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Re: What is this correlation with religion and virgins ?
mysteria - the notion that the messiah or cheiftan god or whatever, had to be borne of a virgin is rooted in the primitive thought processes of ancient man. The mother of the great whatever could not be "soiled" by mere mortals. Such was the view of sex, women's roles in society and the lack of understanding of the biological factors involved back then.
posted by
gomedome
on July 1, 2008 at 11:45 AM
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Xeno-x - Re: UFOs -- hmmm
When assessing the question ". . . are they out there?" we must never lose sight of the fact that inter-galactic space travel is still to this day nothing more than science fiction. We are not capable of visiting other solar systems as yet, we only assume that it is possible and that other species have developed a technology that we are not even sure is possible. Where the UFO phenomena can be referred to as a mythology is in the fact that the explanations and descriptions of what people are really seeing are already imprinted in their minds.
There is no doubt that unidentified "things" have been seen continuously in our atmosphere throughout history, and sometimes there are strange things on the ground such as you have described. If we look at this in a historical context however, we see an unbridled growth in popularity and subsequent acceptance of UFO's, belief in government conspiracies covering them up and a great number of strange things in the air during the cold war. These things are not just a coincidence.
posted by
gomedome
on July 1, 2008 at 11:36 AM
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UFOs -- hmmm
A nebulous thing at best.
Some people swear they've seen them and some multiple sightings -- but then . . .
I saw an impression in the grass near Lambert Field in St. Louis Co. once that resembled nothing I knew -- an oval with three wheel type impressions in a tricycle type pattern. don't even think a helicopter could make that pattern
a bunch of us kids playing ball across from the airport watched a weather balloon ascend -- we knew it was a weather balloon
several years later in another place a guy I knew who was borderline crazy told a bunch of us about his being abducted by aliens -- a spaceship camoflauged as a hill -- he was taken in on a conveyer belt apparatus --
did that make him crazy or did his craziness make up the story?
the question is, are they out there?
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Xeno-x
on July 1, 2008 at 8:36 AM
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What is this correlation with religion and virgins ?
I't's creepy to me the way religion obsesses on that and sex in general. One of the many reasons I steer way clear of the representatives...
posted by
mysteria
on July 1, 2008 at 7:09 AM
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gomedome,
you've got a point there. Based on the fact that I can hardly blog anymore, I just might already be dead and gone to Heaven.
posted by
Feenix
on June 30, 2008 at 11:33 AM
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Feenix - (MHW) - how have you been keeping?
There was a time when you were rising up into heaven but after a prolonged absense we thought you had already arrived there . . . at least that's the story I'm sticking to.
posted by
gomedome
on June 30, 2008 at 11:28 AM
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Dark_Moon - in the case of modern day UFO sightings, most people do not
fully understand how a lot of what we think we know came to be.
A great number of UFO sightings are merely derived from the human mind in the form of preconceived imagery and expectation. The existence of real UFO's, at least in the sense that there are unidentified flying objects seen upon occassion in the Earth's atmosphere, fan the flames of this modern day mythology. The modern day UFO mythology is pervasive and resistent to the obvious. The latter referring to the fact that UFO mythology has been borne, nurtured and allowed to grow within the same historical timeframe as the advent of personal imaging devices.
From the early uses of cameras with film technology to the digital imaging of today, proliferated to a point where it seems that every second person has the ability to take a good quality image at the ready . . . . why is that we have nothing but a few out of focus and grainy pictures of UFO's?
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gomedome
on June 30, 2008 at 11:25 AM
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Grammatical correction to my previous comment:
gomedome, are you so cynical that you believe that I, the blogger formerly known as the "Mighty Holy Warrior", AM not "rising into Heaven"?
posted by
Feenix
on June 30, 2008 at 11:20 AM
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gomedome,
are you so cynical that you believe that I, the blogger formerly known as the "Mighty Holy Warrior", is not "rising into Heaven"?
posted by
Feenix
on June 30, 2008 at 11:16 AM
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Gomedome... I really hate using hackneyed words like 'interesting' or 'though provoking' but, that is what this post was. Very interesting, very enjoyable. Much food for thought. My personal opinion is "give the old ladies the LSD" but, I can get in trouble for saying such things so I won't. Moon
posted by
magic_moon
on June 29, 2008 at 11:07 PM
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