Uncovering the Connotative Meanings
of Animal Names.»
But in the 260 - million - year - old skull
of an animal named Glanosuchus — and in all the mammallike reptiles that followed Glanosuchus — Hillenius saw distinct turbinal ridges.
Not exact matches
And a Jan. 28 filing from Red Bull gets downright anatomical in its opposition to the Old Ox
name: «An «ox» and a «bull» both fall within the same class
of «bovine»
animals and are virtually indistinguishable to most consumers,» the filing reads.
The owners
of a giant rabbit
named Simon who was found dead after a United Airlines (ual) flight demanded on Monday that the airline pay damages, order an outside investigation and re-evaluate how it handles
animals on flights.
Mooshwalks are socks with ears and faces, socks that have
names, backstories and personalities, socks that don't look like any particular
animal, but are a hybrid
of dogs and cats, birds and pigs.
Yes it is a religion
of peace, any Muslim butchering an
animal would say the
name of God and use a very sharp knife for that to make it quick for the
animal to die with out suffering!
There have been actual, physical, places which were considered to be the gateway to «Hades» (Hades was the Greek
name of the G - d
of the underworld, Pluto was the Roman
name)... most
of these places were places that emitted gases from deep in the earth that killed off flying birds and / or the
animals surrounding the area (Can't remember the
name of the lake in Italy offhand, but there's a new find in Turkey with roughly the same idea): http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/gateway-hades-uncovered-turkey-archaeologists-article-1.1307747).
Can you
name every species
of animal?
Thus in English we call an
animal of the locust kind a grasshopper; the French
name of which is souterelle, from the verb sauter, to leap» — Parkhurst.
A good chice for the
name, with a focus on the environment, the poor and the welfare
of animals hopefully signalling real chamge in the church.
Hence the next thing that happens after he receives the commandment is the exercise
of naming the
animals.
Here's a few more
names that Christians used to describe non believers a couple
of pages back: «rats», «wretched creatures» and «vile
animals».
What man is amid the brute creation, such is the Church among the schools
of the world; and as Adam gave
names to the
animals about him, so has the Church from the first looked round upon the earth, noting and visiting the doctrines she found there.
Whitehead says, «In the Garden
of Eden Adam saw the
animals before he
named them: in the traditional system children
named the
animals before they saw them» (SMW 198).
Buck
of course was
named after Jack London's dog though my Buck was a far superior
animal.
Perhaps it is interesting to look at some
of the personal
names in the early church recorded in the NT, Stephanas (the pagan Olympic games laurel wreath) Apollos (god
of music and sun) Aquila (the eagle, the Roman
animal emblem) Narcissus, Hermes, Nympha, Olympas, Artemus, Fortunatus, all derived from pagan mythology.
Adam
named the
animals, and the force
of the text suggests that God did not know their
names until Adam
named them: «[God] brought them to the man to see what he would
name them.»
Seeking to cloak their fear
of reprisals for
naming real root causes, progressives trumpet phony diversions depicted as earth shattering crises (namely, global warming), missile defense, homophobia, protecting our borders, the religious right, abstinence education, prayer in schools,
animal rights, biblical creation, etc..
Nothing like being called a depraved
animal, a rat, scum, garbage, less than human or any
of the other
names that atheists get called on a regular basis, not to mention no threats
of eternal torture.
In order to carry out my mission to increase and multiply the lab
animal population
of the armed forces
of the United States, I was placed under the direction
of an eccentric old man (also
named George), a civilian employee who....
By
naming the
animals Adam shows his power over them and puts them in their place within the order
of Creation.
Adam is confirmed as the head
of creation when God brings all the
animals to him so that he can give each one a
name (Gen. 2:19).
An important remark, often forgotten, needs to be made, however: when it says that Adam
names the
animals, the passage underlines the gratuitousness and ease
of language.
God's declaration in the first creation narrative (which is later than the second one), situating Adam as lord
of creation, corresponds precisely to Adam's
naming of the
animals in the second narrative.
Another powerful image in the biblical tradition that is helpful in the development
of a theology
of nature is found in the second chapter
of Genesis where God commissions Adam to
name the
animals.
The Divine resolution to bestow a companion on Adam met the wishes
of man, who had been overcome by a feeling
of isolation when the
animals came to him in pairs to be
named.
