? It sounds like the relics i seen there.

Ive visited many of those places, and i was most impressed with the tomb of Agios Nektarios, and a church in Patra that had the head of a monk in a glass case. It kind of freaked me out at first, but then someone pointed out the strong smell of mir.

///Christos Anesti!

Alithos anesti!
 
BenJammin
2006-04-23 8:58:15 AM  
Grand dellusions.
 
Professor Duck
2006-04-23 9:02:08 AM  
"Even his soft parts are intact."

HA HAAA!

Dangly parts.
 
scavenger
2006-04-23 9:02:27 AM  
[image from adressa.no too old to be available]
"Don't you hate pants?!"
 
tzarro
2006-04-23 9:03:06 AM  
Saint Teresa the Sacred parted us in 1783
Her body was found incorrupt with no sign of decay
Saint Frances Xavier got dug up in 1975
All the priests were really relieved when he looked like he was still alive

Believe it or not
Some saints don't rot
They're bodies don't decay
While most of us
Just turn to dust
Shortly after we pass away

Saint Bernadette still looks mighty fresh though she's been dead for years
Her cheeks still have a pinkish hue and there's colour in her ears
Saint Josaphat looked like a drowned rat when they fished him out of the river
Yet after a week he didn't even reek and that made the heathens shiver

Honest to God
You can lay 'em in sod
In coffins made of wood
And when they're exhumed
From where they're entombed
They'll still look pretty good

Believe it or not
Some saints don't rot
They're bodies don't decay
While most of us
Just turn to dust
Shortly after we pass away

Saint Andrew was flayed alive and his tongue ripped from his head
Yet everyone who saw him agreed that he looked even better dead
Saint Catherine Laboure is tucked away in a tiny church in Paris
Though she looks pretty neat I'm afraid they cheated, she's filled with carbolic acid!

Honest to God
You can lay 'em in sod
In coffins made of wood
And when they're exhumed
From where they're entombed
They'll still look pretty good

Saints preserve us

/Obscure enough?
 
Mr_Smartypants
2006-04-23 9:09:50 AM  
Nope, it was at Agios Raphael near Myteline.

No heads in jars, but I did see a martyr's execution bowl. (Irene?) It looked like just a giant clay mixing-bowl. I guess they thought it would work out better if it happened in a bowl...
 
Bacontastesgood
2006-04-23 9:29:49 AM  
Tatarize

Yeah, but the point you're missing is that Jeebus was MADE of crackers.
 
Cauchy_Riemann_equations
2006-04-23 9:41:37 AM  
panoplos

Mr. Smartypants

Was that in Kalavrita?

Is your family from Kalavrita? My Grandfather was (my father was raised in Kavalla) most of the family was killed there in 1942.
 
GalFisk [TotalFark]
2006-04-23 9:48:40 AM  
The Greek Orthodox Church officially deemed the event a "celestial sign, a message for our people and our time."


"Eat less preservatives?"
 
drxym
2006-04-23 10:04:32 AM  
Religions are so funny. Dip their dead bodies in embalming fluid and 15 years later, proclaim a miracle. Catholics are as bad. Expect to see the last pope being paraded around in a glass box at some point. Expect the event to be accompanied by declarations of "miracle" to explain his mummified state.
 
TheGoblinKing
2006-04-23 10:10:45 AM  
[image from internationalhero.co.uk too old to be available]

Imhotep is unimpressed...
 
panoplos
2006-04-23 10:12:31 AM  
Cauchy_Riemann_equations

"Is your family from Kalavrita?"

Na, im actually an islander(from Samos). My cousin lives in Patra, and whenever i go visit we like to travel the Peloponisos.

"My Grandfather was (my father was raised in Kavalla) most of the family was killed there in 1942."

When i first visited megaspilion, a priest was kind enough to tell us the history of that place. There was alot of bloodshed going back to the war with the Turks. The Nazis were the worst though.
 
eqtworld
2006-04-23 10:17:58 AM  
RandomExcess

Non-believers will not be impressed by any miracle at all.

That is both silly and a lie. If a church leader did something, and all disease on earth was cured, no cancer,viruses,harmful bacteria, genetic deformities, ect.....No one would be able to deny such a miracle.

However, natual mummies happen all the time all over the world. No magic is needed.

http://www.mummytombs.com/mummylocator/group/guanajuato.htm

Are all these people saints?

Bury this guy in a cardboard coffin under 6 feet of dirt then check on him in a few years.
 
Nuke Laloosh
2006-04-23 10:22:45 AM  
Christos

Mr_Smartypants: ///Christos Anesti!


Alethos Anesti!
 
onid70
2006-04-23 10:26:34 AM  
I have nothing to add to this conversation except Christos Anesti and I didn't realize there were so many Greek Farkers AND Patra is a lot of fun during carnivale.

I have a few stories about the Nazis in Greece from my pappou. Nasty, mean stuff...
 
oryx
2006-04-23 10:28:21 AM  
[image from abclocal.go.com too old to be available]
Breaking News: Vissarionas Korkoliakos still dead
 
Cauchy_Riemann_equations
2006-04-23 10:47:21 AM  
panoplos

My undergraduate degree is in history, my graduate degrees are in mathematics. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on the Greek Civil war. Sad. But I think the Armenians win when it comes to tragic stories, no one even knows about their genocide. Not to mention that many Greeks sold out the Jews (a population in northern Greece that had existed since the 15 century) all to readily. Before WWII Thessalonica had a population of over 50,000 Jews, after the war something like a few hundred; we even built the university over their cemetery. There is a good book: Salonica, City of Ghosts : Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower, I heartily recommend it.

onid70

We're everywhere.

Seriously I dated this guy once, his father had moved the family from Australia to the US but originally they were from the same place my father came from (Kavalla).

We're everywhere.

/Egg wars!
 
soia
2006-04-23 11:15:05 AM  
Happy Easter
 
CarlofET
2006-04-23 11:15:42 AM  
I thought Easter was last week? WTF?
 
Darkraven
2006-04-23 11:19:41 AM  
Not for Orthodox Christianity.
 
LMark
2006-04-23 11:22:05 AM  
CarlofET-
Eastern Orthodox Easter is often at a different time than western Easter.
 
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