Thursday, September 14, 2006

Great Men, Great Works?

Esau - Aesop
Anyone see a similarity? Just a random passing thought, but they both would have existed somewhere around the same time. Whatever happened to Esau? I don't recall reading it in the bible, he just sort of dissapeared one day into the lacuna. I've stopped believing in coincidence. One day I'll have proof, that Esau upset with the lot he'd been dealt in life, moved on to Greece, and started composing fables.

The Death of Onan

I would like to propose as a topic of consideration, that Onan, son of Judah, brother to Er; was not struck down due to transgression, but on account of vision. Consider, that at this time the people of Yaweh were but simple shepherds. Agriculture was not actively practiced or sought out, and the original farmer himself was cursed by god. Yaweh was not yet ready for his chosen people to cast their seed to the ground. It is only after finding the promised land, where they live by the fields and vintage that they are allowed to practice agriculture.
The true moral of the story here is not that coitus interuptus and contraception are aversive to god. But rather that seeing and actively attempting to cultivate a future that god has not attended is the aversive act.