LoathsomePete said:
What a week for crazy headlines it has been. First we have a Korean teacher beating students and then masturbating in the hallway, then a man from Ohio getting arrested for having sex with his neighbor's inflatable raft, and now this.
Funny how all of them involve penises.
templar1138a said:
Signa said:
erttheking said:
God, imagine if a primitive race develops on Mars and they think that is the sign of God.
Just imagine all the people that wear crosses on Earth, but instead it would be the symbol of their god on Mars.
Or even better, if they all have Stargate Jaffa, but the symbol is tattooed on their forehead.
An alien culture revering the penis as a holy symbol? The cross simile isn't far off. After all, the cross comes from one of the most painful ways to die that humans have come up with.
Also, more than a few of our own cultures have revered the penis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapus
And plenty still do.
Seriously, imagine, long after we're dead and gone, aliens visit Mars. They look at those symbols and wonder what they could be. Maybe it really is just tracks in the dirt, or maybe they're some sort of religious symbol. Maybe it's a way of trying to communicate. They set up civilizations, wondering what these things are, visiting earth, and so on. They find the remains of cities, see these crude drawings all over bathroom stalls which they begin to believe are places where humans went to worship. They discover fossilized human skeletons, but can't tell from the bones that there was at one point a cock on the creature they're examining. They create all these fanciful scenarios, but nothing seems quite right to them. Why are they crudely drawn? Why aren't there more of them around? What is it a picture of anyway?
And then, one day, one of them makes a discovery. Maybe it's an old statue, maybe it's a preserved human corpse. Or maybe it's just a porno stash in a remarkably well-preserved hard drive. Whatever the case, they take a close look at the figure, and all of a sudden it hits them; this civilization was drawing their reproductive organs on other planets. All of a sudden their view of our entire culture is changed from one of mystery and legend to a bunch of evolved monkeys showing off their dicks.
I, for one, am looking forward to being a ghost during this time period.