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"Dixit" |
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15 Sep 2004 11:48:27 AM |
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re: Athena, goddess of love |
From: "David" <davidorme@optusnet.com.au>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Hercules
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:49:11 +1000
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Having just watched half an hour of Hercules (the midday movie, I'm
taking time off from working on my uni assignment), it occurs to me that
we've missed some major themes.
Hercules was half god (Zeus, to be exact), and his strength came from
his father. That means that his strength was "magical" (wrong word, but
how do you descibe powers given by a god?). He could have been more
scawny than a scarecrow, but with the strength of 50 men. This applies
to the other gods, too.
Athena, godess of love (read sex), was probably more plain than a brick
wall. It was her power which attracted men.
Horus was probably afraid of heights and spent every day with his eyes
closed.
Loki was misunderstood. He had ADD. I couple of pills each day and he'd
have been perfectly normal.
I'd like to see a movie or book using this as it's basis, where every
god is the antithesis of what you would expect.
--
David
Down is relative to up.
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| User: "Lord Calvert" |
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| Title: re: Athena, goddess of love |
15 Sep 2004 12:24:27 PM |
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Athena, godess of love (read sex), was probably more plain than a brick
wall. It was her power which attracted men.
Athena was the goddess of wisdom. Aphrodite was the goddess of love.
I'd like to see a movie or book using this as it's basis, where every
god is the antithesis of what you would expect.
Read "To Reign in Hell" by Steven Brust.
Rich Goranson, Amherst, NY, USA (aa#MCMXCIX, a-vet#1)
EAC Department of Applied Rattan Use
"Without faith we might relapse into scientific or rational thinking, which
leads by a slippery slope toward constitutional democracy." - Robert Anton
Wilson
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| User: "Virgil" |
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| Title: Re: Athena, goddess of love, By Dixit, god of ignorance |
15 Sep 2004 12:37:10 PM |
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In article <vn_1d.305935$8_6.248528@attbi_s04>, Dixit <dix@nospam.net>
wrote:
Athena, godess of love (read sex)
That will come as a great surprise to both Athena and the Athenians,,
the Parthenon being dedicated by the Athenians to the Athena as the
VIRGIN godess of wisdom.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Parthenon
Encyclopedia: Parthenon
The Parthenon (the Temple of Athena the Virgin), the most famous
surviving building of Ancient Greece and one of the most famous
buildings in the world, has stood atop the Acropolis of Athens for
nearly 2,500 years.
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| User: "Dixit" |
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| Title: Re: Athena, goddess of love |
15 Sep 2004 05:10:13 PM |
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Virgil wrote:
Dixit wrote:
Athena, godess of love (read sex)
Liar. It was David who wrote that, not Dixit, as even a fool like you
should be able to figure out:
From: "David" <davidorme@optusnet.com.au>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Hercules
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Having just watched half an hour of Hercules (the midday movie, I'm
taking time off from working on my uni assignment), it occurs to me that
we've missed some major themes.
Hercules was half god (Zeus, to be exact), and his strength came from
his father. That means that his strength was "magical" (wrong word, but
how do you descibe powers given by a god?). He could have been more
scawny than a scarecrow, but with the strength of 50 men. This applies
to the other gods, too.
Athena, godess of love (read sex), was probably more plain than a brick
wall. It was her power which attracted men.
Horus was probably afraid of heights and spent every day with his eyes
closed.
Loki was misunderstood. He had ADD. I couple of pills each day and he'd
have been perfectly normal.
I'd like to see a movie or book using this as it's basis, where every
god is the antithesis of what you would expect.
--
David
Down is relative to up.
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| User: "Virgil" |
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| Title: Re: Athena, goddess of love |
15 Sep 2004 05:56:57 PM |
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In article <9532d.307093$8_6.203860@attbi_s04>, Dixit <dix@nospam.net>
wrote:
Virgil wrote:
Dixit wrote:
Athena, godess of love (read sex)
Liar. It was David who wrote that, not Dixit, as even a fool like you
should be able to figure out:
Any fool should have noted that I only quoted what was actually in the
posting. So whoever said it, it was not I.
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| User: "Douglas Berry" |
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| Title: Re: Athena, goddess of love |
15 Sep 2004 02:18:25 PM |
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In our last thrilling episode, Dixit <dix@nospam.net> was pushed over
the cliffs of alt.atheism on Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:48:27 GMT by Zoog,
minion of Zathar. As he fell, he screamed:
Hercules was half god (Zeus, to be exact), and his strength came from
his father. That means that his strength was "magical" (wrong word, but
how do you descibe powers given by a god?).
Divine is the word you are looking for.
Athena, godess of love (read sex), was probably more plain than a brick
wall. It was her power which attracted men.
Athena was the goddess of wisdom, archery and one of two war gods in
the Greek pantheon. Aphrodite was the goddess of love.
Doug, mythology geek.
--
Douglas E. Berry Do the OBVIOUS thing to send e-mail
Atheist #2147, Atheist Vet #5
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as
when they do it from religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pense'es, #894.
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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| Title: Re: Athena, goddess of love |
16 Sep 2004 08:48:50 AM |
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Douglas Berry wrote:
In our last thrilling episode, Dixit <dix@nospam.net> was pushed over
the cliffs of alt.atheism on Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:48:27 GMT by Zoog,
minion of Zathar. As he fell, he screamed:
Hercules was half god (Zeus, to be exact), and his strength came from
his father. That means that his strength was "magical" (wrong word, but
how do you descibe powers given by a god?).
Divine is the word you are looking for.
Athena, godess of love (read sex), was probably more plain than a brick
wall. It was her power which attracted men.
Athena was the goddess of wisdom, archery and one of two war gods in
the Greek pantheon. Aphrodite was the goddess of love.
Specifically, Athena was the deity of *strategic* warfare, among other
things (she was also, curiously enough, the goddess of domestic wisdom,
being a divinely talented weaver.) Ares, the other war god, was the deity of
slaughter on the battlefield.
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"The accumulation of all power, legislative,
executive, and judicial in the same hands...
may justly be pronounced the very definition
of tyranny."
- James Madison, _The Federalist_, #47
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