RE: Jesus and the birds
February 23, 2021 at 2:23 pm
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2021 at 2:38 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It might be good advice for birds, but not for people. The notion that a god provides anything for birds has already been addressed. They aren't given anything unless they're kept as pets or livestock.....and even then....
They work hard, and alot of them die anyway. I wouldn't trade places with them. Theirs is a life of toil and pain and endless fear and being eaten alive asshole first. We worry about these things because it is rational and in our best interests to do so - any advice exhorting us to be like birds, however we parse it, is a suicide pact. The people who wrote that passage were the luddites of their own time - imagining that it would be better if we could rewind the clock to some natural state they'd never known and had idealized in ignorance. If that's the kind of good advice the author of creation has to dole out to we lowly human worms...... hard pass. It's clear, if this is a gods idea, that we've exceeded the boundaries of that gods plans or imagination quite some time ago. As such, it has nothing authoritative to say on the matter of how humans should be or live or provide. This would be like taking advice on how to build a supersonic jet from the orville bros, and that's if we're being generous to the hypothetical god who tells us to fuck off and be like pigeons.
Beyond the items of some local superstition about birdgod godbird - the passage, like bobby's song, is a salve for people who cannot genuinely discharge their frustrations. People facing an unresolvable dilemma (real or imagined), which is a thing that happens, and so every human culture or ideology has just such an expression. It's a deepity. Profound seeming, maybe, but trivial on one level and meaningless on another.
They work hard, and alot of them die anyway. I wouldn't trade places with them. Theirs is a life of toil and pain and endless fear and being eaten alive asshole first. We worry about these things because it is rational and in our best interests to do so - any advice exhorting us to be like birds, however we parse it, is a suicide pact. The people who wrote that passage were the luddites of their own time - imagining that it would be better if we could rewind the clock to some natural state they'd never known and had idealized in ignorance. If that's the kind of good advice the author of creation has to dole out to we lowly human worms...... hard pass. It's clear, if this is a gods idea, that we've exceeded the boundaries of that gods plans or imagination quite some time ago. As such, it has nothing authoritative to say on the matter of how humans should be or live or provide. This would be like taking advice on how to build a supersonic jet from the orville bros, and that's if we're being generous to the hypothetical god who tells us to fuck off and be like pigeons.
Beyond the items of some local superstition about birdgod godbird - the passage, like bobby's song, is a salve for people who cannot genuinely discharge their frustrations. People facing an unresolvable dilemma (real or imagined), which is a thing that happens, and so every human culture or ideology has just such an expression. It's a deepity. Profound seeming, maybe, but trivial on one level and meaningless on another.
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