A Lesson of World Religion

A Lesson of World Religion

written by ben yosaf aperitif

The truth about the meaning of the word 'religion' is that it refers to an idea very specific, tangible, concrete, paramount, and complete in and of itself: "Religion Teaches Truths About God."

What is the path of your salty river?

The silt of the Fertile Crescent, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates, was where the earliest living civilization spanned-- the dawn of systematized written signifiers, shared economic harvests, overall government in terms of shared framework for top-down mandate in direction of shared interests and projects, artistic sediments, religious sentiments expressed in terms of togetherness in groups and systemized renderings of our Timeless Deity...  We see this emerged out of a village on one of these earth-constituted-central rivers—[SEE HOW THE WORD OPENS UP]—(Genesis 2:10-14... as illustrated the river-of-life in terms of how original sin wipes clean in terms of dusty-to-pristine, Genesis 2:7, Genesis 2:21-22).  First building a terrain of expansive community in the Noble Firmaments of a village-town called Sumer, and before long, creating with their own hands: cities, an administering governmental bureaucracy and leadership and all their cultural creations and spiritual actualizations, in the light, thereof, the latter, commensurate with from how earliest nomads unraveled unto a villages likewise framework of humble supplications and individually, in their best moments, worshipping God.

Ultimately, they crafted from Gold and the Plasmatic Form of Forms ideas of religious belief, religious community, and religious practice (Matthew 6:19-21).  This is crafted in light of the civilizational crosswords (excuse the play of words), cross-paths, documented in Acts in the early Apostles of the Early Church in a light-lily cross-paths, of the Nation of God and the peoples of the earliest wheat-fields of cherishing the earliest demos (the people) engendering shared kratos (governing) [THE PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE-GATE-BELONGING RULING IN SHARED FRAMEWORK OF CITIZENRY-ROLES] NATION/CITY-STATE of Athens, joining a shared calling in terms of how they carry out what they carry on unto, the present times, of monotheistic faith.

The people developed shared sense-of-belonging, history, and identity and came to expand all throughout the riveting ebbs and flows between these two archways of turbulent river-flow that brings agriculture and bounty, surplus and harmony.  The first civilization: The great Mesopotamian Civilization came alive.

Genesis 2:14— "The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates."

[HEAR THE WORD SPEAK LIGHT LIVING-WATERING SPRINGS]

The silt brought the peoples' harvest to a fertile soil that they bestowed their sowing spades into the ground, and grew their crops, ripened and ate in surplus and happiness of their home abode, clay-dwelling places— after years of nomadic hunting and gathering in close-knit communities.

This brings into question the genealogy of the human race.  When God placed us here on earth and we were faced with the question of existence, subsistence, and meaning; "thrown," as French existentialist might argue the truest existentialist moment might have been; what did people face when they were originally placed on our home, Mother Earth.  Did God exhort them, "Be fruitful and multiply!  Tend to nature's great resources.  Cup water in one's hands to hydrate.  Collect berries and other fruits to obtain nutriture.  Always act with empathy and love in the lifeworld"...?  Or did God place us on earth, full of endless possibilities to act and be good, species engendered by accident of a big loud silence of a particle or two imploding, expanding, particles emanating out of in light of the miracle of atoms choices--?-- and the miracle of nature, as we frame it in our present lexicon, the miracle of existence, as some of our visionaries and mystics might deftly speak to, the randomness and arbitrary circumstantial framing of what comes to constitute... everything you mean and are. -- to go back, when man emerges in the infinite-complex, is he and she, the earliest people, -- are placed or thrown?

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A lived and unfolding in every moment of our lives unfolding in terms of your life and all it stands for and all it means... infinite choices at each moment we entered into as the Human Family, and in our radical freedom, we figured out how to dwell on the land, make homage to the gods and goddesses, offer pilgrimages to the holy places, and discern, in the primordial over-reaching, all-arching power of the primordial elements, meaning and purpose?

Placed?  Or "ordered" with advice and direction for how to achieve "the good life," a life of meaning, virtue, happiness, in the light that the Light of the World perceives us as configured to carry our psycho-somatic frames forward in harmony of self and kin and "the others" if we destined her or him to be...?

Thrown vs. Instructed by God?

The 'winners' of civilization write history, but everyone takes part.  We can see world history as developing and enveloping as people carrying out action, with thought and interconnection in terms of communication vested in language and body-signs, empathy and affect as they share their time in their locality, their "place-on-earth," which constitutes an environment, each environment individual and unique yet porous and open to surrounding environments and a system of them, which carry on to ecosystems that enable certain organisms to bear positive result, enjoined to a series of ecosystems, that carry on through hilltops, over mountains, scenic routes, among crags, over the oceans where people roll to the waves that sling and fling.  What is the structure of human history?  The 'winners' surely write their history and have carried it forth through "noblest," oral tradition and written records and how we, in our present day, view the path unbound and unfolded of (what constitutes the meaning, the significance, and how it matters to us) the story of human history-- all the people and all their actions and how that constitutes what is signified in terms of what we refer to "the history of the world," or "world history."

