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( WonderChick16 )
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I don't know how else to explain the title, sorry. I mean, there's Father Time, Mother Nature, ect... Then God is a "He," Earth is a "She," and I know there's some other stuff I'm forgetting but oh well. Why do we make them females/males?
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JackieisBlue
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Because humans, by nature, usually have to apply a face to a concept before they can understand it.
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Cause I'm in too deep, and I'm trying to keep,
Up above in my head, instead of going under.
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TheLastMagister
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Your right, praised be to the lord. The Heshe who has created all!
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I will never be a memory.
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Trastie
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What do you refer to them as?
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Stop exploding, you cowards!
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blufindr
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because it sounds better than calling them "it" all the time.
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[ℓiחŋie]&[вeиηy]
Someday when you're lonely / Sometime after all this bliss
Somewhere lost in emptiness / I hope you find this gift
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Aero360
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Don't forget, cars are females.
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Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
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10:20 pm on July 6, 2008 | Joined Jan. 2006 | 658 Days Active
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Joep0113
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To give them a personality or make them seem more human
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No Pity, No Remorse, No Fear! - Black Templar ftw! Warhammer 40k anyone?
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Baron Samedi
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I want to know why all boats are women.
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Get off my plane.
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porcelain cinderella
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"It" would be disrespectful
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When we're taught to love everyone,to love our
enemies,what value does that place on love?
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Porcelina
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Mother Nature and Father Sky come from Native Americans. Mother Nature is powerful, and in Native American belief women hold all the power and are the ones that give it to the men. Mother Nature creates everything that one needs to exist, and so whenever a Native American takes from the Earth they are sure to practice ceremonies, to appreciate Her.
Father Sky holds sky medicine, which is spoken word and stories. Stories are ceremonies, which heal when Mother Earth has been wronged.
Somebody might argue that the Sky is the Father because stories are passed from generation to generation, like how in typical white societies families are patrilineal, however Native American families are matrilineal. Although that has obviously changed in recent times.
If I can find my notes I might be able to get back to you with absolutely accurate information.
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Nature/Earth has female connotations because those are things that usually bring up thoughts of creation (i.e. birth). 
