@JSilbermanFTS "The story of Jesus is amazing. Christ came to teach us how we can be free by gaining consciousness of our own divinity in the same way that he did."
Is this or is this not the story of the serpent deceiving Eve?
It is structurally the same, even though it uses different words?
My friends are mad at me for saying every situation feels like “Kafka’s Maze”, something they claim doesn’t exist. Feel like I’m in Kafka’s Maze right now
@NutlawPete@ConceptualJames@JimHansonDC@AmReformer They somewhat arbitrarily called the structure of Marx’s argument “rhetoric”. But the structure of the argument is the method. Engender class/race/whatever bitterness, call for centralization of power wielded by the ideologically pure, destroy the past, usher in the eschaton.
@walterkirn it felt most archaic at the beginning, as it was grounding the setup - once the servant murders the officer, it becomes more fluid, fantastic, and modern
@i_zzzzzz Know I’m late, but along these lines I also love in hurricane neddy when the hurricane frees the convict from the electric chair and disappoints the gathered crowd, but then throws him into the power-lines at which the crowd rejoices.
@benpartridge Fair points all! You’re totally right that we’re not talking classic state censorship, so that’s a completely applicable distinction that I wasn’t making.
@PerfInjust@PLeithart The poets eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; & as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poets pen turns them to shape, & gives to airy nothing a local habitation & a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.