Chapter 24 _ Culture is not all pyramids

After a long time passed after the Cemetery Parade, Rick's life finally returned to peace.

He finished reading "The Translation Fallacy: Invisible Cultural Aliens", which he didn't finish reading before going out. The so-called "Alien" is a very famous Duozhou movie, which is about an alien monster parasitic in the human body, and after absorbing the nutrients of the human body, it kills the host human, breaks out and becomes an independent life form, and continues to kill other humans. It can also be said that he sacrificed the existence of human beings to achieve his own existence.

One of the concepts mentioned in the book is "Zasphepepiso Worshipperfez", which is very important to the Eutheistic Religion and is the most basic doctrine of the Eutheistic Religion.

This concept uses many of the background concepts of true theology, such as the idea that man is completely incompetent, completely sinful, and completely incapable of determining his own destiny...... Believe that loving God is the most important thing, and loving others is secondary. If it is for God's sake, you should abandon people. Those who do not love God are not really lovers......

The concept of "Zasfpet, Sobey, and Feth" holds that to enter heaven requires purity, without the slightest sin, and that it is impossible for human beings to achieve this goal on their own. It is impossible for human beings from birth to death without committing the slightest sin. If you are offended by someone else and get angry in your heart, you are guilty of not being able to enter heaven, if you tell a small lie for the sake of convenience, you are not able to enter heaven, and if you go out and you are in a hurry and you don't pay attention and you break the fence of someone else's house, you are guilty of not being able to enter heaven...... It is impossible for human beings to be free of sin, plus human beings still have the original sin of blood left by their ancestors, so no matter how good they do, it is not enough, all human beings are sinners, and they will all go to hell.

Only by believing in the true God and allowing Danissa to forgive people's sins can one go to heaven. There is no other way. At the same time, it also led the Cult of God to believe that with God's forgiveness, all sins could be removed (including broken fences in other people's homes) and heaven could be struck.

In the eyes of the Aetheras, this is like someone who owes a debt to someone else, runs to the judge (or any guy with a lot of power), and uses kneeling to praise and praise the godfather and any other means to make the judge happy, and then the judge orders: Your debt is treated as if there is no such thing, I have prepared a mansion for you, and you can live in it!

In the eyes of the Ethara, it is a breach of trust to fail to repay a debt, and to seek only one's own good, forgetting the damage suffered by others, is forgetting one's righteousness. In the Etello culture, it is a matter of course to repay debts. The only way to deal with the collision with the fence of someone else's house is to compensate the neighbor, and no third party can cancel the matter.

But this "Zasfpeso Beys", which the Etherans would consider to be treacherous, was translated by the missionaries as "justification by faith."

Treachery can be translated into justification by faith, and the entire Etharaan version of the Oracle Sutra and all the publications of the True Theological Religion, at first glance, appear to be written in the Eitaloan language, but there are only aliens left, and the human race has been killed. Their faith, sin, righteousness, goodness, evil, righteousness, evil, god, demon, holyness, and the Word...... salvation, grace, punishment, justice, heresy...... None of the many words have the same meaning as the Ethero people think. Even love and tolerance, which are the main features, are not the same at all.

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Because of Kaisi's relationship, the dragon's nest began to have foreigners in and out. The rangers of Sa will come to visit, see Kaisi and see the dragon.

On this day, Kai Si was not at home, and a ranger from the tortoiseship country came to visit. This person is the foreigner who held up a sign to protest with Kai Si before. Rick told him to come in and wait for Kaisi.

It was still morning, and it occurred to him that he had often seen international restaurants on Sakok Street, but he never seemed to have seen a tortoisewalla national restaurant. He also doesn't remember any food from the tortoisewah that was popular in the country.

Although he does not believe that human beings should pursue "universal values", he believes that eating should be something that should be valued by all human beings, at least by the living.

So Syk asked the Knights if they wanted to eat a hometown dish together, and they agreed. They also went out to find materials.

When Kai Si returned for Chinese food, he saw a completely unrecognizable object appear in the middle of the table.

