Comments on: A photograph of Jesus

By: rea

rea — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:20:21 +0000

Well, if there were a photograph of Jesus, it would be a miracle, right? And these people believe that Jesus can work miracles if he wants to. Therefore, asking for a photograph of Jesus is not such an unreasonable request as might at first appear. . .

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:49:11 +0000

Could it have been this bloke, Andrew:

http://www.share-international.org/images/nairobi3.gif

By: MarkUp

MarkUp — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:23:27 +0000

‘’when I was the [....] I lost it in a move.’’

Coincidence?

By: Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:29:28 +0000

I once was sent a photograph of Jesus, when I was the religious correspondent of the Independent. It was an ordinary enprint. He was in a market in Mombasa, wearing a headdress of some kind that obscured his features. I lost it in a move.

By: Matt McGrattan

Matt McGrattan — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:09:34 +0000

Bruce Wilder is right that the speaker has no clue about the history of photography and the invention of telephoto lenses. You could buy 400mm lenses for 35mm cameras by the mid 1930s. There are also quite a lot of [shaky] gun camera photographs of dog fights in the Battle of Britain.

By: Witt

Witt — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:57:22 +0000

Lovely; thanks for sharing.

One of the best I ever got was a parent/child pair who simply could not believe that there was no photo of Pocahontas with which to illustrate the youngster’s school project. No amount of calm and patient explanation would suffice. It’s as if they thought I was deliberately holding out on them.

The other (not image-related) is the absolutely astonishing number of people in the world who think there is The Dictionary, and only one. They will call you up to settle an argument on whether a word is listed, and simply will not tolerate the merest suggestion that two dictionaries might answer the question differently. Is it in The Dictionary, they want to know, and preferably yes. Or no. Depending on which way they’ve bet.

By: Harry

Harry — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:05:23 +0000

I remember an AM radio station in my youth that offered autographed photographs of Jesus. I should have sent for one.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:40:21 +0000

That was a wonderful film and thank you for it. Passing it on.

By: Bruce Wilder

Bruce Wilder — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:33:43 +0000

Reference is made to telescopic lenses not existing at the time of the Battle of Britain (1940). Conventional history asserts that the telephoto lens was invented in 1891.

By: stuart

stuart — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:13:51 +0000

But where Hulton fails to find a picture of Jesus, Google Image search finds hundreds, like here for example.

By: Gene O'Grady

Gene O'Grady — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:30:45 +0000

It would be more fun to compile a list of things you can’t believe would exist that do exist—for instance, apparently there are handwritten notes extant by Saint Francis of Assisi and Bar-Kochba. No photos of either one, of course.

By: Antti Nannimus

Antti Nannimus — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:05:37 +0000

Hi,

Yeah, the only known picture remaining is the one of him at supper where everyone had to get on the same side of the table to get in the photo. Even that picture has a big hole through the bottom now.

Have a nice day,
Antti

By: notedscholar

notedscholar — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:37:28 +0000

That’s pretty crazy that someone would request a photo of Jesus.

He lived a long time ago. And even if there WAS a photograph, it would be too overly damaged by now.

NS
http://sciencedefeated.wordpress.com/

By: Zamfir

Zamfir — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:09:24 +0000

Nice. Although I was under the impression that there are almost no pictures of Armstrong on the moon at all, even ones without his 11 fellow astronauts standing by, because he was the one helding the camera.