I absolutely love this.
ACTUALLY. This myth gets more interesting. These original “double humans” were comprised of two parts—either both parts male, one part male and one female, or both female. This myth is used to explain why some people are homosexual and why some are straight. Yay Classics. I’M LEARNING SO MUCH IN COLLEGE GUYS
This gets better each time it scrolls through my dash.
The Greeks had their flaws but they always had a tolerant and practical way of seeing the world.
Like how they explained why the different people of the world have different skin colors. Instead of the Abrahamic “Mark of Cain”, they believed that Apollo, the sun god, who’s chariot was the sun, allowed his son to drive the chariot. The boy could not control it and the sun came too close the the Earth. And, some people got exposed to the sun more than others and tanned various colors. That is how they explained the difference between people of different colors.
Put the guns into our hands and we will use them. Give us the slogans and we will turn them into reality. Sing the battle hymns and we will take them up where you left off. Not one not ten not ten thousand not a million not ten millions not a hundred millions but a billion two billions of us all the people of the world we will have the slogans and we will have the hymns and we will have the guns and we will use them and we will live. Make no mistake of it we will live. We will be alive and we will walk and talk and eat and sing and laugh and feel and love and bear our children in tranquility and security in decency in peace. You plan the wars you masters of men plans the wars and point the way and we will point the gun.
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| — | “Johnny Got His Gun” by Dalton Trumbo |
