Atheism

[brinny]

So what is the significance of the Unicornist belief that one should stick a ripe banana in one's favorite ear?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbfH8AlO9j4&feature=related

i dunno, but those Charlie videos are a bit psychotically deranged....i don't think they should chase da butterflies no more

 

[brinny]

If you have a question, challenge, or anything that has to do with atheism/ christianity you can post it here i am a true atheist i want to not only learn more about this subject, but study why people will believe certain things along with putting my thoughts open for questioning, please take this seriously, if you want to bash me and call me names go ahead i have been an atheist for a while now and i live in the bible belt, so please ask/state away.....

what is a longing heart?

 

[Wicked Willow]

what is a longing heart?

A figure of speech, where "heart" does not refer to the actual muscle, but to our emotional centre. It goes back to ancient misconceptions about human physiology, as people used to think that the heart held pretty much all of the functions that are actually associated with the brain.

A "longing heart", then, is synonymous with yearning, craving, or indeed: longing (without the "heart" added).

Interestingly enough, the German noun that expresses the same sentiment is "Sehnsucht", which would literally translate as something like "pine-addiction", or "yearn-dependency", although it originally meant something along the lines of "love-sickness".

 

[brinny]

A figure of speech, where "heart" does not refer to the actual muscle, but to our emotional centre. It goes back to ancient misconceptions about human physiology, as people used to think that the heart held pretty much all of the functions that are actually associated with the brain.

A "longing heart", then, is synonymous with yearning, craving, or indeed: longing (without the "heart" added).

Interestingly enough, the German noun that expresses the same sentiment is "Sehnsucht", which would literally translate as something like "pine-addiction", or "yearn-dependency", although it originally meant something along the lines of "love-sickness".

thank you for your generous response. Emotional centre, seems an appropriate terminology...what is the "emotional centre"? On that same line, what is "homesickness"?