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A series of random disconnected paragraphs
Apr. 4th, 2006 09:49 pmNeed to make a Kingdom of Loathing icon at some point.
I was thinking on the way back from work about how I view Jesus and the Ancient Greek pantheon as mythic figures, and about how the Bible works as mythology. This was inspired by Nightwish's "Gethsemane" today - listening to it, I realised the parallels between Jesus in the Bible and heroic figures in fantasy fiction. (This then led me to wonder, while at the gym, if Jesus could be considered to follow a samurai code of honour; then again, dying for your master is one thing, but dying for the entirety of humankind is not quite what giri is there for.)
Somewhat irreverently, I wonder what Jesus would be like as a Bushido character?
I need to find some sort of grammar for Middle English (circa Chaucer, naturally) or Early Modern English (circa Shakespeare - I believe it was Early Modern, then, but will have to check in textbooks that are under my bed) to figure out what's acceptable for "archaic" English. I can decline "thou" fine, but am not sure how to conjugate verbs with different endings. I'd like to be able to rant with authority.
And one of Slactivist's recent posts, Protectors of the Faith, has some excellent comments about the interaction of science and religion. I liked this one by Skamandros:
"God likes physics. He like it more than he likes us. If a situation arises where he has to choose between violating the laws of hydrostatics and letting hundreds of thousands of people die in an instant, you better run to the high ground."
I was thinking on the way back from work about how I view Jesus and the Ancient Greek pantheon as mythic figures, and about how the Bible works as mythology. This was inspired by Nightwish's "Gethsemane" today - listening to it, I realised the parallels between Jesus in the Bible and heroic figures in fantasy fiction. (This then led me to wonder, while at the gym, if Jesus could be considered to follow a samurai code of honour; then again, dying for your master is one thing, but dying for the entirety of humankind is not quite what giri is there for.)
Somewhat irreverently, I wonder what Jesus would be like as a Bushido character?
I need to find some sort of grammar for Middle English (circa Chaucer, naturally) or Early Modern English (circa Shakespeare - I believe it was Early Modern, then, but will have to check in textbooks that are under my bed) to figure out what's acceptable for "archaic" English. I can decline "thou" fine, but am not sure how to conjugate verbs with different endings. I'd like to be able to rant with authority.
And one of Slactivist's recent posts, Protectors of the Faith, has some excellent comments about the interaction of science and religion. I liked this one by Skamandros:
"God likes physics. He like it more than he likes us. If a situation arises where he has to choose between violating the laws of hydrostatics and letting hundreds of thousands of people die in an instant, you better run to the high ground."
