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Thu Mar 13, 2008, 11:11 AM
Okay, haven't we all heard of "The land of milk and honey?" Right? I mean seriously, most people don't know what that is but it's a common phrase and surely everybody's heard it, right?

And "The Promised Land"?

Anyway, mom got this new Bible, and it's purple and all velvety and has shiny pages and I was petting it and decided to snoop through it and yadda yadda and I was poking around and stuff, and near as I can tell "The land of milk and honey" is Canaan.

:lol:

There was a Winnie the Pooh episode about the land of milk and honey and I keep thinking of that and it's funny for some reason.

Anyway, yeah, I was sure the land of Canaan was important for some reason and I was trying to figure out why and as near as I can tell it's the Promised Land and everybody was fighting over it.

Something about God said, "This is the land that was promised to you, go live there." And they went and killed everyone and moved in. O.0;;;; Um... I don't... know.

But THEN there was something about Noah, after he got done floating around on the boat and found land and whatever, he had a son named Ham who had a son named Canaan. And I was like well now wait a minute, Canaan is a person too!?

And then Canaan had a son named... something. Seidon or something, anyway 4 verses later they both turned out to be places again so I guess thats where the names came from... or something.

And then there was something about Noah (the guy with the ark and the animals and stuff, you don't have to be religious to know that) got drunk and was laying around naked, and Canaan's dad saw him and went and told his brothers "Hey, dad's naked!" O.o! And Noah found out about it and got mad and cursed Canaan. And I have noooo idea wtf that was about. See this is why I don't read the Bible much, it doesn't make any sense. xD

I don't think Canaan the Guy got mentioned much after that so I think it's safe to say that Xenosaga was referring to the Promised Land, not the guy whose dad saw Noah naked. >_>;

...anyway! In other pointless news, I'm going to move Blackberry Elixirs to my scraps sometime next week probably, not sure exactly when, if DA will let me do that. If they still don't allow text to be in a category other than literature, then I'll just delete them.

Love for Pooklett: :heart:

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~Sara-J:iconSara-J: Mar 13, 2008, 11:14:47 AM
Yay for a Danny rant! The Bible is a great book isn't it? I reckon it's all ficton but a great read, makes you stop and think...so to speak. I have heard of 'the land of milk and honey' it's an expression often used in Polish to describe an utter wonderland...It still amazes me how often the quotes from Bible are used in a totally different context and are applied in other disciplines...modern books,art, games...Nice one for spotting this!

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~DannyCam:iconDannyCam: Mar 13, 2008, 11:21:57 AM
Most of the stuff in the Bible are actual historic events, which are the parts i find interesting. I loved history class. >.>;

I thought Xenosaga was going to be a science-fiction thing, but it has a lot of religious-related stuff in it. Some of it they just made up, and then some of it actually came from the Bible. I think I would have liked it better if it had just been a sci-fi thing, even though I prefer fantasy.

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~NimbuzZolo:iconNimbuzZolo: Mar 13, 2008, 11:40:32 AM
lol, since im confirming i have to go to those (DUN-DUN-DUUUUN direct-translation) god-service-thingies, you know the ones where you sit every sunday, n sings, n listens, n sings more n is bored out of your mind? n then we had to sing n suddenly the priest goes "...blah-blah... Land of Canaan..." n i go complete "O.o WHAT?!"
Elders: *deathglare*
its pretty funny since i talkeda bout xenosaga, "a-really-religious-game", n he was like "Come over here n play it full-screen sometime!" so we decided that i shall go to there n i frggin played xenosaga3 on a screen as big as a cinema-screen... it was mighty... lol, the confirmationleader went like "Biblical-reference!!!" wheneevr something happened XDXDXD

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~NimbuzZolo:iconNimbuzZolo: Mar 13, 2008, 11:41:33 AM
im very sorry of the above-message doesnt make any sense since i just realized i forgot to add some parts... -.-''

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~Canaan-FC:iconCanaan-FC: Mar 13, 2008, 11:51:36 AM
LOL, that is funny. xD hahaha

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~Sara-J:iconSara-J: Mar 13, 2008, 1:17:25 PM
You're right about the Bible, much of it is historical. I was thinking more along the lines how it's become reverred and all the things described in it are seen as holy an miracles. It's a wonderful read though, I'd recommend it to anyone!

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~LupinePyrefly:iconLupinePyrefly: Mar 13, 2008, 1:55:26 PM
Yeah, Bible's a wierd thing. My mom told me to go back and actually read it, 'cause it's not that bad, so it pick it up, and open it, and land on this:

So he said to them, "Why do you do such things? I hear from all the people about these wicked deeds of yours. 24 No, my sons; it is not a good report that I hear spreading among the LORD's people. 25 If a man sins against another man, God [e] may mediate for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who will intercede for him?" His sons, however, did not listen to their father's rebuke, for it was the LORD's will to put them to death.

And I'm like, :wtf:

So yeah, God's a wierd dude.

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Mood: Joy ~ChibiLuka:iconChibiLuka: Mar 13, 2008, 2:55:56 PM
There is a lot in Xenosaga that ties in with the bible. Canaan was also known (( In my sister's bible )) as one of the two son's of Adam and killed his brother for gettin the blessings of god and was cursed. Zohar is a name in the bible (( though thats all they really say about him. >.>" )) All the E.S's are named after people and tribes. chaos's true name means Jesus in another language.... And there is many more things in the Xonsaga series that tie with religion. ^^ But if I name anymore it will never end. >.>"

I really love how much thought was put into Xenosaga. ^^ It go's with history realy well. X3
~rikuhottie263:iconrikuhottie263: Mar 13, 2008, 5:39:55 PM
ahahahahaa xDDDD

yeah, omg! like, we'll be in learning about something in global and randomly i'll hear something like like...*tries to think of example*

like one time the teacher lady said something about a ziggurat!!! and i was like, 8D !!! XENOSAGA WHERE/??!?!?! *pays attention* and then it meant like, some place/temple thing to worship or something...? :O ...and i was like, "pshhh loserss"

haha, omg i love Winnie the Pooh, awwwww <333 wil Canaan and his honeyy <3 xD haha, naked wtf ???

bible = :noes: ?!

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