(02-13-2015, 06:40 AM)ellajam Wrote: It takes two to carry a master toad,
dead weight in his serenity
his bulbous girth a slippery load.
Through slitted lids he still can see
that he's not moving on his own;
a sliver of you and a sliver of me
joined as one to form his throne.
That's so beautiful I feel embarrassed (a bit like Adam and Eve*).
Not that I know, but doesn't the 'moistness' make she/he seem more like a frog?
Vis-à-vis Adam's and Eve's embarrassment:
God was testing them & itself. God is the snake, tree, nature, adam, eve, everything. God is playing hide 'n' seek with itself.
God tells Adam that he is free to eat from any tree in the garden, but he must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. When Eve and Adam disobey, and eat of that fruit, they are expelled from the garden. There is a (family of concepts)= "Concepts are Illusions" here that is different from what we meet in Greek philosophy. God is setting up a kind of covenant by which humans will be blessed if they obey the commands God gives them. Human disobedience is not explained in the text, except that the serpent=God says to Eve that they will not die if they eat the fruit, but will be like Divine God, (knowing good and evil), and Eve sees the fruit as good for food and (pleasing) to the eye and (desirable) for gaining wisdom. After they eat, Adam and Eve know that they are naked, and are (ashamed), and hide from God. There is a turning away from God and from obedience to God that characterizes this as a ‘fall into sin’. As the story goes on, and Cain kills Abel, evil spreads to all the people of the earth, and Genesis describes the basic state as a corruption of the heart . This idea of a basic orientation away from or towards God and God's commands becomes in the Patristic period of early Christianity the idea of a will. There is no such idea in Plato or Aristotle, and no Greek word that the English word ‘will’ properly translates.
Now that we know the tale of the "concept" story. It is all an illusion anyway~ enjoy life.
- written by "Hidden Hand" 21-1-2012
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions
