Posted by Zeus on February 01, 2000 at 09:58:55 PM EST:
In Reply to: Re:sponce... (frivolous) posted by Hate Company on February 01, 2000 at 07:39:29 PM EST:
: Which was the last thing left in Pandora's box according to the ancient Greek myth?
Pandora (Greek : "All-Giving"), in Greek mythology, the first woman.
After Prometheus, a fire god and divine trickster, had stolen fire from heaven and bestowed it upon mortals, Zeus, the king of the gods, determined to counteract this blessing.
He accordingly commissioned Hephaestus (another god of fire and patron of craftsmen) to fashion a woman out of earth, upon whom each god bestowed their choicest gifts and seductions.
She had also a jar--the so-called Pandora's box--containing all manner of misery and evil.
Zeus sent her to Epimetheus, who forgot the warning of his brother Prometheus and made her his wife.
Pandora afterward opened the jar, from which all the evils flew out over the earth.
According to another version, Hope alone remained inside, the lid having been shut down before she could escape. Hope, the worst evil of all?
In a later story the jar contained not evils but blessings, which would have been preserved for the human race had they not been lost through the opening of the jar out of curiosity by man himself.
Summary : you don't like Prometheus and women, you prefer despair and hate and you are against curious humans... But I don't blame you, nihilism is a necessary step before understanding what we are really doing here.