@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.

@moonbus said
@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
@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.

@divegeester said
Exactly!

But I’m still a Christian and yet I’m comfortable navigating the “slippery slope”

@moonbus said
Some learn to ski. Some never dare to try.

@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.

@josephw said
@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.

@divegeester said
Talk to the snake, the metaphor isn’t listening.

@josephw said
I noticed you have a habit of blurting snarkily when you have nothing substantive to say. I'd say that characterizes 99.9% of everything you say.

But you are 100% entertaining I'll give you that. 🤣

Even my wife laughed at your remark.

@divegeester said
Are you going to have the courage to back to the threads where you have been called out for admitting the snake is a metaphor?

I think not.

PS what does your wife think of your intellectual cowardice?

@josephw said
One doesn't question one about his wife. Are you a cad?

Your "coward" inference is weak and cowardly of you to make. I said that the term "serpent" can be a metaphor for a very real being called Satan. It's the term God uses to refer to Satan. If you have a problem with what I said about the use of the term "serpent" that God uses to refer to Satan, then I suggest you take the matter up with God.