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Twenty-first century progressive Christians often have a hard time with the story of Adam and Eve, as told in the third chapter of Genesis –
"...what if these words are not a prescription, but a diagnosis? What if the man’s hard agricultural labour and the woman’s pain in childbearing are simply things that the writers of Genesis observed in the world around them, and decided that these things were, in fact, not the way the world should be, and therefore sought an explanation in the origin myth of their culture?
Given that the people who wrote down the story of the Fall were almost certainly high-status men (because nobody else in that time and place would have been literate), it is fairly astonishing that they saw their own privilege, and the labour and pain of lower-status men and of women, not as the divine order of things, but rather as the result of a cosmic rupture,a wrong that cried out for righting.
And what, precisely, is this wrong? What is the “knowledge of good and evil” that was so dangerous that Adam and Eve had to be warned away from it on pain of death?"
was playing "fetch" with the ocean today by tossing stones into it and watching them wash back up with the tide a few meters away, and it got me thinking about grief and the things we carry with us even after we lose them
at its root, genesis 3 (the fall of humanity) is a mythology that tells a story of humans transitioning into agricultural societies and civilizations... and all the messiness that entails.
objectively funny that humans created agriculture and almost immediately was like "yeah we fucked up. it is what it is though."
You ever see someone call for violet revolution and just -know- they've never so much as slaughtered an animal for food, let alone placed incredible violence on a human being?
Before you say "Animals are innocent," so are some of the people you will have to kill to make your revolution happen.
Innocent people will have to not only die, but be killed. Good people, even.
You will have to kill them.
You won't have the stomach, because you likely have a good, if flawed, nature.
Your fellow revolutionaries, who will kill you, will not have that.
Have fun with that.
Uh, I don't think when revolutionary people say "violent revolution" they mean "let's go kill a random half of the population". It means "let's irreversibly harm the lives of the corrupt people in power". What, do you think we're animals? Even if violent revolution meant murder explicitly, we know the difference between those who are innocent and those who harm the lives of others.
You will, in the course of your revolution, have to kill innocent people.
You will be required, by the course of reality, the lack of proper information, and the fact that not all innocent people will support you, have to kill innocent people.
You don't understand this, because you likely don't have a comprehension of the depth and breadth of both the problem and the depravity of the solution you would posit.
Being ignorant of these facts does not make them any less real, or true, and your intent means nothing compared to the results, which will be that the streets will fill with the offal and blood of innocent people.
A violent revolution does not care greatly for Blackstone's Formulation. It will snap up innocent and guilty alike, and it will permanently damage all those that engage in it, in ways you cannot reasonably comprehend.
The same people who want this revolution have no arms, have no training, Have no resources, no land, no food, have no means beyond to beg the same men they hate, the police and the state, to do the work of their petty jealousies. That isn't a revolution, that's a coup, an overtaking of the system for the sake of the ideologically posessed at the expense of due process and the innocent, yet again.
To you, whether you articulate it or not, the innocent you will kill are merely incidental. Excused away as acceptable losses, counter-revolutionaries, or not firm enough in their conviction and thereby suitable fodder.
And those who come after you, the more extreme, the more severe, the more willing to be violent and do harm and violate, in every sense of the word, the good and the innocent, will string you up, and feed on you.
You will lament, confused, as has always happened in these sort of things, and cry out "Have I not been a good revolutionary?" As you hold in your intestines from the bayonet, as you cry and bleed in a gutter of the rubble that was once a home, a nation, a place of life, imperfect, but vital, you will remember these words.
Gnash your teeth, and bite your tongue, eat the ash you turned the fields to, and bury yourself under the rubble of the homes you've destroyed. Lament the innocence you violated, your own, and others, posessed by an ideal that was always homicidal, abusive, and vitriolic.
Always remember, revolutionary.
You walk on a thin crust of civility held together by rare and precious things, spun like fine silk.
And below that, is a chasm of hell and depravity so deep and abiding it has eaten entire civilizations, a screaming, hateful void of every indignity and violation, done in an endless cycle of abuse and retribution.
Those precious things strain, like catgut wound too tight.
You can hear them singing, if you listen.
Tread lightly.
thinking about when my friend found a book from the 70s in a church office with truly some of the most insane prayers I have ever heard
"Sometimes while I ride the subway I try to look at each person and imagine what they look like to someone who is totally in love with them. I think everyone has had someone look at them that way, whether it was a lover, or a parent, or a friend, whether they know it or not. It's a wonderful thing, to look at someone to whom I would never be attracted and think about what looking at them feels like to someone who is devouring every part of their image, who has invisible strings that are connected to this person tied to every part of their body. I think this fun pastime is a way of cultivating compassion. It feels good to think about people that way, and to use that part of my mind that I think is traditionally reserved for a tiny portion of people I'll meet in my life to appreciate the general public. I wish I thought about people like this more often. I think it's the opposite of what our culture teaches us to do. We prefer to pick people apart to find their flaws. Cultivating these feelings of love or appreciation for random people, and even for people I don't like, makes me a more forgiving and appreciative person toward myself and people I love. Also, it's just a really excellent pastime."
— Dean Spade, from his essay For Lovers and Fighters
in your 20s you must rediscover the joys of arts and crafts to stave off spiritual decay
you put the rocks in the bag you carry it as long as you can then you find somewhere you love and you put the rocks down. brennan lee mulligan you can’t keep doing this to me. i’m fragile and susceptible to poignant quotes about the meaning of life from improv comedians. i’m gonna think about this forever.
Brennan Lee Mulligan fully understood the assignment of season finale
Well.
That. That um.
Yeah. That.
Take up space . At work. In your relationships. On the train. Don’t make yourself small for anyone.
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