Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Divine Insperation
so as we all know its really hard to avoid doing something Dr. Sexson tells you to do, and that held true in the case of the epiphany. driving around delivering food today it struck me, my brand new out look on life. and as all good things do, it came from something Dr. Sexson said. when he quoted Frye yesterday about the kingdom of heaven being here on Earth and told us that we need to live in the moment, truer words have never been spoken. today it dawned on me that baring some freak groundhog's day happenings, this is the only chance at today i'm likely to get so why not make the most of it? So far every today has been followed by a tomorrow, but who knows when that train's gonna pull into its station? who knows when our days will be up? will I for one am planning of going down swinging, no matter when that day comes.
Monday, October 18, 2010
saint milton
upon discovering that the devil is not from the bible but rather from other works with christian influence, I decided to investigate this character more fully by reading these other works. To start of with a bang and some really interesting not at all dense writing I decided to begin my investigation with Milton's Paradise lost. So right off the bat I found something Milton says to be very interesting, he claims that not only was the eating of the forbidden fruit all part of some greater plot of God's, but also that God was right to do so. He had greater plans for us then to be his witless puppets wasting the days away in the garden. God saw the potential in us to be more then that, he saw that with the knowledge of good and evil and the invisibility of death we could achieve much. What I mean by the ladder of that is that I see death as much a part of our success as knowledge. because think about it if we didn't die we wouldn't do anything. Death motivates us in two ways the first being by being the villain that unifies everyone and drives us to find ways to fight it off as long as possible, in essence we are working to regain the gift God took away. and the other way it drives us is by making us strive to do something so great as to leave our mark in the world we leave behind after the cold embrace of death takes us.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
biligual devils
in the story of the tower of Babel, man creates a tower so high that is is bordering on heaven itself. and this can be attributed to one of to things either man wanting to be closer to god out of love or ego. god seemed to think the ladder, and devised a fascinating punishment for those who built it, he confounded the languages. he made it so people could no longer communicate on a level beyond the very simple. and for a long time this was a debilitating punishment, but it couldn't last forever. now that we have translators who can in essence un-confound the languages whats to stop us from stretching our hands to the havens again?
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