RE: My naive questions
November 16, 2014 at 7:29 am
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2014 at 8:01 am by The Grand Nudger.)
"The correct analogy" is cultural idiom,as is a description of a god or a gender specific reference to a holy spirit (laying aside that sometimes it's just the mechanics of language). Understand? My car is not a woman, the analogy is not correct, nor is it actually a reference to the gender of my car (and really has nothing to do with femininity but a wide range of ancillary concepts). Meanwhile, what is or is not a "feminine trait" is, again, cultural idiom.
If it were a snake, it would've bitya. Lonely as a pine tree in a parking lot. Knee high to a grasshopper. Enough money to burn a wet mule.
This is the class of expressions that the "femininity" of the "holy spirit" belongs to. It doesn't tell us anything about a holy spirit (because idioms lack this ability - their communicative power is agreed upon elsewhere and what they refer to may be unconnected even to the words used to express them).
"Feminine traits" weren't used - you interpret some terms or traits as feminine. rgr? Fun fact, in some cultures, women weren't seen as anything more than a jar. This persisted even up to the 19th century wherein some people had the notion that sperm where tiny little guys and gals waiting to be deposited (with umbrellas and all). So even "birthing" is not safe as a "feminine trait". The male birthed the child when he deposited it in his girl-jar, everything that went into making a baby was handled without any involvement from the female (seems absurd to us today, doesn't it..lol). She's just holding it for him. Que the neverending parade of stories about children and gods and demigods that cut themselves out of the belly of some other creature (up to and including male creatures). I could go on and on, but it's an absolute rabbit hole.
or, for the truncated version.
Frods-"They totally -used- girly words"
Rhythm-"No, they didn't. You -see- girly words"
If it were a snake, it would've bitya. Lonely as a pine tree in a parking lot. Knee high to a grasshopper. Enough money to burn a wet mule.
This is the class of expressions that the "femininity" of the "holy spirit" belongs to. It doesn't tell us anything about a holy spirit (because idioms lack this ability - their communicative power is agreed upon elsewhere and what they refer to may be unconnected even to the words used to express them).
"Feminine traits" weren't used - you interpret some terms or traits as feminine. rgr? Fun fact, in some cultures, women weren't seen as anything more than a jar. This persisted even up to the 19th century wherein some people had the notion that sperm where tiny little guys and gals waiting to be deposited (with umbrellas and all). So even "birthing" is not safe as a "feminine trait". The male birthed the child when he deposited it in his girl-jar, everything that went into making a baby was handled without any involvement from the female (seems absurd to us today, doesn't it..lol). She's just holding it for him. Que the neverending parade of stories about children and gods and demigods that cut themselves out of the belly of some other creature (up to and including male creatures). I could go on and on, but it's an absolute rabbit hole.
or, for the truncated version.
Frods-"They totally -used- girly words"
Rhythm-"No, they didn't. You -see- girly words"
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