The Forbidden Fruit
Posted Feb 20, 2012, 8:45 PM UTC
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If they were honey badgers probably would eat the snake instead...humanity saved.
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Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers
Mushroom!!
Mushroom!!
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Why do people think it's an apple? Last I checked, Genesis only said "fruit", not what fruit it was.
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I know! How dare a web comic not fact check! BURN HIM!
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Paradise Lost is where most of the modern interpretation of the Eden myth comes from and it's described as an apple there. If the Hebrew Eden myth is cross-referenced with other Semitic mythology, It's either an Orange, Pomegranate, or Walnut (I personally like the walnut version due to its symbolic connotations to wisdom).
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To be fair, most people here don't think it was an apple. Most people here think it was a nothing.
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How does an artist draw "fruit" and not a specific fruit?
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Naming it "apple" is perhaps where the criticism becomes most apt. One could draw something resembling an apple without naming it and get away with it. Once you call it an apple, you perpetuate the misconception. After all, why would members of the Abrahamic faiths eat apples if they were the source of original sin?
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Why would they eat fruit if it was the source of original sin?
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Why would they eat, if eating was the source of original sin?
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In Western Christian art, the fruit of the tree is commonly depicted as the apple, which originated in central Asia. This depiction may have originated as a Latin pun: by eating the malum (apple), Eve contracted mālum (evil).
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You might want to put a NSFW tag on this.
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Well heeeellloo Adam
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really, the comic only needed that last frame. it tells the story so much better through implication that way.
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Agreed. Stories where the reader has to put the pieces together are brilliant.
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i always thought eating the apple was a metaphor for having sex
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thats a good idea but i don't think that could work as they're probably married and sex after marriage is A-Ok
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I always thought Eve talking to a snake was a metaphor for having sex.
"snake" and "penis" are the same word in some languages.
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That last part... is it true?
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It is in German at least, I think Dutch too and if so then there's a good chance for the Scandinavian languages, and it's certainly a euphamism in English...
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No, its metaphorical for greed. It is the desire to have more than needed. Adam and Eve lived a blissful life where they were provided everything needed to live and be happy. When eve ate the apple she was wanting more than she had and needed. It would not surprise me if there are different interpretations according to different sects but that is mine personally. =)
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The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed -- for lack of a better word -- is good.
Greed is right.
Greed works.
Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind.
-Gordon Gecko
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Yep, wanting more of what you have: being greedy, is good.
But wanting something you don't have: being jealous, is bad.
At least if we are to believe the rich and the neolibs.
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god = satan
I KNEW IT!!!
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God, they're ugly
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This cartoon is biblically accurate. Since Christians don't want Satan to be stronger than/equal to God, they teach that God controls Satan at all times.
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Imagine if the guy in the robe was an "extraterrestrial" O.O
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No need to imagine. That's Mormonism.
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thatsapenis.gif
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I find that this "troll god" model often provides a far better explanation for why God does some arcane stupid thing in Random-Book-X of the Bible that the traditional theological models do.
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Makes more sence if you realize Yaway was one of the BAD Gods in the pre-judaic religion he originaly came from.
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Cool, do you have any further information on this?
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he did put them in the garden for ETERNITY. Infinite time with a tree and not allowed to taste the fruit , sounds like some torture to me.
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haha, I didn't notice that until I read this sentence
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Mr. Herbert?
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I never even understood why there was a snake in the first place... I mean... A beautiful garden, apple tree (forbidden) and then a fucking snake outta nowhere
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"There is no devil it is only god drunk" - tom waits
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lol did they really have to draw adam's penis in the 2nd frame?
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Source : http://formalsweatpants.com
So link to the source in the first place.
The whole point of rehosting images is to avoid the slashdot effect and slamming some tiny site's poor servers.
I've posted images on reddit from my own server with $10/month shared hosting, a handful of which got several thousand views from the front page, and it did not slam my server.
....Your point iiiiis?
I was going to call you on the repost... BUT YOU SOURCED IT AND I FELT LIKE "AWWWWWWW"
I can't find the specific comic ¬¬