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Gary Webb Comes to Mind...
...when I think of someone whose life brought forth such enormous moment, and yet, in the end, was trivialized beyond his ability to comprehend or measure. He ended his life because there was nothing happening on this planet that was worthy of him.
posted by
Volaar
on December 26, 2004 at 3:40 PM
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OKay, Okay...
...so I was reading between the lines a little. I mean, if the archangel knows what's happening before it happens and we're all One, then it stands to reason that Gabriel was involved in Mary's pregnancy. As the highest of all archangels, he would command the Holy Ghost, would he not?
My point was that the Angel of Death, Gabriel (not his only function, but one that sticks in my mind) is aware that a child is to be born who will redeem humanity from death.
Odd, isn't it? Jesus the Christ is all about resurrection, yet his arrival is announced by the angel of death?
And, in fact, if Jesus' message is to have any overarching meaning it is that He is higher than Gabriel, since Jesus allegedly overcame death -- by focusing on it. By allowing it to loom large in all of his thoughts that he might overcome the fear of it for us all. And once freed of this fear, we live freely and wholeheartedly in the moment of life.
If there is any lasting message in Jesus' passion for me it is that there are things worse than dying...existing in a living death, for instance. Allowing one's self to be trivialized and one's life to be rendered meaningless by those who would wield a sword threateningly over one's head. Jesus surrendered not because there was any great sacrifice involved...he surrendered because there was nothing left to live for. Nothing else on this planet was worthy of Him.
posted by
Volaar
on December 26, 2004 at 3:37 PM
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The angel Gabriel did not impregnate Mary
posted by
SlyCy
on December 26, 2004 at 9:20 AM
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