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The Festival of the Three has a long history, but carries many historical discrepancies. There are three gifts given by the Magi to Mary on behalf of Jesus, but the number of gifts doesn’t indicate the actual number of wise people. There is no mention of camels in the story. They weren’t kings either, but Magi or the cream of the wise in any realm – were astronomers, geographers, metallurgists, healers, etc.
There Were More
Wittgenstein, Jung, Curie, and Bohr
walked into Bethlehem,
and kicked some dust around,
eventually getting to some house,
where an unwed mother waxed lyrical about her child,
who smiled beatifically,
at the wise ones,
and asked;
why four?
and why no camels?
Perplexed, Jung replied that
greeting cards created expectations,
a kind of make up your own story,
but there were no camels,
and there were more than three,
though finding wise ones was problematic.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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Not sure if you meant to do it, but this cracked me up!
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O I did indeed mean to, thank you for letting me know that Cage 🙂
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Hah! That’s just wonderful!☺
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Thank you indeed 🙂
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lol you had me giggling from the title … there was a Christmas card going round this year where one lady copied and glued a picture with quote into the cheap cards …
“can believe a child to a virgin … but three WISE men … please!”
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Yes there was a far side cartoon one of a similar sentiment, lol, thank you Kate, glad it made you smile.
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yes they had copied that one and glued it into their cards 🙂
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Lol, way to go 🙂
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Lol too funny! I love it!
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Glad it made you smile 🙂
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Cracked me up too. For some reason I imagined a time vortex replaces the three wise men visiting Jesus with Carl Jung, Carl Segan and a guide puzzled from Carlbad Caverns… and this is what happened…
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That’s a neat vortex you have, many thanks for sharing 🙂
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* puzzled guide from Carlsbad Caverns
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Nothing against Wittgenstein, Curie, and Bohr, I just couldn’t imagine what they’d say because I don’t know enough about them. Anyway, thanks for this.
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Thank you for responding, all part of the sharing.
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Some stories take on a
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life of their own. Like my stupid computer. 🙂
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i love instalments 🙂 I do that often. There’s only one true brand of device – called Stupid 🙂
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You gave me a good laugh with this one. It is well done for the prompt.
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Thanks Helene, and so glad it raised a smile
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Well done. I really enjoyed this. 🙂
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Thanks so much Suzanne, so glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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Funny!
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Glad it raised a smile
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Brilliant!
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Very kind Winnie, thank you so much.
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My pleasure, Paul.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet and commented:
Come read Paul’s clever twist in – THERE WERE MORE
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Many thanks
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Wise and it brings a smile!
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Thank you so much Katherine
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Really interesting take, quite deep actually.
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Many thanks for sharing this, appreciated.
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Well crafted – so creative and enlightening
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