And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
They're so much more interesting than tornados on land...but they can still ruin your day.
Imagine that you're on a galley (circa 500 BC) in the Med or somewhere and one of those bad buys is out swirling around. It would make you believe in Poseidon/Neptune, the Cracken, etc.
Must have if I married one and somebody else married the other. I suspect that as with most Gods that end up mating with mortals, the Kraken has a lot of offspring running around. Nancy Pelosi HAS to be the spawn of Hades. So it goes.
Excellent observation! You sir must be passing familiar with Greek literature. I'm reading "The Voyage of the Argo" right now, and there is plenty of that God- mortal mixing. Gods were much more fun loving in those days.
Greek Gods weren't burdened with a notion of Christian guilt. Take Dionysus/Baccus for example. God of wine, parties, orgies, festivals (which were all the same to the Greeks). Much more fun than any Saint.
Cue Billy Joel:
They say there's a heaven for those who will wait Some say it's better but I say it ain't I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints Sinners are much more fun... You know that only the good die young
They're so much more interesting than tornados on land...but they can still ruin your day.
ReplyDeleteImagine that you're on a galley (circa 500 BC) in the Med or somewhere and one of those bad buys is out swirling around. It would make you believe in Poseidon/Neptune, the Cracken, etc.
Aye! The Kraken! I know a guy who married the Krakens daughter....
DeleteI think that I may have married the Kraken's other daughter?
ReplyDeleteHe had two!??
DeleteMust have if I married one and somebody else married the other. I suspect that as with most Gods that end up mating with mortals, the Kraken has a lot of offspring running around. Nancy Pelosi HAS to be the spawn of Hades. So it goes.
ReplyDeleteExcellent observation! You sir must be passing familiar with Greek literature. I'm reading "The Voyage of the Argo" right now, and there is plenty of that God- mortal mixing. Gods were much more fun loving in those days.
DeleteGreek Gods weren't burdened with a notion of Christian guilt. Take Dionysus/Baccus for example. God of wine, parties, orgies, festivals (which were all the same to the Greeks). Much more fun than any Saint.
DeleteCue Billy Joel:
They say there's a heaven for those who will wait
Some say it's better but I say it ain't
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
Sinners are much more fun...
You know that only the good die young
You can't do it now, but I'm thinking that if I was on the Argo and a water spout showed up, I could throw my wife (Kracken's daughter) back to dad.
DeleteToday, you get indicted. No sense of humor in the modern world :^)