February 12, 2008
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1 So Tom Lantos walks into a bar....
2 Lantos was a fighter and champion for human rights, and his voice will be sorely missed. Rest easy Mr. Lantos; the world needs voices like yours.
3 Moving on: I don't remember my Bible too well, but today I brought up the concept of temptation as a classic theme in literature. I asked for examples of great stories of temptation, and a student brought up Adam and Eve.
4 He told the entire story of the Lord creating the Garden of Eden, and giving Adam and Eve everything they could possibly want to love life and to live eternally happy.
5 Their only restriction was that they were not to eat the fruit of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
6 Go figure.
7 Well, enter a serpent who snakes down from the tree and tempts Eve into going for it.
8 Being human, she caves to the temptation. Adam follows suit.
9 The Lord finds out, throws a hissy fit and boots the naked couple out of the Garden.
Gustav Dore: Adam and Eve Driven from the Garden10 Now this is the kicker: if I'm not mistaken, that's why snakes have to crawl around why we have to work for the rest of our lives. It's also why wimminz have to suffer with childbirth.
11 Woe is we.
12 From this story, we go to school for the first part of our lives, then go on to school or immediately begin working. Either way, we seem doomed to have to work for the rest of our lives.
13 Whew. AND we're all born with Original Sin.
14 I'm thoroughly convinced that Original Sin eventually became the cheescake at Original Joe's.
15 Sin.
16 Tsk, tsk.
17 If only those two had just shagged instead of caving to temptation we might all be eternally young, beautiful, and a buncha loafers.
18 Snakes would walk upright. Babies would just pop out like bubbles in a tub. And we'd all just hang out.
19 It all coulda been so simple.
20 Ah, whatcha gonna do.
21 I always thought Adam and Eve got sort of a bum rap.
22 I mean, why were there contingencies to begin with?
23 Well?
24 Somebody had to ask.
25 That's about it.
26 I just had a bad day and had to find somewhere to take our my frustrations.
27 Thanks for listening.
28 Fly low today.
29 Peace.
~H~
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