Comments on: Science vs. Norse Mythology http://ironwolf.dangerousgames.com/blog/archives/280 It's easy when you show them how. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:23:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: elementalmuse http://ironwolf.dangerousgames.com/blog/archives/280#comment-17990 elementalmuse Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:49:14 +0000 http://ironwolf.dangerousgames.com/blog/archives/280#comment-17990 Excuse me, but let's face a bit of reality on this. The posting above is a cartoon utilizing mythological characters and parodies of real world individuals to get a completely different point across to the reader. I think perhaps you should be more careful about flinging insults like, "twit" around when you yourself appear to be clueless as to the intent of the content. Excuse me, but let’s face a bit of reality on this. The posting above is a cartoon utilizing mythological characters and parodies of real world individuals to get a completely different point across to the reader. I think perhaps you should be more careful about flinging insults like, “twit” around when you yourself appear to be clueless as to the intent of the content.

]]> By: Ironwolf http://ironwolf.dangerousgames.com/blog/archives/280#comment-17958 Ironwolf Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:44:19 +0000 http://ironwolf.dangerousgames.com/blog/archives/280#comment-17958 <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/creation.html" rel="nofollow">The Norse Creation Myth</a> Brief excerpt: <blockquote><b>Ymir</b> Where heat and cold met appeared thawing drops, and this running fluid grew into a giant frost ogre named Ymir. <b>Frost ogres</b> Ymir slept, falling into a sweat. Under his left arm there grew a man and a woman. And one of his legs begot a son with the other. This was the beginning of the frost ogres.</blockquote> Sounds about as credible as the Christian creation myth to me. The Norse Creation Myth

Brief excerpt:

Ymir

Where heat and cold met appeared thawing drops, and this running fluid grew into a giant frost ogre named Ymir.

Frost ogres

Ymir slept, falling into a sweat. Under his left arm there grew a man and a woman. And one of his legs begot a son with the other. This was the beginning of the frost ogres.

Sounds about as credible as the Christian creation myth to me.

]]> By: Brit http://ironwolf.dangerousgames.com/blog/archives/280#comment-17948 Brit Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:50:27 +0000 http://ironwolf.dangerousgames.com/blog/archives/280#comment-17948 I just want to point out, at stumbling on this, that that's not the Norse creation story. Thanks. Their creation story was actually something similar to the "big bang" explained as an ancient people could: a world of fire and a world of ice collided, creating a massive explosive thing and a new, livable world. That is where everything came from. Yggdrasil is not a literal, it is a figurative, you twit. They don't literally mean there's a big tree holding everythign together, it's symbolic of the natural systems. People, animals, gods, interacting. The blind ignorance toward the faith in this is sort of off-putting, don't you think? If you're going to rag on something, do it right. (And for that arguement, most of Nordic cosmology is figurative and built on narrative stories that would have been understandable and mystic to the people of the time. So, the forming of man and woman from bits of nature already existing? Hmm.... ) I just want to point out, at stumbling on this, that that’s not the Norse creation story. Thanks. Their creation story was actually something similar to the “big bang” explained as an ancient people could: a world of fire and a world of ice collided, creating a massive explosive thing and a new, livable world. That is where everything came from. Yggdrasil is not a literal, it is a figurative, you twit. They don’t literally mean there’s a big tree holding everythign together, it’s symbolic of the natural systems. People, animals, gods, interacting. The blind ignorance toward the faith in this is sort of off-putting, don’t you think? If you’re going to rag on something, do it right. (And for that arguement, most of Nordic cosmology is figurative and built on narrative stories that would have been understandable and mystic to the people of the time. So, the forming of man and woman from bits of nature already existing? Hmm…. )

]]> By: elementalmuse http://ironwolf.dangerousgames.com/blog/archives/280#comment-15038 elementalmuse Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:32:42 +0000 http://ironwolf.dangerousgames.com/blog/archives/280#comment-15038 My word if that doesn't seem terribly accurate by comparison to many of the debates I've read, watched, and engaged in. Hysterically funny, and sad all at the same time. My word if that doesn’t seem terribly accurate by comparison to many of the debates I’ve read, watched, and engaged in. Hysterically funny, and sad all at the same time.

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