Reading Notes: Adam and Eve, Part A
Story source: King James Bible (1611): Genesis 3.
Housesitting:
In a way, the story starts off like God is letting Adam and Eve housesit the Garden of Eden for him. In the end, Adam and Eve definitely did a poor job. God said "my house is your house" and you can do whatever you want, just don't touch this one thing: the tree of knowledge of good and evil. These bad housesitters broke the one rule that God gave them. This could make for a good story retelling, where maybe a man and his wife are housesitting for his boss and they sit on his favorite couch and break it or something of the sort.
A movie I like:
There is a really good movie that my friend showed me once. I don't want to say the name in case anybody who reads this also watches that movie, which I definitely recommend. So basically the whole movie is a series of events that don't really make sense when taken at face value. However, the movie itself is an allegory for the bible and the treatment of Earth. The beginning of the movie is specifically an allegory for Adam and Eve, and their consumption of the tree's fruit. Not to brag, but I kind of picked up on that pretty early, however by the end it is pretty clear what is going on.
Story source: The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg (1909): Book 1, Chapter 2 Adam.
The Ideal Man:
I like stories where the character's best feature causes his downfall. Often times, we see this in extremely intelligent characters or overconfident characters who find that to be their undoing. However, when the author talks about Samson's strength causing his death it makes me think of Bo Jackson. His football career-ending hip injury was caused by the pure force exerted by his own legs when getting tackled. That story always astonished me, but the same thing happens with powerlifters and strongmen every day, people's own strength causing them extreme injury or worse.
Housesitting:
In a way, the story starts off like God is letting Adam and Eve housesit the Garden of Eden for him. In the end, Adam and Eve definitely did a poor job. God said "my house is your house" and you can do whatever you want, just don't touch this one thing: the tree of knowledge of good and evil. These bad housesitters broke the one rule that God gave them. This could make for a good story retelling, where maybe a man and his wife are housesitting for his boss and they sit on his favorite couch and break it or something of the sort.
A movie I like:
There is a really good movie that my friend showed me once. I don't want to say the name in case anybody who reads this also watches that movie, which I definitely recommend. So basically the whole movie is a series of events that don't really make sense when taken at face value. However, the movie itself is an allegory for the bible and the treatment of Earth. The beginning of the movie is specifically an allegory for Adam and Eve, and their consumption of the tree's fruit. Not to brag, but I kind of picked up on that pretty early, however by the end it is pretty clear what is going on.
Story source: The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg (1909): Book 1, Chapter 2 Adam.
The Ideal Man:
I like stories where the character's best feature causes his downfall. Often times, we see this in extremely intelligent characters or overconfident characters who find that to be their undoing. However, when the author talks about Samson's strength causing his death it makes me think of Bo Jackson. His football career-ending hip injury was caused by the pure force exerted by his own legs when getting tackled. That story always astonished me, but the same thing happens with powerlifters and strongmen every day, people's own strength causing them extreme injury or worse.
Bo Jackson, football and baseball player. Source: Wikimedia
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