Is Filial Piety Toxic or Helpful? | 孝道是有毒還是有益處的呢？
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Hundreds of years ago someone compiled 24 stories of an ancient Chinese value known as xiao or Filial Piety. These stories show immense love and respect for parents often at great personal cost to the child. And some of these stories have aged really poorly! For instance, the story of Guo Ju has him burying his own child so that he can feed his mother! Others have children laying on ice to thaw it, eating feces to test the health of parents, letting mosquitoes bite them, acting like children to entertain mom and dad, crying at tombstones, and divorcing a spouse because they insulted a parent's memory. This value may seem extreme today but has a huge pull on modern society in East Asia and held society together for thousands of years. It also found itself being quickly adopted by the government which resulted in a push to honor the Emporer as you would a parent.
So come along this week as Pilgrimage Films dives into the concept of Filial Piety and asks whether or not it's ok to give up everything for parents. Why would they do that? And what does the Bible say about this sort of thing?
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🤔 What Does the Bible Say?
Genesis 2:24
1 Tim 5:4-8
Ephesians 5:22-28
Matthew 10:34-39
Matt 12:48-50
Romans 12:21
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The story of Guo Ju has a lot of similarities with that of Jacob/Isaac. Both are willing to sacrifice their son for something that is in their eyes higher. The difference being, of course, that one is doing so for his mother, and the other is doing so at the command of the Lord.
Funnily enough I wrote an entire script about that and thought it was too complex to cover in this one video (So I'll do it a bit later). You can see remnants at the water cooler toward the end with a hidden binding of isaac painting easter egg...
Except that proper exegesis and the tradition of the ancient sacramental churches (vs. fundamentalist interpretations, for example, or that of atheists who think in an ahistorical vacuum) establishes that Abraham, coming from a pagan background, was rigidly bound to a pagan framework for understanding the relationship between men and dieties. Abraham kept imposing those poor expectations of YHWH, whom he kept assuming is a user and manipulator who regarded puny humans as canon fodder for their own arbitrary appetities. YHWH wanted Abraham to begin to understand what the one, true God is like. So, in desperation, God began to play a role that matched Abraham's distorted expectations, then did a switcheroo on Mount Zion. Finally, the light bulb went on, and Abraham could recognize that God is true loving and merciful. If you understand Hebrew, you know that YHWH's words that "I myself will provide the sacrifice (the ram in the place of Isaac)" also ambigously, on purpose, meant "I will provide myself as the sacrifice" (a foretelling of the Son of God taking on the sins of the world by his self-sacrifce on the cross). For the confirmation bias-loving, axe-grinding dogmatic, atheist I would throw a pearl at you by reminding you that this is not manipulation but, as the Buddhists put it, an act of upaya. If you refuse to accept, I've thrown the pearl at swine.
Are there laws for filial piety if the parents are bad parents? Like if the mom or dad abandon their family for a time and then come back, do the children still need to show filial piety?
It's interesting, actually the parents sort of seem to have ultimate control and can even sue kids for not providing but there was a court case last year when two kids got a court case removed by proving ol' dad was a deadbeat. We have another video planned which will delve a bit into this but the kids still need to show filial pity no matter what.
It’s instilled in us (Chinese) that we need to look after our parents when we grow up. We should feed them, house them and give them the necessary medical attention and spending time with them, just as how my parents treated their parents. Obviously nowadays many parents are financially sufficient but we still need to call them up everyday just to make sure they’re ok and spend at least a couple of hours with them on weekends. We also have vacations together, we just make sure they’re taken care of, hopefully my son will do the same for, my biggest fear is being old and immobile and being dumped in aged care facility. I’ve worked in aged care facilities and I’ve cried many times for those poor seniors being stuck there, some have family member who visits them often, others have not had a visitor in years. So to be honest I prefer instilling these values into the young ones.
No offense. Just be responsible for your own happiness. Unhappy person is unhappy no matter how much you feed them. Read some good books for emotional maturity. Have no fear toward being alone when kids are grown up and having their own life to deal with.
No, your kids have their own lives to live and their own family to raise. Think of them and not yourself. If you were a loving parent, then they should want to care for you because they want to, not because of FP, or get a Life Alert. With a lifetime of life experience, you should be able to take care of yourself.
Don't know about the Bible. such a weird book written by men. What happen to the book of Enroch?
Are you trying to understand it on your own or from a fundametalist framework? It's much deeper and richer than post-moderns can possibly grasp unless they're humble enough or have access to the wisest and most educated commentators who work from an established tradition rather than from a vacuum or dogmatic (unexamined, of course) post-Enlightenment propaganda and prejudices. This is not judging you, but you might be a victim of ideology and not even be aware of it.
@@Kirin2022 I do respect the book but sometimes there are interpretations that are hidden. I remember finding a medical solution which was hidden. It does not make sense if you read it as is.
@@lominiski Of course it doesn't. We are too far removed from the times without the help of experts. It's like being confused by Shakespearan era customs, norms, and even word choices--but magnified by 10x. We can't even recognize hyperbole of another contemporary culture most of the time and, instead, automatically assume a lie or deception. We even have semantic misunderstandings between different generations among American today.
@@Kirin2022 I like the Shakespear thing.....suck a weird era with men in stockings.