Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Inner Working Rants: Bastardization of Mythos
I grew up on video games and throughout the ages my conceptions of stories and myths such as shiva or quetzacotl, beawulf and others. IN video games and movies these stories are torn to shreds and rebuilt with elmers glue. Why do we seem to do this? a more recent example of a trailer i just saw was Gnomeo and Juliet(think thats the title) Turning the shakespearean play into a knock around of garden gnomes. Im not saying at all that this is a horrible abomination of the universe. But it does become dissapointing when i learn things as a kid and learn the truths about them in my adult lifetime. Like the idea of Bahamut from the Final fantasy and other great RPG series to be an almighty powerful dragon. in reality the myth is of a giant fish that will carry on its back the behemoth. Interesting story but still, a tad dissapointing.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Inner Working Rants: Fear of the Creator
Often we tend to look to a superior being far greater to that of mere humans. Who's knowledge of the universe knows no bounds and can control every aspect of our lives. What we as humans seem to often be afraid of is the very fact that he has control over our lives. We have had several god like figures in our world and each one tends to have a personality trait that is either soothing or frightening.
When we look into Quetzalcoatl, the lightning serpent bird of the mayans as one of there gods. The Mayans would either fear his power and make sacrifices to him to revere him in all his glory. The idea i believe in the "fear of a god" comes from the humans inherit ability to create and destroy a life. If we can squash a bug without mercy or create a offspring. If a god had created us then he can easily destroy us, and for them who could argue? The world is a cruel and horrible place. Mother Nature Destroying lands with hurricanes and floods. What could possibly control this?
The other end of the spectrum you have the merciful god. The god who forgives humans for there "sins" and will always listen to what humans have to say. The Flaw with this god is that you have so many stories of this god not being merciful. Destroying major parts of the world and ordering people around. This is the idea of control. Humans for the longest time have been like the sheep of the herder. Following the herders orders blindly and feeling safe by this fact. This was quite acceptable before science started to explain everything.
When we look into Quetzalcoatl, the lightning serpent bird of the mayans as one of there gods. The Mayans would either fear his power and make sacrifices to him to revere him in all his glory. The idea i believe in the "fear of a god" comes from the humans inherit ability to create and destroy a life. If we can squash a bug without mercy or create a offspring. If a god had created us then he can easily destroy us, and for them who could argue? The world is a cruel and horrible place. Mother Nature Destroying lands with hurricanes and floods. What could possibly control this?
The other end of the spectrum you have the merciful god. The god who forgives humans for there "sins" and will always listen to what humans have to say. The Flaw with this god is that you have so many stories of this god not being merciful. Destroying major parts of the world and ordering people around. This is the idea of control. Humans for the longest time have been like the sheep of the herder. Following the herders orders blindly and feeling safe by this fact. This was quite acceptable before science started to explain everything.
Inner Working Rants: Quick Anti Evolutionist fun
This made me laugh, doing an assignment for Biological Anthropology.
David Tremback
Antievolutionist claims assignment
Claim: Henry Morris claimed that evolution goes against the 2nd Law of ThermoDynamics. Order cannot arise from the disorder of the creation of the planet.
Response: Life was still around during the creation of the planet in the extremes of the hectic conditions. Proven by todays researchers.
Claim: No transitional fossils. No fossils showing the transition of reptile to bird.
Response: We do have them but antievolutionists refuse to look at them or they claim the fossils there looking for. (guess there Jedi now
Claim: Scales cannot evolve into hair
Response: Millions of years of DNA mutations gave scaled birds feathers. Why not hair?
Claim: God made the world appear older than ten thousand years old
Response: No explanation on why god would do this.
Claim: Any Change in Genes would result in the death of the organism
Response: People have been unintentionally changing genes of plants and animals for thousands of years through natural breeding.
David Tremback
Antievolutionist claims assignment
Claim: Henry Morris claimed that evolution goes against the 2nd Law of ThermoDynamics. Order cannot arise from the disorder of the creation of the planet.
Response: Life was still around during the creation of the planet in the extremes of the hectic conditions. Proven by todays researchers.
Claim: No transitional fossils. No fossils showing the transition of reptile to bird.
Response: We do have them but antievolutionists refuse to look at them or they claim the fossils there looking for. (guess there Jedi now
Claim: Scales cannot evolve into hair
Response: Millions of years of DNA mutations gave scaled birds feathers. Why not hair?
Claim: God made the world appear older than ten thousand years old
Response: No explanation on why god would do this.
Claim: Any Change in Genes would result in the death of the organism
Response: People have been unintentionally changing genes of plants and animals for thousands of years through natural breeding.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
FlameThrower!
UPDATES WOOHOO, sorry ive been gone but life gettin to me, BLAAAARGH, heres a flame thrower....
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Soup Take Animation Practice
Just a Practice Animation for class, just to let you know...There is no spoon....
Sonic-Based Wolf Character
Alot of people haven't seen this character and i haven't been particularly forth coming of showing him. Why? no idea, but im finally posting him for the first time.
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