Here’s a headline that made me scratch my head:
Are Nephilim Still Ruling the World?
Wait, Nephi-what? Oh FFS, I wish I hadn’t looked this one up:
Genesis 6:1–4 tells the readers that the Nephilim, which means “fallen ones” when translated into English, were the product of copulation between the divine beings (lit. sons of god) and human women (lit. daughters of Adam).
I know, I know… it’s in the Bible, so it must be true.
So that means that all those Greek “myths” weren’t actually mythical at all?
Zeus and the other Olympians were constantly and permanently knocking up princesses, queens, nymphs, sirens, lesser goddesses, warrior women and just plain fair maidens who bathed in the pool with their handmaidens. And the handmaidens, too, sometimes. Zeus even managed to impregnate mortal women when he was a swan or a bull.
Hercules was the illegitimate child of Zeus and a mortal woman, as were Perseus, Helen of Troy and Minos (among other very, very famous offspring of Zeus). Yep, the Greek God family tree is very, very tangled. The genealogy is near impossible to try to map.
And ancient Greeks who literally believed in their religion also believed that Zeus could produce offspring with human women in the real world; among the many people who did was Alexander the Great’s mother, who claimed that Zeus had fathered her son. Alexander the Great was alleged to have actually believed this himself.
I can see why Alexander might have believed it of himself, but I cannot believe that anyone in this day and age would even be discussing this bullshit. And yet they are, and I perforce must pass comment on their drooling fantasies.
Talk about yer animal husbandry…
It’s a big universe. For humans to claim there are no other intelligient beings out there is a bit vain.
Oh, they’re out there, okay; it’s just that they don’t want to get involved with folks who’d believe in intelligent aliens without tangible evidence.
It’s up to us to go out and find them ourselves.
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Its as plausible an explanation for Biden et. al. as I can come up with.
Or Joy Behar
This is *exactly* and *precisely* the sort snake handly nonsense that inspires reasonable, mainstream people to run screaming as fast and as far as they can go away from the GOP, and into the waiting arms of the DNC.
yup, and it’s extremely common among conservatives to have such ideas. Not just about this, but about many things.
In reality, many if not most conservatives are as delusional as many if not most liberals, they’re just different delusions.
I’ve avoided voting liberal all my life, but it’s getting harder and harder as more and more conservatives seem intent on wanting me dead. And I’ll not vote for a candidate who runs on agenda of killing me.