The children of Cain



The purpose of life is

to discover
the purpose of life
 
We are the children of Cain

cursed-wanderers all
building towers sky-ward

desperate to be reunited
with our ground-of-being

the echoes of
our hearts' call

never returning
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Date: 5/3/2025 12:16:00 AM
I really like this one. I don't believe the view I grew up with Mormonism though.
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Robert Warlov
Date: 5/3/2025 10:09:00 AM
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Date: 4/24/2025 4:29:00 PM
Interesting poem. However I prefer to think of myself as a descendant of Seth
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Robert Warlov
Date: 4/24/2025 6:53:00 PM
"Reification" has it that biologically-intrinsic "Morality" understood as a-priori to Perception makes "Religion" a "Collective" or "Shared" Psychological experience. ~ CHAT ~ put it this way: ~ God = the unpatterned, unnameable origin of all value = Dynamic Quality = the ineffable source that both creates and escapes form. ~ Science then wouldn't "believe in God" the way theology does—but it could include God, as the unknowable wellspring that gives rise to all knowables. That’s not dogma—it’s metaphysics.
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Tom Woody
Date: 4/24/2025 5:32:00 PM
The true God, Jehovah, is no mere invention of mankind. He is the source of life
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Robert Warlov
Date: 4/24/2025 4:48:00 PM
I know- that first instance which can be understood as: "reparations" ~ The story's consistency reflecting (like echoes) backwards, an author (ground-of-being) we recognize - his purpose becoming ours. I was going to say also- 'An understanding God would forgive us for inventing him in the first place'.
Date: 4/24/2025 4:15:00 PM
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