Take your pick~
Slave
or
Sinner?

Slave (miner) - Sumer
Sinner - Christianity
Original sin
"Latin: peccatum originale
in Christian theology refers to the condition
of sinfulness that all humans share,
which is inherited from Adam and Eve
due to the Fall..."
.
All
humans.
.
With the understanding that the Bible
contains several references to slavery,
and other contents that baffle me.
Sin
Eating the forbidden fruit led
to "an immediate loss of their
innocence and awareness of
their nakedness."
.
"Shame and Fear":
Adam and Eve realized they were
naked. "so they sewed fig leaves
together to make clothes for
themselves."
"They hid themselves among the
trees of the garden."
.
The most curious part:
They hid from God.
.
"God searched for Adam and Eve
by walking in the Garden of
Eden in the cool of the day
and calling out, 'Where are you?'"
.
"When Adam answered that he
was hiding because he was
naked and afraid..."
.
The most surprising part:
“'Who told you that you were
naked?' the Lord God asked."
.
"The Curses and Judgments":
God cursed the snake, Eve
and Adam.
.
The most unbelievable part:
"God made garments of skin to
clothe Adam and Eve, replacing
their fig leaves."
.
"God banished them from the
Garden of Eden."
.
The quoted content above
is from Google AI.
Below is me mumbling...
.
Adam and Eve could be like...
pure energy before eating the
forbidden fruit. It is possible
that the consciousness of Adam and
the consciousness of Eve used to
be in the state of unsegregated
unity with the "whole". They never
saw themselves as naked because
they were treated as part of the
existence of the whole.
.
After the forbidden fruit, the
"separation" occurred. The unity was
broken. They suddenly started to
recognize their own "reflection".
They suddenly started to perceive
the presence of the "border", e.g.
a distinct body of their own. And
this could be a process of the
transformation from Energy to Matter.
.
Reflection also implies having their
own thoughts, i.e. the birth of their
own "Ego". Reflection may also indicate
the concept of Mirror that reminds of
the Mirror Image theory about human
infants proposed by Jacques Lacan.
.
The shame and fear they experienced
could be due to a sense of abandonment
by or alienation from the whole. After
the severance, they even thought they
could hide from God. Maybe because they
could no longer "feel" God in their
own being like the way they did.
No boundaries no more.
.
When God asked Adam
"Who told you that you were naked?"
No answer in the Bible.
.
Eating the forbidden fruit signifies
the ultimate disconnection with the
pristine, unmediated, blissful sense
of oneness.
.
The end of innocence.
A kind of freedom.
At the same time.
.
Hence they could no longer stay in the
Garden of Eden anymore. And shockingly -
"God made garments of skin to clothe
Adam and Eve" before they left.
Please kindly refer to the skin part
here.
.
p.s.
I
"In New Testament, the Greek root
'plasma' translates to a 'thing formed'
or a molded object. Using the
metaphor of a potter and clay."
Adam and Eve could be pure energy
(plasma) after the Creation.
Some mysticism texts also depict
that they had an aura or "garment
of light" before the Fall.
II
Since they had bodies, the curses
from God were mostly about physical
sufferings. To Adam, "painful, sweaty
labor all the days of his life". To Eve,
"childbearing and labor would be
accompanied by severe pain".
III
"According to the biblical narrative
in Genesis, death would not have
entered human experience" if they
had not eaten the forbidden fruit.
IV
God also, unexpectedly, "cursed
the ground in Genesis 3". According
to Google AI, "God outlined these
specific effects on the earth
and human work: 1.Painful toil
2.Thorns and thistles 3.Mortality".
The last one Mortality is to
"remind humanity that they came
from dust and would return to dust".
Wow... plasma, in labs, is often
"observed creating its own micro-
scopic dust from nothing."
- Plasma dust, Stardust,
Cosmic dust...
- The emergence...
V
In Plato's Cave allegory, the
escapee, immediately after the
jailbreak, looked at the "reflections"
in water first. Then he could see
the "real" world.
VI
The story of Wisdom -
Sophia's departure from the
divine realm of Pleroma.
Pleroma ． Plasma
VII
"They hid from God." could be viewed
as they suddenly acquired a new
"skill"–deception. Thus the loss of
innocence. This is one of the
recurring themes of all the stories
ever been told. For example:
before - "The Iliad: the world of
direct truth*"
after - "The Odyssey: the masterclass
of falsehood".
Me 𒈨
/meh/
"In Mesopotamian/Sumerian culture,"
Me refers to sacred, divine powers,
decrees, or fundamental cultural
norms handed down by the gods to
run human civilization. They are
foundational forces governing
everything from crafts and social
structures to abstract concepts
like victory and falsehood."
~ Google
"According to the poem 'Enki and
the World Order', the Me were
originally collected by Enlil and
then handed over to the guardianship
of Enki, who was to broker them out
to the various Sumerian centers,
beginning with his own city of
Eridu and continuing with Ur..."
~ Wiki
.
/meh/ may be the first sound
a human makes as a baby.
Mommy: "Oh my baby is calling me!
So cute..."
.
Sheep, lambs and goats make a
sound like "meh".
.
Meh~ meh~
Covenant
The Ark of Covenant
.
Incidentally:
- Arc on Ark
- Just a little bit. The Ark
looks like a... handbag.
- "According to the Bible, only the Levites,
a priestly class, were designated to
carry the Ark of the Covenant..."
Levites ． Levitation
- Ancient Egyptian parallels
Commandments
10 Commandments.
.
"The 10 Commandments (Exodus) and
the Egyptian Book of the Dead
(specifically the 42 Negative
Confessions or Declaration of
Innocence) share notable
moral parallels..."
.
Moses the Lawgiver
(Egyptian connection)
.
Moses holding tablets.
Who else holding tablets?
Thoth, Enlil, Shamash, Nabu,
Nisaba.
.
Moses with horns
"Moses is often depicted with
horns on his head in art."
"The Hebrew word for "shining"
was translated as "horned"
in the Vulgate..."
.
"Horns symbolically link
to the crescent moon in
ancient iconography".
.
Sin is the name of Moon,
crescent Moon especially,
in the Sumerian mythology.
Crescent Moon → horns
.
So, sinner...
.
Synagogue
Contract
Contract
The Spirit* of Contract
.
To define the infrastructure of interaction
between two parties?
.
Contracts can be invisible.
- Faith, spiritual or religious belief...
- Love, fear or...
- Morality, promises, consensus...
- Social conditioning, habits,
tradition, norms or convention...
- Punishment or profit...
- Mind control
Universal
Contract is universal. Because...

