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 Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:25 pm
>> Well, I take Art History. At the moment we're just easing into our first real topic, which is Neo-classicism, and will be studying works from the French Revolution and the sorts (David, Ingres etc)
Anyways, before that the teacher was just making us analyze a few paintings to get our language and vocabulary of art settled. We studied a religious painting.. I forgot what it was.. sorry sweatdrop . Anyways the archangel (I think it was Gabriel?) looked to me as if it represented both genders. I asked the teacher this, and she said:
"(Arch)angels are genderless.."
Well... I didn't know that.
This was at the beginning of the week, so I may have forgotten some essential parts in this.
Please feel free to correct me. <<
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:29 am
Yes, they have no gender. Another tidbit of infor for you: the Archangel Gabriel was among the highest class of angels. He was a Seraphim, the angels closest to God. They have three pairs of wings, I think, or was it more....?
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:18 am
Gabriel olny became the closest angel to god after Lusifer was cast out. Angels yes are genderless, but when they apear to humans we ofton depict them as either male or female, I think this is because when they come to earth they chose one of the genders to apear as.
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:46 am
Eirisse Yes, they have no gender. Another tidbit of infor for you: the Archangel Gabriel was among the highest class of angels. He was a Seraphim, the angels closest to God. They have three pairs of wings, I think, or was it more....? The White Witch of Narnia.. Heehee..
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:33 pm
J_walker_anonymous Gabriel olny became the closest angel to god after Lusifer was cast out. Angels yes are genderless, but when they apear to humans we ofton depict them as either male or female, I think this is because when they come to earth they chose one of the genders to apear as. Yeah they don't have a specific physical form so they take the form of one of the genders. Probably the one that is most similar to who they are.
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:27 pm
J_walker_anonymous Gabriel olny became the closest angel to god after Lusifer was cast out. Angels yes are genderless, but when they apear to humans we ofton depict them as either male or female, I think this is because when they come to earth they chose one of the genders to apear as. or maybe they are so androgynous we jsut pick one surprised
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:27 pm
Zehruk J_walker_anonymous Gabriel olny became the closest angel to god after Lusifer was cast out. Angels yes are genderless, but when they apear to humans we ofton depict them as either male or female, I think this is because when they come to earth they chose one of the genders to apear as. Yeah they don't have a specific physical form so they take the form of one of the genders. Probably the one that is most similar to who they are. ;-; i wish I could change gender like that ;-;
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 7:44 pm
Kyuka J_walker_anonymous Gabriel olny became the closest angel to god after Lusifer was cast out. Angels yes are genderless, but when they apear to humans we ofton depict them as either male or female, I think this is because when they come to earth they chose one of the genders to apear as. or maybe they are so androgynous we jsut pick one surprised Or that, Its sounds like somthing we would do, because weather Humans like to admit it or not we are very closed minded and self cented. I am not saying that any one inparticular here is like that its just what humans do sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:07 pm
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:29 am
I've always found it slightly unnerving, their being genderless. sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:07 pm
Thats pretty interesting 3nodding
What about Lucifer though? Was he genderless because we all refer to him as "He". Male.
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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 7:59 pm
Moonlight_HuangHou Thats pretty interesting 3nodding What about Lucifer though? Was he genderless because we all refer to him as "He". Male. Technically he is genderless but humans need to define things as one thing and not none so the define it in a specific gender and based on the history and stories the give them a gender, so they called him a male. It's like God, they call him father while technically he has no gender but they need to associate it with something like a father.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:29 am
Zehruk Moonlight_HuangHou Thats pretty interesting 3nodding What about Lucifer though? Was he genderless because we all refer to him as "He". Male. Technically he is genderless but humans need to define things as one thing and not none so the define it in a specific gender and based on the history and stories the give them a gender, so they called him a male. It's like God, they call him father while technically he has no gender but they need to associate it with something like a father. but he could be mother though surprised ?
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 5:51 pm
J_walker_anonymous Gabriel olny became the closest angel to god after Lusifer was cast out. Angels yes are genderless, but when they apear to humans we ofton depict them as either male or female, I think this is because when they come to earth they chose one of the genders to apear as. I agree totally. Angels choose the gender they want to use.
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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 8:26 pm
>> Maybe they're genderless to make a point that the male and female are equal in status.. ?
Did that make sense? I feel the need to elaborate, however I'm drained today sweatdrop <<
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