jueves, 30 de octubre de 2008
Black and White... But Not Gray
Job misjudges God. He commits a mistake and thinks that God has less power of what he really has. The Almighty is kind of upset at Job because of questioning him so much. I’ve been asking me throughout the whole “book of Job” when was going God to react to all the thinking and talking of Job. God is not the kind of person who lets everything go by and does nothing about it. He usually reacts and punishes humans for their actions, which is why it is said that God should be feared. Job was continually rebuked because he didn’t fear God enough. Something curious is the reaction of God, he doesn’t punish Job, he punishes his friends! It is …strange. “9: So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.” Job 42. God then suddenly forgives Job easily; he even grants him children and a long happy life. God is particular character, as described on the Bible. He has some expected actions and other that are completely random. He is the good guy, or the mean guy, the creator and the destructor. That’s God.
martes, 28 de octubre de 2008
The Only One Brave Enough To Question Him.
Job seems to be a revolutionary man of the times. He questions and challenges the thoughts of everybody. He has some philosophical believes and is willing to make his friends think differently and scorns at them making them feel insulted. “4: But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.” Job 13. He is himself insulted by the fact that God cannot be spoken to or seen. I like the way he thinks, he is not stupid or dumb, he wants explanations and gets upset. “16: He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.” Job 13. It is the first time I hear the word “hypocrite” in the Bible. I find myself using it very often because at CNG it is kind of a daily problem.
Hypocrite :
Pronunciation [hip-uh-krit]–noun
1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, esp. a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
2.a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, esp. one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
Job says that God should be his salvation, not another who thinks himself better, a hypocrite, “who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles,” he doesn’t trust the people, his distrusts the humans, but at the same time does not give all his trust to God. I like the fact that he questions him because it makes the rest of the people, as well, ask for more clearness. His friends, like Elihu, who tries to explain to Job the real God, and how to communicate with him. He tells Job that God communicates by visions, or by pain. For me, there is simply not a God, nor an Almighty, or a LORD. There are us, with our own mind power and capable to reach peace within ourselves without the need of any “being” to make us believe that he is the one who controls everything and who we should fear. The Bible mentions continuously the obligation to fear God. Job is scorned because he doesn’t fear God enough and threatens him. Why should we fear him? If he is supposed to be our salvation then there is no need for fear! I like the characteristics of Job, he is by far the only one brave enough to question Him.
Hypocrite :
Pronunciation [hip-uh-krit]–noun
1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, esp. a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
2.a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, esp. one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
Job says that God should be his salvation, not another who thinks himself better, a hypocrite, “who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles,” he doesn’t trust the people, his distrusts the humans, but at the same time does not give all his trust to God. I like the fact that he questions him because it makes the rest of the people, as well, ask for more clearness. His friends, like Elihu, who tries to explain to Job the real God, and how to communicate with him. He tells Job that God communicates by visions, or by pain. For me, there is simply not a God, nor an Almighty, or a LORD. There are us, with our own mind power and capable to reach peace within ourselves without the need of any “being” to make us believe that he is the one who controls everything and who we should fear. The Bible mentions continuously the obligation to fear God. Job is scorned because he doesn’t fear God enough and threatens him. Why should we fear him? If he is supposed to be our salvation then there is no need for fear! I like the characteristics of Job, he is by far the only one brave enough to question Him.
lunes, 27 de octubre de 2008
Satan vs GOD
It is all a big fight for power between God and Satan. Job was first blessed by God and then given the power to Satan who wants in some way put Job down. “7: So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.” Job 2. Satan finally talks in the Bible… at least he is mentioned and being part of the main characters. This is when Satan suddenly wants to overtake the power of God and have some himself. He wants to manipulate Job, and is able to make him unhappy…He then starts cursing his own life, comparing it with light and darkness. “2: Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!” Job 6. Satan is one of the many representations of evil, as the serpent is, the darkness, the night and so on. He wants to overtake Job because God has had already too many “pupils” and he is jealous, and is willing to threat God with Job.
As a little girl my grandma once told me the tale of the “devil”. She said that he was one of God’s most loved angels, one of the most honored and loyal one. God loved this angel, he was called Lucifer and was the perfect angel. Lucifer then started to have some ambition for the power of God, to control everything and little by little he started to get some power until he challenged God himself and God had warned him already of his behavior. But he dared to deprave his authority and God had no other option than to send him to hell, where he could be the “god” of his own little evil, dark world. When I heard my grandma telling me this story I was petrified, form the moment you are born you are instilled the fear for the devil, and the whole story saying that this atrocious monster was once a good angel scared me. My conclusion is that you never know what people might end up being, enemies your best friends, best friends your worst enemies. Which leads me to go back to my feeling about judgement, it eventually goes back to you.
