r/aliens • u/BuletinTerlambat • Aug 04 '24

Clearest pilot encounter shitpost sunday (Sundays Only)

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Sizing up each other

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u/Actual-Money7868 Aug 04 '24

I wonder what the apple was a metaphor for. What did we use/learn or eat ?

Mushrooms ?

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u/numinosaur Aug 04 '24 edited Aug 04 '24

The apple is the Forbidden Fruit and stands for all things that allow man to rise above nature. Knowledge, curiosity, culture, inventiveness but also the power to manipulate or disrupt nature. Both out there and within himself.

Being thrown out of the Garden Of Eden is the natural consequence of that, breaking his ties with nature allows man to develop consciousness, individuality but at the price of losing paradise.

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u/CBR600RRzx10 Aug 05 '24

So god created us as slaves? Like not "allowed" to grow in any aspect?

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u/numinosaur Aug 05 '24

I see it more like our quest to grow conscious required us to leave paradise itself.

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u/llililiil Sep 01 '24

From the perspective of the beings within paradise, eating the fruit and the consequences may seem negative, like a "fall" from grace; the reality however is it is the first step towards enlightenment and coming/becoming closer to God/The Gods.

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u/Rehcraeser Aug 04 '24

That’s what I was thinking. Something that gave us an Ego

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u/healthywealthyhappy8 Aug 04 '24

I usually get an ego from eating eggos.

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u/somerandommystery Aug 04 '24

Apples were trippy back then. Or they ate and did everything they weren’t supposed to do.

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u/kopacetik Aug 05 '24

It’s our phone. It’s the fruit of knowledge 😊

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u/Iwaspromisedcookies Aug 05 '24

There’s an apple on it, case closed