5010,
Consider the metaphors behind the story about Medusa. Is it any wonder that we use the word
petrified to describe someone who is so scared they can't move?
In an age with people who saw signs of the Gods in everything, it's possible that there may have been a woman so horrible to look at, or who frightened one person so much that they may have literally died of shock and fear. Or they were scared to the point where they couldn't move.
All it takes is for someone to say that they were "petrified" or "wouldn't move and their skin was as cold as stone" for the overly-mystic types to take it literally.
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Quote by: Isherwood In all ways, the gods we invent mirror our desire to know that somewhere something understands everything and could tell us what it's all about. |
I believe your statements prior to this quote demonstrate a certain degree of denial in those who believe God has all the answers. But I want to ask you a question and I want to make sure I'm wording it correctly:
As long as someone believes that the answers
do exist and that the answers are out there, is that so wrong?