Terrorists will no longer suffer a labyrinthine fate

[Kyriakos]

What do you think of this endless turn of pretty much the same pattern of events?


Link to video.

This is just the latest news on the closing of the previous daedalic system of torture, and whether its end will also signify larger reforms in the pre-emptive dealings with terrorists.

While those journalists mostly are keen to focus on the actual ethics of this kind of treatment, personally i think that the use of a minotaur against the terrorism suspects is ok, as long as those people are in groups of seven, both sexes, sent every 9 years, and the place is carefully planned out by Daedalos.

+someone killed the son of the king while he was taking part in a major sports event.

 

[BvBPL]

I can only hope this presages a Black Flag reunion tour by sea.

 

[Labtec600]

Eh, not interested. I wish they would use the live polling more - always made live politics much more interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFpK_r-jEXg

 

[Berzerker]

why the 7 & 9

and why is 13 "unlucky"

 

[Kyriakos]

If you ask for the reason those numbers were linked to the labyrinth, i am not sure, but the myth goes that 7 young males and 7 young females were to be sent to the labyrinth every 9 years, so as to be the food of the Minotaur.

Theseus ended that. According to the same myth the original reason for the tribute given by Athens to Crete was the murder of a son of Minos in Athens, after he had won some of the local game events there.

 

[Borachio]

Let me get this right.

Daedalus was invited by Minos to construct the labyrinth to hide the result of Pasiphae's (Minos's queen) consorting with a "magnificent snow-white, seaborn bull". And she had done this by having Daedalus construct a wooden cow, in which she hid, thus fooling the bull.

I suspect Daedalus had too much of a hand in this, altogether.

Never mind that Minos, himself, was the result of congress between Europa and Zeus - in the form of a bull!

 

[Kyriakos]

Let me get this right.

Daedalus was invited by Minos to construct the labyrinth to hide the result of Pasiphae's (Minos's queen) consorting with a "magnificent snow-white, seaborn bull". And she had done this by having Daedalus construct a wooden cow, in which she hid, thus fooling the bull.

I suspect Daedalus had too much of a hand in this, altogether.

Never mind that Minos, himself, was the result of congress between Europa and Zeus - in the form of a bull!

Pretty much, although there are two notes to be made:

1) Pasiphae was supposedly 'normal' before Minos thought it would be great to trick Poseidon by sacrificing some other bull to him and not that white bull he had pledged. Poseidon had a sense of humor, so used that bull still...

2) Minos was a title, not just a name, so that Minos in the labyrinth story is not the first one and is not directly related to gods (edit: i think it is so, although i see the wiki link claims otherwise, but iirc this was at least the second Minos)

 

[Borachio]

It has to said that Sean Connery did have some help slaying the Minotaur.


Link to video.

 

[SouthernKing]

I always thought Percy Jackson slayed the Minotaur on Long Island in 2005?

 

[Kyriakos]

It has to said that Sean Connery did have some help slaying the Minotaur.

[Connery film]

That is Connery?

He used to be in some cool movies He was again, later than that (eg In the name of the Rose).

 

[Borachio]

Yup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Bandits#Cast