Friday, May 23, 2008
Trouble in The Garden
There is no paradise without some other place to compare it to. A world of peace and paradise is a world taken for granted by those who know no other place; this is why man can't live in The Garden of Eden. We don't always know what "good" is until we lose it, especially when there's no "bad". It would be hard to blame Adam and Eve for trusting the snake in such a perfect world, and no one wants to stay in the same place all their life never knowing what else there is to learn and experience. I think the lust for knowledge is the main reason we can't live in the garden. We as humans don't like to be bored or restricted. We want to know what else exists. If Adam and Eve lacked curiosity, they would still be in the garden today. I don't think we could have eternal life without learning the ropes of mortality first, because without mortality, eternal life is meaningless, and Adam and Eve demonstrate it in the myth.
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man was banished for taking from the tree of knowledge, rather than the tree of life.
setting aside the religious aspects of the story, our mother earth provides for us in all the ways we need.. she is our tree of life, yet we continue to choose to take from the tree of knowledge, withering away our hopes of eternal life.
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