After the Typhoon they must truly feel that John let them down. In reality, I find the cargo cult quite fascinating. It shows just how easy it is to ascribe mystical meaning to what isn't understood.
bona dea unregistered Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The cargo cults were likely based on a real > serviceman/men, so explain how this proves Jesus > didnt exist.
And your evidence for that would be...? Oh, right. None.
It doesn't "prove Jesus didn't exist," and nobody claimed it did. It *is* an example of how myths arise and turn into religions, without there being any evidence of a specific real historical person they're based on.
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Bona Dea, by that logic both Jesus Ben Ananias and Pythagoras are the historical Jesus, as both are good contenders for the origin of pericopes ascribed to Jesus.
I read that John Frum goes way back to British sailing ships. John frum Liverpool morphed into John frum Philly. Dad's old unit had been in New Guinea before he joined. The old guys told him that an item the natives really liked was condoms. They were waterproof and stretched so they used them to carry things tied around their waists. Going from the stone age to tons of wonders coming from the sky, then back to the stone age must have been a great shock. No more condoms.