RE: Noah's Ark
March 16, 2012 at 9:46 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2012 at 9:53 am by The Grand Nudger.)
As can I, an old kook rides out the river overflowing it's banks in his bathtub while clutching a pig, a chicken, and his favorite cow (which would be his wife..of course). Since he never left the farm, either before or after, that's the whole world to him..lol
@Ace, but they didn't have to do anything of the sort, we've taken the adam and eve story and ran with it as an origins, but that's not how it was first envisioned. It was only an origins story for a select group of people, with full knowledge that there were other people. These people were just special, gods favorite. It's ethnocentrism by cosmic mandate. The narrative also provided a vehicle for the "our way of life is better than their way of life" drama that plays out between Cain and Abel. We can actually see how these shepherds regarded agriculture very plainly both in the "first murder" narrative and earlier in the curse that was placed to have thorns pricking the farmers, and how terrible their "toil" would be going forward. It's social and political commentary, not, strictly speaking, origins.
@Ace, but they didn't have to do anything of the sort, we've taken the adam and eve story and ran with it as an origins, but that's not how it was first envisioned. It was only an origins story for a select group of people, with full knowledge that there were other people. These people were just special, gods favorite. It's ethnocentrism by cosmic mandate. The narrative also provided a vehicle for the "our way of life is better than their way of life" drama that plays out between Cain and Abel. We can actually see how these shepherds regarded agriculture very plainly both in the "first murder" narrative and earlier in the curse that was placed to have thorns pricking the farmers, and how terrible their "toil" would be going forward. It's social and political commentary, not, strictly speaking, origins.
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