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Jose Minge, Chair and Keeper of The Imperial Deafness, don't you know. Started conversation Jan 8, 2003
Who the hell baptised people before John the Baptist?
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Blatherskite the Mugwump - Bandwidth Bandit Posted Jan 9, 2003
I'll hazard the guess that nobody did, which is why it got named after him. If he were John the Hurburgler, then I would have been hurburgled at birth.
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Jose Minge, Chair and Keeper of The Imperial Deafness, don't you know. Posted Jan 9, 2003
Yes, as I thought.
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Blatherskite the Mugwump - Bandwidth Bandit Posted Jan 9, 2003
I was just jerking your chain there...
Actually, baptisms were performed long before John, and for a different reason. It represented the crossing of the Red Sea from Egypt, and it symbolized the willingness of the person to follow Moses and his teachings. It was also something you did to yourself, rather than requiring a baptist, so John was very unpopular with his contemporary Jews for that reason.
So while John did not perform the first baptism, but he was the first baptist.
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Jose Minge, Chair and Keeper of The Imperial Deafness, don't you know. Posted Jan 9, 2003
Thanks. I only just started to think about it yesterday, then I thought hang on! this makes no sense.
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Gone again Posted Jan 10, 2003
You might as well ask what happened at the last sunrise before the Big Bang.... 
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"Who cares, wins"
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deackie Posted Jan 15, 2003
Then thre was that bloke in the Old Testament who dunked himself 7 (?) times and was healed of his yucky condition. With info like that it's a good job I gave up on the idea of being an RE teacher.
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Tefkat Posted Apr 11, 2003
What yucky condition was that? 
I've always been suspicious of that bath thingy you dunk yourself in in Lourdes. Imagine what you could catch. 
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- 1: Jose Minge, Chair and Keeper of The Imperial Deafness, don't you know. (Jan 8, 2003)
- 2: Blatherskite the Mugwump - Bandwidth Bandit (Jan 9, 2003)
- 3: Jose Minge, Chair and Keeper of The Imperial Deafness, don't you know. (Jan 9, 2003)
- 4: Blatherskite the Mugwump - Bandwidth Bandit (Jan 9, 2003)
- 5: Jose Minge, Chair and Keeper of The Imperial Deafness, don't you know. (Jan 9, 2003)
- 6: Gone again (Jan 10, 2003)
- 7: deackie (Jan 15, 2003)
- 8: GTBacchus (Apr 8, 2003)
- 9: Stealth "Jack" Azathoth (Apr 8, 2003)
- 10: Tefkat (Apr 11, 2003)
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