Chan-Seung Lee
Joined: 03 Dec 2005
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 Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:34 pm Post subject: what does it mean? |
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| The desire to rule is so seductive that we don�t need to delve very far into this particular temptation. It is more interesting to ask how it is ever escaped. The tyrant more often than not has to be deposed, overthrown by force. In some societies, as in some families, this happens through violence. The children rebel against authority by killing it; this takes place symbolically � through reckless teenage behavior with drinking and driving, for example. But short of violence there is a subtler mechanism for escaping any temptation, which is to see through the need for it. In Mafia films the gangsters inevitably run a protection racket. Under the pretext of keeping harm away from a storekeeper, they sell him insurance in the form of their protection. But this scheme works only through a lie, since the violence being held at bay comes from the gangsters themselves � they are the threat and the insurance. In spiritual terms, God�s protection is valued only by denying that he is also the source of the threat. In the end, nothing is outside the deity, so asking him to protect you from storms, famine, disease, and misfortune is the same as asking the perpetrator. |
1. What does the first 'it' mean?
2. What does the second 'it' mean?
Thanks. |
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