"YHWH tells Moses that the people are acting the fool. Moses travels back down the mountain, freaks out, breaks the Ten Commandments, and begins his punishment of the people, which ends in the death of those who ultimately say, "screw YHWH, we want our calf back!" (And good riddance to them, am I right? *cough*)
But there is one scene in the story that often is missed, at least we didn't notice it for a long time.
"When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain. And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it." (Exodus 32:19-20)
He made them drink the golden calf.
How pissed off is Moses right now? And how clever? Think about it, Moses said, in essence:
"You want to want a bull to worship? A being created like we are? A copy of an animal we slaughter and eat? Really? That's what you want? That's how you roll? Fine. Then let's treat this like a real bovine: we're going to cook it and you're going to consume it!"
Lesson: Moses has the type of creativity you don't want to get on the wrong side of."
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Ne ki Oğuz’un çocukları da bu topraklara gelince birbirlerine düşmeye başlamışlar. Yarım asır Selçuklu ile Danişment didişip durmuş. Mengücek ile Saltuklu arasına kan düşünce hayli zaman vuruşmuşlar. Rum illeri olan bozkırlar, içine Türkler yerleştikçe. Türkmen ili olmaya başlamış. Aradan hayli zaman geçtikten sonra Kınıklı’nın Kılıçarslan boydan boya şu Rum diyarını, ta Bizans’a kadar Türk yurduna döndürmüş. Gel gör ki Saltuknameler, Danişmentnameler çocuklarımıza anlatıp durduğumuz birer destandan ibaret şimdi.”
How did God live before us? Şurada dursun.
Not until we became self aware there were no such thing as “God” “Allah” “Rab” “Tengri” etc.
When we started to lie and become afraid of about our environment such as thunders, earthquakes, death of relatives and so on, humankind invented the idea of “God”.
Our ancestors were afraid of thunder and they lied about its existance (rather than searching and reveal this phenomenon to understand the truth behind it) , and they fictionalise a specific “God” for thunders which occurs around their surronding.
The idea of “Creator” comes from our inability to rule / shape the universe totally, from our fears, from our asylum requests from the miserable experience which we had experienced and which we can not bear.
And most importantly our wish for a punishment to those who made us feel weak or those who hurt us. Simply from human iniquitousness.
The pain will come, let it visit, cry it out, vent it out, bleed it out. And then ask it to leave. Do not allow it to build a home and call it broken. We aren’t meant to be broken forever, that is punishment to our hearts and minds.
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The pain will come,
let it visit,
cry it out,
vent it out,
bleed it out.
And then ask it to leave.
Do not allow it to build a home
and call it broken.
We aren’t meant to be broken forever,
that is punishment to our hearts and minds.
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In many legal systems, including the Turkish one, penal provisions may have retroactive effect when they are in favour of the person to whom they are to be applied. For example, if the punishment for a crime is reduced under a new law, this will benefit persons already convicted and sentenced under the former, stricter law.
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