16. man is a jerk: aristotle - Sick Sacraments
16. man is a jerk – aristotle Is there life before death? Can I commit my life to anything? Is life worth saving? Men have been trying to get at the heart of these matters ever since they started naming everything around them. Better to understand it than to fear it. Unfortunately, by the time it got to Aristotle the more they discovered, the more they feared. Long before there was pollution, there were people in africa who tried to make some sense of the world around them. They began to see a certain dichotomy in all things around them: female and male, night and day, good and bad. Since then, the egyptians, greeks, romans, jews, christians, and muslims have been monopolizing and screwing up these facts. The africans were the first who made the sun a god and the moon a pussy. They figured out the difference between a star and a planet, and counted four orbiting in the heavens. They suspected a few neute...