Topic: Imagery Unload (Read 168173 times)

Friday · « **Reply #1180 on:** August 27, 2011, 07:33:31 PM »

Quote from: Friday on August 27, 2011, 07:25:22 PM

god I was having such a bad hair day that day

R^2 · « **Reply #1181 on:** August 28, 2011, 10:13:28 AM »

And we all know whose fault it is thanks to Friday's choice of avatar.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1182 on:** August 29, 2011, 04:17:58 PM »

Büge · « **Reply #1183 on:** August 29, 2011, 04:38:20 PM »

I would have gone with Jedi, but hey.

Defenestration · « **Reply #1184 on:** August 29, 2011, 05:00:41 PM »

I'm not sure if there is a label for worship of the Norse pantheon for me.

Maybe just "Norse paganism"?

Büge · « **Reply #1185 on:** August 29, 2011, 05:26:57 PM »

Ásatrú?

TA · « **Reply #1186 on:** August 29, 2011, 06:09:24 PM »

Asatru, as used by people who call themselves Asatru these days, is Norse paganism plus a lot of white supremacy. Probably best not to associate oneself with that.

Lottel · « **Reply #1187 on:** August 29, 2011, 06:30:13 PM »

"Tedologist"

Classic · « **Reply #1188 on:** August 29, 2011, 07:56:22 PM »

Doesn't Odin now like a dozen charms for taking women?

Büge · « **Reply #1189 on:** August 29, 2011, 08:12:25 PM »

You're thinking of Zeus.

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #1190 on:** August 29, 2011, 08:26:02 PM »

Quote from: Classic on August 29, 2011, 07:56:22 PM

Doesn't Odin now like a dozen charms for taking women?

I seem to recall something about that out of American Gods, which means it may or may not be a real thing about the All-Father. Odin was a bit less likely to hit on anything with a vagina, though.

Brentai · « **Reply #1191 on:** August 29, 2011, 10:05:50 PM »

Norse mythology was refreshingly short on demigods. Usually Norse heroes pulled off ridiculous feats of strength and physical impossibility by just being sweaty and awesome, they didn't need to be a Son of God or anything. Actually it seems most of them just claim ancestry from other famous Norse heroes, creating kind of a dynasty of supposed sons-of. It says a lot about the vikings, really. They didn't consider being a son of a god to be quite as impressive as being the son of another, really good viking.

A² · « **Reply #1192 on:** August 29, 2011, 10:52:33 PM »

"It's cheating if you have divine blood. It takes real balls to do it when you don't have a crutch."

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #1193 on:** August 29, 2011, 10:59:07 PM »

Such things can be construed to be at least partly a representation of how a culture thought heredity worked. Contrast with Gilgamesh, who was two-thirds god. Somehow.

Classic · « **Reply #1194 on:** August 29, 2011, 11:25:15 PM »

Obviously god's blood is stronger and takes up more "stuff".

~~Also, if I weren't so sure that there's no X such that 2^Y=X=3*Z we could just find the X that satisfies both of those requirements (X,Y,Z all members integers, obvs.)~~ You're not dicking around in logic 101 anymore Classic. Shut up.

Also applicable? Incest.

Here is Deity, Mortal, and demigod and their pairings across two generations.
DxM=>d
dxD=>Gilgamesh.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #1195 on:** August 29, 2011, 11:34:41 PM »

That would be 50%, though. And at any rate, as long as you have two parents each generation, your ethnicity will be expressible only in sums of powers of two. The Babylonians did not understand heredity, and with this in mind, the likeliest explanation is that [spoiler]two gods had sex with his mother on the night he was conceived[/spoiler].

Classic · « **Reply #1196 on:** August 29, 2011, 11:43:55 PM »

How do you figure it's only 50%? All we have to do is make sure that 2/3rds of Gilgamesh's direct parents are pure-blooded Gods. That's how blood "mixes" don'cha'no?

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #1197 on:** August 30, 2011, 12:22:59 AM »

You get 50% of your genes from each parent. If some incest went on upstream, the repeated parent counts twice, not once.

Defenestration · « **Reply #1198 on:** August 30, 2011, 12:55:29 AM »

Quote from: Büge on August 29, 2011, 05:26:57 PM

Ásatrú?

After looking into it, most definately not. Way too skeevy. I just want a nice way to say I pick my deities based upon results.

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #1199 on:** August 30, 2011, 04:29:38 AM »

also fatalism?

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