Summary of text [comment] page 83
[Did traditional Judaic interpretations of God’s law lead to bondage?
Here is my guess.
Before the Laws of Moses, tribal and family traditions predominated.
The choice was between the obligations of tribe and family versus slavery to another tribe or family.]
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[Here is an easy example.
A parent says to a child:
“You are free as long as you do your homework.”
Then the child does not fulfill “his” responsibility.
As soon as “he” turns on the TV, sitting and watching2a becomes the something2a that enslaves “him”.]
[What is the actuality2a that fundamentally transforms freedom2a(1a) into bondage2a(1a)?
This ‘something2a’ emerges from and situates the possibilities inherent in me1a.
The mirror of the world3a or the thought experiment3a brings ‘something2a’ out of the possibilities inherent in me1a.
I may think that something2a enslaves me.
Actually, the relation3a enslaves me.]
[Let me examine the co-opposition between responsibility3a(2a and freedom2a(1a)) in the thought experiment where ‘I choose something’.
Freedom2a(1a)) corresponds to something2a(possibilities inherent in me1a).]
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[Of the two arrangements, only one makes sense.
Desire goes with the content level. Value goes with the situation level.
Perhaps, for certain circumstances, desire situates value.
But, in those circumstances, nothing makes sense.]
[OK, that was the intersection for the thought experiment where ‘I choose something’.
Now, I want to go backwards.
I want to go from interscope to intersection.
There are two ways to resolve an intersection.
In both, one nested form goes into the content level and the other goes into the situation level.]
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[The intersection portrays a single actuality composed of two conflicting actualities. One actuality reveals values. The other reveals desires.]
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[A nugget of wisdom appears.
The integrity of the individual may be formulated as an if…then statement.
IF the person’s mirror of the world reflects YHWH,
THEN freedom describes the potentials inherent in the person.
The individual becomes responsible and free.
IF the person’s mirror of the world does not reflect YHWH,
THEN bondage describes the potentials inherent in the person.
The individual loses responsibility (words) and becomes a slave (bondage).]
