Distractingly distracted

I seem to be doing less and less work in work time.

I’ve gone back to an obsession from earlier this year and got back into studying The Bible. NOT, may I remind you, from a ‘finding-the-word-of-God’ born-again Christian viewpoint, but from an ‘Interesting Past Document’ puzzle-solving stance. I really loved looking at it back in the Winter months, but there’s so much to look at, and the more you research the more there is, that I got a bit overwhelmed and then a bit lethargic. So I put my notes in a drawer and parked the whole thing in a quiet corner of my mind. But now – bored with my work situation and lacking any urges to do something creative – I’ve got back into it again.

At the moment, I’m reading an interesting article about the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden. I was always taught that there was an apple – the ‘forbidden fruit’ – that Satan persuaded Adam and Eve to munch on, and that brought about the Fall of Man, as they had gone against God’s wishes, and from then on it all went to shit for us humans and it’s been a ten-thousand-year decline ever since.

But apparently – according to what I’ve been reading – in the language that the early stories from the Old Testament were originally written in, the words for ‘APPLE’ and ‘EVIL’ are incredibly similar, so it may have all been mistranslated and there wasn’t any fruit involved at all.  Interesting stuff, in a ‘we’ll never know one way or another anyway, so what’s the point?’ kind of way. It just means that maybe we’ve got the whole thing wrong, and that my fire-and-brimstone Catholic RE teacher at school may have scared me with completely the wrong imagery.

It also means that maybe I can enjoy a Red Delicious without having to feel guilty.

RC 3-8-20