Literary Discussions

Clare: I am glad you asked that question. First, look at the opening scene of Goethe's Faust, a professor who mourns the fact that he has wasted his life on philosophy theology.. then (it is Easter morning) he tries to translate John 1:1 'in the beginning was the WORD" but he transmogrifies it into DEED, and then Faust proceeds in part two to CHANGE THE WORLD, altar ecology, sweep back the ocean and create new land.  Don't you ever look about you at the sh!tting mess this world of ours has become. We can no longer drink water from a pond. We live on anti-biotics.  We are technological giants and ethical infants. The Neanderthal were the chosen people. The Homo Sapiens killed them and ate them; genocide. We are the destroyers. Now how could we do these wicked things without speech, ideologies, stump speeches, making the world a safe place for democracy. The animals who lack speech do not need God's blessing, which if it were anything would be the extinction of the human race so the animals could live their lives in peace. Don't you see our species as something monstrous and parasitic and destructive which thrives upon the needless suffering of others.  Just a thought. Just a suggestion. Don't mean to make you sad or anything.