Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Wow! A Mathusala Rookie Card

IMPORTANT: CLICK ON THE TITLE LINK AND COMMENT WHAT YOU THINK IS BEING DEPICTED IN THIS SCENE...REALLY REALLY LOOK

Methuselah- in the Bible, descendant of Seth; son of Enoch. He is said to have lived 969 years. It can also be spelled Mathusala.
------Free Columbia Dictionary

This Marketing professor of the City College of Santa Barbara relaxes from the extreme stresses of teaching at a prestigious university by collecting "antique European religious images from prayer books and holy cards".

This article emphasizes the fact that " [She] has devoted much of her limited free time, and all of her inheritance, to collecting, scanning and posting over 100,000 of "God's calling cards" on the web." But that isn't where it ends, this collection of antique cards that would put any 14 year-old seminary student's collection to shame brings with it an important message.

"Modern technology is a part of God's plan to help not only with remembering the past but creating future possibilities that at this time we cannot imagine.", says this avid Religious antique enthusiast referring to modern preservation techniques that will save these rare cards.

Sadly, it looks as if God's plan was to use technology to preserve little, old cards and not to, you know, save people through stem cell research.

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3 Comments:

At 2:47 PM, Anonymous olivia said...

While I may specialize in the preservation of historical photographs, I must emphasize the cult value inherant in vernacular religious imagery. The ones where you can actually see the size of Jesus's penis are worth way more, by the way...

 
At 2:50 PM, Blogger olivia said...

While I may specialize in the preservation of historical photographs, I must emphasize the cult value inherant in vernacular religious imagery. The ones where you can actually see the size of Jesus's penis are worth way more, by the way...

 
At 1:47 PM, Blogger Julie Ann said...

Unkindness in words and deeds, by individuals with or without religous creedos, is the ultimate danger to our humanity. I try and never purposely impose my values or my desire to preserve history throuh my ephemera collection on anyone, whether they be family, friend, student, friend or foe. Why do you and your readers try and wound others with the "offensive" first strike. The educated and scholar knows the value of the open mind and the eloquent phrase.

 

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