3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
The text containing this fig leaf comprises Gen 2, Gen 3, if not more. Don't read if you have a pace maker, a weak heart or something similar, it's the very moment that drags in its wake the rest of the train... 60 heavy books of description of pure tragedy, at least compared to possible existence in the garden of Eden. - The very first thing arch-humans did was sewing themselves a kind of clothes, it seems, a mask, a protection. Quite possibly their butt behind was still naked when they tried to cover more forwards parts... The first thing new knowledge brings them is shame, to be sure. The tree of good and evil seems to be a fig tree, f sounds malicious enough and therefore must represent evil, while g may be the good. It's the desire for wisdom that is evil and it's the same desire for wisdom that is good. I said, it's the desire for wisdom inherent in every human being - a desire so obvious and fundamental that one almost HAS to ask where did psychology so called forget to look - that is the cause of this terrible depravity that we feel and live through and it is this same desire for wisdom that can bring redemption from the selfsame terror, that alone.
It all happens because snake does it, and Eve does it, and Adam does it. They are all pointed at with a finger and counted: 1, 2, 3. If you know about forces, the intent of the inspired writer is clear, otherwise, I think, I could entirely miss the point. Further, you must be born deaf&blind to not bump into an obvious fact. Men are far more apt to adopt everything that smells like arrogance and sarcasm then women. Gosh, it seems such a good thing to have, for those who use it look so cool. Some of them acquire stingy (and stinky) tongues such as snakes have. They look less manly but they don't care. The devil gave them to eat. One could understand if woman had a sharp tongue, for she cannot defend herself otherwise, but these men don't care. The devil had seduced them. Soon everyone, everyone, is just tired of them and just shuns them if at all possible, but these men don't care. The devil has duped them. Women are just as inclined to fall into the same trap, but most of them can't be seduced by a 'snake'. (Ok, some of them, if this will make me less of a sexist.) But seen through their 'pretty and in every sense attractive' counterparts, these things seem absolutely superhuman and... in short, desirable to have. Thus the Bible reverts the persons in the story to protect higher contents from those who are not objectively high enough to decipher it without doubt.
One point should be clear, though, and that is, that the most primitive of courts won't accuse somebody for eating, let alone punish them. Let alone that cruelly as it happens in the Bible. Not to mention punishing the whole of mankind for something their stupid mother or father have done, and after being seduced by third party. There is no stupidity in the world that can match stupidity of so called parents, we know that, but most people like to pretend. Who would now want to punish children because of that? The Lord? Therefore the whole of this theological talk about sin is worse than rubbish. People want to play with Bible, okay; it's a fine and respectful pastime, okay. Theologians want to play the game and take it to super intellectual heights, okay. Theologian, anyway, is mostly somebody who knows what other theologians have said, not somebody who really reads and think about the Bible as a psychological book, okay. Next you can watch them pat one another on the back like We are all in the same boat, aren't we and there they stand, Christians with their irreconcillable views and irresistible benevolence towards one another. We know that, okay. The first thing, therefore, is: what can we find out outside of all that. Corrupt 'christian' beings, who want to interpret the Bible in terms of their sexual life, we'll listen to them, too. For they may unknowingly point to us the truth. (Even if it was better for me to study Freud if I was inclined to that sort of 'interpretation'.)
Real question, for example, is why Bible itself (Lord himself) speaks as if there was sin, and punishment, and what not. Actually, I believe there is a master key that unlocks the whole of piled contradiction. Paul, for example, believed that he was in possesion of such a key that unifies the whole of the Law, and it seems that when he explained his views people became miraculously converted. But oops, we are not so far yet. First and foremost, we must not deny that there are terrible contradictions for the ordinary consciousness that the Bible is full of. Next, we must see real questions, most of them, rather than artificial fabric that the theological madness (collective madness, it seems) proposes. I'd also primarily consciously count on some influence that the Bible exercises on me which may, as far as 'I' am concerned, mostly escape ordinary logic (and my ordinary consciousness) - use a sound dose of practical faith that is. ("Sound dose of practical faith" - occasionally I have to write garbage, in this case, because I don't really have too firm grasp of this faith concept. I mean, it sounds like garbage, therefore it must probably be garbage; but to correct would mean to know the right thing and put it in its place.)
Why are they being thrown, literally driven out of the garden? It is described as God's garden, paradise, and rightly so. We'll have to wait quite a while until enlightened Paul comes along with his famous Corinthians to receive an answer (not just a 'hint', but plainly stated answer). If I had all of them satanic fruits save love... In other words, until our Lord redeems us even from absurd concept of 'sin' that they seek to implant in our minds from all sides, we'll have to stumble through the jungle of the well-known plethora. We won't be sorry for that, though. That much we know, and even Paul knows. (Enlightened or not, how the heck does he know THAT?)
Later on, we shall see that man, to be really complete, has to be 'fat', 'sweet', and 'cheerful' or 'exuberant'; that figs, for that matter, are 'sweet', while wine (cheers!) makes you 'cheerful', while olives make for 'fatness'. We'll then try to figure out the meaning of all that.
Next, it occurs to me, we see men and women all over. We see them everywhere. You must be born deaf&blind to not see them. What I don't see that often between them, though, is a snake. It must be third force, that we ordinarily don't see. Maybe it is because it was left back in the garden... just speculating.
Now what, more specifically, is this wisdom that is so desirable to have? It gives knowledge of good and evil. Those who have this knowledge become gods, it is said... and justly so. Again, one must think of Epistles... Epistles which, as it seems, are a sub-Bible in its own right in the Bible, or some kind of fractal sub-mirroring. Even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
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