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Cain and Abel

Name: Anonymous 2009-10-27 8:42

Sorry about the off topic but this is the smartest board, I wanted to bounce this off you guys;

Everyone says Cain killed Able because of evil reason (jealousy, hatred, etc.) What if Able explained to Cain why he chose his sacrifice, what Able's sacrifice meant to him, and Cain only then grasped what a sacrifice to "God" was supposed to be. What if Cain killed Able because Able was the thing he loved the most in the world. What if Cain's only care in the world was his younger brother, and nothing else, and wanted to show "God" that he was willing to give that piece of himself away to "God" He realized that he needed to sacrifice the most meaningful thing in his life to "God" and to a loving, protective older brother, Able was the perfect sacrifice to "God"

tldr: Cain killed Able because he loved him that much.

Name: Konatanonymous 2009-11-10 4:57

>>17
srsly, how did you learn to distinguish one thing from another? The back of a crackerjack box?
2/10 = 1/5 or .2

Srsly,
choice = binary (1 or 0) Open or closed circuit.
option = variable (x) which could stand for any circumstance, situation, or action necessary.
If you use these fundamentals you will be able to see the choices other people make and thereby see your own choices.
Cain thought he could destroy the inferiority complex of not being able to perform up to God's standards by killing his brother as though his brother were trying to "get one up" on him somehow. This is a fine example of one of the aspects of human neurotic ego. The problem of inferiority wasn't from Abel or God, it was through the comparison of Abel's and Cain's abilities that drove Cain to kill his brother. The inferiority existing and felt was always inside Cain, not God, not Abel. Cain used what was inside himself to destroy what was outside himself. The ego projects what it doesn't understand onto the outside world (outside the human body). Cain was jealous because there was favoritism (or so he thought) and judged himself unworthy and put his brother down (to death) to make himself feel better for the moment. And it worked....for the moment. However, that God said, "Where is your brother Abel?"
"Who am I? My brother's keeper?" said Cain.
"What hast thou done?" spake the Lord.
Cain WAS his brother's keeper. We are all our brother's keeper.
We have to ALL (each and everyone of us) live amongst one another in some fashion. Should we do so the same as Cain? Or should we do so as Abel?
Better to be killed for being your best than judge yourself for an entire lifetime.
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