tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32419152.post116545738730437558..comments2023-10-01T02:15:47.933-07:00Comments on The Morning Oil: Faeries Part IIUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32419152.post-1165787601943923612006-12-10T13:53:00.000-08:002006-12-10T13:53:00.000-08:00Dionysius the Areopagite!! I love that guy. Ahem. ...Dionysius the Areopagite!! I love that guy. Ahem. (mostly because his pinky shows up in Hellboy). I also kinda geeked out when he turned up in Acts too.<BR/><BR/>Anyway...I don't see why Fairies wouldn't have souls, at least in the sense of an animating principal of some sort. I mean, if they're alive in any way, and not robots or something, then they have to have a soul don't they?<BR/><BR/>I tend to go by the assumption that fairies, if they exist, are just seriously weird or overprotective guardian angels of forests of regions or what not. I don't see any reason that they couldn't be some other species though. I tend to think that the universe is much weirder than most people care to admit, so if I belive in telepaths, why not fairies? Though the exact nature of magic would still need some explaining.Ben Miltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00059505985098422978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32419152.post-1165724463259476142006-12-09T20:21:00.000-08:002006-12-09T20:21:00.000-08:00Catherine said: "it's applying something we alread...Catherine said: "it's applying something we already know about to something we want to explain"<BR/><BR/>What the heck else are you supposed to do? Learning is going from the more known to the less known, not the unknown to the unknown.<BR/><BR/>Not that angels (after all, demons are angels too) are exactly known...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32419152.post-1165551175082766492006-12-07T20:12:00.000-08:002006-12-07T20:12:00.000-08:00Valkyrie come and get people once they're DEAD. an...Valkyrie come and get people once they're DEAD. <BR/>and the angels&demons thing...not that it explains everything, but because it's applying something we already know about to something we want to explain. which I find irritating. besides; there is no way any fairy in any fairy story could be an angel or a demon. but maybe I'm relying to much on St Thomas here.<BR/><BR/>of course I know scientists can't map the universe. I was saying IF they did, then I would be bummed. <BR/><BR/>and the parallel universe...well, it isn't at all the right expression. I was trying to convey the sense of Pat O'Shea's explanation in Hounds of the Morrigan. I love that.Catherine_Creaganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10540489813336428811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32419152.post-1165543222510056932006-12-07T18:00:00.000-08:002006-12-07T18:00:00.000-08:00Why would you say that the "angel & demon theory" ...Why would you say that the "angel & demon theory" explains everything? Or even explains anything?<BR/><BR/>Do angels and demons make you feel like the world is bleak or without wonder? Or that "this is it?" Seems to me that they suggest quite the contrary. They remind us of how little we know, even when we "know."<BR/><BR/>Oh, and don't worry. Scientists will not end up mapping and charting the entire universe. Won't happen. That's part of why it's so wonderful.<BR/><BR/>Relativity is about he miraculous and inexplicable way in which reality retains its tenuous grasp on...well...reality. And that's straight science.<BR/><BR/>Wonder has to do with how you think of things, not with what you're thinking about. An absolutely logical "thinking-machine-Holmes-like" person can have tons of wonder. The more you discover for sure, the more you realize you don't know.<BR/><BR/>I love your account of Tir nan-Og. I'm just not at all sure we need parallel universes to explain it. (And I'm still not sure you're right about non-Greek myths. Especially Norse ones. Valkyrie, remember?)<BR/><BR/>- J.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com