Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Not sure what to call this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOFqzaD6Bog



Okay okay, so the above video may not leave much up to be interpreted, but i hope it's relavence consitutes enough for the technology requirment. If not, I blame the spam.



On a more serious note, I acctually do have some thoughts on book 6.



"Against unequal arms to fight in pan

Against unpained,impassive, from evil which

ruin must ensue"



(6: 454-456)



One thing about war amoungst the angels is that it accomplishes nothing, because angels are immortal. I don't find a point in going to war if no one's opinions are going to budge, and no casualties will ensue because no one is able to die. Satan wants victory, and won't accept peace any other way. But while he and the rebels angels are duking it out, they are eventually feeling the affects. The good angels are able to recover faster because they are fighting for God, if they feel anything at all. I was really surprised that that was even able to happen. This right here is a sign that Satan is most definatly not going to get away with this. With God overlooking everything, the battle is pretty much over before it started. Does Satan still think that He cannot see him?

Come to think of it, why were some angels even created to be more powerful than others? This was bound to happen to some degree, if not against God, than amoungst other angels. I think it shows to prove that even they possess that level of humanity, that angels can be currupt. It certainly adds an interesting tailspin to traditionalist views. When God made Man, did he have equality in mind? Eve is portrayed as Adam's subordinate, and God gave them the land and animals to sort of rule over. This can be a small government in itself, if Adam and Eve were intelligent enough to master it. The one thing they were forbidden to do was eat from the tree of Knowledge, but is knowledge in this case considered a bad thing by God? Satan was very intelligent, and he turned that into rhetoric that convinced a third of Gods angels to revolt. Maybe God is afraid that if Adam and Eve possess knowledge, than they will have even more potential to do harm to either temselves or their enviornment in which God has given them. If you look at the world know, people today do possess a lot more knowledge than they did even 200 years ago. We have technology, we have medicine, we have solutions. We also have pollution, murder, curruption, starvation, and greed. Most people sin every day, multiple times a day. Can we root that to knowledge, since it is intelligence that brought all of this good and bad? God wants to keep Adam and Eve innocent, so their innocence could keep them pure.


I'm not sure exactly where im going with this one. I may come back and edit it later.

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