Jan 19 2008
Power
Chords - words - life and death
Decisions - black white
Words - in the field - meaningless
Buttons shake up the magnets
F11 - AK47 - f16 fighter - control
He gave them blood of god
The lines in the sand erode
Saint James is spitting again
The crazies call me crazy
Down the hatch go The
Seroquel - Depakote - Zyprexa
Everything’s OK now, OM
In the name of the father may,
These tools do no wrong
Prick on the index
Reject the bullet - save the blood
It only took Po-Lice seven minutes
I want to be on the team
OOOhhh Raaaahhh
This is our Crescent City.
Sacrifice.
Buddhists believe that suffering is due to desire. Overcome your desire, and your atman will merge with the putman and you will achieve nirvana… which as far as I can tell is non-existence. No thanks.
Jews sacrificed animals, as did many ‘pagan’ religions. In a callous sense the sacrifice was an appeasement to the God to replace the suffering that they might feel if such a sacrifice had not been offered.
God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son.” Abe said “Man, you must be puttin me on.” God said, “No.” Abe said, “What?” God said, “You can do what you want Abe, but the next time you see me coming you’d better run…”
Then God staid Abe’s hand and accepted a substitute sacrifice of a lamb, seemingly confirming that sacrifice was meant as an offering for appeasement. Why not just say, “I AM only kidding! Give him an ice cream instead.”???
Sacrifice is suffering with meaning. That is what the Buddhists missed, nichts? Symbolic meaning… or just the way it must be, if there is love and death. As for the Talmudists, and the various rooti-tootists, all I can say is that projection only postpones your own reckoning.
Do you agree? And you, Roland?
Unless you are a plant, you live because others died. You can roll with hate and eat fois gras… or you can thank God, and your prey, for your meal.
One way or another, sacrifice is a truth that religion has a responsibility to deal with. When it was God’s turn, He did not sacrifice a goat or some virgin slave for our appeasement. He sacrificed Himself for our salvation.
And what is that salvation? Knowing that He came back to life, in a physical body, as witnessed by the apostles, and as has manifestly transformed the world.
How do you view the issue of sacrifice, Robert?