If you get a chance (it takes 19 minutes...sorry) go to this link and listen to the audio program they had on NPR last Friday.
It was really amazing and very cool. The guy being interviewed is head of the comparative religion department at UNC Chapel Hill, if I remember correctly.
One of the really interesting bits is about the various theories on Jesus' divinity during the 1st century AD. Really bizarre and interesting stuff.
By the way, if anyone can figure out how to save a copy of this as a .wav or .mp3 file, I'd be interested in having it for posterity. I'm not sure if such is "legal" because it wouldn't let me burn the thing to a CD.
At least not the Media Player file....
Posted by Jutsa Notha Name (Member # 4485) on :
I've got a sound recorder that will tape anything you're listening to, but it's a demo, which means it will only tape one minute at a time. I get to tape each section individually, then go back and edit the WAVs all together in one big file. It's a pain in the butt and takes forever. It's great!
At any rate, any decent sound recorder demo will do the same thing and there's a million on the web, so I'm guessing you want something a tad more effective.
err: ^Yeah.
[ July 13, 2004, 11:25 PM: Message edited by: PSI Teleport ]
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Bob, I just listened to it, and I found it very interesting.
Thanks for the link.
Kwea
Posted by Jutsa Notha Name (Member # 4485) on :
Which show was it on, and what time?
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Yes, that is a great interview! I love that guy. I remember hearing this a while back, too, and being fascinated. This is a rerun of an interview done a few months ago, I believe. Terry Gross is the greatest interviewer, in the subjects she chooses to interview, in the intelligence and insight of her questions, and in the fact that she actually listens to the answers and builds on them. It's a conversation, not a laundry list of questions. I really enjoy Fresh Air.
Thanks for bringing that back to my attention, Bob. I really enjoyed listening to it again. It's quite interesting for me to consider the things he said in light of LDS teachings about the early church, and how the doctrines were changed subtly away from what Christ originally taught. The concept of the trinity, for instance, being one that didn't come into being until much later after Christ died. It's a very odd thing to believe, that 3 people are somehow also one person. And I was never the slightest bit taken aback when studying LDS teachings to find that they believed the godhead consisted of three distinct people.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I just bought the program!!! So cool. $2.95 and I get the entire 51 minutes.
not bad.
Had to download yet another media player software thing...or file manager or something.