As a little girl my grandma once told me the tale of the “devil”. She said that he was one of God’s most loved angels, one of the most honored and loyal one. God loved this angel, he was called Lucifer and was the perfect angel. Lucifer then started to have some ambition for the power of God, to control everything and little by little he started to get some power until he challenged God himself and God had warned him already of his behavior. But he dared to deprave his authority and God had no other option than to send him to hell, where he could be the “god” of his own little evil, dark world. When I heard my grandma telling me this story I was petrified, form the moment you are born you are instilled the fear for the devil, and the whole story saying that this atrocious monster was once a good angel scared me. My conclusion is that you never know what people might end up being, enemies your best friends, best friends your worst enemies. Which leads me to go back to my feeling about judgement, it eventually goes back to you.
sábado, 25 de octubre de 2008
Whom I don't hate.
Senator Barack Obama is an amazing speaker. I got chicken skin while hearing him talk! It is really touchy and even though I am not very much into politics this guy made me want to be active on his campaign. I noticed that we kind of divided his speech into three parts, demonstrative, forensic and finally deliberative. He makes the audience be with him all the time and be so focused that in every word not only he puts emphasis to, the audience itself does also. Since the assignment was to recognize the logos, pathos and ethos then I focused on that. I noticed that he uses a lot of pathos when he talks about his family members and that they are his role models because of all the things they have accomplished. He mentions his grandparents, his mother, his wife and girls. “my mother, who had to work so hard and still was able to put her kinds into the best schools with help of school lawns and scholarships” he uses pathos, trying to get the audience feeling somewhat “pity” with the facts that his mother had to work so hard, and yet he also uses ethos because he is saying that he got scholarships, as well as his siblings. I loved the way he attacked Senator John McCain, because he didn’t do it in a way to put him down, but to somehow tell the audience that he is not really worth it in a very civilized way. “It is not that John McCain doesn’t care, John McCain simply doesn’t get it” that is ethos. The whole audience laughs somehow telling themselves “that is so true…” Another way he used pathos was talking in the way the democratic measure progress “we measure progress by how many people have jobs that pay enough to oay the mortgage….we measure progress if a waitress that lives from tips can take a day off to look after a sick child and not loosing her job” WOW that is touchy, it is like if he understood every individual in every sense and if a waitress that heard that had passed through that particular situation heard that she would probably think “JESUS! This man knows what he is talking about”. Obama also talks using logos for example when he is talking the way a country, or in this case U.S.A, should work “ Our government should work for us, not against us, it should help us, not hurt us, is should ensure opportunities not only to millionaires but to every American who is willing to work”
Going a little off the topic about ethos, logos and pathos, Obama seems to be a very good candidate for the presidential role of U.S.A. He is humble, he is strong willing, he is “berraco”, and he is smart and very modest. I like that about him. On the other hand McCain evokes hate in me. I don’t really know what his proposals are but the few time I have heard him speak, it seems to me that is everything but humble or modest. He seems to be self centered and “showy”… Just like George Bush, whom I hate.
Going a little off the topic about ethos, logos and pathos, Obama seems to be a very good candidate for the presidential role of U.S.A. He is humble, he is strong willing, he is “berraco”, and he is smart and very modest. I like that about him. On the other hand McCain evokes hate in me. I don’t really know what his proposals are but the few time I have heard him speak, it seems to me that is everything but humble or modest. He seems to be self centered and “showy”… Just like George Bush, whom I hate.
martes, 21 de octubre de 2008
Oh... bloody jealousy!
God decided to grant David the powers that Saul had becuase he was divine, and a born king.
"23: And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him." David was better off than Saul, and was then prefered by God. This obviously provoked jealousy on Saul. Which made him act wrongly. He envied David deeply because he was a great friend of his son's and he was granted power by God, because he was victorious and was the hero and was his daughter Michal was taken as his wife. And suddenly all that Saul wants is to kill David and overtake him. His own daughter will not let him do that and either will all the people who are with David. At the end he is the author of his own death.
Jealousy is the worst enemy you could ever have. The only one who suffers is yourself because the rest of the people are not affected. It leads you to do things that have no right argument and probably would not make things better. Jealousy is a complex feeling, it is a mixture of anger, unsatisfaction, sadness, impotence, rancor, self-insecurity and other... You feel desperate and there is absolutly no right reason for it. The only cure for that jealousy plague is to let it be and just accept it.
