(February 13, 2012 at 8:23 pm)Vaeolet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Over time original stories become distorted. A man built a small boat on the shore and uses it to escape a flash flood. His own embellishments exaggerate the size and scope of the story. The story is improvised upon by various people for several years. Hundred years later it was a giant boat and a massive flood. Thousand years later it is a massive boat and a global flood and saving 2 of every animal and his family and incest to restore the population and the flood covering the mountains and etc.
That's always been my take on the whole communion wafer thing. I can just about swallow a story in which someone - JC in this case - knowing he might not be around much longer, does the whole Last Supper routine and tells his followers to "eat/drink this in remembrance of me". Now I'm not at all convinced that any of this stuff happened but as a story it's plausible on a human level; basically every time his followers ate of the bread, they would remember their former leader. It takes real anally-retentive fanaticism to turn that rather poignant little vignette into complete farce: "No, it actually turns into the actual, genuine flesh of Jesus! And this really becomes blood! It's God Magic! No, you can't test it with your evil Science - why are you persecuting me???"
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.'
