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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn Encounter With "Jesus", well, "The Jesus Guy" Near Tampa Florida (VIDEO)
While at a Move To Amend planning retreat at the Bethany Center near Tampa Florida (Lutz, FL), I saw Jesus coming out of a van. This man was wearing a white robe and was walking without any shoes on.
While reading my email on my Xoom pad on the porch of the resort taking a coffee break, he happened to pass right by and we started talking. He told me his name was James Joseph. He said he has been walking around the world with his robe on, barefoot, and with a bible in his hand for 20 consecutive years.
When I asked him how he is able to survive, he said that Jesus lived with no money and depended on the generosity of others. Mr. Joseph said that he was featured by Times and other publications. There was a documentary made about him called The Jesus Guy.
James was very politically savvy. He understood that this was a retreat with the goal of developing strategies to make our Democracy a real Democracy. He insinuated in his realm it was of no interest to him. Is that the apathy that our society as a whole is experiencing?
After talking to him from some time I decided to interview him as I found him quite intriguing. He was more than happy to be interviewed on camera.
See the most interesting interview HERE.
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An Encounter With "Jesus", well, "The Jesus Guy" Near Tampa Florida (VIDEO) (Original Post)
egbertowillies
Dec 2012
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think
(11,641 posts)1. Cool interview. Thank you. /nt
DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)2. I was flyin' back from lubbock I saw Jesus on the plane...
...or maybe it was Elvis
You know, they kinda look the same
Don Henley's song "If Dirt Were Dollars".
Some of the lyrics, particularly the last verse, are still relevant to Move to Amend and the general morass of politics and media.
You know, they kinda look the same
Don Henley's song "If Dirt Were Dollars".
Some of the lyrics, particularly the last verse, are still relevant to Move to Amend and the general morass of politics and media.
Walkin' like a millionaire
Smilin' like a king
He leaned his shopping cart against the wall
He said, I been a lot of places
And I seen a lot of things
But, sonny, I seen one thing that beats 'em all
I was flyin' back from lubbock
I saw Jesus on the plane
...or maybe it was Elvis
You know, they kinda look the same
Hey, look out, junior, you're steppin' on my bed
I said, I don't see nothin
He just glared at me and said,
If dirt were dollars
If dirt were dollars
If dirt were dollars
I wouldn't worry anymore
Lookin' like a beauty queen
Loyal as a wife
She raised her little voice and testified,
I am a good girl
I've been one all my life
But her virtue was as swollen as her pride
She should've had the oscar
She must have been miscast
Her fifteen minutes went by so fast
I said, now, baby, have you got no shame?
She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly
Like cows at a passing train
If dirt were dollars
If dirt were dollars
If dirt were dollars
I wouldn't worry anymore
We got the bully pulpit
And the poisoned pen
We got a press no better
Than the public men
This brave new world
Gone bad again
God's finest little creatures
Looking brave and strong
Whistling past the graveyard
Nothing can go wrong
Quoting from the scriptures
With patriotic tears
We got the same old men
With the same old fears
Standing at attention
Wrapped in stars and stripes
They hear the phantom drummers
And the nonexistent pipes
These days the buck stops nowhere
No one takes the blame
But evil is still evil
In anybody's name
If dirt were dollars
If dirt were dollars
If dirt were dollars
We'd all be in the black