Comments on: Forgotten Things http://imago.hitherby.com/?p=371 An Answer to Suffering Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:08:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mackatlaw http://imago.hitherby.com/?p=371&cpage=1#comment-958 mackatlaw Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.imago.hitherby.com/?p=371#comment-958 Does intent to make an offer of marriage to the writer of this piece mean that I am posting too late at night? Yes, I think it does. I think about the Judeo-Christian Fall a lot. I don't really believe it, and I think it stands in my head as a metaphor for the self I'd like to be, that I've never really been. But knowledge brings moral choices -- being a moral actor, being aware of the self and others, is so difficult. I can't bring myself to believe in a mythical time when everything was better, except in dreams. On the other hand, I don't necessarily believe things were worse either. Maybe just different. I don't think I'd have liked growing up in another time, but how do I know? I wasn't there. Humanity is just humanity. Sometimes we learn things; sometimes we don't. Mack Does intent to make an offer of marriage to the writer of this piece mean that I am posting too late at night? Yes, I think it does.

I think about the Judeo-Christian Fall a lot. I don’t really believe it, and I think it stands in my head as a metaphor for the self I’d like to be, that I’ve never really been. But knowledge brings moral choices — being a moral actor, being aware of the self and others, is so difficult.

I can’t bring myself to believe in a mythical time when everything was better, except in dreams. On the other hand, I don’t necessarily believe things were worse either. Maybe just different. I don’t think I’d have liked growing up in another time, but how do I know? I wasn’t there. Humanity is just humanity. Sometimes we learn things; sometimes we don’t.

Mack

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