What does this even mean?

[frogmarch]

Saw it on Facebook.



We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires and comets inside us...blah blah blah

[onager]

1. I'm inclined to agree with him.

But only because of the chili I had last night.

McCammon is a horror writer, assuming he's the same one I'm thinking about.

I guess we should hope he doesn't turn into a Whitley Streiber and actually start thinking his fiction is real. Though it would be entertaining. Communion is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. But it wasn't supposed to be a comedy.

[frogmarch]

3. Thanks, onager. I'll

google him, and I'll also look for Communion. Sounds like a goody!

[onager]

9. *SPOILER* - Christopher Walken gets rectally probed.

...by little blue space critters.

Also cranially probed. Considering the rest of Communion, I'd guess the results of both probes were identical.

[frogmarch]

10. Oh, now I HAVE to watch it!

Wait, Christopher Walken anally and cranially probed by aliens? Maybe I already have seen the movie, or some of it. It sounds a little familiar.

I'll see if it's on You Tube!

[frogmarch]

5. Neo-paganist sounds right. The

first thing I thought of was my former flower-child cousin Jane periodically howling at the moon to get in touch with her primal self. Geesh.

[Warpy]

4. Sentimental claptrap with a large helping of Rousseau

We're also born hairless, toothless, ignorant, and unable to care for ourselves in any way.

[frogmarch]

7. and we need help and education,

not training in magical thinking.

I must admit though, for a few seconds I had a powerful hankering to live as my Cro-Magnon ancestors did. Right.

[Warpy]

8. You mean die in your 30s from abscessed teeth?

I'll pass, thanks. If there is one thing I'd like to preserve down through the ages, it's anesthesia so we can tolerate dentistry.

[Brainstormy]

17. and with no control of our bowels. :) nt

[Warpy]

18. Well, that has never bothered a libertarian.

Most of them have never really gotten over that potty training thing.

[Brainstormy]

20. OMG, too funny

sometimes we really NEED that Facebook likey thing.

[Goblinmonger]

6. Seems very Romanticism/Transcendentalism to me.

But that might be the English teacher in me.

[Brainstormy]

21. English teacher here, too, but

in this case I think it might just be the functioning brain thing in us.

[NeoGreen]

11. An attempt to romanticize...

...ignorance.

The "elephant" he is dancing around, lamenting the loss of and not seeing in its entirety is:

Embodying/Embracing Ignorance = Possessing/Embracing Godliness

That is why it is forbidden to eat from the Tree of Knowledge and why they strive to cut it down.

[AlbertCat]

12. Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth....

Yes we were!

Your "wildness" and belief in magic not only endangered your youthful life, but also ours.... because, well y'know, reality.

We aren't ashamed and sad we allowed magic to wither in us. We're ashamed because you should know better by now. It's called "experience".

While you are over there farting comets and forest fires, we have to be over here taking care of business. The only destiny I see in grains of sand is my beach house is gonna fall down if I don't take care of it.... and magic hasn't worked so far....

sheesh!

[AtheistCrusader]

13. I had a forest fire inside me this morning.

Goddamn that was some good chili. You know it is good when you're still paying for it the next day.

Edit: GODDAMNIT onager, what the hell

[GeorgeGist]

14. Nonsense from the other side.

[Silent3]

15. As long as it's taken poetically, metaphorically, it's not too bad.

Taken literally, of course, it's a steaming pile of woo.

[Rainforestgoddess]

16. Ah, you beat me to it.

I was sitting here reading the comments, muttering "it's a metaphor!" to myself.

[Lordquinton]

19. you'll understand when you're older

"Forrest fires and comets inside us" So we're all born forces of destruction? You are born thinking all that, then the perceived magic is replaced with tangible knowledge, instead of yelling at birds thinking you're talking, you learn how to genuinely communicate with other species, to ask them to do things, and they do it, and then reciprocate.

I get the metaphor, but the anti-intellectual horse hockey that is spouted these days needs a foil, and knowledge is way more fun than perceived enlightenment.

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