Well, this has been an interesting day...

Playing on the iPod: Kitaro

Usually I send out emails and post to this thing and I get almost universally ignored. Ever since I sent out that thingy from Rev. Charles about the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic, tho,my mailbox is filling up. Here's one of the milder responses:

"Sorry to disappoint … but ….this article will clear things up. AND I hope you’ll pass it along to the people who were in the first distribution list."

http://www.christiangays.com/articles/lords_prayer.shtml

Interesting web site, by the way. Disputing that conclusion is this one from the Nazarenes:

http://www.thenazareneway.com/lords_prayer.htm

As a nonspeaker of any of the above referenced languages I can't testify one way or the other. I do think the Aramaic text is pretty cool to look at, though:

http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-aramaic.html

If you 're interested in the squabbles of Biblical scholars, go here:

http://www.co-intelligence.org/lordsprayer2.html

Keep scrolling down, it goes on for days. If that doesn't put you to sleep, there's always this historian, who says:

http://www.historian.net/lp-pap2.html

I could say this just goes to show something or other, but I dunno what, so I ain't gonna. In closing, here's my own translation, with the help of the ever-wise Bill and Ted:

Be excellent to each other. And party on.