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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 03:26 PM Original message |
If we switched stories from the bible with Grimm's Fairy Tales, would it be any different? |
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Exultant Democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
1. Folktales and Religion are just different areas of mythology |
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Tunkamerica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
2. that would be a dark religion |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 04:00 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. And the Abrahamic religions are not? |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 04:10 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. ...or It's one helluva Acid trip |
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Tunkamerica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 04:29 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. horrific, but the tone of grimm's fairytales are decidedly dark |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 05:20 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. I dunno - doesn't get much darker than Psalm 137:9 |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 12:05 PM Response to Reply #2 |
24. Aren't they all? nt |
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JustFiveMoreMinutes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
3. Death To Step-Mothers! |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 03:33 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. If we switched them, instead of fighting for gay marriage we'd be fighting for step-mother rights |
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dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 06:52 PM Response to Reply #3 |
15. Check a first edition of the Marchen. You'll see that originally |
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lob1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
4. Rapunzel didn't actually happen??!!?!? |
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dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 06:50 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Rapunzel is a retelling of an Italian story. In the original, |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
6. Wait, are you saying that Rmpelstiltskin wasn't real? |
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LuvNewcastle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
10. I could see Hansel and Gretel being interchangeable |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 05:19 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. The story of Prometheus stealing fire from the gods |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 04:54 PM Response to Original message |
11. If you don't, you have a problem. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
16. I dunno. Can you give an edifying reading of Grimm -- say something at least as interesting |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 01:57 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. Probably. They are really very basic stories of good vs evil, |
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spin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
17. My son in law compares the Bible to Aesop's Fables... |
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dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
18. The similarities are more important than the differences. |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 08:23 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. It's sexist in itself to discount the courage and intelligence |
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dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 05:10 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Examine all the stories I mention and sift out the sine qua non. n/t |
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cambie (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 04:55 PM Response to Original message |
19. It is unsuitable as a holy-book. |
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tortoise1956 (403 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 01:10 AM Response to Original message |
20. Huh? |
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