prats on Nostr: Throughout history, the collective human imagination has created multiple stories in ...
Throughout history, the collective human imagination has created multiple stories in an attempt to give explanations for the deepest problems we face as a species. The story of Adam and Eve is a great example of this; a story that represents the emergence of self-consciousness in humans as a catastrophic event of cosmical proportions:
When Eve ate the fruit from God's forbidden tree (knowledge) and gave it to Adam after listening to the snake (temptation), both suddenly realized they were naked and covered themselves in shame (beginning of culture), next they felt sorry and remorseful for disobeying God (development of ethics and a moral compass). and God punished them for their disobedience by banishing them from the Garden of Eden: Adam was cursed with a lifetime of hard labor until death and Eve was cursed with the pain of childbirth.
All these predicaments are uniquely human and interestingly linked to knowledge:
- Beginning of culture and emergence of ethics: Animals are not ashamed of their nakedness or feel sorry for their primal instincts, they are not good or evil (even when they do something we consider bad by human standards we don't judge them as such) because they are not self-aware, they didn't eat the fruit of knowledge.
- A lifetime of hard labor: we are punished to work because we are aware of our own vulnerabilities and our own mortality, and that forces us to sacrifice our present for our future hoping to ease our inevitable fall. it is the consequence of eating the fruit of knowledge.
- The pain of childbirth (why Eve gave the apple to Adam): tempted to be safe from predators (snake), females shaped the evolution of the species by naturally selecting mates with higher intelligence above other qualities, which made humans develop larger brain sizes over time leading to more pain and difficulties in childbirth (and contributing to the long time it takes for children to get programmed and developed, making them incredibly dependant for many years. it is the consequence of eating the fruit of knowledge.
Our hunger for knowledge cursed us with the unexpected consequences of waking up from unconscious paradise.
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When Eve ate the fruit from God's forbidden tree (knowledge) and gave it to Adam after listening to the snake (temptation), both suddenly realized they were naked and covered themselves in shame (beginning of culture), next they felt sorry and remorseful for disobeying God (development of ethics and a moral compass). and God punished them for their disobedience by banishing them from the Garden of Eden: Adam was cursed with a lifetime of hard labor until death and Eve was cursed with the pain of childbirth.
All these predicaments are uniquely human and interestingly linked to knowledge:
- Beginning of culture and emergence of ethics: Animals are not ashamed of their nakedness or feel sorry for their primal instincts, they are not good or evil (even when they do something we consider bad by human standards we don't judge them as such) because they are not self-aware, they didn't eat the fruit of knowledge.
- A lifetime of hard labor: we are punished to work because we are aware of our own vulnerabilities and our own mortality, and that forces us to sacrifice our present for our future hoping to ease our inevitable fall. it is the consequence of eating the fruit of knowledge.
- The pain of childbirth (why Eve gave the apple to Adam): tempted to be safe from predators (snake), females shaped the evolution of the species by naturally selecting mates with higher intelligence above other qualities, which made humans develop larger brain sizes over time leading to more pain and difficulties in childbirth (and contributing to the long time it takes for children to get programmed and developed, making them incredibly dependant for many years. it is the consequence of eating the fruit of knowledge.
Our hunger for knowledge cursed us with the unexpected consequences of waking up from unconscious paradise.
#tattoo #pratstattoo