Red & Poisonous
(Study for "The Sleeping Beauty" article)
“And from this slumber you shall wake,
when true love's kiss, the spell shall break.”
when true love's kiss, the spell shall break.”
This fairy tale on the Sleeping Beauty has been adapted countless times throughout history and retold by modern storytellers across various media. Almost every men and women are familiar with the © Disney version,the best known as a cartoon movie classic but you will also find surprising variations too, around the theme...
According to the best known version the young lady was eating the mischievous, greedy Witch's apple: the seemingly good but poisonous red apple.
I think this is the archetype of the sin. Sin is not obviously ugly or suspicious. It is not the packaging that indicates its true nature but its source. Sin can be really pretty - with heavy consequences.
I think this is the archetype of the sin. Sin is not obviously ugly or suspicious. It is not the packaging that indicates its true nature but its source. Sin can be really pretty - with heavy consequences.
Cause and effect
Our Lord, Jesus explicitly informs and teaches us about the evil's plan. Though in his parable the sleepy fault comes before the trouble the connection is clear.
..while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed zizanion...
Mt 13:24
Mt 13:24
Jesus's picture is surprisingly precise. A full article can be read here about the original meaning of the parable. But in this page we want to focus on the Beauty's problem: the poison in the apple.
Meanwhile apple could be the healthiest fruit ever, looking good, tasting fantastic and demanding the next pick... our religious life is enthusiastically likes picking up the "apples" from unauthorised sources – sometimes like the apple of the knowledge of good and bad*, or sometimes a humble good looking or even commonly praised sort of apple...
Meanwhile apple could be the healthiest fruit ever, looking good, tasting fantastic and demanding the next pick... our religious life is enthusiastically likes picking up the "apples" from unauthorised sources – sometimes like the apple of the knowledge of good and bad*, or sometimes a humble good looking or even commonly praised sort of apple...
In the Garden of Eden, though, the first pair of humans are munching on a not named fruit from the Tiger - Euphrates region. Their problem became our trouble: The fruit was forbidden, God was disregarded. This is the essence of sin: all the poisons that Satan offers arise from its conviction that mankind is ignorant and indifferent to the thoughts intentions and true being of God. And the potion is what evil has offered/offers: death.
Anyway - we used to get apples from various plants – and they are not always the best... When we recognise that our community is a Sleeping Beauty, first we should know that there's an "unauthorised apple" nearby. {Maybe in the throat...}
Apple Black-Market
Let us see that apples!
Principle - based community
Niche based community - elitism
Principle - based community
Niche based community - elitism
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Charismania - using the "Spirit"
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Pseudo - Jewish customs and focus {walking according to the Law}
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existentialism
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I talk/I sing (the one-man band)
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Timothy at all costs
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