(August 6, 2012 at 2:19 pm)Drich Wrote:(August 6, 2012 at 8:02 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote: But what about the talking donkey!
If Eddie murphy can make a 'dunkey' talk then I do not see it as such a big stretch for the God of creation to do the same.
You don't? Seriously?
Eddie Murphy made the donkey talk through the magic of pre-recording his lines for later lip-synching with an animated CGI puppet. Preplanned electronic ventriloquism.
The god-powered donkey in the story somehow achieved its own voice and the capacity to articulate it in understandable human speech patterns. Mythological magic, the same sort of narrative device that can do anything from turning heroes to stone at a glance to swallowing the Sun as part of the final battle for the world. Or if none of that floats it for you, it's the same sort of narrative magic that made Dumbo fly.
There is a huge and important distinction between fact and fantasy. Survival in the real world suggests you learn to recognise it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
