The Good Cop, the Bad Cop, and the Suspect
From: Tarjei Straume
Date: Wed Nov 5, 2003 2:26 pm
Subject: The good cop, the bad cop, and the suspect
Dear subscribers,
I once subscribed to a list where a dispute
arose about what was on-topic and what wasn't. During the turmoil,
a fellow subscriber asked me if we should play "the good
cop, bad cop" routine from his favorite TV shows. I declined
after the following consideration:
The good cop offers the suspect a cup of coffee
and says he'll talk the bad cop out of beating him up if he 'cooperates'
by turning traitor on his trusting friends. He even offers him
reduced charges and maybe to give back to him some of the dope.
So the good cop must be Ahriman with the Faustian bargain and
the bad cop Lucifer with a hot temper, right?
If you're with me so far in identifying the
bad cop as Lucifer and the good cop as Ahriman, I would like
to present to you an anarchosophical riddle:
Who is the suspect?
Tarjei
http://uncletaz.com/
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From: Dag Horntvedt
Date: Thu Nov 6, 2003 4:26 am
Subject: Re: The good cop, the bad cop, and the suspect
--- Tarjei Straume wrote:
Who is the suspect?
Each one of us. Living here on earth is -
in a way being a suspect. I have to prove I am doing "the
right thing". IMHO the right thing is do do what I- for
myself - see that I should do. The Good Book says something like:
the only sin there is no forgivness for is the sin against the
Holy Spirit. The HS being what I percieve as being the right
thing to do. In not doing this I take upon me somthing I must
carry - forever? The good and the bad cop is there to teach me
that there is only one way in life and that is to find out for
you self.
Dag Horntvedt
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From: Tarjei Straume
Date: Thu Nov 6, 2003 11:15 am
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Re: The good cop, the bad
cop, and the suspect
At 13:26 06.11.2003, Dag wrote:
--- Tarjei Straume <anthrouncle@c...>
wrote:
Who is the suspect?
Each one of us.
Not bad at all. Each one of us, however, carries
the good cop and the bad cop as well. So they're in all each
one of us in a sense. The answer I had in mind for the anarchosophical
riddle is: Christ. There are three of them in the interrogation
chamber, right? One (the good cop) is Ahriman, the other (the
bad cop) is Lucifer, so the third one (the suspect) has to be
Christ. And if we remind ourselves of the scene where Christ
stands before Pilate in the very role of the suspect, and that
he was actually given the option of getting off the hook by defending
himself against the charges, the analogy becomes a little clearer.
This is something to be kept in mind by anyone
involved in a judicial process like jury duty. There is an excellent
article by Michael E. Coughlin about this, entitled The
Jury: Defender Or Oppressor.
Cheers,
Tarjei
http://uncletaz.com/
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