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 Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:52 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:53 pm
So, it doesn't say "Starlaa"?
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:54 pm
That's the 'balance' thing that's so popular nowadays. We don't have 'masculine' or 'feminine', really. We just have our free will to decide what choices we make. That's all we have.
Physique is a major factor in what 'roles' we have. There was of course, that one Native American tribe somewhere down south, I think, where gender roles were entirely swapped, but that's one out of how many that aren't that way.
Point is: God made us the way He made us, and that's the way we are and supposed to be.
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:54 pm
Twilight Firn So, it doesn't say "Starlaa"?
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:55 pm
Silver Hellsing Twilight Firn So, it doesn't say "Starlaa"? So how come it says Starlaa on my compooper? ;-;
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:56 pm
Twilight Firn Silver Hellsing Twilight Firn So, it doesn't say "Starlaa"? So how come it says Starlaa on my compooper? ;-;
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:58 pm
OH, YAY! It changed. Thanks for your help. ^^
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:59 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:59 pm
Don't want to argue... and I don't have the will to discuss right now, but not even God had a definite gender role.
In medieval times, God was referred to as Mother...
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:01 pm
When, where, why, and in what context was God called Mother?
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:02 pm
You'll have to wait for my answer. I left my theology textbook "Christian Theological Tradition" in my dormitory.
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:07 pm
The best example I can give until I get hold of my textbook again is this - a quote from Julian of Norwich: The Motherhood of God - http://godweb.org/motherhoodofgod.htm Even in the darkness of the middle ages, there was a renewed emphasis upon the feminine. So, Julian of Norwich, the English mystic, wrote: "A kind, loving mother, who understands and knows the needs of her child will look after it tenderly because it is the nature of a mother to do so. As the child grows older, she changes her methods, not her love. This way of doings things is our Lord at work in those who do them. Thus God is our Mother." In Medieval times, language about God was grounded in the life of woman as well as men. And even in a male, dominated, warrior society people were exposed to a vision of God as a nurturing, tender Mother, Maiden and Midwife, as well as Father, Lord and King.
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:08 pm
M'kay. I'd think that it was probably Mary being referred to, especially as 'Mother', since Jesus had come before the middle ages.
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:09 pm
I found something that would help in my last post. While I don't have my textbook, I remember studying about Julian of Norwich during our medieval study on the Christian Theological Tradition.
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:10 pm
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