Is this a testament to the thrown or instructed viewpoint? 

The way in which we find ourselves needing to confront this question: we can discern through history pages that the human species emerged, maintained itself and recreated itself during eons in which small communities worked together in hunting and gathering cultures.  Why were they hunting and gathering, rather than utilizing agriculture?  Our wisest answers thus far tell us that humankind had not yet discovered or invented agricultural techniques.  Did instinct tell us to hunt game and eat berries and other natural foodstuffs, much like other animals?  If we did not yet know how to use agriculture to harvest the land, how did we learn to hunt and gather?

Which boils down to the simplest question: when our original human ancestors emerged on this beautiful planet, were they "told" "through revelation" or "communion with God" the ways to survive, flourish, grow, and make meaning?  Or are each of those projects ideas and lived ways that humankind, through something like trial and error, perhaps, had come to achieve on its own accord, with the lack of theistic instruction and, perhaps, minimal theistic support?

Does God exist?

Or, maybe, in terms of a more conformist in terms of how our everyday man and everyday woman (in all the best of what he, in all his great, both in terms of how he introspectively comprehends it and in terms of its constituting into what and how it is, in its essence, in terms of the truth it carries in the universe, engenders and is lived out in terms of all it is, namely, action, thought, and word)... in terms of how the present day normal person verses it in light of our global civilization (a truly globalized world)... what he and she inquires, "sacred or secular?"

Well, we still can't say in terms of how we all agree, but in terms of the most advanced philosophical and philosophy of religion-based frameworks and how they can agree, we can see in light of this day of shared action in terms of how we feel we are related to the whole world and we view it in terms of our understanding of where we view ourselves in terms of our self-identifying as constituting a holistic-embeddedness part in the whole of, in light of how nations interact through diplomats, we can see, and in terms of how some people travel all around the world, lots of countries they visit and make home in some of them... and in light of this, and this shared understanding in terms of the tension of one's understanding their commentary of society both in light of how it is all fitting together and in light of how they personally are living in terms of their most important-- big decision, big decision... it is our thesis which unfolds and is supported by both these competing and cooperating (and in terms of this thesis, interdisciplinary) schools... where we stand in terms of how its summed up in terms of your life and the history of the world and where we are in the present moment: we are at the cross-path of a inchoate, nascent what we will see unravel in terms of where we are in how the Whole hangs together and relates to the church's stance and philosophy's stance in reflection of such: a theocratic, global democracy constituted through all of us, in our present day and age, our present time, the twenty-first century of the global citizen and the liberated man/the liberated woman constitutes in terms of his carrying out of his citizenry in light of his 'talk,' (a great concept and idea, in light of how it enables and engenders this lived framework, of citizenry, in this thusly understood framing and sharing of what is seen as the future horizons of how a truly actualized theocratic, democratic world government and world democracy, in light of academia's and from the U.N., the ASEAN, to the World Council, to all individual world governments best can speak for how it is most likely, in terms of likeness of our tools of Global Governance, and in the likeness of how the church carries out that responsibility in humility and humble meekness of those that are called upon God to present themselves, in their thanking of God--myself, one of those-- for how our Father in Heaven in terms of promising us we shall inherit the earth, to reference the Beatitudes, and to expand that portion of the church to moreover encompass, those of us who are meek of the faithful personhoods of the People of the Book, who are also persecuted for our righteousness, as we see our forefathers who paved the way for us, in terms of this present age, our great prophets of the World's Great Faiths, preceded us were also prosecuted, in terms of who we are in terms of greater meaningfully-significant and God-imparted 'primacy,' and also in terms of, by our virtue God-willing and the Will of God, in light of our, the meaningfulness and, our, ourselves and God's understanding of all our time's best understood as carried forth in light of him in our understanding and relationship with him, our, our presence with God, Our Father, in each of our days and our shared understanding of submission and good obedience, and also... the greater righteousness in terms of our lived paths, which personify in our personal relationship with God great faith and faithfulness and good lives in terms of how they are ethically and also in terms of our meaningful projects and love of Jesus framed... our 'superior' meaning, our, rather, calling in which he leads us, the meek of the People of the book, to have mandate, levers to enact that mandate, and meaningfully (in terms of all meaning can mean) authority as opposed to the all the rulers and authorities of the earth...

Matthew 5:20-- " For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven."

Matthew 5:48-- "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect."

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