"Batroc Z Leaper"  wrote in message
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> In article , nottelling{at}hotmail.com
> (Philip Lewis) says...
>>
>> "bluesmama"  wrote in message
>> news:1110238634.845237.269850{at}z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>> > It took all the wiles of the Evil One to tempt Eve to take a bite, but
>> > all she had to do to get Adam to dig in was hold out the fruit and
>> > smile.
>> >
>>
>> The 'Adam and Eve' story is an allegory about the emrgence of sentience
>> in
>> the Human race.
>>
>> Phil
>
> I always took it for an allegory of vanished childhood innocence,

Yes that works well to a certain extent and even in law it is recognised
that below a certain age an individual is not responsible for its actions.
Childhood innocence of the world surely vanishes with experience but I
question whether the luminosity of childhood conciousness is only explained
by wordly innocence.

> and a
> "just so" story of why the world is full of crap.
>
> If you look at the number of diseases and wars that primitive middle
> eastern civilization had to put up with, it is easy to understand why
> they were so demon ridden and superstitious.

I wonder what generations much further into the future (IF we have one!)
will think of our 'state of mind'?

Phil




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