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raul

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Re: No Salvation
« on: December 14, 2017, 05:24:06 am »
Hentrich,
I once read about Mark David Chapman, the killer of John Lennon in 1980. I found out that Chapman was called once "Nemo", the same title of Verne´s book. I found out that Nemo comes from Latin and it means nobody.

So we human beings are nemos. We are "being no one". The child I was in 1975 is not the same I am in 2017, although I retain my memory of the things that happened. So if I ever commit a robbery I would like to say to the judge "Your Honor, It was not me who stole this money, you see, "I do not exist., Please set me free." Of course the judge will not take me seriously although here there are judicial cases where a defendant killed a burglar in a state of agitation. He was not himself. He did not exist.

Many years ago I read that one of the Paraguayan indigenous tribes drank the blood of their enemies, specially the brave ones. They wanted to absorb the essence of the brave warriors. They sought some kind of spiritual transformation. It reminds of the Mass in Latin where the priests says, Hic est corpus meum; hic est enim calix sanguinem meam. It is the  ritual of the consumption of a God. In these so called modern times we also want to trascend this world. If there is no I, this transformation is illusion. Only the body is real, as you say.

Stay well, take a siesta and the vitamins.