Surprise your pig (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} xnoybis) wrote,@ 2005-09-16 00:12:00 |
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"Only imperfectly we know and imperfectly we prophesy
When comes perfection, the imperfect will cease.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I have laid down the things of a child.
We see now through a mirror in riddles, then we shall see face to face. Now I know in
part, then I shall know fully, and be known fully.
So remain, Faith, Hope and Love, these three. But the greatest of these is Love."
I Corinthians 13 literal translation
http://www.xs4all.nl/~beren/picshtm/cor
What I find incredible is that the truth is written in plain language for everyone, but they have no idea what these words mean. It is staggering to consider that great empires were architectured and have fallen, many millions have lived and died serving strange empty causes, millenia have passed and the whole earth has been changed while some of the most important words from the most widely read book have been understood and acted upon by some precious few. It is such a marvel to consider this, as if we live in completely different realities than others', and that each person has his or her own separate, parallel universe. Like fat and stupid donkeys over high mountains, our egos and thinking patterns need to be beaten to the point of breaking if we intend for them to change direction in their blind, inevitable, lugubrious parade towards degeneration and fatal falls.
When comes perfection, the imperfect will cease.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I have laid down the things of a child.
We see now through a mirror in riddles, then we shall see face to face. Now I know in
part, then I shall know fully, and be known fully.
So remain, Faith, Hope and Love, these three. But the greatest of these is Love."
I Corinthians 13 literal translation
http://www.xs4all.nl/~beren/picshtm/cor
What I find incredible is that the truth is written in plain language for everyone, but they have no idea what these words mean. It is staggering to consider that great empires were architectured and have fallen, many millions have lived and died serving strange empty causes, millenia have passed and the whole earth has been changed while some of the most important words from the most widely read book have been understood and acted upon by some precious few. It is such a marvel to consider this, as if we live in completely different realities than others', and that each person has his or her own separate, parallel universe. Like fat and stupid donkeys over high mountains, our egos and thinking patterns need to be beaten to the point of breaking if we intend for them to change direction in their blind, inevitable, lugubrious parade towards degeneration and fatal falls.
