@josephw

@FMF

It can be traumatic to realize that what one thought most certain, isn’t. It’s a slippery slope, you know. If the snake is metaphoric and did not really talk, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is a metaphor, then the Garden is a metaphor, too. And then Adam is a metaphor for man in the state of nature (pre-civilization), not one specific individual. Well, you can see where that leads …

“The hardness of the logical must” as Wittgenstein would say.

@moonbus said
It can be traumatic to realize that what one thought most certain, isn’t. It’s a slippery slope, you know.

@FMF

Do you know Jung’s “Memories, Dreams, Reflections”? Where he recounts his own apostasy, or reality check, depending on how one looks at it.

@moonbus said
@FMF

Do you know Jung’s “Memories, Dreams, Reflections”? Where he recounts his own apostasy, or reality check, depending on how one looks at it.

@FMF

Yeah, I know. I too have a shelf 2 meters wide with things to read before I kick the bucket. If I get hit by a bus and paralysed from the waist down, I'll start in and read them all cover to cover (starting with Anais Nin, "A Spy In The House Of Love"😉 ); until then, I'm hiking, sailing, and cycling, while I still can.

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@josephw

This thread doesn't deserve acknowledgement. Nice try. Fail.

I think divegeester must be miffed because I didn't post in his "why is Christianity in the US dying" thread.

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