Comments on: A Serious Man

By: lefrenchie

lefrenchie — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:46:01 +0000

“God is dead” is the most misinterpreted and misunderstood quote of our time…

They are two lost gospels… the one from Judas and the one from the JC man himself…

By: peter

peter — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:30:30 +0000

What about the lost gospel?? Mark is it? Would love to see them reveal that one. Jesus as a mortal human! Great gods… Scorcese definitely picked up on that one. Last Tempt. of Christ was a great movie!

By: joseph

joseph — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:00:14 +0000

Ha ha, maybe I should do what Springer’s fans always say and “go to Oprah.” It’s funny how things work, though; the New Testament misquotes the Old Testament, then Paul misinterprets Christ and we have a new religion. Though I kind of like that bumper sticker that says, — “god is dead” – nietzsche. “nietzsche is dead” – God. I need to find a stupid bumper sticker like that refuting Ayn Rand…

By: lefrenchie

lefrenchie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:26:38 +0000

That’s what I like about you! You are a very enlighted and wise guy, and if we were in a different time, or if you had met Oprah, you’d be considered as a shaman… You are the kind of guy, religious people were made of… before they all became, uneducated fools…

They don’t understand the difference between a sentence and its meaning… and you are one of the few that when reads Jung or Nietchze, you can actually talk about what they meant… Misquotation is one of our days biggest problem…

How many people quote Nietsche without understanding what he meant… or quote the bible without understanding what it was talking about?

By: joseph

joseph — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:06:29 +0000

Yeah, I used to believe what I was taught about the Bible until I started reading it. You’re right that Job is problematic because it talks about a man who is “blameless” before God. Carl Jung wrote a dissertation on Job and he asserted that the book reveals Job as morally superior to God. That’s what’s fascinating about the “old testament” is that it often has an ambivalent view of diety; sometimes man wrestles with God and wins. (or maybe God lets man win sometimes?)

By: lefrenchie

lefrenchie — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:15:15 +0000

Job is the story of a man who is sinless but gets punished

To be super picky… isn’t god only sinless… therefore anyone trying to be perfectly sinless would be trying to be god… comes back to what I was saying… I know job’s story… but I still think it had it coming…
Do you know your view of god is considered atheist for most of the wackos out there?!?!?!
But I think we are close in our own perception of it.

By: joseph

joseph — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:21:33 +0000

The God of Robertson and Fallwell is a God who rewards good people and punishes the wicked, the “abortionists, heathens,” etc. Job is the story of a man who is sinless but gets punished anyways. His friends argue with him, insisting that he must have done something wrong. Finally God appears and mocks the futility of mankind’s attempt at understanding the mysteries of creation, asking questions like “has the rain a father, or who hath begotten the drops of dew?” Christians tend to interpret this story as meaning that as long as you have faith things will work out in the end, but the story seems so much more textured than that. God isn’t a personal being, a father to reach out to, he’s something unfathomable, neither good nor bad in any human sense. You have to accept the mystery rather than try to make it fit some self-centered view. At least that’s all I can make out of it.

By: lefrenchie

lefrenchie — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:12:17 +0000

I digg your reviews man!… but seriously… when you’re talking about the old testament… 2 little things… Job had it coming!… and second, is the God from the old testament the same God that according to the Phelbs sisters and Pat Robertson, brought us 9/11, Katrina and the Tsunami?…