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The wasps that put their eggs inside the living bodies of some paralyzed host, I can't get away from that sense, that creepy analogous feeling. And then I thought well, what about some opportunist that comes along and eats that? Doesn't that somehow undo the creepiness? Bring it back into the realm of nature and regular ol' daily living? But why? It does for me anyway. The thought of some stung caterpillar or tarantula just lying there while the wasp squirts her eggs inside the living tissue...yech.
But then along comes a mouse, and gobbles up the caterpillar, eggs and all, and everything gets back on a more even keel. Hmmm...
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Also the idea of unearned rewards as being inferior? You know, like music or art that's not sold as a commodity?
It isn't as important as "making a living at it". So that the making a living part is actually more important than the art itself. Where'd that come from?
The factory gate.
They give you a little book when you show up for your first day. It has all the rules in it.
One of the big rules is, an honest day's work = an honest day's pay.
The very real but hidden fact, that the top of that chain of rewards and promises is populated by men and women who get rewards in astonshing ratio to their labor, if they do any labor at all, well, it's in the rule book as well - good employees don't think about that.
And the other side of it, that labor done without an expectation of reward is trivial, inconsequential?
That's in the book, too - good employees don't think too hard about it.
The idea that a human being might do something out of love, without thinking of its immediate benefit, absurd!
Though that is the essential motivation of the ultimate sacrifice, the heart of the Christian presence in the world. But they cover that by saying, "He did it, you don't have to."
It's OK for you to act selfishly because Jesus acted unselfishly.
See, that's the mystery.
You're not supposed to think about it though.