05-20-2004, 06:43 PM | #1 | |
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Bliss VERSUS Free Will
Well I was in civ class the other day, and we were reading about the Old Testament (as a piece of classic literature, not as something we should worship or whatnot.) I skimmed around and read up on the Garden of Eden, and remembered how someone told me that the apple gave Adam and Eve the ability to have free and independant thought. This might be wrong, but that is not the point of this thread, it is as thus:
When given the choice between eternal bliss, or independant thought, with the ability to achieve bliss, which would you choose? I would personally pick eternal bliss. My interpration of life is to seek happiness despite the struggles and strifes of this world. Well, if I'm given the short-cut to the secret of life, I would glady jump onto the happy train. Why go through all the trouble if the end result is the same, only worse off, for you can lose the bliss and have to reachieve it? Now this brings me to part two of my question. If there is a totalarionistic society, where one man ruled all, there was no way to move up rank, class, what-have-you, you pretty much had to keep what you given. Now if in this society, everyone liked it, everyone loved how it worked, function, even though they knew there was no way to advance, would you, given the opportunity, commit a complete revolution and throw down this government?
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