The Sins of the Fathers are inherent
The phrase "The Sins of the Fathers" is used in a lot of places such as the Bible and the 2007 film, Beowulf.
One might be tempted to think that it refers to particular bad things that particular fathers have done, that their children must pay for. E.g. a father gets into debt, and his sons and daughters may be asked to pay back the debt.
But also it is perhaps also the case that just being, or pretending to be, a father is a sin. All fathers may be getting into debt.
I am not sure about this and I expect that many fathers would disagree, but I think that a lot of, or even all, "fathers" are after the nookie.
Upon this premise, the only real father is in heaven: the spirit of fatherhood and that father loves all children equally. The rest, we pretenders, are sinners, pretending to be him, because they are expected to and because they want to be happy.
When will the kingdom come?
One might be tempted to think that it refers to particular bad things that particular fathers have done, that their children must pay for. E.g. a father gets into debt, and his sons and daughters may be asked to pay back the debt.
But also it is perhaps also the case that just being, or pretending to be, a father is a sin. All fathers may be getting into debt.
I am not sure about this and I expect that many fathers would disagree, but I think that a lot of, or even all, "fathers" are after the nookie.
Upon this premise, the only real father is in heaven: the spirit of fatherhood and that father loves all children equally. The rest, we pretenders, are sinners, pretending to be him, because they are expected to and because they want to be happy.
When will the kingdom come?
posted by Timtak at 6:57 AM
1 Comments:
Dear Timothy,
I found the comment you made on my Wincest related post and it kinda made me think a little. Certaily the slash, or yaoi as others refer to it, is quite present in the Supernatural series, and yes, indeed, the sibling relationship is the thin lid they keep over it from people aknowledging all the things going on. If you can book it all as "oh, but they are brothers, so sure they can act like that around each other", well, it makes it better, or at least allows people to cover it up by saying "there are families that are like that".
Does the body count or the demon's toughness go high each time one of the brothers look or think of the other in a wrong way? I wouldn't say so, but from time to time it does help either to blow some steam out or make things more dramatic. Oh, and there's slash all over the place, and you need no "Yaoist Third Eye" to see it.
Now, about this post... one could say that this "sins of the fathers" come also inherent by the education we receive. How wouldn't the child inherint the habits of teh father when it learns from copying him? The change of subject is rather interesting... so you jump up from the sins to the fatherhood. I shall not step into that one, for I have no idea how to tackle it... yet. However, much of the parents is passed to the kids silently, thought the behavioral model presented. And then, yes, some parents, mothers and fathers alike, tend to believe that kids owe them so, they must pay for the "gift" of life by serving them, supporting them, and bearing with them.
Interesting how no one seems to notice that life ain't that much a "gift" as a "state". I don't recall actually asking my parents to give me life. I wasn't asked, I was just made born, and considering all the crap in life, some "gift" we've got! No wonder some people seek to return it.
In the end, it's all the byproduct of a certain human tendency to reject independence in favor of self-imposed dependency, so we don't have to take responsability of our actions.
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