Posts Tagged ‘divinity’
separating man from myth
December 22nd, 2008
separating man from myth, originally uploaded by s t e r n f a h r e r.
separating man from myth, originally uploaded by s t e r n f a h r e r.
“One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resist
One man washed up on an empty beach
One man betrayed with a kiss
In the name of love
What more in the name of love”
- Pride, U2
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sometimes I wonder. Separating the divinity from the man, Jesus Christ still remains an extraordinary figure in history. And I always stop at the crucifixion. Why did he allow himself to be in that position? Surely he could have done more good alive rather than dead? Was he liberating mankind or placing a terrible burden on it?
Did he believe in earnest that, if always responding to hate and suffering with absolute and unconditional love, that they would not crucify him, that they would come to their senses? Did he ask the father to forgive them, when he realized that, in their murderous frenzy, their hatred, they saw nothing of the love or suffering, only their false rage?
Did he forsee that the symbol of his crucifixion would become a burden of guilt on all to follow? To remember when you felt rage, that rage had already been felt. When you felt hate, that hate had already been felt and dealt with, with love and forgiveness?
But here we are today, still not free from that hate or suffering that led to the crucifixion. Repeating mistakes over and over. Was it all futile? Which way is forward?
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Tags: divinity, freedom, guilt, ideas, Jesus Christ, life
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on divinity
December 3rd, 2008
on divinity, originally uploaded by s t e r n f a h r e r.
on divinity, originally uploaded by s t e r n f a h r e r.
“The world is divine because the world is inconsequential. That is why art alone, by being equally inconsequential, is capable of grasping it. It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it—just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations.
The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same seashore. But at least he who consents to his own return and to the return of all things, who becomes an echo and an exalted echo, participates in the divinity of the world.
By this subterfuge, the divinity of man is finally introduced. The rebel, who at first denies God, finally aspires to replace Him.”
- On Metaphysical Rebellion, L’Homme Révolté, Albert Camus
Tags: Camus, divinity, existentialism, rebellion
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