The Final Thought Before Obliteration Of The Thread

My friend, Namik. The reason why I introduced Adam and Eve into the conversation was to demonstrate that two well known books have inconsistencies in them but the message behind both is still intact. Of course Jesus and Magdalene weren’t brother and sister but if you took the story of Adam and Eve literally than they would be.

You say that the Bible condemns any who changes a comma or word from the bible. Just in America the Bible has been revised first in 1816, 1827 (changing the word Baptizein to Immersion), 1830, 1835, 1836 (changed immerse/immersion), 1838 and so on until 1973. Now logically speaking if the Bible hadn’t wanted even a comma removed or changed, than it could never be translated.

I don’t care for Patterson but his philosophy on Freedom does not hinge on Oedipus’ brother in law. His message is that slaves are the only ones to know freedom, translated: you don’t know what you got until you lose it, and breaking it down further: we take things for granted.

Who cares that this guy won an award? It’s a trophy. Read the book and move on to another. There’s way to many books to get through in one lifetime.

I can not comment on Mr. Pone’s book because I have not read it.

There are some things I agree with Freud on and some I think are unsound. I haven’t read much about his theories on freedom, so I withhold comment.

So, let’s discuss the term freedom. Is it a state of being, where an individual can make up any choice, he or she wants? But if this is the case, then in some instances that choice infringes onto another, taking their freedom away. If this is so, than there has to be limitations to freedom, creating laws-you have the right to choose, but it can’t infringe on others. If there are rules than there isn’t absolute freedom.

Another instance that our absolute freedom is erased is in our body's need. We must eat, we must drink and we must sleep. These are the rules that govern our body.

Are we truly free? No. There isn’t an utopia.-DavidG