- There is a Creator -
(Or is there?)
I find myself naturally drawn
to the idea of "Emergence".
p.s.
Contract could be like the
Readme (Hello World!)

- Mutual Recognition -
The Space-Time we live in
is an Infinity Mirror Room?
Related:
Universe → You inverse
You are the reflection of the universe?

- Net of Connection -
Atom is not the atom we think of.
Particle is not the particle we think of.
Electron is not the electron we think of.
Like tiny dots.
.
They are Waves, Resonance, Fields.
(Magnetic) Energy Fields.
According to Nikola Tesla, Federico
Faggin, String Theory, Quantum theory...
.
Humans are intrinsically social
creatures, wired for connection.
.
All is connected.
Micro - Macro
Self-similarity
.
Hegel believed "humans are inherently
social..." Unlike "Social contract theory
assumes that humans exist as isolated,
atomistic individuals..."

p.s.
- Catholic, in Greek, means
"universal" and/or "on the whole".
Related:
Mitra (Mitrá, Mithra)
Mitra ． Mirror
- H2O is ho ho ho!
Law
Logic
.
Logos
.
Natural Law
.
Divina Proportione
Golden Ratio, Golden Spiral
Fibonacci sequence
Fractals...
.
Land law and Sea law
Maritime law/Ocean law
Case law
Rules
Rules of the game
La Règle du jeu
Game of the rules
Game theory
Game master
Game of Thrones
Exchange
is essential!
Exchange is breathing.
Exchange is blood.
Bringing life to an entity.
.
Exchange is interaction.
Exchange is motion.
Exchange is Yin and Yang wheeling.
Exchange is energy.
.
Exchange → Net
.
"As above, so below."
.
Quid pro quo
.
Tesla's rotating magnetic field
and the alternating current
Accountability
on both parties
→
Sense of security,
Predictability,
Trust,
Individuality,
Privacy,
Liberty,
Private ownership,
Market economy...
.
Private ownership → something to exchange
.
Exchange → Contract → to max profit
→ Respect contract and each other
.
Exchange → Providing value → more Rights
.
Economic freedom → Political freedom
.
A slave may not own any property.
But a slave's labor or service belongs
to his or her private ownership.
A baby may not be a supplier of labor.
But a baby smiles and the world shines.
Every human being has the Natural Rights.
.
The concept of private ownership
(linked to the notion of Boundary)
induces/forces a user to recognize the
service and status of a provider
as valuable and an equal.
Vice versa.
.
From loose sand to the concrete that
build the pyramid of Giza?
We need water!
Water is the connection.
Water is the medium.
Water is the solution.
.
Imagine the chemistry.
.
Some say money is like water*.
Money
in its rather broad sense,
profit, benefit,
brings it all together.
.
Imagine the chemistry.
.
And moneyman.
Homme d'affaires.
In its rather broad sense.
Every kind of affair means every
kind of contract. Concrete means
united as one. Hence union,
organization, coalition, party...
means hey get us a new contract?
.
Related:
- The "feeling" of legal rights
"It's the understanding and awareness
of one's legal status and the freedoms
and protections afforded by the law."
.
- Money, like water.
Banking (banks) to conduct the flow of
water (river).
The big boss behind the curtain:
Phoenician Canaanites banking system?
.
- Collectivism & Individualism
For example:
A system may, all of a sudden,
usually in an emergency or contingency,
start demanding the people to relinquish
a certain degree of freedom or rights,
under the pretext of "for the better
good" or "united as one"...
This could be a tiny slip leading to a
hidden downward slop... or not.
Who knows?
.
- In a patriarchal society,
people exchange daughterse
to form bonds.
This is probably why
the personality cult
is peculiarly intractably vile
because it shatters the
default setting of "all humans".
It breaks the law.
It is above the law.
.
When there is no certainty,
uncertainty rules.
Someone's whim rules.
Someone's whim will soon
deteriorate into terror.
Because along the chain of command,
nobody is saving his or her whim
for those at the bottom.
.
Whim whirls. Whims whirl.