"23: And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him." David was better off than Saul, and was then prefered by God. This obviously provoked jealousy on Saul. Which made him act wrongly. He envied David deeply because he was a great friend of his son's and he was granted power by God, because he was victorious and was the hero and was his daughter Michal was taken as his wife. And suddenly all that Saul wants is to kill David and overtake him. His own daughter will not let him do that and either will all the people who are with David. At the end he is the author of his own death.
Jealousy is the worst enemy you could ever have. The only one who suffers is yourself because the rest of the people are not affected. It leads you to do things that have no right argument and probably would not make things better. Jealousy is a complex feeling, it is a mixture of anger, unsatisfaction, sadness, impotence, rancor, self-insecurity and other... You feel desperate and there is absolutly no right reason for it. The only cure for that jealousy plague is to let it be and just accept it.
Paradox
David has been mentioned in my life various times as the "character of the Bible". A character from the Bible should be seen as a role model. What I knew about him was that he was a king, the king of Israel if I wasn't mistaken. I also heard the name David in the sculpure of Michael Angelo. If an artist like Michael Angelo creates a sculpture, but not just any sculpture but the one he did and names it "David" then it probably is because the David from the Bible is an important figure.... But he isn't! he commited adultery and slept with another women he saw and liked. Then he make the husband to be killed and does nothing else than to cause trouble. Paradoxic.
domingo, 19 de octubre de 2008
Ungratefulness.
Moses didn't appear. He is a very obedient guy. Moses does not hesitate when about God it is. The difference between him and Noah is that at the beginning God came to Noah and told him to build an ark and Noah didn't doubt that it was God who told him that and he did it, on the other hand when God came to Moses and told him to get the sons of Israel out of Egypt and to talk with the Pharaoh, Moses did not recognize him and therefore God gave him proofs. The rod that becomes a snake, the plagues and so on. But once Moses realices that God is God, he is very obedient. Moses does not doubt about the power that LORD God has and he defends him. His character is very honest. Moses is faithful and truthfull. He did everything possible to "save" the sons of Israel. And they are absolutly ungrateful, they misbehave and don't follow tha commanments that God send them. Ungratefulness pisses me off. When you do something for somebody or give love for somebody and all that you get back is hate or just a grown. We are the majority very ungrateful with what we have. A perfect example is the way we have tranformed Earth into garbage, such paradises and wonderful things are almost destroyed. If we start to appreciate a little more what we have maybe we could save Planet Earth.
The Description (Exodus 22-30)
The description of the way the concegrations had to be done, the altar, the "church" is very deep and thorough. It is explained how everycorner should be seen, decorated, colores and iluminated. the way it whoucld be carried on is described with perfect detail. The colors and the way it is explained makes it at come point imagine it and perseve it. The text is VERY monotunous. The same sentences are repeated but with dofferent verb or a different noun or adjective the structure is basically the same. For example:
"13: And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. 14: And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
15: The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.
16: And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. " Exodus 25.
The red colored is the verb that changes, the green are the nouns with adjectives that change. The sentence is not ENTIRELY the same but it is simil structure. This makes it boring. Ok, it is style and beautiful languege but with the same structure all along it is not entretaining and you can't get to focus and sometime you loose the track and find yourself obligated to read all over again.
"13: And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. 14: And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
15: The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.
16: And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. " Exodus 25.
The red colored is the verb that changes, the green are the nouns with adjectives that change. The sentence is not ENTIRELY the same but it is simil structure. This makes it boring. Ok, it is style and beautiful languege but with the same structure all along it is not entretaining and you can't get to focus and sometime you loose the track and find yourself obligated to read all over again.
jueves, 16 de octubre de 2008
THE Commandments
The famous, marveloues ten ocmmandements suddenly turned into about a hundred! The original comamandments were the following:
"7: Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8: Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
12: Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
13: Thou shalt not kill.
14: Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15: Thou shalt not steal.
16: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. " Exodus 20.
These are the commandments that you are obligated to learn by heart when you are going to do your First Communion, the commandments that your grandmother reminds you of every time you see her, the commandments that you fear to break because you would go to hell. All my life I have heard of the 10 commandments but in the Exodus I found only 8 of them... Did men later made up the other two?
The punishments that are supposed to be the consequences of not following the commandments are really harsh. "16: And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." If these punishments were still held today, more than a 50% of humannity would be dead. Laws are very important if you analyse it. They are boring and irritating but what would happend if there would be no laws. Chaos, uncontrolable chaos. Everybody would do whatever they want, without punishments society would be unbearable. True it is that on those times everything was harsher, ironicly the values today are much more remarkable and people simply don't do many of the things that are morally wrong. "26: And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake." Exodus 21. Today a man would simply not "smite the eye" of another man, it is wrong.
