Re: Thank you for a new term.
Submitted by JohnDoe420 on 2002-09-4 19:35:48, Wednesday
In reply to Re: Thank you for a new term. submitted by Splash! on 2002-09-4 02:45:04, Wednesday
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I'll be around and keep watch. It's rare I go a couple days without looking into some of the discussions here. Glad to hear it. :) Look forward to seeing you... It would interest me to know how or why you've come to hold certain beliefs... I'm a bit pressed for time at the moment, but I posted my tale to ADN. 'twill have to suffice for now - I can answer any questions, or supply further information, at a later date, if you wish. ... and what are those beliefs. That God, eternal, sees through the whims of an age with ease, that all the crimes throughout history (gassing Jews, poisoning Socrates, condemning Galileo, lynching Hypatia, burning the library at Alexandria, etc) made perfect sense to the people at the time - to suggest anything different (it's okay to be a Jew? Or a woman AND a philosopher/mathematician?) was most scandalous in its age... ...and, finally, that the Pharisees of an age gain their worldly power by denouncing those caught in their scandals - their heavy burdens which they themselves would not lift one finger to touch - and riding their backs to an image of goodness - an image which Jesus rather saw through with ease. In ANY age, to suggest that such 'scandalousness' is without meaning, perhaps even evil to place importance in, and that love and goodness are all that matter - as they have stood eternal - or that all are equal before their Creator regardless of caste, or ('God forbid') that it is for freedom that Jesus has set us free, and that we are not to be chained again by a yoke of slavery... such is the quickest way in any age to get one's self (pardon the phrase) crucified by the masses, who care more for fleeting human things, on average, than for that which stands eternal. Today, in retrospect, the tortures of the Inquisition are looked down upon, and Harriet Tubman has earned her noble place in history in violation of 'Thou shalt not steal.' - for she had the broader vision to steal humans from their 'masters' to give them to themselves. ...and almost no one today notes that the person Jesus asked the tale of the good Samaritan of was too ashamed to speak the word 'samaritan.' He seemed not fooled in the slightest by the 'scandal' of an age. Maybe he'd been around a bit longer? :) All my life I have been called (dragged?) to follow, here and thus. With luck, I'll avoid the lynch mobs which greeted every last one of my predecessors - but either way, the shame the serpent brought humanity in the Garden is dead, for the noble counterexample of Jesus took the law of shame down with him. One of these got up afterwards. ;) I hope you are blessed by the latter (v.39) and avoid being proselytized by the former (v.15), knowing the distinction between the two. Thank you. I've had better luck with the latter - we each have our own strengths and weaknesses to bear in this life. ...but, at times, I've not been a fool, and at times, I've even found the latter of which you speak. |
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