Pandora's Box

[Nobody Special's wife]

I'm sitting here doing my homework (yuck!) and I have to do an up dated PANDORA'S BOX ...and I have to fill it up with things to day that would resemble the myth.....do any of you have any ideas to help I would appricaite it

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[Never]

Oddly enough, I have been working for several years on an updated Greek Mythology. While I haven't considered Pandora's Box it seems simple enough, what plagues mankind?

AIDS, apathy, loneliness, cancers, lawyers, and Republicans.
I've heard them all described as a curse from God or Gods if your prefer.
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Meaninglessly Yours,
Never

 

[Nobody Special's wife]

Oddly enough, I have been working for several years on an updated Greek Mythology. While I haven't considered Pandora's Box it seems simple enough, what plagues mankind?

AIDS, apathy, loneliness, cancers, lawyers, and Republicans.
I've heard them all described as a curse from God or Gods if your prefer.
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Meaninglessly Yours,
Never

YEA but the one thing man kind can keep for all time is HOPE

 

[Mustang Sally]

YEA but the one thing man kind can keep for all time is HOPE

Well sure, but you don't wanna put that in the box.

 

[Ezzy]

Just a thought...

But are you not sat here reading at the new version of Pandora's box?

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[Slut_boy]

Wife,

I wrote something quite recently on the idea of utopia and possible reasons for its decline. Part of that idea is contained in a post here, and in that I make reference to Pandora's Box. I think that the myth ties in beautifully with many of today's troubled themes.

The idea was along the following lines (extract from my previous post - which can modified to many modern analogies):

The idea of a perfect society is a very old dream. Most Utopia's are cast back to a remote past: when once upon a time there was a golden age. So Homer talks about the happy Phaeacians, or about the blameless Ethiopians amongst whom Zeus used to dwell. Hesiod talks about the 'new' age succeeded by progressively worse eras. Plato speaks in the Symposium about people once being whole and complete in a happy but remote past (when they were still spherical in nature, but since breaking in half and into two separate hemispheres they have been unhappy ever since - trying to find that other half to once gain make them rounded and complete).

But the strange thing is that in all olden civilizations, there was a belief that things were once perfect in the beginning. But it all ends in a disaster and from that moment onward life is in turmoil and man spends the rest of it trying to once again find this Utopian state. The common thread is this constant theme (in Roman, or Greek, or Christian and Pagan Utopian thought) is that an enormous disaster upset things: in the bible it is the sin of disobedience - the fatal eating of the forbidden fruit - or else it is the flood. In some fabled mythology it is wicked giants who came and disturbed the world. So too in Greek
mythology the perfect state was broken by disaster, as in the story of Prometheus or else Pandora's Box.

The point being made is that since the disaster, we, as human kind, have been trying to mend the pieces. We need to believe that we can mend it because that is what gives us hope - the belief in a utopia. No person would ever spend an entire weekend working on his car unless he truly believed that it could be fixed. Belief is important – it’s
essential. But now that the belief has gone, there is nothing left. That is what I find so sad. Sometimes I blame the Christian Church for shattering the dream. They have for centuries been ramming their flavour of paradise down
our throats. And the irony is that this Utopian 'paradise' of theirs can't ever be attained here on Earth anyway. There is no more belief that utopia is attainable in this life and no more reason for men to work on their cars.

Perhaps this idea could lay the foundation for how the modern world is in turmoil and is now seeking its utopian stability back. Never's idea of AIDS could work really well - perhaps the virus is there to sort out the chaos (of overpopulation) that has erupted since the disaster (of breeding to quickly which is parallelled to the opening of Pandora's box).

What do you think

[Edited by Slut_boy on 11-16-2000 at 12:10 AM]

 

[Merelan]

Slut Boy, you constantly amaze me.
I agree, maybe. It is worth thinking about though.

Apathy. That's the big one these days. People no longer care to take the effort. I am not saying they don't care, they just want to have a way of caring and helping that requires no effort or discomfort to them.

 

[Nobody Special's wife]

This is true alot of what "slut boy " has said...If so don't you think its about time we change I have no belief in god for the fact I want proff there is one but I do have compasion ...and hope....But this does not make me to be a bad person ...I think people in genral need to Take a look at the big piture.....Yes alot of us believe in different things I respect that ....But We need to take back are lives and controll what has happend

 

[Bobtoad777]

Pandoras box is best left empty except for hope cause no matter who looks in will find thier worst expectation, but they will oft overlook the most important thing called Hope.

 

[CreamyLady]

I've always had trouble with the idea of a character trait -- curiosity -- translating to Original Sin.

It is a two-edged sword. There are times when it really is a good idea to not open the box, or rub the lamp, or unstop the bottle. We do it anyway, and so far the human race has managed to limp along. On the whole, we learn from our mistakes, and most people try to be decent about the whole thing.

Wrath, Pride, Accidie, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, and Greed still cover most of the evils of the world. I really don't see that they need updating. All of the lesser evil has its roots in the seven.