I didn't know that god gave so many orders to so many cases and punishments for all of them and a different one for every circumstance. "28: If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. " The casesa re very random and unprobable....It is very evident the sexism that there is towards men, women are taken ad animals, below the importance of men. This is the way is has always been in the world.
"7: Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8: Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
12: Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
13: Thou shalt not kill.
14: Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15: Thou shalt not steal.
16: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. " Exodus 20.
These are the commandments that you are obligated to learn by heart when you are going to do your First Communion, the commandments that your grandmother reminds you of every time you see her, the commandments that you fear to break because you would go to hell. All my life I have heard of the 10 commandments but in the Exodus I found only 8 of them... Did men later made up the other two?
The punishments that are supposed to be the consequences of not following the commandments are really harsh. "16: And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." If these punishments were still held today, more than a 50% of humannity would be dead. Laws are very important if you analyse it. They are boring and irritating but what would happend if there would be no laws. Chaos, uncontrolable chaos. Everybody would do whatever they want, without punishments society would be unbearable. True it is that on those times everything was harsher, ironicly the values today are much more remarkable and people simply don't do many of the things that are morally wrong. "26: And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake." Exodus 21. Today a man would simply not "smite the eye" of another man, it is wrong.
I didn't know that god gave so many orders to so many cases and punishments for all of them and a different one for every circumstance. "28: If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. " The casesa re very random and unprobable....It is very evident the sexism that there is towards men, women are taken ad animals, below the importance of men. This is the way is has always been in the world.
miércoles, 15 de octubre de 2008
Debates and Ancient Greece
Senator McCain uses mostly forensic and deliberative of the three the rhetoric tenses.
"We can establish priorities with full transparency and intelligence..." (delibe.)
"We can attack health care and energy at the same time..."(delibe.)
"We get to work right away...."(delib.)
"There has been 5 to 6 low economic times..." (Fore.)
"Last year we lost 700 jobs in America...." (Fore.)
Senator Obama more deliberative tenses in his speeches than the other rhetoric tenses.
"Everyone of you remembers the tragedy of 9/11" (fore)
"One of the opportunities was missed by President Bush..." (fore)
"There is going to be need for energy..." (del.)
"we are going to expolore new ways to..." (del)
"Making sure that every and each one of you ..." (del.)
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nla-64Vj58Q
"We can establish priorities with full transparency and intelligence..." (delibe.)
"We can attack health care and energy at the same time..."(delibe.)
"We get to work right away...."(delib.)
"There has been 5 to 6 low economic times..." (Fore.)
"Last year we lost 700 jobs in America...." (Fore.)
Senator Obama more deliberative tenses in his speeches than the other rhetoric tenses.
"Everyone of you remembers the tragedy of 9/11" (fore)
"One of the opportunities was missed by President Bush..." (fore)
"There is going to be need for energy..." (del.)
"we are going to expolore new ways to..." (del)
"Making sure that every and each one of you ..." (del.)
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nla-64Vj58Q
martes, 14 de octubre de 2008
Stubborn's consequences
The 9 plagues that were left happened to Egypt becasue of the stubborness of the Pharaoh. Even though he knew that the LORD could easily overtake him, and obviously keep the promises of the plagues he didn't let the children of Israel go. That is absurd, quite stupid. He led his people suffer just because he didn't want to let the Israelites go! Ridiculous and we still have wars happen becuase a leader or a preswident simply did something that shoulnd't have done. What more absurd than Hitler? I feel a great attraction to Hitler's time. It is for me amazing the fact that because a man decided that an ethnic group was lower than another, then it should be extinguished. And the most incredible thing about that is that they believed him! Or at least they were convinced and almost destroyed a religion from the face of the Earth.
I remember hearing a Jewish friend of mine complaining becuase she couldn't eat carbohydrates adn she brought a weird flavorless bread to school. I asked her why she was doing that, and she told me "because I'm Jewish and it is Abib" I didn't quite get it. Abib is a "holiday" that the Jewish have in which they follow the things that their ansestors had to go through when they crossed from Egypt to Israel with Moses becuase they couldn't have leaven and brough from Egypt dough unleavened with them to eat. This is what the jewish still do, for an entire week! The Jewish are very devote, they don't miss a holiday for nayhting in the world and they are very proud of their religion. A reason for them to be so united in their religion is probably because of all the things they've gone through, that have made their religion their reason to live. Christians on the other hand are very lazy and "sinners", now-a-days Christianity has lost many believers and practicants. I am one of them.
