KARL JASPERS FORUM

N77 (to N76)

POTABLE AFTER BOILING
by Philip Benjamin
24 September 2006, posted 7 October 2006

[Rob Weedon] N76

We are by nature
natural before we are
by culture cultured.
Our oldest myths rise
from prehistory and
are not to be ignored.

[Philip Benjamin]

The Natural Man conceived-and-born depraved
By no cultured human effort can ever be cured
No subtly devised fables validate Power over Death
Such Majesty only eyewitness account confirmeth

[Rob Weedon]

Adam and Eve and
two intruders, God and Snake,
are a case in point

[Philip Benjamin]

No crawling wriggling creature was that Eden Serpent Walked upright, mimicked better than an ape or parrot A cunning intermediate, no less, betwixt man and beast The Mighty Fall fell this wily also flat on belly: ingest dust.

Who that conscious Intruder into the triune Echad Of matter, space and time, the wholesome triad Consciousness, mind and body, Creator's facsimile ? Fallen Cherub of the Triune Elohim was that Rebel.

[Rob Weedon]

Like ourselves, these myths
are a tad schiz-y, Culture
confounding Nature.

[Philip Benjamin]

Death, corruption and the Second Law of Entropy Make devolution evident; no Upturn without Energy Externally endowed on hapless, hopeless, degeneracy. Of doleful existential tread-mill with no sufficiency

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