Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Salt Lyfe

Being from the old testament, this story depicts God as a much more traditional deity: easily angered and arbitrary in his punishments. The story begins with Abraham being visited by three angels who, in the course of insisting that his wife will become pregnant, let slip that they plan to destroy the cities of Sodomy and Gonorrhea. With such loose-lipped angels, one wonders how God's evil plan was formulated without anyone in either city finding out and causing a mass exodus from the area. Abraham convinces God that if he can find at least 10 people in the cities who are not completely worthless, the cities will be spared. So the angles go into one of the cities and find a guy named Lot, who is just chillin' out by the front gates but seems to be the only one that recognizes them as angels. Lot takes them to his house and gives them food. Apparently nobody new ever arrives in the cities because as soon as they've finished eating, an angry mob appears outside Lot's door demanding to have sex with the newcomers (probably the reason newcomers are scarce). Instead, Lot offers his virgin daughters to the rapist mob, which is something that the angles seem pretty chill about, which is pretty shitty of them because what kind of symbol of goodness lets girls get raped by people they could have just zapped out of existence with a snap of their fingers. Anyway, this pretty much seals the deal as far as the divine squaking of the two cities, and the angles tell Lot and his family (including the two daughters that are totally ok about having been offered to a bunch of gang rapists, who will then go on to purposefully sire incestuous children with their father. Yuck) to get the heck out of there because it was about to go down. The only instruction that they give to Lot and his family was to not look back on the burning cities. Of course, that is exactly what Lot's wife does, and she gets turned into a pillar of salt, a fate which she was probably pretty salty about. 

Before I go full nerd and quote Gandalf the Grey from the Fellowship of the Ring where he says  "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.", I would like to say that I have relatively no personal experience with injustice, a fact that I am very happy about. As a whole, I'd have to say that injustice is bad. It is also subjective and very hard to actually nail down, but it is mostly bad, and we should have as little of it as possible. These are the entirety of my thoughts on this subject. Thank you. 

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Salt Lyfe

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