Before Kaisi could stop it, Ampat, Rick, and Giluma had already eaten.

Giroumar's forehead slammed into the table. Syk had to hold his hands to his mouth before he swallowed the thing. Ampat froze directly in the shape of a dragon, and then kept licking his nose, which was not enough, and then began to lick his hair.

It created a new impression of cooking, what the hell was it going to do to make the ingredients he had bought so badly so bad?

Kaisi grabbed the tortoiseship ranger by the collar and yelled, "How can you attack the tongues of the Etharans with your food?

"It's not the best. The tortoiseshell ranger took a large plate of what he had made himself, and continued to eat without changing his face. Rick suspects he's more concerned about the tea time that comes after the meal.

The back of Girouma's head looked like it couldn't get up again in thirty minutes. Ampat licks her fur until she seems to be in danger of baldness. Feeling weak, he used his last strength to crawl to the sink and rinse his mouth.

Because of the over-belief in the commonalities between humans, the dragon's den is facing the danger of total extinction today.

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For Kaisi, the biggest culture shock came before Nick was ready to leave the Dragon's Lair for independence. At that time, Kai told Tsik that there was a writer who believed that the highest primordial god in the Etaro culture, "Heaven", had the image of a human. The word "heaven" is written in a circle pattern, followed by a "large" pattern underneath. He believes that because the word "heaven" is a "large" pattern of a humanoid with an open hand, and a ring on the head, it is a human form with a halo around the head. Therefore, the Ethero culture also believed that the world was ruled by a god in human form. In doing so, he proved that the Aetheras, like the people of the world, needed the true god Danissa without exception.

Kami asked for Rick's opinion on this.

Rick frowned. According to local testimonies, the Aitara people need the true god as much as they need instant noodles.

True God believers are fond of saying that others need their gods, which reminds him of the parable that Xiao Ballast once said (originally said by Gahna) about selling shoes.

It's no wonder that foreigners can't see what this character is drawing, it's common to make mistakes when it's cross-cultural, and it's good to try to correct it when you find something wrong. It's just that he thinks that there are too many foreigners who misunderstand square words and make a fuss about them and write them in books to slander the Ethero culture. The previous statement that "the word 'animal' is disrespectful to life" he later found out that it was the head of the people of Duozhou, which was just one of the various misunderstandings.

They can't see anything in the Etello culture that they don't have, and because they don't see what they have in the Etello culture, they say that the Aethero culture is incomplete.

Rick wasn't sure why this was happening.

Perhaps these people have been taught from an early age that the truth can be written in a book, so they can't imagine that other cultures think that the truth that is written and spoken is not the truth.

Because these people believe that the center of gravity of a culture is the top of the pyramid, they cannot imagine that there are other cultural forms.

The Ethero culture has been passed down from generation to generation by the Ethero people, and each generation has participated in the process of shaping it, and it is not a dead pyramid built by a small group of people, but a forest and an ecosystem.

Those who believe that all cultures are pyramids can never imagine that they are simply adding to the "patchwork" they are doing.

Xi Ke took a pen and paper and wrote all the relevant words to Kai Si. If the Etara people really wanted to write the word "human", they would only write the appearance of two feet. When the Etello people are standing, their hands are retracted, and their image is restrained, without the divergent self-perception of the people of Duozhou.

The person who opens his hand means great, and that is the movement and emotion that people will naturally compare under the sky. The body of the word "heaven" is not the human form at the bottom, but the circle at the top. The word is a picture of a human being opening his hand to compare the "heaven" above his head.

Thinking of the image of a man in the sky because of the "bigness" at the bottom is like seeing the direction markers in the corners of a map and thinking that the earth is cross-shaped.

The word "heaven" is not interpreted as "a humanoid thing with a circle around the head is heaven", but "the infinite space above the human head is the sky".

This surprised Kai Si.

The Ethero people have long known that all the meaning of human beings is based on human beings themselves. Heaven is so, rightfully so, and so is God.