Genesis 1.2- Adam and Eve, Original Sin, Fun with Snakes

1. Let's talk about desire. Eve desires knowledge. Adam desires blind allegiance and the creature comforts of the Garden of Eden. It's the classic conundrum also featured in Flowers for Algernon.


Would you rather be wise or blindly happy?


2. I note that if the worst crime one could commit is eating from the tree of knowledge that that would greatly benefit religious indoctrination.


Don't question ye fools!


3. When Eve eats the fruit it says that women will not only suffer childbirth, but will also be eternally subservient.


WTF? That seems a bit extreme for one underling's folly.


Conclusion based on this chapter: The bible was DEFINITELY written by humans, not by god.


Human powerplay is at work.
Human mind games are at work.
Human trickery is at work.


It's something to consider.


4. Is Snow White meant as an allegory to this story?


5. Most celebrities who pose with snakes are women. Hey Eve hey!

Genesis 1:1 CREATION BOM BOM BOM

Thoughts.........

1. For some reason the "whales" come before the other beasts. This jives with me evolutionarily in that water animals preceded terrestrial animals. Are "whales" what we are calling the dinosaurs now?*

2. I find it interesting that Adam was the one who gave names to that which surrounds him- not god.
If I bought into a strict Sapir-Whorfian hypothesis I would be all WHAAAAA way to be super existential bible... but I don't buy into a strict Sapir-Whorf.**

3. Man is crafted from dirt and woman from bone. My reading on this is that man is more fragile. I believe my sister's reading differs.

* This is a Mosasaur. One of my favorite prehistoric beasts and the stuff of nightmares. He's technically not a dinosaur but I'm taking liberties.
 ** The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is that our concept of the world is governed by the language we speak and have access to. For more information see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir_Whorf

Book 1: Whaddup King James

Our first book is........... :drumroll please: THE BIBLE. (the King James Version)

The time has come the walrus said- to read it all the way through.
To understand literary references
and movie plots too!
And why the monotheistic religions
Believe the things they do.