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The Origin of the Garden of Eden Story

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The Origin of the Garden of Eden Story
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The Origin of the Garden of Eden Story
April 21, 2013 at 12:15 pm
[Image: apophis-2.jpg]


The snake and tree, a foot on its head. Shake liberally and reimagine the story for a new audience.
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RE: The Origin of the Garden of Eden Story
April 21, 2013 at 12:16 pm
"It was a serpent, not a snake! Because a talking snake is like totally ridiculous!" Tongue
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura

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RE: The Origin of the Garden of Eden Story
April 21, 2013 at 12:17 pm
It was a guess and not a serpent.
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RE: The Origin of the Garden of Eden Story
April 21, 2013 at 12:28 pm
(April 21, 2013 at 12:17 pm)catfish Wrote: It was a guess and not a serpent.

A guess? Is that some kind of lizard?


When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura

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RE: The Origin of the Garden of Eden Story
April 21, 2013 at 12:33 pm
(April 21, 2013 at 12:16 pm)Kayenneh Wrote: "It was a serpent, not a snake! Because a talking snake is like totally ridiculous!" Tongue

Snakes with wings get into trees and are oft called dragons. And many dragons can talk.
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RE: The Origin of the Garden of Eden Story
April 21, 2013 at 12:37 pm
Fus ro dah!
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura

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RE: The Origin of the Garden of Eden Story
April 21, 2013 at 12:39 pm
(April 21, 2013 at 12:37 pm)Kayenneh Wrote: Fus ro dah!

Possibly it was Rodan making Godzilla God as the name implies.
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RE: The Origin of the Garden of Eden Story
April 21, 2013 at 12:53 pm
(April 21, 2013 at 12:17 pm)catfish Wrote: It was a guess and not a serpent.

You mean it was a speech act and not at all a member of the animal kingdom? Whoa, dude!
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RE: The Origin of the Garden of Eden Story
April 21, 2013 at 1:05 pm
(April 21, 2013 at 12:53 pm)whateverist Wrote:
(April 21, 2013 at 12:17 pm)catfish Wrote: It was a guess and not a serpent.

You mean it was a speech act and not at all a member of the animal kingdom? Whoa, dude!

Are you saying Dr. Doolittle isn't real?
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RE: The Origin of the Garden of Eden Story
April 21, 2013 at 1:49 pm
Is that a jackalope holding a scimitar on the left side of the image? Because that would've been a trillion bajillion times cooler than a fucking talking snake.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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