Was Adam a Slave?

They were probably Caucasian. Btw, who started the Bible? Like the very first unedited edition.
 
As blasphemous as it may sound, there's no first "unedited" edition, due to the fact that almost all of it is, well, folklore adapted to monotheism.
 
OldTestament/Talmud, or the version that includes the New Testament?

We might need to send out the Plotinus signal, here...
 
I think we're all slaves. We're born into a world where you are given moral obligations, you have a moral duty to perform these actions. You can choose to forgo them, but then you're not a good person. Additionally, due to the nature of reality, there is no amount of work that you can do that will release you from your obligations; the best you can do is to be dissonant regarding your obligations and ignore them.
 
Adam is God (ie you, the universe, All That Is) in a state of bliss, before becoming attached to the material world via eating the apple. The rules of Judaism are an attempt to bring us back to that state of bliss.

At least that's how I like to interpret it.

Carefulnow, not deriving some sort of cynical horrible message from the creation story in this particular religious text may make you anti-progressive. ;)

You're almost certainly fine here though.
 
I've been Domenized, I read the title as "Was Adam a Slav" :hammer2:

:lmao:

Okay. The book of Genesis tells how we get from Noah to Shem to Abraham to Jacob. How do we get from Noah to Japeth to the Slavic people?
 
What I want to know is how we went from Adam in 6,000 BC (or whenever) living in the middle east to his ancestors living in South America in 8,000BC.. Ancestors who for some reason look like they're descendent from east Asians.
 
Actually, the Adam story fits in nicely with the theory of a "common ancestor" in evolution, according to which, one exact faraway ancestor of homo sapiens is the one which started the evolution.

Or something.
 
The tree of knowledge allegory also works remarkably well with the rise of complex sentience and awareness of selfish and hurtful "evil" actions as well as the reprecussions of selfless "good" ones. The rise of the "innocent brute" into the self-aware brute, if you will. Which kinda dovetails nicely with the second half of a text that includes this particular story at the beginning. How to transcend being a brute.
 
Hopefully not, but in the case study of one group of relatively complex and sentient apes, those things might be symptomatic.
 
AdamCrock appears to be a Slav, yes.

The biblical Adam is probably a Slav too. And since god created men after his own image, god is - in all likelihood - also a Slav. Most likely a Pole, to be precise.
 
You're saying that being miserable is a sign of being complex and sentient ape? That's curious; it seems in the end, we're actually wanting to go back, when we were happy. When we didn't know anything.

Because humans are forever striving for being happy, but that's apparently a sign of a "brute".

The biblical Adam is probably a Slav too. And since god created men after his own image, god is - in all likelihood - also a Slav. Most likely a Pole, to be precise.

And the Devil is German/Russian/Prussian? By a chance?
 
The tree of knowledge allegory also works remarkably well with the rise of complex sentience and awareness of selfish and hurtful "evil" actions as well as the reprecussions of selfless "good" ones. The rise of the "innocent brute" into the self-aware brute, if you will. Which kinda dovetails nicely with the second half of a text that includes this particular story at the beginning. How to transcend being a brute.

I also quite like how the story of Cain and Abel fits well with the conflict between pastoralists and agriculturists. (A conflict which was played out again in the Wild West, briefly.)

(Or was it between hunter-gatherers and pastoralists? No, I think I was right the first time.)
 
You're saying that being miserable is a sign of being complex and sentient ape? That's curious; it seems in the end, we're actually wanting to go back, when we were happy. When we didn't know anything.

Because humans are forever striving for being happy, but that's apparently a sign of a "brute".

No? That's not it at all. Unless I've read wrongly.

If one happens to believe that evolution gave us the brain we have, and that it rose, slowly, from a less complex and introspective one then: the Garden of Eden may make sense as an allegory. Man the non-sentient animal(or not particularly sentient animal) may not have always been happy, but (s)he was probably naked, simple, and not particularly ashamed of his/her behavior at some point. Then, as the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge(of Good and Evil(depending on translation)), is digested then he/she would retain those selfish and brutish impulses that keep one alive in the wild world of lawless natural selection(nasty, brutish, and short, according to a much later author) but now know of kindness and cruelty. With knowledge of Good and Evil, that ape can become better, but doesn't necessarily become better. He/she is still an ape, just a smarter one. That may happen to make some of them miserable in its own right, and I think it probably does. Hence the grand calling. The Calling, to try and have ourselves be better. To actualize that knowledge. I personally do not understand at all why some smart religious people have problems with science and vicey versy. It's the same dern coin.

I also quite like how the story of Cain and Abel fits well with the conflict between pastoralists and agriculturists. (A conflict which was played out again in the Wild West, briefly.)

(Or was it between hunter-gatherers and pastoralists? No, I think I was right the first time.)

Indeed. That Book is quite terribly reflective of what we are. It's hoovered up a lot of stories which are, at any rate.
 
And the Devil is German/Russian/Prussian? By a chance?

Since god is a Slav, I was thinking that Eve might be Russian. The devil, would be Germanic, alternating between German, Swedish and Austrian.
 
I also quite like how the story of Cain and Abel fits well with the conflict between pastoralists and agriculturists. (A conflict which was played out again in the Wild West, briefly.)

(Or was it between hunter-gatherers and pastoralists? No, I think I was right the first time.)

Who is Seth (third son of Adam and Eve), in that case? The guy who decided that farming is for peasants?
 
A replacement for Abel. So, maybe a dairy farmer? Some kind of livestock geyser, at any rate.
 
Actually, the Adam story fits in nicely with the theory of a "common ancestor" in evolution, according to which, one exact faraway ancestor of homo sapiens is the one which started the evolution.

Or something.

I don't think anyone thinks that all humans are descendant from 1 pair of ancestor homo sapiens. Well, except maybe for some creationists.
 
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