Acclimating to the Akedah Lamb and Limb.

[VoidCat]

Did the Odyssey come with Cliff Notes? . . . That's my sarcastic way of asking who gets to say which interpretation of the story is canonical? Did Homer visit you or whomever determines what the story means in a night vision? From a different perspective, do you believe the orthodox interpretation is always correct? If so, then you and @dybmh can gang up on me since he too seem to believe his orthodox understanding of things Jewish isn't subject to any revision least of all mine.

You both might do well to read, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn. What Kuhn shows, applies to religious ideas as much as too scientific ones.



John

Shrugs. I'll just walk out. Bye

 

[VoidCat]

Ganging up is not my thing

 

[dybmh]

He seemed to have misrepresented the story of Ulysses anyway...

Thank you, however, I don't care much for what @John D. Brey says about anything unless... It begins with J, and ends with Jewish.

 

[dybmh]

Ganging up is not my thing

Of course not.

 

[John D. Brey]

This song here is a good representive of the the mercy thing tho it's a modern version of the myth not any the historical sources. But it is true to the source in it being a common theme war is ruthless and dont tick gods off

Cool animation! . . . But this concept of a set and established morality, be it concerning war and killing enemies, or other commandments etched in stone, is pretty much the basis for this thread since the Akedah is Abraham going against standard morality in his achieving of a spiritual status that transcends the law etched in stone such that that law is nailed to the wood on Isaac's back and dies with Isaac so to say.

This is a story of madness, of mad economics, aneconomics, a radical and literal case of death-dealing in an economy of sacrifice. Abraham was willing to make a gift of the life of Isaac. Were a man later this week to take his son and head up to the top of the World Trade Center with the intention of offering the boy in sacrifice, we would send a SWAT team in to seize the madman and arrest him for attempted murder, for defying the most elemental command of ethics and the law, which is not to deal in death, above all -- God forbid -- with one's own son.

John D. Caputo, The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida, p.197.​

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Jesus too thumbed his nose at the law when he said to love your enemies.



John

 

[VoidCat]

Cool animation! . . . But this concept of a set and established morality, be it concerning war and killing enemies, or other commandments etched in stone, is pretty much the basis for this thread since the Akedah is Abraham going against standard morality in his achieving of a spiritual status that transcends the law etched in stone such that that law is nailed to the wood on Isaac's back and dies with Isaac so to say.

This is a story of madness, of mad economics, aneconomics, a radical and literal case of death-dealing in an economy of sacrifice. Abraham was willing to make a gift of the life of Isaac. Were a man later this week to take his son and head up to the top of the World Trade Center with the intention of offering the boy in sacrifice, we would send a SWAT team in to seize the madman and arrest him for attempted murder, for defying the most elemental command of ethics and the law, which is not to deal in death, above all -- God forbid -- with one's own son.​

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John D. Caputo, The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida, p.197.​

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Jesus too thumbed his nose at the law when he said to love your enemies.



John

It is a cool animation. Song is too. I cant wait till Jorge finishes the whole musical. The songs are lit so far

 

[VoidCat]

It is a cool animation. Song is too. I cant wait till Jorge finishes the whole musical. The songs are lit so far

My favorite is this song out the ones he's made so far for the musical