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[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 63 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Haha, this is now the only scene I’ve ever watched from that movie, and I’m gonna tell myself that its about his passion for carpentry.

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 6 points 4 months ago

Lol yea. Thanks to that it's canon.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This is the funniest thing I've seen in a while.

Type into Google "did Jesus in..."

And it immediately completed "did Jesus invent the table."

What the absolute fuck.

Thread about this from the year the movie came out:

https://uk.religion.christian.narkive.com/6ZmATbTQ/jesus-invented-the-dining-table

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 43 points 4 months ago

Just casually writing him like Marty McFly.

"I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it."

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

... Were tables shorter back then?

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most were, in the mid east, Asia, even Rome, etc. People would eat on short tables while sitting on the ground and reclining on pillows.

[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Sounds much nicer, actually.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago

Greater risk of being crop dusted

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

You might like a kotatsu table! It's a table with a blanket built in and a heater underneath! Peak cozy.

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

The amount of support you can manufacture for your lower back is top notch. I sometimes sit on the floor with padding and I'm in my late 30s.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

I don't see why it would be

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 0 points 4 months ago

Old person detected

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 21 points 4 months ago

He needed it to pose for a picture with the boys.

[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

People like to interpret things with a modern lense. The translation of his job title might be carpenter, and people then go "ok, what does a carpenter do nowadays - builds chairs and tables, right". But the word being translated is more aking to "builder", a construction carpenter, a mason, something along those lines.

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.de 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

In German, those professions actually have different names. The furniture maker is a Schreiner or Tischler (lit. "tablerer"), while the builder is called Zimmermann (lit. "room man").

The German bible correctly identifies Jesus as a Zimmermann.

[–] mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Oh so that's what that Nina Simone song was about

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

room man

German is fucking hilarious if you don't speak it.

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 0 points 3 months ago

I lost my shit when I heard the most formal, scientific way of saying “sex” in German is “geschlechtsverkehr” or genital traffic.

It took me years to realize that “sexual intercourse” is essentially the same thing.