Pandora's Box - a gift or a curse?
And something I did on Sunday
Welcome to this week’s Life Intelligence. This one is more philosophical because life is worth philosophizing about. It helps to appreciate it. To make your head hurt less, I am including a gallery of images and videos from my weekend adventure.
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Pandora, the first woman according to Greek mythology, just like Eve in the Bible, holds the key to what ails us. Let's ignore the similarities between the two myths to avoid accusing Christians of "borrowing" and focus on some interesting philosophical mind teases.
Before Pandora, Earth was inhabited by man only, fashioned in the image of gods by Prometheus. He saw potential and beauty in his creations, envisioning beings that could think, learn, and grow.
Zeus, the head honcho, was already pissed at Prometheus for this, but then Prometheus decided to bring these clay figures to life. He needed something more – a spark of divine energy. He stole fire from the gods, specifically from Mount Olympus, and bestowed it upon his creations. This fire was not just for physical warmth and light but also for knowledge, enlightenment, and the spark of life itself.
The guys walked Paradise Earth with rivers of honey and fields of flowers and seemingly had no worries. As you would expect, Greek gods had nothing to do back then, so Zeus figured out a clever way to get back at Prometheus and the humans. He commissioned the creation of Pandora, to which all the other gods bestowed many blessings – beauty, curiosity, gentleness, warmth, etc. Then Zeus gifted her a very special jar (which subsequently changed in the stories to a box). He instructed her not to open it, ever!