OT: Re: "mnemonic possession"

[Tyler Schnoebelen]

By the way, is there a term for things like "the 5 w's" and "the 3 r's"? I've dug out all the patterns from the Google Ngram Corpus and am writing a blog post about them.

I've been thinking: "the numeric mnemonics".

Tyler

On Oct 28, 2013, at 11:53 AM, "Baker, John" <JBAKER at STRADLEY.COM> wrote:

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> Matthew doesn't say.  Apparently the traditional answer is that the saints ascended into Heaven, but that's difficult to reconcile with other passages in the New Testament, see http://www.truthortradition.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=586.
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> Matthew 27:50 - 53 is also problematic for those who take the Bible literally because the resurrection of the saints would seem to be a development worthy of widespread remark, but only Matthew mentions it.
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> So what happened to the reanimated corpses as they walked in Jerusalem?
> Anything? Did they stay reanimated?
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> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
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>> On Oct 28, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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>>> I admit with embarrassment that there are indeed zombies in the
>>> Bible, although I would have been correct had I written "zombies".  I
>>> have been instructed to study the tale of Lazarus;  Isaiah 26:19; 1
>>> Corinthians 15:52 (although Arnold forced me to find that from a
>>> quotation); and Matthew 27:50 - 53 (which better fits the modern
>>> conception: sleeping saints arise en masse and march into the city).
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>>> Zombies as reputably characterized (Wikipedia) are not required to
>>> assemble in hordes, march lurchingly, have fixed stares, or dismember
>>> living humans and consume the parts.  They merely must have been
>>> magically raised from the dead and become animated.
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>> Looks to me like Wikipedia is defining zombiehood down...
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>> LH
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>>> However, another authority (the OED) requires soullessness, which
>>> would seem to eliminate all  the Bible's zombies.  Or am I once again
>>> ignorant -- if an entity with a soul (e.g., humans) is raised from
>>> the dead, is it then soulless?
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>>> Joel
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