Whirl of whims sucks in
everything en route.
.
So "all humans".
All humans ruled by terror.
Nobody is safe.
Even for the person
at the tip on the top.
.
By the way,
"All humans" was not, never,
a setting of a, say,
imperial, "Confucian"
control group.
Animism
Another default setting,
since the ancient time,
is the belief that "all things -
animals, plants, rocks, rivers,
weather systems, human handiwork,
and in some cases words,
as being animated,
having agency and free will
(distinct spiritual essence)..."
Yin Yang Contract
A contract can be perceived as
the Logic, the law (nature or man-made)
mediating between the Yin and Yang*,
symbolized by the S-shaped curve
in the middle.
.
The two sides are supposed to be able
to reflect each other's intent
(two eyes therefore),
to fulfill each other's needs
(keep wheeling*)
assuming it's a healthy contract.
1 + 1 > 2
.
Multiple variables, for example
morality, faith, love, habits,
tradition, profit, punishment...
can be perceived as a binding power,
symbolized by the encompassing circle (?)
around Yin and Yang, for a contract.
Mutual Recognition
forms the basis for legal contracts
and the foundation of society.
As per G.W.F. Hegel
from "Philosophy of Right".
.
"Hegel strongly rejected the "Social
Contract" political theories of thinkers
like Thomas Hobbes, John Locke,
and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Social contract theory assumes that
humans exist as isolated, atomistic
individuals in a "state of nature"
and then come together to build a
society. Hegel argued this is
impossible; humans are inherently
social... Contract theory reduces
the state to a mere business arrangement
meant to protect individual property
and self-interest. Hegel argued that
the state is not a contract, but a
higher, organic ethical entity that
actually makes true freedom possible."
~ Google AI
.
p.s.
Land and Energy.
"For Hegel, land was not merely a
physical resource or geographical
territory; it was a fundamental medium
through which human beings externalized
their free will, achieved self-
consciousness, and developed legal
and political institutions."
~ Google AI
Exchange is universal
Symbiosis
Symbiogenesis
Endosymbiosis
.
Animal and plant (O2 Co2)
.
Circadian cycle
Natural cycle of day and night
.
Cycle of the Seasons
.
krebs cycle (Citric acid cycle)
.
Perpetual motion
Perpetual motion machine
.
Gift Giving in Anthropology
(Claude Lévi-Strauss, Marcel Mauss...)
.
Bartering
.
"from a single red paperclip
to a house in a series of
fourteen online trades over the
course of a year..."
Law is universal
- Natural Law
- Code de Hammurabi
(Babylon, king was god)
- Torah
- Ten Commandments
- Moses, the Lawgiver.
(Egyptian connection)
- Amān
- Dharma
.
Law, in ancient times,
is tightly coupled with the
spiritual/religious belief system.
.
Curiously enough, the most important
Law is the Law after death.
- Maat
- Last Judgment (Book of Revelation,
possibly influenced by
Zoroastrianism)
.
Related:
- Natural rights
(to life, liberty and property)
- Human Nature
- Renaissance (Re-naistre)
- Enlightenment
- Separation of church and state
- The divine right of kings refuted
by John Locke
- Protestant ethic and the spirit of
Capitalism (Max Weber)
.
I only know the Weber book by name
through Umberto Eco's
"How to travel with a salmon
and other essays" 👍
Logic is universal
Ratio ← Logic ← Logos (Greek)
Divina Proportione (Leonardo da Vinci)
Sacred Geometry
Fractals
Self-similarity
"Rome conquered the world three times:
first through its armies,
then through its religion,
and finally through its laws."
~ Rudolf von Jhering
.
The New Rome?
All of the above.
Plus its
entertainment,
"lifestyle"
and
cha-ching cha-ching
(Abzû)!
1215
🤯
.
Great Charter of Freedoms
(Magna Carta)
AD 1215
.
"The storm may enter;
the rain may enter;
but the King of England
cannot enter."
~ William Pitt
AD 1763
Consent
Boundary
Equilibrium
Nash Equilibrium
Rights and Obligations
Equality between 2 Parties
