What really happened on Mt Sinai (A myth):
Moses: Okay Lord, gimme the rules.
The Lord: No rules. We co-create this. General guidelines. Be nice. Stuff like that.
M I gotta have rules.
L: Yes, dear Moishe, you are dealing with slaves and the children of slaves, I understand. But I have a problem here: Catering to their desire for authority from above is fiercely co-dependent.
M: Huh?
L: Oh, that word isn’t in your vocabulary. (Won\u2019t be for maybe three thousand years. Never mind.) Put it this way: It fosters a subtly slavish mentality.
M: Yeah, so?
L: You don’t get it, do you? Liberation means no boss, not even ME!
M: Somebody’s gotta be the boss.
L. Actually, in highly complex, differentiated systems, not. Beings from one-celled animals to cells in your body work out arrangements. Not even your brain is boss.
M: It isn’t? Look, I can make myself lift my hand! See?
L: (Myself, these humans are dense. Oh, well, only about a million years or less from the apes. Patience!) Not when you gotta go. There are times when bladder and anus is boss.
M: (Getting it) Ah.
L: My wonderfulness is precisely my deeply organic commitment to what in three thousand years will be called democracy, and that too is highly imperfect.
M: Well you should know. You’re, like, God.
L: I can read minds, you know: You\u2019re still superimposing a master-slave somebody-going-to-be-boss hierarchical anthropomorphic model on this. Sigh. Humans totally misunderstand how I work. I don’t make anything happen. I don’t give "commandments." That’s so very\u2026 what word—patriarchal?
M: huh?
L: Sorry, another word waaay beyond you. True liberation means taking responsibility.
M: Wow. that’s heavy.
L: Of course it’s heavy. But you wanted non-slavery. I understand that for human social organizations, slavery has had some advantages. Someone else (other slaves) take care of food getting, preparing, drink shelter, etc. It’s a living organism, a large household with many slaves, each of whom helps the other. Can people do this without being "bossed"? That is the question.
M Okay, but what are the rules, then?
L. You don’t get it, do you?
M Get what?<\/p>\n
So that’s what took so long. Not the dictation of the rules. Once God got that Moses didn’t have it in him to really break free more than 24% beyond slavery, he gave rules. Even these, 90%, were painfully distorted, like trying to explain graduate level subtle ethics to 4-year-olds. Ah, the evolution of consciousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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