I remember hearing a Jewish friend of mine complaining becuase she couldn't eat carbohydrates adn she brought a weird flavorless bread to school. I asked her why she was doing that, and she told me "because I'm Jewish and it is Abib" I didn't quite get it. Abib is a "holiday" that the Jewish have in which they follow the things that their ansestors had to go through when they crossed from Egypt to Israel with Moses becuase they couldn't have leaven and brough from Egypt dough unleavened with them to eat. This is what the jewish still do, for an entire week! The Jewish are very devote, they don't miss a holiday for nayhting in the world and they are very proud of their religion. A reason for them to be so united in their religion is probably because of all the things they've gone through, that have made their religion their reason to live. Christians on the other hand are very lazy and "sinners", now-a-days Christianity has lost many believers and practicants. I am one of them.
The Exodus
The LORD values that are represented in EXODUS are incoherent. The LORD is mad at the Egyptians because of the way they are treating the Hebrews (the sons of Israel) and we intents to destroy them. The LORD whois supposed to be teh savior is himself a racist, and he prefers some people above other and is injust in the text. "22: But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians." (Exosus Chapter 3) ";and ye shall spoil the Egyptians." horreble words. Quite shocking to read and realice that the LORD is not the LORD is should be.
The difference in text between the Exodus and Genesis is minimum. It is divided the same way and has pretty much the same structure. Most od the stanzas start with "And..." and the context is the same. Something about he Bilbe that is really curious is that come parts of it are historical facts. I don't know about Ishmael or Isaac or Adam and Eve but what is sure is that Moses did exist, there are historical proofs. Abraham, if I am not wrong is also a historical character. Moses did do the movement of the Israelites from Egypt into Israel, what is not sure is if everything that is described in the EXODUS is true, but the main ideas did happen.
"Here is the first of the ten plagues, the turning of the water into blood. It was a dreadful plague. The sight of such vast rolling streams of blood could not but strike horror. Nothing is more common than water: so wisely has Providence ordered it, and so kindly, that what is so needful and serviceable to the comfort of human life, should be cheap and almost every where to be had; but now the Egyptians must either drink blood, or die for thirst. Egypt was a pleasant land, but the dead fish and blood now rendered it very unpleasant." -http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/commentaries/?action=getCommentaryText&cid=19&source=2&seq=i.2.7.3-
The tranformation of the Nile River into blood reminded me of a movie I watched with some friends in which the ten plagues of to the end of the world happen one after the other. It made me shiver to see it written in a text. In the movie this is the first plague (supposed to be) and the begginning of the movie. My brother explained to me the plagues and teh reason of them, he told me that they were described in the Bible, I did not pay much attention to him but now that I read it is amazing. The Reaping is the name of the movie.
The difference in text between the Exodus and Genesis is minimum. It is divided the same way and has pretty much the same structure. Most od the stanzas start with "And..." and the context is the same. Something about he Bilbe that is really curious is that come parts of it are historical facts. I don't know about Ishmael or Isaac or Adam and Eve but what is sure is that Moses did exist, there are historical proofs. Abraham, if I am not wrong is also a historical character. Moses did do the movement of the Israelites from Egypt into Israel, what is not sure is if everything that is described in the EXODUS is true, but the main ideas did happen.
"Here is the first of the ten plagues, the turning of the water into blood. It was a dreadful plague. The sight of such vast rolling streams of blood could not but strike horror. Nothing is more common than water: so wisely has Providence ordered it, and so kindly, that what is so needful and serviceable to the comfort of human life, should be cheap and almost every where to be had; but now the Egyptians must either drink blood, or die for thirst. Egypt was a pleasant land, but the dead fish and blood now rendered it very unpleasant." -http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/commentaries/?action=getCommentaryText&cid=19&source=2&seq=i.2.7.3-
The tranformation of the Nile River into blood reminded me of a movie I watched with some friends in which the ten plagues of to the end of the world happen one after the other. It made me shiver to see it written in a text. In the movie this is the first plague (supposed to be) and the begginning of the movie. My brother explained to me the plagues and teh reason of them, he told me that they were described in the Bible, I did not pay much attention to him but now that I read it is amazing. The Reaping is the name of the movie.
sábado, 11 de octubre de 2008
Loved or Feared?
Abraham the father !! Even though he was old he was ordered to have at least two sons with Sarah. Ishmael and Isaac, Sarah was afraid becuase of her old age. The firt thing that came up in my mind was that generatons have changed the number of children that women have. it has decreased intensly. Most of today's generation's grandfathers come from a family of 10 to 15 children, or even more. Now, more than 3 is a lot. My mother comes from a family of 5 children and my father from a family of also 5 children. My grandmother has 5 siblings and my grandfather has 12 siblings. I have one brother and that's it. Why is that so? There are many factors that contribute to this results.
