[Hannibal]

Why should you read this Article? Lord of the Rings didn't just come out of Tolkien's ass...you decide whether such things be fancy...

http://www.hiddenmys...eighbors1.shtml

An EXCERPT:

"The British, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish subterraneans were believed to dwell in a variety of locations which connected directly into a larger, nebulous region, called by a variety of names: Tir Na N Og, Faerie, Fairyland, Elf(Alf)land, and many, many others. To the Norse these regions were known as Alfheim and Svartalfheim, and should not be confused by modern students of folklore with a deeper, darker place of greater terrors, called Nifleheim. Entrances to the regions inhabited by these beings could be found in raths (ancient hill-forts), burial-mounds (barrows, sitheans, knowes, brochs, duns, and so forth) and other ancient earth-works, caverns or clefts in mountains and hills, and at the bottom of deep lakes or lochs. Some confusion occurred, largely due to theorizing on the part of both victims and collectors of folktales, that the fairy-folk were fallen angels, nature spirits (elementals), or the hyperactive ghosts of the pagan dead. The problem with these theories is that they are contradictory to the activities described, and the purposes which obviously underlie these activities--that is, the gathering of genetic material, ranging from human and animal to plant samples, and the actual physical interbreeding which has been described. It would seem that "spirits" of any description would have no use for these things."

[J m HofMarN]

Please tell me you're not trying to draw paralels between his Tolkieness and underground aliens...

Please?

Oh... you did... Wow... I'm stunned. First of all this should go in the movies or books forum. Second of all I'm only holding back a horrendously angry response because I know it would only make you get off. What the devil is wrong with you? Why?

This post has been edited by J m HofMarN: 26 January 2005 - 04:10 AM

[Slade]

No, he's saying what everybody already knows. Tolkien took many of his elements from old norse and celtic and anglo-saxon folk tales. That site is cute though. And I like the little menu bar on the left that scrolls down with you.

[Despondent]

Well, I was waiting for someone to draw comparison to hollow earth.

Chatting with a bud on that fantastic notion, he suggested that's where "Middle" earth refers to. And HE has a brain, likes LOTR.

I think he was just toying with me. I was on holiday so I was up for that debate.

[Jesus Christ]

PEOPLE TAKE IDEA AND INFLUENCE FROM OTHER WORK? NOT POSSIBLE. EVERYTHING ORIGINAL THIS MAN THINK.

[Slade]

Hehe...

PEOPLE TAKE IDEA AND INFLUENCE FROM OTHER WORK? NOT POSSIBLE.

Quothe the man that ended up being the central figure in Christianity.

[J m HofMarN]

No actually the article was about how those old folk tales are actually accounts of alien abductions from inside the earth...

[Hannibal]

Didn't I suggest those with a BRAIN read the article? Well at least only two of you tried, sorry to hear about it.

Its not about aliens. (Oh you'd have to actually read that to find out.)

Its not about the Bible. (Oh you'd have to read that to find out.)

It is about underground creatures...

If you have intelligence you will see the paralell with Tolkiens work, though not suggested by the article itself.

If you bother to read any of it, you will also see that some very interesting possibilities exist.

Beyond that, those without a medulla oblongata, who immediately scream "ufos, conspiracy theory and christianity" are simply showing to us they not only cannot read, but that they have a narrow minded and immature view of the world. Accusations, dispersions and fits about some article they haven't read...we know where they learned to think: AMERICAN TALKSHOWS.

[J m HofMarN]

I did indeed read the article. It's comparing the bible, norse myths and celtic mythology and trying to draw paralels between that and the idea of an underground civilization. However as Elfs, Demons and Norse gods are all unearthly beings I find it odd that the article would mention that they keep seeming to want to collect living human tissue, which suggests that the subjects of these tales are infact flesh and blood creatures. This in turn leads the reader to believe that the author is trying to say that there are alien beings living inside the earth. And yes, aliens is the proper term for them, it is not only applicable to beings from other planets.

[Jordan]

That article is all about UFO's, cavemen, Christianity, Consipriacy, American talk shows, beenie babies, Mark McGuires 70th home run, and midgets from mars.

Thanks for the article. I'm glad I did not read it because the text was to small, too numerous, and boring.

George Bush is a gremlin

I found the following excerpt that backs it up:

"New York FM radio station WQHT, or HOT 97, repeatedly ran the segment last week on the show, hosted by deejay Tarsha Nicole Jones who uses the on-air name Miss Jones.

Jones and her team were suspended indefinitely, according to publicist Lizzie Grubman, who declined to say whether Jones would feature in another show at a later date.

"What happened is morally and socially indefensible," said Rick Cummings, president of Emmis Radio. The station is owned by Emmis Communications Corp.

"All involved, myself included, are ashamed and deeply sorry. I know the members of the morning show are truly contrite. They know their actions here are inexcusable," Cummings said in a statement.

The piece used racial slurs to describe people swept away in the disaster, made jokes about child slavery and people watching their mothers die.

"You can hear God laughing, 'Swim you b**ches swim,' " was one line in the song, sung by staff of the show to the melody of the 1985 famine relief song "We Are the World."

On Monday, the hip-hop and R&B radio station and the deejay apologized and the seven-member morning show crew agreed to donate one week's pay to relief efforts. The tsunami struck on December 26, leaving nearly 300,000 dead or missing around the Indian Ocean from Somalia to Thailand.

The incident is not the first time HOT 97 has been accused of racism and poor taste. The station made headlines when deejay Star, now at another radio station, called Jennifer Lopez a "rice-and-bean eater" and satirized the plane crash that killed R&B singer Aaliyah in 2001"

Conspiracy Nut? Or truth?

This post has been edited by Jordan: 26 January 2005 - 05:23 PM

[J m HofMarN]

Jordan, Jordan, Jordan. Havn't you learned yet that any good post requires a random picture? Here I'll help you out.

[barend]

Beyond that, those without a medulla oblongata, who immediately scream "ufos, conspiracy theory and christianity" are simply showing to us they not only cannot read, but that they have a narrow minded and immature view of the world. Accusations, dispersions and fits about some article they haven't read...we know where they learned to think: AMERICAN TALKSHOWS.

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those without a medulla oblongata?

the only thing those without a medulla oblongata would show us is lack of respitory and cardio-vascular activity.

i think you meant cerebral cortex...

not nitpicking, but if you're going to be condecending, you should refrain from the medically misleading.

[Jordan]

Damn, I forgot about the random picture. Good work Jm, you completed my post.

[Slade]

Heh, good ole' Barend... And if both of these sources drew on the same mythology, of course there will be parellels... It can't be helped.

[Laughlyn]

What better place to maintain a genetically-pure control or access group or groups than on two large islands like Britain and Ireland? But the British Isles are not the only group of islands with such a combination of relative isolation, and legends of strange interbreeding activities.

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Sounds like a electoral polling line from the BNP.

Isolation leads to boredom maybe? Which in turn leads to strange interbreeding activities? The Welsh? who'd have thought it!?