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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve | Stephen Greenblatt

Yeah, and women have always been the problem. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Comes on, guys, really? I can‘t even.
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“Adam tried out what would become known as beastiality, it wasn‘t for him. Thus he made it taboo and asked for a woman.” 🤦🏼‍♀️

julesG For real? 6y

GingerAntics @julesG for real. Apparently this was a common theory in some circles. No idea. Leave it to a man. “Hey, I‘m bored. That thing doesn‘t seem to be doing anything, I wonder if I can have sex with it. Oh, no? Yeah, no. Oh well. Worth a shot.” 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🥃 (edited) 6y

julesG 😂😂😂😂 6y

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Exbrarian Wait? I‘m no theologian, but wasn‘t sin “created” because of Eve and the forbidden fruit? I mean, where did the desire come from pre-Eve and the realization that she was a fruit eating hottie? 6y

GingerAntics @Exbrarian that‘s actually what this whole book is about. It‘s all this man made thing. Son didn‘t exist until humans realised that some people where arseholes. 🤷🏼‍♀️ “Fruit eating hottie” 🤣😂🤣 Either I‘ve gone slap happy from lack of sleep or the whole conversation on this book has just gone straight to the point. This whole thing has been taken t absurd levels and now it‘s just funny. 6y

Weaponxgirl 😂 this book has just given the best discussions. Every time I find a new quote and discussion whilst scrolling I get excited 6y

GingerAntics @Weaponxgirl oh there are some doozies. I have no idea how some of this stuff was taken so far and no one thought, “hey, this is not sane.” 6y

Weaponxgirl @GingerAntics are we talking the subject of the book or discussions? 6y

GingerAntics @Weaponxgirl neither, it‘s more the theories people have had about the story of Adam and Eve that are covered in the book. Beastiality, hermaphrodites, no genitalia, god is the good guy, god is the bad guy, satan‘s the good guy, Satan‘s the bad guy, Eve is the bad guy, Adam is a victim, Adam is a willing participant, Adam is clueless and stupid, Adam is a genius, Eve is an evil mastermind, Eve is flighty, talkative, and knows nothing... 6y

GingerAntics @Weaponxgirl (takes deep breath) it‘s human history, it‘s allegory, it‘s human history but only the history of the Hebrews, Adam and Eve were one person cut in two thus also explaining why people wanted to get married, Adam and Ever were blind, Adam and Eve were human shaped beings of light, there was a sex in the garden, there was no sex in the garden, there was passionate sex in the garden... 6y

Weaponxgirl @GingerAntics it is all insane isn‘t it? Was Lilith mentioned in the book at all. When I heard about her as a teenage goth my heart just went tell me more. 6y

GingerAntics @Weaponxgirl (takes another deep breath) there was sex that was not exciting or passionate at all that everyone watched because it wasn‘t anything different than having a conversation, they had kids in the garden, they had kids after the garden, the garden is America, the garden is in Africa... and that‘s just what‘s on this bloody book!!! I‘m sure there is more (and some I forgot at the moment). 6y

GingerAntics @Weaponxgirl only briefly, in passing really. I‘ve never heard much about her so I was kind of hoping he‘d go there, but it also wasn‘t really part of where he was going with the book so I guess he didn‘t need to go there. He could have but it wasn‘t going to add or detract from his overall point. 6y

Weaponxgirl @GingerAntics I thought that might be the case. It‘s more a I like hearing about her kinda thing. 6y

GingerAntics @Weaponxgirl if it was my area, I‘d probably go in search of a book on her. Maybe I will still. 6y

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