Name: オークランドクリップ4: カインとアベルについて (Auckland Clip 4: On Cain and Abel)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:20:05.000Z
Duration: 12 min 10 s
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The next story, one of Cain and Abel, and it plays on that because in a very interesting way because

It indicates what happens and I would say it it

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What supports my general hypothesis about what the first story means because what happens with Cain and Abel?

Is that well, they're brothers, right? And...

so hypothetically the first two real human beings. And they don't really like each other.

How about if we put it that way - everything that he does seems to work out. Well, he makes

sacrifices which the text insists upon and the sacrifices are rewarded by God. That's a very very very very

document because we already noted that men and women

Genesis, they discovered the duration of their life and the existence of death and the

necessity for toil and by the time we get to Cain and Abel human beings have discovered in this dramatic manner that if they make

hypothetically, the future can be better and that's that's like, I don't know if that's not the major discovery of mankind -

because it's very it's really something for a creature for an animal like us to notice

that if we give up something that we want right now -

we can sort of bargain with fate, as it were, to get something better in the future.

And that's really what you do when you work, right?

by definition, you're doing things that you'd rather not do right now because otherwise, it wouldn't be work.

And the reason that you're doing that is because you think: "well if I give up what I really want to do,

impulsively right now, then over the medium to long term, things will be better."

And so you learn, you believe that making the appropriate sacrifices

sheep and camels, and women, and he has everything he wants. And everyone likes him, and everybody thinks he's a good guy. And

you know, that's pretty good for Abel, but Cain isn't doing so well and

sacrifices appears to have the proper effect and there is some idea in the story that maybe the

sacrifices he makes are a little bit on the half-hearted side. And

that God isn't all that thrilled at those sacrifices as a consequence. And that's really we're thinking about again for about 50 years

sacrifices and they're not working out that well that it's not so much that God hates you -

it's that your sacrifices could be of a somewhat higher quality, right? That you're playing a game

with yourself and with the structure of reality and you think you can get away with it. And

you can't, and the fact that you're not getting away with it and that you can't - makes you bitter and resentful,

eventually. And worse than that because there are far worse places than you can go,

that you can go, than merely homicidal. Anyways, Cain has enough of this one day

and he says to... he, Cain, decides to have a chat with God and it goes something like this -

It's almost as arrogant as Adam's was stupid.

And Cain basically challenges God. He says look, I don't know what sort of world you think you put together here, but

we've got Abel and we've got me and like everything's just working out for him

He's perfectly goddamn delightful and everyone likes him and and whatever he touches

like King Midas turns to gold and it's all easy for him and

then there's me and I'm like breaking myself in half here and I'm offering up my

sacrifices and like you turn your nose up at them and nothing works out for me. And

implying, by the way, that it's God's fault. I would say more than implying -

forthrightly that it's God's fault which, you know, takes a certain degree of arrogance

that's also worth thinking about for a very long period of time because it is possible that if things are going well for

someone that you know and not going so well for you...

That it is a consequence of the quality of your sacrifices.

And I don't want to push that too far because I know that people have bad luck,

you know, because we are fragile creatures intrinsically and terrible things can happen to us on a somewhat random basis.

considering that's the rule in Chapter six: "put your house in order before you

the reason that things aren't turning out for you as well as they might - is because your sacrifices just

don't have enough blood in them. They're just not what they should be.

You're not putting your full heart into it and as a consequence - you're not

the fee, you're not reaping the crop that you might otherwise so. And

that's a harsh thing to think but that's actually what God tells Cain which is quite interesting. I read a lot of different

translations trying to understand this and what God basically says is:

Before you dare to criticize the creator of

the world or reality itself for that matter, you might give some thought to your own actions and here's how I look at it,

You're in a house and there's a doorway and in the doorway

there's a predatory cat and it's sexually aroused and it's after you. And

voluntarily. And you let it have its way with you. And

something's produced as a consequence of that. That's well, you might say unholy,

and what's the idea?.. and the idea is, well...

It's sin that crouches out the door... and that means to miss the mark,

it means to make an error and it's something you have to invite into your life.

But it isn't just that you invite it in and it stands with you...

It's that you invited in - this malevolent way of being, and

you enter into a creative union with it?"

That's symbolized in this particular story, using a sexual metaphor, and it's the combination of your perverse, will and this

capacity for cruelty and malevolence that you meld together into something that's uniquely

that's basically what God tells Cain: "that's what you've done and that's why your life isn't turning out as

well as it might or as well as your brother's, and so why don't you

get the hell out of my sight and think about that for a while?!" And

Cain leaves and he's not happy about it at all!

Which is fully understandable because you know, if you're having a wretched time of it, then you're having a wretched time of it.

And then if your brother's doing well, you know, that's just