Man ape = sinner

The Greek Philosopher Diogenes was the first to attack the category system of Aristotle. For instance, during a lecture at the lyceum (similar to the area outside the Jewish temple) Aristotle made the proposition that a man is a two legged featherless animal. To counter the argument, Diogenes plucked a chicken and returned it to Aristotle saying her is a man for you. Aristotle changed his proposition to say clawless.

During my undergraduate studies a professor told me that the greeks assigned value to thing related to its function for society. For example, the purpose of a tree was to be: table, chair, spear, etc. I did not understand the argument. For me, I believed the purpose of a tree was to be a tree. We argued the matter for five minutes, and it finally dawned on my professor that it was a Greek that thought like that not me. Two seperate understandings. A tree is my neighbor, to the ancient greeks it is a commodity to be consumed by humans.

When i look at a tree I notice that it gives itself freely. Ripe fruit falls from the tree and the bark also falls off the tree: use bark to cook instead of chopping down trees. Humans have a tendency to covet and Nature is the first to suffer from this ailments humanity has.

The man ape to me is one that buys into the concept that we are animals and it is in our nature to behave like beast. Thus, negative behavior patterns are associated to animal behavior. It is natural to behave evil. I think it is natural to behave good. The natural condition of man has been debated, as an American I have inherited the secular understanding from John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. For Locke, man is majestic and free, to Hobbes men are a beast to be controlled.

However, most animals do not kill there own an activity humans are quite fond to do if given the proper encouragement and conditioning. Negative behavior patterns are considered sin. Therefore, a man ape is a sinner. The greeks called this barbarian. The term barbarian is to denote one that does not speak greek, I geuss like a non Jew is a gentile. The Jews learned Greek not to be barbarians did the Greeks learn Hebrew? A man is good. To be human is to embrace the divine.

I think Shakespear said something like men are between the angels and beasts and have the ability to act like both. The thing is that we act like what we are taught by other humans. Angels and beast act the way God made them to act. I geuss an angel must look like us for us to listen to them. Today, we have two competing belefs creation and evolution concerning humanity. God made us or we grew from some soup dejour. They both attempt to explain our negative behavior problem.

One is because of sin, the other because we are animals. I use the term man ape because a gorilla gave me the terminology. (Recently, I was told by one who has wisdom not to make light of a serious event that has occurred in my life or beliefs that I hold dear and true. It dumbs down the message. However, just mentioning that I commune with animal life at certain points of time during my existance is unbelievable in this day and age of science and technology. But,we have all these signs and symbols of animals from the old world and the new world that had meaning. Today they are just emblems on cars, blue jeans and corporate logos. They mean things to me at times and speak to the heart of the matter at hand. I believe a sentient creation of God communicates with God and the holy spirit allows cross communication. A plant knows to grow to light for life.) A gorilla will know the actions and behavior of men and how it has changed over time. A gorilla is peaceful, more like an angel than a man. When I look into the eyes of a gorilla in a cage, it is like, he is questioning me, when are we going to return to the positon God intends for us. The gorilla still lives in the condition that God has made for it. We are trying to be God and change their role in God's creation. Man's downfall has always been trying to be GOD instead of men.

Creationism and Evolution are both used badly, they justify bad behavior among humanity. The purpose of Christ is to remove the negative behavior from humanity. The beatitudes tell us the salvation he brings to humanity. We no longer need to look at angels or beasts for guidance we look to Christ. It does not mean that we can not listen to angels and beast for more guidance. I do not mean disecting a frog in a high school classroom.

Comparing a human to a gorilla is comparing apples to bananas. Comparing a human to an angels is comparing apples to oranges. Basically, human can only be compared to other humans, but our systems of value and catergorization puts humans closer to angels or beast. The number one will be angels and number ten will be the beast. I want to be number one, so I must act like an angel. A gorilla is just the same as an angel a creation of God that can not say no to the will of God.

We still got live with each other. Imagine if animals had angels to defend them. As a creation of God they are protected by something divine. The world God loves is so much bigger than humanity, but the world will be different without humans. We are the Divine comedy and that makes us divine. A gorilla of the divine would see the comedy in our actions.