Women are today more self sufficient. They have gained the control of their lifes and are independant of the men. They are no longer housewifes, they focuse on their jobs and on many other things, they are busy. Women don't live for men anymore. Therefore having more than 2 children is too much for thair daily busy life! Another factor is that anticonceptives are more available today, and people are more aware of the risks it has not to use them. Life today is so fast, full of things to do that there is no time to raise many children.
The more I read the Bilble the more similar it is to greek mythology. the same concepts. A god tells the mortals what tehy should do and if they don't do it then thye would be punished. the Bilble for me is just like anyother book, it irritated me that people worship it and base their actions on the Bible. It is very fictional and non real. The values that God supposly has are contradicted in the Bible. I feel that in the Bilbe you are supposed to fear him because he can punish you, and God is supposed to be love. A self that is the sinonim of love is not supposed to destroy and less be feared.
Women are today more self sufficient. They have gained the control of their lifes and are independant of the men. They are no longer housewifes, they focuse on their jobs and on many other things, they are busy. Women don't live for men anymore. Therefore having more than 2 children is too much for thair daily busy life! Another factor is that anticonceptives are more available today, and people are more aware of the risks it has not to use them. Life today is so fast, full of things to do that there is no time to raise many children.
The more I read the Bilble the more similar it is to greek mythology. the same concepts. A god tells the mortals what tehy should do and if they don't do it then thye would be punished. the Bilble for me is just like anyother book, it irritated me that people worship it and base their actions on the Bible. It is very fictional and non real. The values that God supposly has are contradicted in the Bible. I feel that in the Bilbe you are supposed to fear him because he can punish you, and God is supposed to be love. A self that is the sinonim of love is not supposed to destroy and less be feared.
jueves, 9 de octubre de 2008
Many names, places, events, thoughts, one main conclusion.
It is starting to get quite complex with the names and the family tree, which is absurdly broad. The point is that many humans were reproducted and were the responsable for many things to happen on the Earth now inhabited by the human race. The concept of the Babel Tower thrills me. "7: Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8: So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. " Genesis 11. It is amazing but in our own little worlds we live in babel Tower, we don't listen to each other and don't try to understantd each other until conflicts are made and those conflicts become wars and wars are nothing but deaths. The whole world is a huge Babel Tower were we can supposely communicate but don't comprehend the person next to you, or better said don't TRY to comprehend the person next to you. From the 6 Chapters I read the Babel Tower was the one that I was most interested in. It is the reflection of the root of many of the problems we have today. Misuderstandings, getting things wrong and judging based on nothing.
miércoles, 8 de octubre de 2008
Beautiful Moment
As God reaches his hand for him
he reached his to touch.
The light around was nothing but dim,
but they couldn't care much.
Heaven and Earth connected by two fingers,
while that beautiful moment lingers.
he reached his to touch.
The light around was nothing but dim,
but they couldn't care much.
Heaven and Earth connected by two fingers,
while that beautiful moment lingers.
martes, 7 de octubre de 2008

This is what I had to do in order to understand. It is now evident that Adam and Eve were the beginning of all humanity, reproduction started and all the people were slowly created and we now are over 4 billion people on earth. personally I don't believe in the creation of men with Adam and Eve. The evolution theory is far more convincing than "men created out of dust". If i belived in Adan and Eve then probably my great grat (x 1928374932) grandmother is Naamah!!
The Story We Always Knew But Never Know.
"she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat." Fobidden is so attractive that not even Eve was able to contract herself. There are two things that make the forbidden things be attractive; why are they forbidden? What happens if we do it?. It is immediatly that our mind makes a click when we are told that something should not be done, that you are driven to it. Try this, think of everything but do not think about an elefant! What is the first thing that comes up to your mind? An elefant. If I am not wrong it is called reverse psicology. Some psycologists have tried to apply it to patients with the hope that it will have some good results. It doesn't work on all patients but on others it is effective. Drugs for example. About the 90% of the people that try it is because they are attracted to the fact that it is illegal. What effect you it have if the drugs get legalized? Probably less people will be attracted to them and without a adoubt many deaths would be avoided because of the drugdealing (narcotráfico), but the vice could probably not be beatable, that is out of reach. It teh magic of the forbidden. I remember that one of the first phrases that I learned living is Germany was "Das ist forbodden" = "That is forbidden". Germany is way too strict.
