Preserving the stories in the babble.

[Deep Sea Isopod]

Hans Christian Andersen, Roald Dahl and Brothers Grimm wrote some great fairy tales.
Their stories are still around, and we tell them to the kids.

And then there are some lesser known religious/supernatural stories like:
Journey to the West
Warriors of the Rainbow
All have been immortalised in books.

Tha babble has also immortalised some fairy tales. Noah's Flood for example.
So this got me thunkin'. Would it be a shame to lose these stories? You know, like if religion fucked off! Could we still use these stories to tell to the kids at bed time?
Personally, I think Noah's Flood and the baby cheeses in the manger story is quite good for fairy tales. Maybe not as good as The Tin Soldier, The Pied Piper or Charlie and the Chocolate factory, but still good in their own little way.

I'm just kinda thunkin' out loud really. Wonderin' if I'm going senile or not for having such thoughts.

[colubridae]

Hans Christian Andersen, Roald Dahl and Brothers Grimm wrote some great fairy tales.
Their stories are still around, and we tell them to the kids.

And then there are some lesser known religious/supernatural stories like:
Journey to the West
Warriors of the Rainbow
All have been immortalised in books.

Tha babble has also immortalised some fairy tales. Noah's Flood for example.
So this got me thunkin'. Would it be a shame to lose these stories? You know, like if religion fucked off! Could we still use these stories to tell to the kids at bed time?
Personally, I think Noah's Flood and the baby cheeses in the manger story is quite good for fairy tales. Maybe not as good as The Tin Soldier, The Pied Piper or Charlie and the Chocolate factory, but still good in their own little way.

I'm just kinda thunkin' out loud really. Wonderin' if I'm going senile or not for having such thoughts.

Yeah whip some guy with metal studded whips.
Stick a crown of thorns into his scalp.
Nail him up to a cross and leave him till he dies.

Kids just luv it.

[Hermit]

Hans Christian Andersen, Roald Dahl and Brothers Grimm wrote some great fairy tales.
Their stories are still around, and we tell them to the kids.

And then there are some lesser known religious/supernatural stories like:
Journey to the West
Warriors of the Rainbow
All have been immortalised in books.

Tha babble has also immortalised some fairy tales. Noah's Flood for example.
So this got me thunkin'. Would it be a shame to lose these stories? You know, like if religion fucked off! Could we still use these stories to tell to the kids at bed time?
Personally, I think Noah's Flood and the baby cheeses in the manger story is quite good for fairy tales. Maybe not as good as The Tin Soldier, The Pied Piper or Charlie and the Chocolate factory, but still good in their own little way.

I'm just kinda thunkin' out loud really. Wonderin' if I'm going senile or not for having such thoughts.

Yeah whip some guy with metal studded whips.
Stick a crown of thorns into his scalp.
Nail him up to a cross and leave him till he dies.

Kids just luv it.

I bet they'd also love to hear about talking snakes, making women from spare ribs, and stoning women to death because they have been raped. Grimm stuff is popular. My partner's youngest son regularly retells us stories along similar lines that he has seen on the evening news. The most recent one was of a thirteen year old admirer of a footy player who made her pregnant. He called her a stupid bitch, or something like that. Bible "morality" is a lot more pervasive than it is being given credit for. If you appreciate the sort of values it espouses, you really have to agree that it would be a shame to lose these stories.

[FBM]

The Good Samaritan thingy may be worth salvaging. Anti-sectarian, compassion, etc.

The Song of Solomon was cutting-edge pr0n for its time, I'm told, but teh 'weebs have Asian lesbian teens, so no point in saving that one...hmmm...what else?

[Horwood Beer-Master]

The Good Samaritan thingy may be worth salvaging. Anti-sectarian, compassion, etc...

[FBM]

The Good Samaritan thingy may be worth salvaging. Anti-sectarian, compassion, etc...

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"A Samaritan tosser wouldn't do that for his own grandmother."

[Faithfree]

The Good Samaritan thingy may be worth salvaging. Anti-sectarian, compassion, etc...

Good one!

[Horwood Beer-Master]

[Epictetus]

i think John 8:7--"let him who is without sin cast the first stone"--is worthy of remembrance. Of course, there's the adage about people living in glass houses.

And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto Him a woman taken in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, they said unto Him, "Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.

Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned but what sayest thou?"


This they said testing Him, that they might have cause to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground, as though He heard them not.


So when they continued asking Him, He lifted Himself up and said unto them, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."


And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground.


And they who heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the eldest even unto the last, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing in the midst.


When Jesus had lifted Himself up and saw none but the woman, He said unto her, "Woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee?"

She said, "No man, Lord." And Jesus said unto her, "Neither do I condemn thee; go, and sin no more."

Of course, i realize that this story is considered a later addition to John's gospel.

[Geoff]

Hans Christian Andersen, Roald Dahl and Brothers Grimm wrote some great fairy tales.
Their stories are still around, and we tell them to the kids.

And then there are some lesser known religious/supernatural stories like:
Journey to the West
Warriors of the Rainbow
All have been immortalised in books.

Tha babble has also immortalised some fairy tales. Noah's Flood for example.
So this got me thunkin'. Would it be a shame to lose these stories? You know, like if religion fucked off! Could we still use these stories to tell to the kids at bed time?
Personally, I think Noah's Flood and the baby cheeses in the manger story is quite good for fairy tales. Maybe not as good as The Tin Soldier, The Pied Piper or Charlie and the Chocolate factory, but still good in their own little way.

I'm just kinda thunkin' out loud really. Wonderin' if I'm going senile or not for having such thoughts.

Yeah whip some guy with metal studded whips.
Stick a crown of thorns into his scalp.
Nail him up to a cross and leave him till he dies.

Kids just luv it.

Yep! Mind you, the original versions of the traditional fairy stories are pretty scary, till they got sanitised. Grimm's Cinderella, for example, where the sisters cut pieces of their feet off to fit the slipper, then later get their eyes pecked out by crows.

Most weren't written by the above authors, BTW, they were collected from much earlier folk tales. Charles Pierrot (sp? can't be arsed Googling) was the originator of a lot of them, in the 17th century, way before the more well-known writers.

I don't have a problem with telling buybull stories, as long as they're clearly understood to be fictional.

[Epictetus]

it might be worthwhile to preserve the tale told about the prophet Elisha, who unleashed a couple of hungry she-bears on a crowd of children who were teasing him for being bald.

[Pappa]

it might be worthwhile to preserve the tale told about the prophet Elisha, who unleashed a couple of hungry she-bears on a crowd of children who were teasing him for being bald.

That's the best one....

"Hey baldy!!!!"

[Feck]

STFU Pappa I think there are bears in Chester zoo

[Pappa]

STFU Pappa I think there are bears in Chester zoo

[Posse Comitatus]

So this got me thunkin'. Would it be a shame to lose these stories? You know, like if religion fucked off!

Yes. That virtually no one I know, religious or not, seems to have ever sat down and worked through the at least the KJ Bible is something I find utterly bizarre and can't even begin to comprehend, particularly as so many of them are English Literature students, because the significance of the book, on a cultural level, is too vast to even begin to comprehend. Where literature is concerned it's basically the equivalent of a rosetta stone.


Really that people could happily go in and sit, for example, an A-Level English exam without ever having even opened the Bible is just incomprehensible to me.