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Fairies, Good or BAD

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Fairies, Good or BAD
May 24, 2013 at 8:13 pm
Just curious as being Irish I was brought up with the old tales of the fairy folk, tricksters, drinkers of the blood of newborns, banshees, the pooka, etc. But Hollywood has largely changed the public perception, and people see fairies as little cute fuzzy things.

Any thougths?, seriously my grandmother would freak out if I was going to certain areas in case they would get me, she was catholic but she feared the fairy folk.
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RE: Fairies, Good or BAD
May 24, 2013 at 8:19 pm
Catholics still fear the fairy folk.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2013/05/cat...-fast.html
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RE: Fairies, Good or BAD
May 24, 2013 at 8:22 pm
For what it's worth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RPGuYl8ddc
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RE: Fairies, Good or BAD
May 24, 2013 at 8:26 pm
(May 24, 2013 at 8:19 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Catholics still fear the fairy folk.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2013/05/cat...-fast.html

No Minamilist, but the last generation did, I've even heard some dismiss evolution even though accepted by the catholic church.
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RE: Fairies, Good or BAD
May 24, 2013 at 8:27 pm
You can call me "Min." You seem like an okay guy.
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RE: Fairies, Good or BAD
May 24, 2013 at 8:29 pm
(May 24, 2013 at 8:27 pm)Minimalist Wrote: You can call me "Min." You seem like an okay guy.

Thanks Min, can't shorter Terence too much further I'm afraid.
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RE: Fairies, Good or BAD
May 24, 2013 at 8:40 pm
Haven't you ever seen Labyrinth? Looked for a clip but couldn't find it. Suffice to say, Jim Henson understood they were little bastards.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Fairies, Good or BAD
May 24, 2013 at 8:55 pm
Fairies are real, dude. We have pictures.

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"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."

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RE: Fairies, Good or BAD
May 24, 2013 at 9:28 pm
(May 24, 2013 at 8:29 pm)Terr Wrote:
(May 24, 2013 at 8:27 pm)Minimalist Wrote: You can call me "Min." You seem like an okay guy.

Thanks Min, can't shorter Terence too much further I'm afraid.


"T" is probably pushing it, huh?
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RE: Fairies, Good or BAD
May 24, 2013 at 9:42 pm
(May 24, 2013 at 9:28 pm)Minimalist Wrote: "T" is probably pushing it, huh?
Actually no, quite a few address me in such a fashion, problem is all the Trevors think it's about them Big Grin
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