The story of Adam and Eve is so familiar to us and it is so many times narrated that ther are many details that we get wrong. For example I had no idea that Eve was the first to eat and then it was Adam. I didn't know either that the women was created out of the rib of the man. No wonder we are in such a "machista" society. As I read I was trying to discover an ethic group in which the women ruled, but failed to find one. "Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife" it is said as if the women was the guilty one for tha whole crime, and that what Adam had done wrong was listening to her. Men have always ruled, it is absolutly unfair. Today, women have taken more control over their lifes, it was about time, after so many discriminations and tortures we had to speak up one way or another. This reminds me of a concept that a very wise friend of mine once told me. She said that the symbol for men was a line, a straight vertical line bacause men used logic, they seeked the beginning and the end of everything, they wanted explanations, and bacause of the shape of their body and their reproductive organ. The symbol of the women was a circle because she didn't have a beginning or an end, she was driven by feeling that had no logical explanation and figured out things through out their feelings, also bacuas eof the shape of their body and their reproductive system. So none of them are wrong and neither of them is better thatn the other, they are acceptable and have the right to be that way, that is why men should no be consider greater than the women.
The story of Adam and Eve is so familiar to us and it is so many times narrated that ther are many details that we get wrong. For example I had no idea that Eve was the first to eat and then it was Adam. I didn't know either that the women was created out of the rib of the man. No wonder we are in such a "machista" society. As I read I was trying to discover an ethic group in which the women ruled, but failed to find one. "Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife" it is said as if the women was the guilty one for tha whole crime, and that what Adam had done wrong was listening to her. Men have always ruled, it is absolutly unfair. Today, women have taken more control over their lifes, it was about time, after so many discriminations and tortures we had to speak up one way or another. This reminds me of a concept that a very wise friend of mine once told me. She said that the symbol for men was a line, a straight vertical line bacause men used logic, they seeked the beginning and the end of everything, they wanted explanations, and bacause of the shape of their body and their reproductive organ. The symbol of the women was a circle because she didn't have a beginning or an end, she was driven by feeling that had no logical explanation and figured out things through out their feelings, also bacuas eof the shape of their body and their reproductive system. So none of them are wrong and neither of them is better thatn the other, they are acceptable and have the right to be that way, that is why men should no be consider greater than the women.
domingo, 5 de octubre de 2008
BOISliving
John Bois appears to be an amazing fellow. He was very intelligent, clever, smart, and was the best of the twelve Translators. Btu for me he was sick. His obsession for books and extreme dicipline are simply not wealthy. His eating habits and routine were not normal and could lead to obsessive personality. Now a days he would had been diagnosed with obsessive habits and would probably had to go to the pshycologist. He fasted twice a week, he ate only twice a day, he read every minute of the day, he didn't love his wife because she happened to be normal! He had no affection for his children, maybe for Mirabel only when she died. Bois, yes, he was gifted, he was a genious, knew prefect Hebrew and Greek and was able to read and write prefectly with both of the languages and probably with a few more, but what sense does it have to be such an extraordinary person when you have no emotional life? It makes no sense at all. Was he pleased with what he accomplished, was he satisfied with the life that he carried? I don't think so, his marriege has frustating and his social life was nule. he was full of debts and to the edge of being broken. Oh! Yes he was such a genious, uselessly.
Why do they make such an enfasis on the money? Whether Bois had paid or not, whether there was any record of the paying? I think it is a little bit off topic. But o take advantage of the issue, money is a controvercial concept. Some say that is not the first thing but comes before the second, other say that it is nothing. The truth is that in the world we live in money IS a crucial thing. There are some exceptions that live happily having very little money. But unfortunatly if money is not arround, very few things are reachable. On the other hand, life should be seen in other prespectives, being healthy is far more important than being rich. Having a reason to live is far more important than having the money to buy a BMW. At CNG, money is given too much importance, I will not forget that in the introction to High School assembly Mr. Mott asked us "what do you want to be in life, a BMW (opening his eyes and smiling) or a Honda (rolling his eyes and smiling ironicly) ?" If in a speech that is supposed to encourage us to be better persons, to have goals and reach them succesfully we are compered to car brands, then why the heck do they ask themselves how come CNG students are so materialistic? Here, the students, sadly including myself, judge other based on the type of cloths they wear, or where they bought them. It's absurd and yet so influencial.
God's Secretaries doesn't give any importance to God itself. It mainly talks about the Translators and their important duty tranforming an "ancient" text into a "modern" text. The Bible had an amazing power, it doesn't anymore as much as it did before. People have realised that the truth isn't written in this book, and that all the explenations aren't found there, but within ourselves. The Bible is the same thing as any other book, the difference is that it was given too much importance. Thing's value are not really what they are but the importance people give to them.
