Re: [-empyre-] Let me take you down...

[Damien Everett <e40815@rmit.edu.au>]

> > . . . and as any East Anglian will tell you, the 
> fruit of the tree of =
> knowledge of good and evil is only loosely translated from the ancient =
> Aramaic as 'apple'. The green fruit in question is of course the =
> marrowfat pea. That was the fall: Eve ate the peas, adam ate eve, the =
> snake ate adam and unsatisfied by the result, set to devouring its own =
> > tail
>
>
> The creation myth is a myth Sean, Your reification
> of the humble pea over the Apple in the story of 
> Adam and Eve in the Garden hints at a perverted
> empiricism that takes the myth as significant
> historical event. Its important to make a
> distinction between the imaginary and the Real,
> Sean,  otherwise culture and criticism, mediation and 
> communication, ethics and morality all become as it were
> mushy peas.

Hmmm, The myth of objective reality rears its head again... 

There is no true separation between the imaginary and the Real, well not one that can be proven from our purely subjective viewpoints, although some would like to debate this until the end of time... 

Perhaps we imagine there is one "real" cultural and critical approach, one way to mediate, one system of ethics and one right morality... though in my eyes this kind of thinking is divisive... it  causes conflict with those with different views. Perhaps culture and identity are myths of our own devising? does anyone have absolute empyrical proof of their existance? 

when people try to become too "literal" they often miss out on many other dimensions of understanding, much like a blind man trying to describe an elephant by simply feeling its tail... it can sometimes become very messy ;)

There are many ways to interpret myths as they symbolically encode wisdom that could be viewed from many contexts...
This may be somewhat misguided though perhaps adam's "serpent" was actually equally tempted by eve, and they both wanted to "eat of the fruit", and then the serpent, adam and eve were very satisfied... for a time, but then god expelled them because they lost their original purity through their "perverted" knowledge, and because adam was the one who got to name everything he decided to place all the blame on poor eve ;)

I don't know ;)
damien