Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
Demonized you mean?
Come on, don't demonize Russians.
Come on, don't demonize Russians.
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.
I've been Domenized, I read the title as "Was Adam a Slav"![]()
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.
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.
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".
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.)
And the Devil is German/Russian/Prussian? By a chance?
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.)
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.