A mythunderstanding

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    Not good poetry, but good philosophy.

    A mythunderstanding



    The story of the Garden is clear
    The fruit man wasn't to eat
    Was the knowledge of good and bad
    That knowledge would bring defeat

    We have not understood the text
    We have missed the truth of it all
    It wasn't disobedience to God
    That led to Man's great fall

    But believing in good and evil
    That is the cause of his pain
    Good and evil can only exist
    Within each man's own brain

    The answer to what it's about
    Is found in the Golden Law
    You get back just what you gave
    That is the truth of it all

    So when it all returns
    What makes you sad, or mad
    Is merely what you have sown
    and that's neither good nor bad


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    KtIrish commented on A mythunderstanding

    09-29-2009

    I especially love the last stanza. And while I don't agree completely with your philosphy, I can see the point you're making. Well done.

    Stryx

    09/29/2009

    Can we possibly look beyond the beliefs we have been taught - foisted on us by commitees who wanted us to think their thoughtrs?

    KtIrish

    10/08/2009

    I have my own beliefs Stryx, please don't insult me by calling me a conformist and uncapable of thinking on my own.

    Tempy commented on A mythunderstanding

    09-27-2009

    it all comes down to choosing to be told what is what and who you can hang out with you will often find the first ones to offer there friendship0s gets power to pursuade there reality onto you because its now this friend you know its little bo peep looking for more sheep they scream a shepherd come and lead me and i will follow if i get lost send the shepherd after me and lead me back to the pack heh nice poem

    Tempy

    09/27/2009

    http://www.originalpoetry.com/heaven-lets-today-pretend-its-hell id love you to read this and let me know what you think its along the lines of this kind of objective

    Stryx

    09/27/2009

    Is this link outside OP, or in your poems - cant find it...

    Stryx

    09/27/2009

    I think religion and the Bible have missed the point and have treated us like mushrooms [keept in the dark, and fed shit] We must go beyond what the Committees have decided we should believe - to trying to understand. It's a long story...

    Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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