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    The theme of immortality with a loophole also shows up in other cultures.
    One example in German mythology is Siegfried who took a bath in dragons blood
    an oak leaf fell unnoticed on his shoulder thus leaving a vulnerable spot with
    as we know dear consequences.

  2. Lounge   -   #72
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    Yup, most peoples have similar stories.

    things are quiet until hitler decides he'd like to invade russia
    so, he does
    the russians are like "OMG WTF D00DZ, STOP TKING"
    and the germans are still like "omg ph34r n00bz"
    the russians fall back, all the way to moscow
    and then they all begin h4xing, which brings on the russian winter
    the germans are like "wtf, h4x"
    -- WW2 for the l33t

  3. Lounge   -   #73
    Originally posted by MagicNakor@20 May 2003 - 07:20
    Yup, most peoples have similar stories.

    Kinda suspicious, that.

    Makes one wonder if parents were preparing their children for inevitability.
    No matter what you do, you're still gonna die.

  4. Lounge   -   #74
    Originally posted by ne1GotZardoz+24 May 2003 - 03:09--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (ne1GotZardoz @ 24 May 2003 - 03:09)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--MagicNakor@20 May 2003 - 07:20
    Yup, most peoples have similar stories.

    Kinda suspicious, that.

    Makes one wonder if parents were preparing their children for inevitability.
    No matter what you do, you&#39;re still gonna die. [/b][/quote]
    At least it&#39;s a fairly imaginative and not so depressing way to teach a fundamental truth....

  5. Lounge   -   #75
    The &#39;truth&#39; probably would be more likely that in above story Siegfried sat down on a leaf
    and it got stuck to his bum &#33;
    And so the circle is round again ,we are back to the obscure.

  6. Lounge   -   #76
    Interesting turn this thread has taken - from the occult and the existential dilemna to "leaf stuck to bum".

  7. Lounge   -   #77
    It is difficult to stay on a single track with such a broad subject as this.

    Its really not that broad at the end of the story though.

    Remember what the blind man said to Cord in "The Silent Flute", AKA, "Circle of Iron"?

    "All paths leading to the gate are forgotten once the objective is in sight".

    Bruce Lee may not have been a very good actor, but I love his philosophy there.

    But then, the cultures of the Orient have been at the whole philosophy thing for a few thousand years more than any of the rest of us.

    I feel that the religions of those regions are probably truest to their original form. The rest of the world religions were pretty much destroyed by Christianity.

    Hey...What did the Muslims believe before Mohammed?

    It seems to me that both Mohammed and Jesus came from the same region to create the two fastest rising root religions on earth.

    I don&#39;t consider Christianity to derive from Mosaic law because true Christianity holds the believe that Jesus came to bring us out from under the law into an age of love and forgiveness.

    Basically, its a replacement and the Catholic Church through the Crusades, attempted, (and almost succeeded), to supplant all other religions of the world with itself.

    Now its the Bible versus the Koran with Oriental mysticism waiting on the sidelines for us to wipe each other out in the much heralded battle of the appocalypse.

  8. Lounge   -   #78
    Maybe a pragmatic footnote ??
    The world has become a smaller place because of technology and mankind can&#39;t
    keep up with technological advancement.

    Now and then I really have to admire the &#39;ancients&#39; they may be
    more clever than we are.

  9. Lounge   -   #79
    Interesting.... The Eastern vs. Western philosophies and their many mixtures that exist now are harder to evaluate today, due IMHO, to the fact that so many of us "collect" beliefs and philosophies in the attempt to find something that a) makes sense to us, and b ) that we can impress others with. It&#39;s somewhat ironic, that in this "information age", it is more about the knowledge and appropriation of these philosophies, than the understanding and enlightenment that they can allow us to achieve.

    The trend of "bigger, faster, better..." now encompasses every facet of the western, and some of the eastern world. The looking outward for understanding and knowledge, as opposed to the looking inward.

    It might have also been Bruce Lee who said something along the lines of "any man can control and understand others, it is the understanding and control of ones self which represents true enlightenment."

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