Sunday, 18 May 2025
Thursday, 8 May 2025
Jewish Standards of Finance in the Bible - by Ajith Rohan J.T.F.
PAGE: ECONO-COM-BUS DIALOGUE 01
Premise
Without conscious deliberation to resist it, humans are entirely bound by their mathematical, dialectical, logical, rhetorical, and hermeneutic patterns of conceptualizing and manipulating matter-energy. In this way, they have constructed their humanity, their corresponding world, and their universe. In this way humans created the best possible world and universe they could conceive, and now their primary, indeed, sole, occupation is to maintain and, in part, destroy it. Their critical mistake lies in this: by dismantling their own conceptual frameworks of the world, the universe, and humanity, they simultaneously destroy the natural world.
This error stems from monotheistic religions, which proclaimed humans as the sole dominant beings, masters of the natural world and the universe. Moreover, they asserted that humanity has divine authorization to dominate and even destroy all things in the name of their creator (Nota Bene -This authority is given exclusively to white skinned humans). This ideology was enacted globally during the colonial period, often in collaboration with the Church. Today, its legacy persists in climate change and endless wars worldwide.
Why am I writing this? Because this influence extends even to economics and politics, directly shaped by monotheistic religions—particularly those rooted in so-called sacred texts. So, I decided to write a series of dialogues.
THE STORY
The first addresses the so-called "Parable of the Talents" from the Bible.
As we know, the Catholic Church has interpreted these texts, despite the teachings of their foundational figure, Yeshua (Semitic in origin) or Jesus (in English). Here, it’s worth recalling Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, specifically the dialogue between the "Grand Inquisitor" and Jesus. The Inquisitor, representing the Church, arrests Jesus, accusing him of rejecting Satan’s temptations (bread, miracles, and authority) and thereby burdening humanity with unbearable freedom. The Inquisitor argues that the Church "corrected" Jesus’s mistake by offering security, dogma, and control—sacrificing truth for happiness. Jesus responds with silence and a kiss, but the Inquisitor remains unrepentant.
The gist of the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14–30)
Monday, 5 May 2025
WATER - MAN THE NARRATOR 10 - Autobiographical-philosophical digital web comic page 05 - by Ajith Rohan J.T.F.
Everything we think, desire, choose and do is possible “results over results” that belongs to one of a set of man-made “spec” (socio-politico-economic-cultural system) sets. They are relative and transient. Thus, Water urges us not to overinterpret spontaneous events, for in his view, there’s no such thing as purposelessness or its opposite, but just the natural flow, unbound by interpretations (stories and narrations). Like the wiggling clouds of his mathematical-philosophical musings, life invites us to let go, to exist without overthinking, in harmony with the universe’s ceaseless rhythm.
