Noah's Arc

[Kropotkin]

Not only to the western culture, really? How nice of me to tell me that. I did not know that.

I don't know that much about lepracauns, never been to Ireland.

[SlowwHand]

I misread. My apologies.
I still have this for you.

[Kropotkin]

Thanks!

In sweden we have this little fellow instead:

[SlowwHand]

What the hell is that?!?

[Kropotkin]

That's a Brownie (don't blame me for the name, it's not I who came up with that translation)!

[SlowwHand]

Brownie. Like in "Willow" ?

[Kropotkin]

I have no idea as I don't remember much from that film.

A brownie is a little fellow that used to live beneath the house or in the stables. He usually took care of the animals and the farm in general. Worked fine as long as you gave him some porridge from time to time. But if you didn't or the brownie thought you missmanaged the animals, farmhands and maids or the farm in general he might get upset and do something drastic like posioning the animals or even burn down the farm.

The looks of the brownie was fused with the spirit of Sant Nicolaus by painters and artists in the 19th century and ended up as the present day Santa Claus ('the christmas brownie').

[SlowwHand]

Here are Brownies.

Note the rat hat/cape. Marvelous hunters, are Brownies.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
I find it so amusing that atheists have this obsession with talking about God.
They don't feel compelled to speak on other things they don't believe in, like lepracauns.

People usually aren't going around trying to tell me what to do based on what leprachauns tell them.

But your equation of God to leprachauns is noted.

[Agathon]

I can't understand why anyone would read the Old Testament as a history book anyway. It's not like history in the sense we do it existed when most of that was written. A lot of the OT is pure myth, not in the sense that it's false but that it's frequently allegorical and uses events not as historical record but as a way of making a narrative relevant to the concerns of the people whom it was written for.

A lot of what is written in the Bible is probably based on fact, but the people who wrote it weren't primarily interested in providing a factual, linear historical record. In fact, if were able to ask them about that they probably wouldn't understand what you were talking about.

The Iliad has better historical provenance than the Bible. In fact it is startling how much of that story is true (not the monsters and crap, but the other stuff). But if you looked at the purpose the Iliad fulfilled in the culture of Ancient Greece, you would find that thinking of it as an historical record would miss the point - it's a unifying cultural narrative of a people that expresses their shared beliefs and values (and in the case of the Iliad is a commentary on the failure of those values).

[Nubclear]

This thread is quite entertaining

[Flip McWho]

I find it so amusing that atheists have this obsession with talking about God. They don't feel compelled to speak on other things they don't believe in, like lepracauns.

Thats because nobody actually believes in lepracauns, there is still people that believe in God and feel like shoving it down everybodies throats aswell.

But your equation of God to leprachauns is noted.

Excellant analogy there.

Agathon I agree. The bible is in the same vein as Homer's Illiad, unfortunately people take the bible seriously.


I find it amusing how theists try to get people to believe in God yet they do not offer any rational/scientific proof that this God exists. I mean what arguments are there that prove that God exists?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
I find it so amusing that atheists have this obsession with talking about God.
They don't feel compelled to speak on other things they don't believe in, like lepracauns.

Because there isn't a large body of people who believe that little Irish fairy things at the end of the rainbow created the universe and love us and if we don't worship them we'll burn for eternity.

[Urban Ranger]

Just to chime in my $0.02...

You don't see people pushing others to believe in lepracauns, or kill others because lepracauns told them to, etc.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Just to chime in my $0.02...

You don't see people pushing others to believe in lepracauns, or kill others because lepracauns told them to, etc.