As If You Never Even Existed at All…..
Ghosted.
“In a land that is not theirs.”
Did you ever compare/contrast The Akedah as to the going-ons in a land that is not theirs at Passover, as remembered one year later? Each according to their needs. When you either are or are not able to divide up in a land not yours the birthright.
In a land that is not theirs, with the knife… on the mountaintop … into thin air. Resign yourself, sacrificing the hard borders, connected to Spirit, in harnessing the wind, with all the changing direction.
A character who sticks. To you. Here. To the Land. This time.
And so begins the basic human conflict, with Cain and Abel. Over how to worship perfectly. But when there are TWO? Or over pride in worship, in a LAND? If you ever did. Even after one brother killed the other, over matters of worship. So in his “Regrets, I’ve had a few” moment, did Adam ever second-guess himself. Over not separating his sons, on matter of worship, like Abraham seemed to believe in. Or at least his half-sister, Sarai, did?
So, in how to pass on the proper ways to worship, was this the same thing that had gotten Eve and Adam banished into the real world? In the question of whom really knew God the best, as more and more, people gave up trying to know the God of Abraham best? Because I’m just a kid, caught in the middle.
So this rabbi, iman and the priest on this boat, caught between two worlds, in a storm…
Ghosted. Caught between, The Test. In a Land that is not theirs.. . caring but not caring about the one you left behind. Like Moses once formed in the house of the Pharaoh. In Egypt. The domestic handmaids who you loved. Like Hagar. But setting the captive free, yet only after some preparation. Holy? Prepared for their new worlds, living his last 40 years, living between two worlds, Moses with his brethren. Not letting Moses in, at the end because …The Land was not yet holy … or he was so caught between two worlds?
Rocking from east to west and back west to east… And so the conflict, between East and West, in matters of law and governing, there has always been over the concept of Authority. Dominion. The female mind likes to use reason, whereas the male mind just wants to use a force.
#MeToo! On matters of sex and sexual abuse, these days, when you are young, and do not take the power of fertility seriously, wrote Arthur Schopenhauer: “All truth passes through the three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
So, did you know the joys, the sorrow, before the glory … of your own fertility? With all of this Nothing to say with words you have been taught …. concerning your very own creations?
The SILENCE. After you have given up home? How can you love, Sarah, what is not yours? After you try to give up your son? In your existential crisis, facing an end….
As if you never existed at all. This Invisible around here. The disappearance. The Missing. With all of this Nothing in the story. . . as another creator faces death? Or seems to be facing death…
“I am the resounding gong, if I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love. I am the clashing cymbal, if I have a gift of prophecy but do not have love. I am nothing, if I give away everything I own and hand my body over so that I may boast but have no love. Or my son’s. If I comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge, if I have all faith so as to move mountains, I am nothing and gain nothing. . . without love.”
As monopolies increase in size, and you try to be connected to them… in image and likeness, as you want your kids to be bigger, stronger faster, too. And more spiritual!
As “they” seize your child, in “selective service.”
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. And no Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
Once upon a time…. Isn’t the scientist’s purpose, that everyone be ONE. “A nation of farmers and small-town entrepreneurs,” historian Richard Hofstadter wrote, “were anti-authoritarian, egalitarian and competitive.”
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So, defend your and our independence through sacrifice! Or lose your independence. I am this resounding gong, if I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not sacrifice.
“Know that I am with you through it all.”
“I go before you always!” — Abraham, with this God of Abraham.
…..On issues which for a long time ‘have been problematic for our relations.’
This pride connected to home as well as to family. Concerning ORIGINAL SIN, “I have developed a bigger grá for both my county and country since I started living away. In my case what has always been true since, with my belief a lot of Irish people become way more Irish on leaving home.” – from The Irish Independent on September 28, 2019
With all of this Nothing to say with words you have been taught, did you know, Isaac, the joys, the sorrow, before the glory … of your own fertility?
So in the three-day journey, in the tensions of the present, particularly while describing the place to be searched along with the persons or things to be seized, when you would not know the outcome, in a civil war between father and son without a LAND, there is this Reconstruction, with your take-over of what we once formed out of what formed me.
…. without you I am nothing.
Ah, those Spiritual arts. “I’m beginning to think we do not matter to you,
As if you never existed at al…..
To speak about PANIC and Fear, in song. In the disappearing again.
The “tear down” strategy, As if you never existed.
“You want to be divided? I will show you real division!”
The Truth about cheating. After you are gone…..in the characteristics of The Son, like The Father, what happens at the end? Or what seems to happen?
THE MEME.
Ghosted.
“In a land that is not theirs? Leaving…..”
Sarah! In the circle of the creation stories,….. Abraham? Of “the place you do not know,” the afterlife, the sky, the Messiah, the court, La cour, after giving up home the first time. In the circle is Sarah, who gave up the first born son, born of Hagar. The first time.
And if you give up home, what possibly can you ever sacrifice? When you have nothing except independence? So, defend yours and mine, in the way of independence, through sacrifice! Or lose your independence? How? There is this resounding gong, if I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not sacrifice. So the tension in the life of Sarah was over the deepness of her love for Hagar’s son, in what was missing in the story? When Hagar was always there, present, contesting to whom this son belonged?