13 May 2018

Each one spends what that posses.

The apocryphal "Gospel of Barnabas" is a medieval forgery, full of manifests historical contradictions.

However, it contains a sentence that, although here is falsely attributed to Jesus, reveals a very deep psychological truth.

In effect, this manuscript reports the following (fake) episode:
Jesus encounters a group of Jews which throwing to him many curses.
Nevertheless, Jesus blesses them.
Whereupon, those who were accompanying him asked to him: "but how: they have accursed you, and you bless them?"
And Jesus answers: "each one spends what that posses."

Well, regardless of the negative ethic-moral value of hatred, and regardless of the positive ethic-moral value of forgiveness, what interests me highlight is the obvious (but always overlooked) correlation between the way in which we all relate with what we surroundings, and the sentimental, affective and emotional gratifications that we have received.

The aggressiveness (and the contempt and the envy) are always the product of a lack of care and of sentimental education from own parents, of a deep emotional frustration, of fear to still suffer the same disappointment, of the vindictive desire to make suffer also others of the own frustration.

Not by chance, is above all the small dog to bark; the large dog rarely barks.

The small dog behaves like that because he knows he can not effectively bite his interlocutors (normally, subjects bigger than him) and, therefore, behaves in this way to intimidate the others beforehand.

The large dog behaves like that because he knows he can bite effectively his interlocutors and, therefore, has no interest in intimidating they beforehand.

"It's always the fenced-in dog that barks to dog that running free, and never the opposite."
(Marty Rubin)

No comments:

Post a Comment

Your comments, even anonymous, will be highly appreciated!
I ask only:
1) absence of rudeness,
2) strict connexion at the topic,
3) absence of advertising or links to other websites.

Otherwise, your comment will not be published !!! 😉
Thanks 😊