Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth

@fun4us2b I'm willing to bet that calling weak people pansies started out as an ironic thing, and folks just didn't get the joke.

@LordShadowfire Ya never know !! Word and phrase origin is so interesting and often surprising...

@fun4us2b I know that calling people Nimrod as an insult began because Daffy Duck used it ironically to describe Elmer Fudd as a "mighty hunter".

@OogieBoogie I understand, it's just sounds suspicious to me, and the first googling I did pretty much denied the whole concept, though later research gives a bit more support to it. As to "hostile" in the concept, that would seem to come from the whole concept of a "war" horse -- they weren't designed for peace. I've also come across some explanations of why Jesus would have ridden an ass and that he would have had nothing to do with horses at all. It just gets more cloudy, it seems to me. Makes one wonder why the translations settled on the word "meek" in English when there were so many other options. The most reasonable to me would seem to be something like "compliant to the will of God"?

@OogieBoogie Plus it's just fun to looks into these things. :)

@ChipmunkErnie why they chose the word meek, i presume it is a fair bit about being compliant.
And yes, there is an altruism to it being about God, i also see it was also about control of the peasants.
(They wont want or revolt if they believe being humble and passive brings them eternal paradise).
So "meek" was a good choice as it could be misconstrued.

You gotta let go the idea about it physically being about horses.
It isnt.
Its about a word used to describe a trait of a trained warhorse.
Its like i could say rainbows are beautiful, but its not about rainbows, its about the word i chose to describe the rainbow, which was 'beautiful' .

- if you see what i mean?

I find it fascinating. Language is an incredibly poweful thing:
-how we speak it,
- the world we choose
- how we lay words down...
... We can emote so much.
We can be aggressive and violent or speak words of passion and love...
...all with the same words.
They are like paintings in which the meaning is in the mind of the reader and the skill of the writer. And neither may be exactly the same.

Religion is also incredibly fascinating. Its history, its evolution, where it comes from and where its going.
How its blended with facts and fables, science and philosophy.
How it can connect two ancient civilisations half a planet apart with no history of ever meering.
How gods of different times or places can mimic one another.
Its all like a huge jigsaw puzzle thrown on mankind's evolution: there is a picture yet to form and pieces yet to connect.
Religion may be the fractured history that binds the macrocosm to our consciousness, and our future selves to our beginnings.

@KiwiBird 😂😂😅
Seems my posts got a theme going 😂

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout too good a script that movie😅