think the analogy of the cave... if you don't know that the shadows on a cave wall have been cast by a greater light outside, you are content to stay there. if you think your world is small and contained, you are happy to keep it that way.
the more you learn, the more reality grows, expands, dwarfs you and everything in comparison.
although this is tough and uncomfortable, i will accept what you said as truth because i know in my heart this is where i need to be...no matter how hard it is. thank you, laura converse... you are very wise.
chantel, this was a truely amazing entry. you took the words right out of my mouth.
ignorance is a beauiful letdown.
ignorance without question, is the easy way. ignorance gives reason and room to not care. ignorance gives reason for little pain. ignorance gives room for one to live in their own little world where things are perfect. no confusion, no anger, no hurt.
however, that's now where you are called to live (shudder...bold statement). I echo what laura said, that life is a prison. not an adventure.
From all my lame defeats and oh! much more From all the victories that I seemed to score; From cleverness shot forth on Thy behalf At which, while angels weep, the audience laugh; From all my proofs of Thy divinity, Thou, who wouldst give no sign, deliver me.
Thoughts are but coins. Let me not trust, instead of Thee, their thin-worn image of Thy head. From all my thoughts, even from my thoughts of Thee, O thou fair Silence, fall, and set me free. Lord of the narrow gate and needle's eye, Take from me all my trumpery lest I die.
I don't have any Plato, CS Lewis or Switchfoot quotes to offer, but I'm starting to wonder about ethics behind the Garden of Eden story. I understand that God would have wanted to protect us, but he made the fruit of knowledge evil. I guess it makes sense in a twisted, undescribable way.
Where do you come up with it being 'evil?' God just said not to eat of the tree that provided the knowledge between right and wrong...nothing in there about it being evil.
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think the analogy of the cave...
if you don't know that the shadows on a cave wall have been cast by a greater light outside, you are content to stay there. if you think your world is small and contained, you are happy to keep it that way.
the more you learn, the more reality grows, expands, dwarfs you and everything in comparison.
and that is freedom.
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thank you, laura converse...
you are very wise.
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ignorance is a beauiful letdown.
ignorance without question, is the easy way. ignorance gives reason and room to not care. ignorance gives reason for little pain. ignorance gives room for one to live in their own little world where things are perfect. no confusion, no anger, no hurt.
however, that's now where you are called to live (shudder...bold statement). I echo what laura said, that life is a prison. not an adventure.
with great knowledge comes great responsibility.
i'm struggling with the same thing.
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From all my lame defeats and oh! much more
From all the victories that I seemed to score;
From cleverness shot forth on Thy behalf
At which, while angels weep, the audience laugh;
From all my proofs of Thy divinity,
Thou, who wouldst give no sign, deliver me.
Thoughts are but coins. Let me not trust, instead
of Thee, their thin-worn image of Thy head.
From all my thoughts, even from my thoughts of Thee,
O thou fair Silence, fall, and set me free.
Lord of the narrow gate and needle's eye,
Take from me all my trumpery lest I die.
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thank you.
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