Potter's Field

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, Randy Estes <estesrandy at y...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just took that crazy tickle IQ test. 

URL?

> It said I was a Visionary Philosopher like Plato.  Maybe that's why
> I keep looking at all of these silly symbols.  Oh  well.  Not much
> financial gain to being a Philosopher these days!! I'm a few 
> thousand years too late! :0)  

I don't know that there was ever any money in being a Visionary
Philosopher like Plato ... I think Plato was living on inherited wealth.

> Regarding the astronomy connections to the names in
> Harry Potter, I noticed something called Potter's
> field.  Anyone know anything about that?

Here is a great resource: http://www.onelook.com/index.html

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For "Potter's Field", it found no Wikipedia entry but here are some
answers from dictionary.com:

American Heritage Dictionary:
potter's field, n. A place for the burial of unknown or indigent
persons. [From the potter's field mentioned in Matthew 27:7.]

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (c) 1996,1998:
Potter's field, a public burial place, especially in a city, for
paupers, unknown persons, and criminals; -- so named from the field
south of Jerusalem, mentioned in --Matt. xxvii. 7.


Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:
Potters field -  the name given to the piece of ground which was
afterwards bought with the money that had been given to Judas. It was
called the "field of blood" (Matt. 27:7-10). Tradition places it in
the valley of Hinnom. (See ACELDAMA.)