Could the Mayans have really bungled it...

[3113]

From what they said, they used a shit pile of poetic license to enhance the story.

Seriously? You're seriously going to come down on the creators of this movie for "poetic" license with a biblical story?

Dude. There's something you should know. You can't take poetic license with something that isn't true. When you say, "Poetic license," it means that they fudged a TRUE story. And so far as I know, ain't no one can prove this one is in any way, shape or form true. Besides which, the whole Noah story runs is only a couple of paragraphs long in the bible. Anyone who wants to make a movie longer than ten minutes about it has to add in shit.

And, again, why is this such a surprise to you or the radio guys? You don't think the people making Jesus or Moses movies aren't tossing in shit? And those stories are a lot longer and more complex than Noah. So, I'm sorry, but I can't take much umbrage at the shit pile of "poetic license" to expand a very thin and light myth. We do it with all other types of myths out there, including other biblical ones. So, why be outraged over this one doing it?

 

[SikFuk]

Seriously? You're seriously going to come down on the creators of this movie for "poetic" license with a biblical story? ...

I grabbed this response off a Noah thread on FB today:

Flood myths are common. Before the tale of Noah there were stories about Ziusudra, Xisthros, Atrahasis, Utnapishtim, and Gilgamesh. They are all about they same. God gets mad, guy builds a boat, God kills everyone except the guy with the boat (and two of every animal the poor bastid had to collect up). Most of the "big" Christian stories in the Bible are just retellings of earlier myths. The virgin birth was very common (every King worth his salt was virgin born). The cruxifiction and the ascension to heaven is actually a Sumerian myth which dates to about 4200 BCE. In that one the god who was offed also came back (or at least he was supposed to, if the Sumerian society had persisted). I always find it funny to talk to Christians who think these stories are "their" stories told by "their" god, when the stories predate Jesus by thousands of years.

 

[Saxon_Hart]

Right.

Am I on candid camera?

My mom had that record. I damn near wore it out laughing at Bill.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Am I on candid camera?

My mom had that record. I damn near wore it out laughing at Bill.

My parents had it too. I listened to that one a lot. Bill Cosby Himself.

 

[3113]

Husband's Review of Noah

My husband went to see 'Noah.' He wanted to see it, was looking forward to it, and knew what he was getting into. In fact, that's why he went to see it...because he knew it'd be a hoot.

He came back totally satisfied and raving about the movie:

"I laughed all the way through. It was AWESOME! Rabbinical Middle Earth with rock angels, Obi-Wan-Kenobi Methuselah, a cool-weird magical pre-flood earth, and wacky anachronisms. Crazy over the top. I haven't had this much fun watching a movie in a long time. So worth it."

There ya go.

 

[R. Richard]

I didn't know you had to have a license to write poetry. Judging from my high school days, the ass hole issuing the licenses needs to tighten things up, a whole bunch. (I have never read another poem, since my high school days, and, unforced, I never again will.)

 

[Hypoxia]

I didn't know you had to have a license to write poetry. Judging from my high school days, the ass hole issuing the licenses needs to tighten things up, a whole bunch. (I have never read another poem, since my high school days, and, unforced, I never again will.)

All the unlicensed poets give the official ones a bad name, just as crooked shysters impugn the reputations of the 1% of honest lawyers.

Meanwhile, if you've ever read a music lyric sheet, you're reading poetry, almost. What's the difference between a poet and a songwriter? Royalties. Just like a religion is a cult with lawyers.

Roses are red
Violets are violet
A dog humps my leg
What did I expect?

Pimples are red
Tangerines are orange
I'd rather have my teeth pulled
Than see a play by that whore, Inge

Roses are red
Assholes are fragrant
This poem seems like
A failed experiment

 

[patientlee]

My parents had it too. I listened to that one a lot. Bill Cosby Himself.

That wasn't Himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby_Is_a_Very_Funny_Fellow...Right!

 

[oggbashan]

The House of Windsor (English Queen etc) has in their official family tree, a mermaid called Melusine.

...

The unofficial family tree suggests that as well as Melusine, Her Majesty is descended from Julius Caesar, and his ancestors included the Roman Goddess Venus; from Cleopatra, and her ancestors included the Egyptian God Osiris, the Goddess Isis, and the Greek Goddess Aphrodite (and Helen of Troy); from the Wodinga Kings of Scandinavia who claimed to be descended from the Norse God Woden (or Odin); and a few minor Gods and Goddesses.

A mythical mermaid is a minor blip on a family tree like that.

 

[Hypoxia]

A mythical mermaid is a minor blip on a family tree like that.

Statistically, all living Old World-descended humans (except tiny outlying populations) share at least one common ancestor since about CD1350 IIRC, and all humans on Earth have such a common ancestor dating from around CE950. (I read that somewhere, so it must be true, or close enough, at least.) So, if any of those ancestors were descended from deities, demons, monsters, mermaids, angels, aliens, whatever, then we ALL are. Still, I'm reminded of Robt.Heinlein's anecdote of the gecko who bragged his great-grandpa was a T.Rex. Right-oh.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

That wasn't Himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby_Is_a_Very_Funny_Fellow...Right!

They had that one too. They had all his from back then. Sorry if I got them mixed up. I'll go stand in the corner now.