I don't know how much gold they received, but weren't frankinscense and myrrh precious spices? What ever happened to those gifts?
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Frankinscense and myrrh were indeed expensive items.  However, Joseph and Mary had other children besides Jesus to care for (Matthew 13:53-56) and no doubt raising a large family would have cost more than a few gifts of myrhh would provide.
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I don't think there are actually writings original to the mithras sect anymore. I believe the information is mainly from secondary sources.\n\nI could be wrong, though--and would liek to know of a good translation if anyone out there is aware of one!
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Spencers had them a little while back, I actually found a pretty cool rainbow necklace from WalMart lol... also if you have any small little hippie shops around you that sells things like pipes and wicca stuff they're usually there (those places are all over here in New Paltz, NY)
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No but some years back in San Francisco I saw a partial exhibit which included the whole scroll of the book of Isaiah. Awesome! It was laid out under temperature control ed glass. I cannot read Hebrew so I could not read it for myself.
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You've got it all wrong.  Christmas is only December 25.  It is consumerism that "celebrates" Christmas from right after Halloween until the New Year.  How else do you encourage spending if you don't consistently and strongly commercialize the concept of gift-giving during the holidays?  I agree with you, it isn't necessary to hammer the idea of Christmas in the stores or in the media, soon after you've received your trick-or-treat loot but that is the way of the world we live in.  We have gotten away from the true meaning of the celebration.\n\nHanukkah is recognized, not just in the very commercial way that Christmas is.  For that matter, don't forget Kwaanza for those who choose to celebrate that holiday or the Winter Solstice for the Wiccan community.
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I'm a liberal and I'll tell you what-- I arrainged to have 56 gift boxes of Hickory Farms products sent to active fighting units in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as a medical company in Iraq for Christmas.\nI received a list of active duty members from my brother at Fort Rucker, Alabama.\n56 gift boxes with messages from total strangers, wishing our soldiers a Merry Christmas.\nTop that.
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I'm really confuse. I give my Gods gifts all the time. What are you asking?
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God gives "Good" Gifts!\n\nJames 1:17\nEvery good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights...................\n\nI'm expecting the one he has picked out for me!\n\nProverbs 18.22\nHe who finds a wife finds a good thing\nand obtains favor from the LORD.\n\nProverbs 19:14 \nHouse and riches are the inheritance from fathers, but a wise, understanding, and  "Prudent Wife" is from the Lord.
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There is no documented number anywhere, nor would there be any way to collect it in the first place. There are millions, or even billions, of non-Christians who celebrate it.
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I would give a gift of enlightenment. I rather love my friends and family all year long and I can give them gifts at anytime, but not at christmas for celebratory purpose. In short, I would give gifts but not in celebration of Christmas.  To avoid misleading others or misinterpretation, I would rather not give at Christmas.  I would give my friend a gift of enlightenment....by letting her know that Christmas is a big lie and it originated with paganic practices. I would let her know that sheeps wouldn't be out in the fields in the winter. ..That in the winter, if it rains, the rain gets soaked into the sheep's wool and actually gets frozen, potentially killing the sheep. Therefore,...that Christ couldn't have possible been born in December. I would get with her and look up the word 'Christmas' in encyclopaedia and read the origin of Christmas. Most encyclopaedias are online and; the Catholic encyclopaedia is a good one. So, I would reason with my friend that only Satan is the cause of perpetrating the big lie about Christmas. I would let her know that the word 'devil' means a vicious liar and where ever a lie is involved, the source is 'of the devil.' I would tell my friend.."Let's get out of the evil practices of the world and that we should be in the world but not of the world."
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My brother got an on-line payed wedding gift from this website : http://www.ordermygift.com/  i didn't give it to him so don't now how the website works, i thought it was a cool idea they had some nice items on it from what i seen.
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They never existed.   Its all totally bogus.  Scholars can prove\nthat portions of the Book of Mormon was directly lifted\nfrom the King James Bible, translation mistakes included.\nPlus, I was in SLC one year and went to the musuem\non the Temple grounds  (one of the few places "Gentiles:\ncan go)   One of the exhibits  has  "copies" of the notes\nthat J Smith made from the "golden plates"   and its just\na mess of scribbles......codebreakers  who have lookes\nat that  say that there is no code there to translate.  Its\njust gibberish.\n   Plus  there is no archeological evidence of the so-called\ncivilization  of the 10 lost tribes here in the Americas.....A \ngreat civilization  always leaves some evidence of its\nbeing,  it can never be totally erased.
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I was going to say something symbolic, like my children. It's true, they are the best gifts. Also, my husband because he is just amazing to me, and he's given me so much love and respect-- Something I never had before him. And he's taught me to love and respect myself, which is an incredible feeling. Anyhoo...\n\nMaterial things:\n\nA Tiffany cross. He gave it to me last Christmas. I love Tiffany, of course, but it's the fact that I'm sort of on this difficult journey to accept Jesus, and it's been really hard for me in so many ways. The cross kind of told me not to give up, even though I am struggling.
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Hey Joe, go make some gold and forget about religion. You're going to deceive millions and get yourself killed, you crazy bastard! And no, you DID NOT SEE God and Jesus in the forest. Those were just some serious shrooms you ate.
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All that glitters is not gold.\n\nTo gotcandy below: Sorry, if it is any consolation I knew the birds of a feather riddle but was not fast enough.
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I've always wondered the same thing.  Seems like a really crappy deal for them.  Probably just one more example of how stupid and ldiotic our good ol' US gummint is.
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May I have an incense recipe?  I don't think you would consider me pagan.  I don't know what to consider myself.  I usually answer all of the Mormon questions because I am close to some members of the church and I don't like to see it talked about so terribly (which happens A LOT here).  Other than that, just wantin' some incense ;-)