I have a very pretty friend here on myspace that told me not long ago that:
"Oh....looks can be so deceiving. You should know this. Pretty girls have snakes in their heads....lol."
Well, I've pondered this as a question a lot lately because I'm not too sure that it's true. I've been married more than once and have dated several other pretty ladies over the years, so I do have some experiences to draw from. One of my ex'es in particular is extremely pretty and I know for a fact that she doesn't have snakes in her head. She does have sharks, piranhas, alligators, spiders, komodo dragons, fire ants, scorpions, killer bees, wasps, termites, crocodiles, and hornets, but no snakes. Snakes are afraid to go in there. I do think I saw the Loch Ness Monster in there once, but I'm not really sure, whatever it was was gone by the time I was able to get out the video camera.
But back to point, I was raised in the old school that says girls are made of sugar and spice and every thing nice, while it was us boys who are made of snakes (along with snails and the occasional puppy dog tail). Or you could of course take the Biblical viewpoint that God made man from the dust of the Earth and subsequently made woman from man's rib, which perhaps would explain why most every time I kiss a pretty lady I get a distinct craving for barbeque sauce.
And of course there is always the issue of why do you ladies always get not one but TWO extra letters? For example, I am a man, you are a WO-man, I am a male, you are a FE-male. If you recall the Bible story, God created the heavens, the earth, the light, the sun, the moon, the stars, the firmament, the plants, the animals, the fish of the seas, the fowls of the air, and all of the creeping things, and at every stage of creation, He looked at it, and said it was GOOD. Then He created man. And said "It is NOT GOOD . . . . that man should be alone," so He created woman. I believe she was called woman because when Adam woke up and took one look at her, he said "WHOA!!! MAN!!!" but the Bible is not really clear on this point.
Now, there are those that say God created man before woman because He wanted to make a practice run before performing His ULTIMATE creation, woman. I believe, however, that He created woman second because when He created man, He didn't want anybody telling Him how to do it.
I think I have also figured out the male/female thing: if you want this male, you can have me for free, but if I want that male, there's a FEE involved. Now Adam was married to the prettiest girl on the entire Earth (we know this because she was actually the ONLY girl on the entire Earth at the time), and the Bible does tell us that she allowed the snake to get inside of her head which is why she proceeded to become the first woman to eat her husband out of house and home.
I am reminded of the line from the movie "As Good As It Gets" when Jack Nicholson's charactor is asked how he writes women charactors so well in his novels, he replies "I think of a man, then I take away reason and accountability."
Being among other things a mathematician, I have been able to reduce this whole question to a mathematical derivation:
In order to get a woman, a man has to spend both time and money, so from a man's point of view
woman = time * money
now we all know that time is money, or
time = money
so that
woman = money * money
or
woman = money2
but the Bible also tells us that money is the root of all evil, or
money = SQRT(evil)
which gives us finally
woman = (SQRT(evil))2
which simplifies to
woman = evil
Snakes apparently are optional.
All kidding aside, though, the Bible does say
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned— Romans 5:12
Apparently Paul lets Eve off the hook there when he says "through one MAN sin entered the world," but the "all sinned" part applies to both genders. It also says
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23
Which says in a nutshell that in order to avoid the duly earned consequences of our sins which is eternal death and separation from God in Hell, we each individually must turn our lives over completely to Jesus as our Savior and as the Lord of our lives with absolutely nothing held back. If you've never done this, there's no better time than the present . . .
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