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Some thoughts

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by Magenta Mucus, Feb 5, 2016.

  1. Magenta Mucus

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    I recently read an article of controversial Ancient Greek mythology where it states that when we (humans) were firdt made, we were all double. Like, we were all two people joined back to back, and we moved with cartwheels and stuff. But Zeus, lord of the sky, began to worry about how powerful we were and about how we could overthrow the gods if we wanted to. So he made a decision. He split all of us in two, effectively halving our power but doubling the amount of worshippers. Easy, right? No. He saw that instead of running around worshipping him, we ran around looking for the ones we were split from. Literally, we were searching for our soul mates. And this piece said that that is how love began. It began with the separated halves finding each other and loving each other like they love themselves, because, frankly, they were once themselves! What made me think though? We had three genders, not two. We had male-male, male-female, and female-female, instead of just male or female. So according to that piece, LGBT was conpletely normal.

    It made my day and put a smile on my face :slight_smile:
     
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    Where did you read this?

    My high school was big on Greek mythology and I've never seen anything about this theory but I like it.

    Now that I think about it... Hermes + Aphrodite = hermaphrodite...
     
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    I've never heard of this piece of Greek mythology but it made my day :wink:
     
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    I've heard this years ago, but couldn't remember where i've heard it, from a movie or a myth or whatever. But i've didn't know about the humans have 3 genders part. Well thank you for this piece of information, gladly made my day :slight_smile:
     
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    Mind=blown O.O
     
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    If I remember correctly, I saw something that said that's where the word came from. Prior knowledge= mind intact. Apologies.