Why do they make such an enfasis on the money? Whether Bois had paid or not, whether there was any record of the paying? I think it is a little bit off topic. But o take advantage of the issue, money is a controvercial concept. Some say that is not the first thing but comes before the second, other say that it is nothing. The truth is that in the world we live in money IS a crucial thing. There are some exceptions that live happily having very little money. But unfortunatly if money is not arround, very few things are reachable. On the other hand, life should be seen in other prespectives, being healthy is far more important than being rich. Having a reason to live is far more important than having the money to buy a BMW. At CNG, money is given too much importance, I will not forget that in the introction to High School assembly Mr. Mott asked us "what do you want to be in life, a BMW (opening his eyes and smiling) or a Honda (rolling his eyes and smiling ironicly) ?" If in a speech that is supposed to encourage us to be better persons, to have goals and reach them succesfully we are compered to car brands, then why the heck do they ask themselves how come CNG students are so materialistic? Here, the students, sadly including myself, judge other based on the type of cloths they wear, or where they bought them. It's absurd and yet so influencial.
God's Secretaries doesn't give any importance to God itself. It mainly talks about the Translators and their important duty tranforming an "ancient" text into a "modern" text. The Bible had an amazing power, it doesn't anymore as much as it did before. People have realised that the truth isn't written in this book, and that all the explenations aren't found there, but within ourselves. The Bible is the same thing as any other book, the difference is that it was given too much importance. Thing's value are not really what they are but the importance people give to them.
jueves, 2 de octubre de 2008
The War of Religion
What is it that makes people intolerant to others' believes??
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Modern Myth
Violet’s most desired wish; the end of her people's suffering.
The demons' plans were to merciless kidnap and kill everybody who didn't follow their rituals, to worship them.
Violet questioned the universe; she asked the all-mighty universe for help, for enlightment to finish with the growing violence.
Violet could not accomplish her task alone. She searched for days for her companion, OH Davidenko, he who was sick of violence.
Violent and Davidenko took four years to make up the perfect plan.
One hundred ninety three innocent people were in the demons’ fists, Violet could not stand it.
Nobody would risk anything to save the human race from extinction, that is why the demons were so ahead and the world so messed up.
OH brave Violet and Davidenko went to the dangerous woods where only the demons could walk on, where every step they took it gets more and more dangerous.
They lasted months walking, stopped only three times to rest, the innocent people couldn’t wait.
They reached the satanic structure. Odd shape with a burning fire floor behind the sharp, jagged bars Violet could disguise the agonizing people, begging for mercy and freedom, which the demons were not going to give them.
Davidenko’s and Violet’s heart was destroyed of pity.
Violet and Davidenko concentrated as to make their power flourish within them. Their fuel, Oh! Was the eternal desire for peace. Their bodies warmed up and they levitated from the ground.
A bubble of peace surrounded Violet. Reaching the jagged bars and wrapped her fingers around them, they dissolved immediately into dust. She grabbed the people’s arms, transmitting freedom to all of them.
_________
Modern Myth
The Hero I Should Be
Violet’s most desired wish; the end of her people's suffering.
The demons' plans were to merciless kidnap and kill everybody who didn't follow their rituals, to worship them.
Violet questioned the universe; she asked the all-mighty universe for help, for enlightment to finish with the growing violence.
Violet could not accomplish her task alone. She searched for days for her companion, OH Davidenko, he who was sick of violence.
Violent and Davidenko took four years to make up the perfect plan.
One hundred ninety three innocent people were in the demons’ fists, Violet could not stand it.
Nobody would risk anything to save the human race from extinction, that is why the demons were so ahead and the world so messed up.
OH brave Violet and Davidenko went to the dangerous woods where only the demons could walk on, where every step they took it gets more and more dangerous.
They lasted months walking, stopped only three times to rest, the innocent people couldn’t wait.
They reached the satanic structure. Odd shape with a burning fire floor behind the sharp, jagged bars Violet could disguise the agonizing people, begging for mercy and freedom, which the demons were not going to give them.
Davidenko’s and Violet’s heart was destroyed of pity.
Violet and Davidenko concentrated as to make their power flourish within them. Their fuel, Oh! Was the eternal desire for peace. Their bodies warmed up and they levitated from the ground.
A bubble of peace surrounded Violet. Reaching the jagged bars and wrapped her fingers around them, they dissolved immediately into dust. She grabbed the people’s arms, transmitting freedom to all of them.
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