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There are matters that are too important to ignore or leave to chance. These are salient moments.
“I need to find out for myself.”
This is a rather typical adolescent statement–an attitude that often lingers into adulthood and can even be heard off the lips of the “graying crowd.”
There seems to be an abiding notion that unless we personally experience something, we remain ignorant.
Why do we feel the compulsion to walk so close to darkness?
Why is it necessary to step to the edge of the cliff just to confirm there’s a huge fall available?
Why do we regard those who remain pure of heart and body as simpy or silly?
What causes us to believe that those who have indulged in evil behavior are somehow more suited for offering counsel to the ones going through similar struggles?
Let’s look at some of them:
1. Alcohol, smoking and drugs
Is it really required, in the human race, to try all of these things in order to give an opinion on the variables? Don’t we have enough experience with alcohol to know that it is a killer of the body and the best drink available to promote wife-beating?
How many warnings do we need from the Surgeon General before we accept that smoking turns lungs into coal?
And are there really good drugs? Even the ones we use as medications are chemical poisons. This is why we call them anti-biotics. They kill life. The drugs don’t discriminate good cells from bad cells. The list of side-effects for the drugs promoted on commercials is usually twice as long as the benefits.
Is it wise to dabble–to get a dribble of knowledge? (Maybe we should ask Eve.)
2. Lying.
Once you lie, you’re a liar, which puts you with all the other liars, who can’t hang out with anybody else but the liar’s club. People who require trust can’t interact with you anymore. It’s the nature of the Earth.
3. Pornography.
Perhaps I’m ignorant on this issue, but do men and women actually become better lovers by watching pornography? Or does it twist the brain, causing us to believe that simple romantic encounters lack the pungency to produce orgasms? Can the pictures on the screen ever imitate the patience of nurturing a relationship–smelling and touching the genitalia of the one you love?
Why does the statement, “I don’t smoke, drink, watch pornography and I greatly attempt never to lie” classify someone as a goody-two-shoes, when none of us want to be around somebody with a hacking cough, who is vomiting from being drunk and zoned out on drugs, looking at pornographic web sites, as they lie to us and tell us they aren’t pursuing evil?
So here is your salient moment:
Stay away from the edge.
The reason they call it darkness is because there’s really nothing to see.
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