RE: Defending Pantheism
May 3, 2019 at 4:31 am
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2019 at 4:45 am by The Grand Nudger.)
A literal reading has nothing whatsoever to do with disobedience or moral issues. That's just a tradition that's sprung up over time.
We'd taken the wisdom that was forbade us, but this was punished with a curse. It was to prevent the combination of wisdom and eternal life that we got the boot. In the pantheistic and biblical sense, it was done in order to prevent us from becoming fully divine. I get a kick out of how this story is called The Fall. More of a push, really. At least in this version of events, there's no third party to absorb a promethean sentence on our behalf, though.
It's a good example of the amorphous nature of metaphor, as the biblical account, the tradition of disobediance, and the fall into division are three distinct ideas on how we came to be in such a state as we are, halfway between the mundane and divine as we conceive of it. The story, in and of itself, is a metaphor for puberty. As a human comes of age, so too did man. This meant that we had to leave our fathers house, work the earth, and hey ho!..eve was gonna get preggers. Our cursed state.
Joy.
Quote:The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side[e] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
We'd taken the wisdom that was forbade us, but this was punished with a curse. It was to prevent the combination of wisdom and eternal life that we got the boot. In the pantheistic and biblical sense, it was done in order to prevent us from becoming fully divine. I get a kick out of how this story is called The Fall. More of a push, really. At least in this version of events, there's no third party to absorb a promethean sentence on our behalf, though.
It's a good example of the amorphous nature of metaphor, as the biblical account, the tradition of disobediance, and the fall into division are three distinct ideas on how we came to be in such a state as we are, halfway between the mundane and divine as we conceive of it. The story, in and of itself, is a metaphor for puberty. As a human comes of age, so too did man. This meant that we had to leave our fathers house, work the earth, and hey ho!..eve was gonna get preggers. Our cursed state.
Joy.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