In the Latin Vulgate however, the translators used the words «unicornis, unicornium, rinocerota, rinocerotis, and rinoceros» whose English rendering in the KJV is «unicorn» for the
name of this horned
animal each time it occurred: Job 39:9 - 10, Numbers 23:22, 24:8, Psalm 22:22, 29:6, 92:10, Deuteronomy 33:17, and Isaiah 34:7.
The
animal, known to science as Anchiornis huxleyi (
named in honour
of Thomas Huxley, an early advocate
of Darwin's ideas) is an older species than Archaeopteryx by some 10 million years, being dated to the lateJurassic period, c. 151 - 161 millions years ago.
If one spoke
of a dog
named Rex, one referred to an actual
animal that existed independently
of the language about it.
His dormant powers
of reason — which is, at bottom, the capacity to separate and combine, to see otherness and sameness — are awakened by this confrontation; the
names he gives the
animals may he arbitrary, but the differences ratified by the different
names are not.
It's funny how that Florida pastor got wrath from arround the world, but no one seems to be «offended» by this
animal openly calling for murder in the
name of that so called «religion
of peace».
Robin Fox is an English anthropologist who has authored, with the equally delightfully
named Lionel Tiger, The Imperial
Animal and many other works making the case for the «nature» side
of the interminable nature / nurture controversy over how best to understand why human beings do what they do.
Humans are still not evolved much beyond
animals — we believe a book that was, literally, cobbled together from several questionable sources all in the
name of bringing as many religions together as possible over 2000 years ago.
A command not to Do (Do not associate any partner with Allah, do not make a prophet as son
of Allah, do not say Allah has a son or daughter or wife, do not distinguish between prophets, do not make an angel as one
of three (referring to trinity concept), do not disobey parents, do not kill, do not harm, do not steal, do not eat dead meat, do not eat meat from the
animal was sacrificed in the
name of Idols, do not drink, do not fornicate or adultery, do not look down to orphan and poor, do not spread the fasaad (trouble) on the earth and so on...)
In order to carry out my mission to increase and multiply the lab
animal population
of the armed forces
of the United States, I was placed under the direction
of an eccentric old man (also
named George), a civilian employee who had spent over a decade helping monkeys reproduce in that laboratory colony.
Al - Anaam sura 06: In the
name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful There is not an
animal in the earth, nor a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are peoples like unto you.
The three states which form the basis
of the original human condition he says are: original solitude (before the creation
of the woman and before original sin man recognises himself as «alone in the world» as he is different from the rest
of creation as he is a co-creator with God (through
naming of the
animals) yet is not the same as God.
(4) 2:19 --»... in the garden
of Eden God saw the
animals before he
named them: in the traditional system [
of education] children
named the
animals before they saw them» (SMW 285).
Adam
named the
animals but could not write and the Jews didn't learn to write for thousands
of years later and copied from religions (Sumerians) in the region established well before Adam / Eve.
This
name has been given to them because during the time
of offering sacrifices they kill the sacrificial
animal.
Released on Banga (2012), it begins with an homage to St. Francis and his love
of animals, but while visiting the church that bears his
name, Smith «feels another call from the basilica itself.»
The superiority
of man to the
animals is further emphasized by the incident
of man's
naming of all the living creatures.
It's just a sorry excuse to kill
animals in the
name of religion.
The first rule
of human -
animal relationships is this: Never
name an
animal that isn't your pet.
If Adam had enough knowledge to intelligently
name all the
animals, either he had already eaten
of the fruit
of knowledge, or God didn't need to forbid him the fruit.
The company's patented Ovis Cycle system,
named for the Latin word for sheep, involves ranching 300 head
of the titular
animals on the 1,200 acres
of farmland on its home property in Clearlake Oaks, Calif..
After the
animals are cruelly slaughtered the fur is then treated with a number
of toxic chemicals in order to preserve it including ammonia, formaldehyde, hydrogen peroxide and bleaching agents to
name but a few!
And when I say «meat», I mean, dead
animals of all kinds in various forms: pigs, rabbits, frogs, ducks, cows, you
name it.
The
name originated from blue, the royal color
of the Thai flag, and the national
animal of Thailand, the elephant.
We already have a number
of dead zones and fish dependent
animals dying off at an alarming rate (whales, sharks, polar bears to
name a few).