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Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Easter Good and Evil Oddity
As my mother recently put it, Easter seems like a sort of macabre holiday. We celbrate the martyrdom of Jesus just the way some Muslims celebrate the martyrdom of a suicide bomber. Odd, I think.
Another odd thing is that most "civilized" culture has bought into this good vs. evil thing. It seems to me that good and evil, and the knowledge thereof are what we received when partaking of the forbidden fruit. It was forbidden, I think, because it leads one down a path of misery and destruction, shame and limitation. It seems to me that in the moment "adam and eve" took the fruit and ate it, that was the moment they accepted the knowledge of good and evil as a dualistic concept of the universe, and hence created a separation from God. As Bonhoffer said, shame is a result of our perception that we are missing something fundamental (i.e. we have the idea that the Holy Spirit is not within us). So, to me, the story in the bible tells us not that we are flawed and we must accept that, it tells us that we will have a flawed concept of God if we believe in the dualistic version of how things are, good vs. evil. We're better off realizing that we have created this myth and we'll be a whole lot better off in the world (and in our neighborhoods) if we merely discuss what works and doesn't work rather than who is GOOD or EVIL, since good and evil don't exist except in our creative minds, the minds that created the concept in the first place. The bible tells us so.
Sincerely,
Tad
Another odd thing is that most "civilized" culture has bought into this good vs. evil thing. It seems to me that good and evil, and the knowledge thereof are what we received when partaking of the forbidden fruit. It was forbidden, I think, because it leads one down a path of misery and destruction, shame and limitation. It seems to me that in the moment "adam and eve" took the fruit and ate it, that was the moment they accepted the knowledge of good and evil as a dualistic concept of the universe, and hence created a separation from God. As Bonhoffer said, shame is a result of our perception that we are missing something fundamental (i.e. we have the idea that the Holy Spirit is not within us). So, to me, the story in the bible tells us not that we are flawed and we must accept that, it tells us that we will have a flawed concept of God if we believe in the dualistic version of how things are, good vs. evil. We're better off realizing that we have created this myth and we'll be a whole lot better off in the world (and in our neighborhoods) if we merely discuss what works and doesn't work rather than who is GOOD or EVIL, since good and evil don't exist except in our creative minds, the minds that created the concept in the first place. The bible tells us so.
Sincerely,
Tad
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Why does everything seem to cause cancer?
Because it does. Because we're finding more and more consequences to the artifical means we use to "get ahead" including things like MTBE, food preservatives, pesticides, genetic engineering. All of these problematic enviromental hazards are results of trying to cut corners. We've been doing this in America for centuries. Now we're teaching the developing nations to have the same irresponsible behavior...except that our corporations and our government seem to be more irresponsible with these countries because they are not our home.
Economics of Sustainability
"... stocks of companies that account for their social, financial & environmental impact outperform the stocks of those that don't."
-As seen on the Dow jones Sustainability Group Index
-As seen on the Dow jones Sustainability Group Index
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