All in all, we’ve had a fun weekend. On Friday, we went with a bunch of people to PJ’s and to see Troy. The movie was mostly random violence interspersed with short sex scenes, so I guess it was probably a fairly accurate account of the story and of the time period.
On Saturday, we went to my parents’ house for a traditional extended-family cookout. Was a bunch of fun and good food.
On Sunday, we went to my parents’ house again after church and had lunch, played Canasta, and retrieved our chairs that my dad has now fixed. In the evening,
Today, we went over to my paternal grandmother’s to take her to Capen Hill Nature Sanctuary for a picnic and some nature-walking. Unfortunately, the weather didn’t cooperate with us, and we ended up just having a picnic on a slightly-damp picnic table that ended just as the rain really started coming down again. We retreated back to her house where we played dominoes. And this evening Ben & Cheri came over for our bible study.
For those who’ve been following it, I’ve posted my first response to my controversial post, and I hope to post more there sometime soon, although work and homework may mean that it’ll be a while.
The only accounts of the Trojan war come from epic poems, so it’s impossible to know today whether the war occurred at all (and, if so, whether Homer–and his followers–portrayed events the way they really occurred).
It’s funny. Laugh. :)
Hardly hilarious.
Which are you referring to as being funny? The movie, my comment, or her comment? I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about.
Your comment about the movie, a funny tidbit against which Eva began waxing historical. She’s so serious sometimes. :)
My comment was serious.
“The movie was mostly random violence interspersed with short sex scenes, so I guess it was probably a fairly accurate account of the story and of the time period.”
Come on. That’s cute, not serious. :)
Nope. I was dead serious. While I haven’t read the story, it’s my understand that it was primarily about the wars, and wars are big and bloody, like the movie demonstrated. I think that the movie’s characters’ views on women were likely commonplace at the time of the story.
Ancient Greece could get violent at times.
Women weren’t considered to be much of anything, though.
As for the story of Troy, no one knows whether the battle occurred at all, no less occurred the way Homer & Co. portrayed it.