disc@houxz.UUCP (OPUS) (09/07/84)
-> Ok, here's a question about Asgard. -> Most cultures advance slowly towards mechanization. Man's -> civilization started out as nomad tribes and now look at all the -> wonderful machines we have {:-) But after looking at Asgard we -> see that something is wrong. They continue to fight with swords -> and mystical hammers (effective hammers, but still just hammers.) -> They haven't advanced in technology. They are basically back in the -> Middle Ages and it would seen that their culture is stagnant. Doesn't -> this strike you as odd? Not necessarily, when you consider Ragnarok (sp?). What's the point of progress when all civilization is fated to be nuked (more or less) in X number of years? -Sex, Drugs, Ragnarok 'n Roll.... Scott J. Berry ...!houxz!disc
dwc@hou2b.UUCP (D.CHEN) (09/08/84)
marvel has revealed to us thru the current thor storyline (and way back when the celestials made their appearance in thor) that the asgardians and the other mythical earth gods do not represent any conventional civilization. in fact, they can be considered just extensions of a collective human consciousness (can anyone tell me what i just said???) the gods go thru a cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. there is no real need for them to advance technologically. they simply reflect the state of civilization at the time they are reborn. this set of asgardians were born about 2000 years ago (according to the celestials saga). if they look primitive, you should have seen the norse gods that were around before them. at least the asgardians dress nice. and the gods that were around about 5000 years ago were even more different (the asgardian cycle was about 2000 years). their odin was called woden.
lmaher@uokvax.UUCP (09/09/84)
#R:houxz:-95200:uokvax:11900033:000:565 uokvax!lmaher Sep 9 15:51:00 1984 > ... What's > the point of progress when all civilization is fated to be > nuked (more or less) in X number of years? > > Scott J. Berry > ...!houxz!disc Not only in X years, but more like *every* X years. Anyone have a count of how many times Ragnarok has occurred in Thor? I'd like to see Simonson (or someone) do it with the correct outcome - i.e. the gods dead and a long period of darkness. How about that as a What If? What If Ragnarok only happened once? Everyone (almost) dies in the end, so they could do it. :-( Carl ..!ctvax!uokvax!lmaher