Random Thoughts (march 10, 2022)

by Everlasting   Mar 10, 2022


When I was a child, I saw a movie about Jesus Christ.
In the movie, Jesus Christ said while he was being crucified

“Forgive them Lord, for they do not know what they are doing”

And the sky was angry. The storms and lighting surrounded the cruxifixction site.

I kept wondering “why? oh why did Jesus said that?”

To me, it looked clear that those crucifying him knew what they were doing. So I thought they were evil.

Later, I kept thinking that people used to say that the Bible said that we must keep our blood pure. But I kept wondering “pure? How?” And people kept saying “we are all sinners. We must purified ourselves.”

For some it meant that they could drink deer’s blood. Others, it meant to eat just vegetables. For others it meant to stay within their own social groups and to not mingle with outsiders.

But I think that what it meant with “we are all sinners” is that we all are ill. For some its not as obvious as for others. Each of us are a world for billions upon billions of microscopic organisms. Some of us have several viruses, parasites, bacteria in us. This microorganisms affect the level of “resources” in our bodies. So each and every day, we must work towards balancing the “resources” we have in our bodies so that our bodies can work accordingly. Thus, maintaining a balance that lead to “pure blood.”

Anyways, I think the language has change. The knowledge has expanded … what once was understood as “sinners” can now be understood as “illness” but this expansion of knowledge is creating misunderstandings. Conflicts. Just as the Tower of Babel. They started with one language and as they work together and building higher and higher many languages were created and understanding became difficult.

So this is were poetry comes into play. Poetry is the bridges connecting lands that have become separated. Poetry is the planes, ships, medium of transportation that keeps communication and understanding together. The poet is the traveler who must decide whether he’ll cross, build that medium.

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  • 2 years ago

    by Poet on the Piano

    All of this is so intriguing and thought-provoking. I love what you share, even if you consider them to be random thoughts, they do form a coherency and meaning here to me. The beginning lines sparked memories of watching "The Passion", which was quite graphic, and I remember the adult supervision and being old enough to try and understand. My family and I, or religious education class, watched it annually before Easter.

    I really like the contrast of that, perhaps immediate, forgiveness we see Jesus speak of, with the knowledge of what we know as good and evil. How can someone not know what they do, if they consciously and deliberately did it? I don't even remember off the top of my head what their crimes were. Possibly thieves? I don't know if it was implied they were violent or what. Just the notion that forgiveness was being taught. Recognizing when we've done wrong, atoning before it reached such a pivotal point.

    Then, the idea of purifying ourselves is something to consider, especially how there can yield many different interpretations, with many differing examples. I think the main focus growing up Catholic was not in physical signs of purification, but emotional cleansing. Going to regular confession, offering up contrition, and opening our hearts to God. It also begs the question of how others view and define sin. Is it something akin to a cultural or worldly, bigger picture sin? Is it more personal? Is it recognizing our failures and mortality? Is it realizing how our body can become sick despite our best efforts, and how we have to actively take care of it, and take care to filter and process what's in our mind, too?

    I think there's a lot of thought in this piece, and the reality of language changing is something to note too, as you mention. Poetry and writing of any kind can address nuances or complications, or offer an insight we hadn't been introduced to before. I think it's always fascinating to see how people view each other. Do we view others as innately good, prone to sin and destruction? Do we view others as flawed from birth, who have the chance to become good? Do we differentiate between unintentional ways we may hurt someone versus intentional?

    Really enjoyed reading!

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