E.g. to avoid information asymmetry
Third Party
Scale is a measuring tool.
.
Scale is also Proportione.
Ratio
Logic
Logos
Sacred Geometry
Fractals
Micro - Macro
Self-similarity
.
Scale
.
Shape shapes Energy.
.
Does the Shape of Energy
decide which end (of
a scale) sink?
.
Does the Shape of Energy
decide Weight?
🙀
.
E = MC²
.
We may suspect that one of
the ultimate secrets of
the Space-Time continuum
we live in lies in the
Weight/Mass of Matter.
(Micro world - Macro world)
.
Starting from Water.
1 1 1 1
.
Water ． Matter
.
Since H2O (molecular structure) can
be viewed as a triangle/angle
or a handle.
And let's assume Water is the
starting point to understand
everything (Matter).
.
In music, C is treated as the default.
C is a handle (curve, arc).
.
A is the first letter. Shaped
like a trianlge (3 lines)
or an angle (2 lines).
.
All numbers 1234567890 can be
created if we take C and A,
basically arc and line, as
the building blocks(magnets).
.
Arc and line compose all symbols.
.
Arc needs 3 dots. Arc is Wave.
.
Related:
- Weight/Mass
- Shape
- "Three gives birth to all things"
(三生萬物) ~Lao Tzu
- "All is number." ~Pythagoras
Maat
(or Ma'at) is the ancient Egyptian
goddess of law, truth, balance,
cosmic order, and justice.
.
Maat "is famous for her feather,
against which the hearts of the
deceased were weighed in the afterlife."
.
Pharaohs took monoatomic Gold
at the Duat (the underworld)
as depicted on the temple's
murals or reliefs.
.
"Dual Maat: in ancient Egyptian art,
the goddess Maat is often depicted
as two identical figures to symbolize
dual concepts and cosmic balance."
.
Please see images of Maat:
Ex1
Ex2
.
Please see Ark of Contract:
Ex1
.
"In fact, some ancient Egyptian stelae
show the goddess Ma'at (or two figures
of Ma'at) with wings outstretched to
protect a sacred object or deity,
which is conceptually similar to how
the wings of the cherubim covered the
Ark" of Covenant.
~ Google AI
.
The Arks could be like little
handbags for gods or Anunnakis
(all giants).
* Spirit
Faustus signs a contract
in his own blood...
Anima (Latin: soul, spirit) ． Anemia
* Yin Yang
Con-tract
Universe → you inverse
* Wheeling
"As above, so below".
Upside down or downside up.
It is the revolution!
e.g. Glorious Revolution,
Cultural Revolution...
.
Glorious Revolution -
Never knew a revolution
could be bloodless...
The revolving/wheeling was
powered by, in my humble opinion,
the merits of mutual trust, concessions
and good faith.
.
Cultural Revolution -
The revolving/wheeling was
propelled by, in my humble opinion,
the brute force of the wicked scheme
of a cult leader who wanted to wipe out
the second in command and cronies.
Some collateral damage...
.
~ The epic music of
the Game of Thrones' main title ~
I used to watch the intro (opening credits)
over and over...
Wheels are turning together.
Everything is interconnected.
* Money is like water?
.
Guess
why
Whatever?
.
'Cause...
Water ain't give no sh__
Waterever!
🤣
Water is sooo chill...
Water asks for nothing.
Water longs for nothing.
.
But money is different.
Money plays both roles of
the means and the goals.
Moneyman,
in a rather specific sense here,
player and referee.
.
Plus a little catalyst
called greed...
.
Related:
Gold . Goal
Conclusion:

Money
the new god.

Money
frees...

Money
enslaves...
p.s.

Although not my original intention,
(Contract and clandestinely... Mitra :)
this story took a turn,
got off on a tangent which evolved to
become one of the main trajectories
in an unexpected way.
Allow me to elaborate on some of the
context and its ramifications on the ground.

Ladies and gents,
I live in Taiwan,
and the war has already started!

  Infiltration, threat, propaganda,
encroachment and brainwashing...
are everywhere.

  Be the next Hong Kong.
They say.
I cry for Hong Kong.
But are you kidding?

In regard to the unique geopolitical
position of Taiwan,
apart from her other valuable assets,
Like... potato chips?
The island does look like a (sweet) potato ^^
Hong Kong?

It is
Xinjiang.