Too funny! Men still blame women, don't they? : - )
Hahaha indeed! God too! (obvs I'm mostly playing, but when I couldn't help but notice and chuckle a bit how 'the man' did everything he could to dodge responsibility ahahha)
Too funny! Men still blame women, don't they? : - )
I hate to go there, but what does this say about homosexuality?
Actually the man wouldn't fuck lillith because she wanted to be on top. Or something like that.
No, Eve wasn't named until after 'the fall'. If Lilith fits in there, she could but 'woman' named Eve wasn't named until after the fall so we can't really determine who 'the woman' was, whoever she was she had no name other than 'the woman'. (this is all for fun, if you're going to read the story that way, as actual people. Lol)
Or even that it was a woman. See, before it was translated, Adam was referred to as "Ha-Adam", which actually means, roughly, "the earthling". Ha-Adam doesn't refer to a person named Adam and as far as I understand it, the original translation was thus more gender ambiguous. It could be "Ha-Adam" was sexless and God didn't differentiate between sexes until he created the second human.
Or even that it was a woman. See, before it was translated, Adam was referred to as "Ha-Adam", which actually means, roughly, "the earthling". Ha-Adam doesn't refer to a person named Adam and as far as I understand it, the original translation was thus more gender ambiguous. It could be "Ha-Adam" was sexless and God didn't differentiate between sexes until he created the second human.
Which is even more interesting...both or none. Just like God. God is not a He any more than He is a She any more than Neither or Both.
God is existence.
No, I wouldn't go that far. God has to be outside the universe too or it breaks down. If God exists God has to be outside the beginning but still BE the beginning. And the end. And outside the end. Lol.
I bet Billy is banging his head on his desk right now
A lovely idea, but no.If my memory serves me correctly, I think that in Judaism the Holy Spirit is seen as the feminine aspect of God but I am going from memory here and may not remember this exactly right (in Eastern Orthodoxy, I think it is the same but please research this further to insure I am telling you correctly - I am going from memory here).
By virtue of God being infinite, He is both masculine and feminine and yet also transcends both too (we are forced to use finite language to describe infinite concepts so something will always be lost in the "translation" process).
IMO, everything in this world is an analogy to teach us about the greater, infinite immaterial world or to teach us aspects of God. Since Humans are both (male and female) created in the image of God, we are both (male & female) very small finite representations of the Infinite One.
P.S.: Judaism does not believe in the Trinity as Christians do but they do talk about God's Spirit. If there are any practicing Jewish INFJs out there, maybe you could enlighten us on this concept in Judaism?
I am pro-socialism!
I am for slavery!
Drugs should all be legal!
PS3 is superior to Xbox360!
We need less police!
Unions strangle profitability and work ethic!
Welfare should be ended!
Abortion should be illegal!
homosexuality is a choice!
Are all claims people make which are open to debate, argument and ridicule. We have no need for respecting these views if we disagree, and disagree many of us shall... why then does Religion get a pass?
A lovely idea, but no.
You are right. There is no need to respect a position that we deem unrespectable. However, there is every sense and benefit in/to respecting the person holding the position, which becomes expressed in how we communicate with them.
I don't believe religion should get a pass, but seeing as how it is one of the most dearest and nearest parts of some people, it would bode us well to act with sensitivity and consideration toward the subject.
Or even that it was a woman. See, before it was translated, Adam was referred to as "Ha-Adam", which actually means, roughly, "the earthling". Ha-Adam doesn't refer to a person named Adam and as far as I understand it, the original translation was thus more gender ambiguous. It could be "Ha-Adam" was sexless and God didn't differentiate between sexes until he created the second human.
"Men are respectable only as they respect"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
- Confucius
“If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.”
- Carl Gustav Jung
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
- Benjamin Franklin
"Never take a person's dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you."
- Frank Barron
"A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose."
- Immanuel Kant
"Men are respectable only as they respect"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
- Confucius
“If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.”
- Carl Gustav Jung
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
- Benjamin Franklin
"Never take a person's dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you."
- Frank Barron
"A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose."
- Immanuel Kant