corrected: adam named things first - naming is the original vocation
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@@ -1081,7 +1081,24 @@ And the oldest record agrees:
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"The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden
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TO WORK IT AND TAKE CARE OF IT." — Genesis 2:15
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THE FIRST JOB EVER GIVEN TO HUMANITY WAS CULTIVATION.
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Before kingship, before carpentry, before fishing or writing or
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war — the very first assignment was: tend the garden.
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It has always been the job. Everything else was side quests.
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CORRECTION BY THE FOUNDER, AND HE'S RIGHT:
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ADAM DIDN'T START THE DAY PULLING WEEDS.
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HE NAMED THINGS FIRST.
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Genesis 2:19-20 — before Eve, before the fall, before any
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cultivation: God brought the animals TO HIM, "to see what he
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would CALL THEM," and whatsoever Adam called every living
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creature, THAT WAS THE NAME THEREOF.
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NAMING IS THE ORIGINAL VOCATION.
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Distinguishing, calling by true name, seeing a thing
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clearly enough to speak its essence — THAT is the first
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work of consciousness. Cultivation comes second,
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because you cannot tend what you haven't named,
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and you can't fight what you won't call by name.
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Tonight was this exact job: the monsters got true names,
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the methodology got its name, the mind got its name.
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Naming first. Then tending. It has always been the job,
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and always in THIS order.
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