"In order for mankind to obtain anything, something of equal value must be sacrificed in exchange. In the Garden, the serpent possessed by a devil ripped the chance of eternal life from the grip of man. What must man do in order to obtain that chance again? That is the nature of the Oroboros."
The Oroboros, a snake devouring its own tail, a symbol of the eternal cycle of everlasting life, while at the same time depicts what must be given up for the serpent to live forever: itself. The snake continuously and unceasingly needs to devour itself, its own flesh, in order to live forever.
Here en-lies a chilling allegory. Constantly as a civilization, we human beings are constantly on the search for the fountain of youth, or any means to live forever. There is a craze for finding that ultimate cure for cancer, which is the #2 killing disease in the world. Don't get me wrong, finding a cure for cancer is a good thing, as cancer is a terrible way to die, yet one result a cure for cancer can present is the idea that we can cure anything, so we may live longer lives. Seventy to a hundred years isn't good enough for us anymore, so we constantly look for a means to stretch our life expectancy to pre-Flood times, given you have read Genesis 5, or even believe the Bible; it's merely a visual.
In 2009, there was a project that used human embryos, specifically, to splice their DNA with DNA of an animal. In essence, creating human-animal hybrids, a type of chimera. The ethics regarding experiments on unborn babies, particularly with abortion ethics still raging rampant, were heated enough, but to make chimeras with them was too far for far too many people, and in the end, the research was stopped due to lack of funds. Disturbing still, several reports on its closure were riddled with sentiment towards the scientists that had to stop, calling the cease of the experiments an unfortunate setback for the betterment of mankind. In a sense, they were advocating that for humans to live better lives, we have to become less human by becoming chimeras.
This is the nature of the Oroboros in itself. The research was to help cure cancer so we can live longer lives, but in exchange, we were willing to cast aside a part of our human selves and become chimeras in return, for something that may only grant us an extra twenty years longer to live. Just twenty years! Truly, what must we give up to get a longer time? Fifty years? A hundred years? A thousand? How much to give up in return?
The Oroboros has given us a prophetic warning: to become immortal, we have to become something we are not; to be immortal, is to be not human. Are we prepared to make that sacrifice, and deal with the repercussions of it? Even then, we likely won't be immortal...just ageless. We could still die from less natural means; people already do.
Listen to the tale the Oroboros has graciously told us, and consider.
In a lighter atmosphere, I got to visit the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum in Branson, Missouri, and even took the time to put together a video with pictures and short clips of my experience. Just to show that I don't mindlessly philosophize ALL the time.
Have a great and wonderful day!
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