I have work to do, but in a way this counts as my day job, the one that just doesn’t pay me a cent.
In baseball, the highest point on the field is the pitcher’s mound. Logically, then, we must see the field two ways, as a pyramid from the top–with the pitchers mound being the apex–and from the side, at an angle perpendicular to the side. From the top you have a usurper, who has taken the place of God, and from the side you have a person who is going to try and circumnavigate the pyramid in a counter-clockwise direction. For some reason, the name Porphyrion keeps coming up. And the field is green.
Based on such musings, I expect my “day job” to continue to be a labor of love.
Secondly, as I was pondering this idea of religions each having a shelf life, I got to thinking about Judaism in contrast to other religions. In Judaism, you have many prophets. It is not based on one. And many of them are quite imperfect, whiny, and disobedient. You really don’t see this often in world religions, at least the ones extant today. You certainly see Gods behaving badly in most religions, including old Norse myth, Native American myth and Greek myth.
But normally when it gets to human exposition, the prophets are seen as more or less perfect. This would include the Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, Rama, and others. Everyone but Yuddhisthira has their flaws in the Mahabharata, but Krishna is conceived of as a man/god, albeit a lusty one.
This pattern, though, of repeated failure and getting back up, is an interesting one, that is unique among the major world religions, as far as can tell.
The question to ask is: what are the structural advantages and disadvantages of this? I don’t have time to answer that now, but will likely do so at some future point, perhaps years from now, and perhaps today.