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Originally posted by Cathar
I think that it needs to be understood that nobody is perfect. Nobody is saying that they are. Most everyone does something that they "shouldn't".
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Agreed. I just came across the following paragraph this morning in a book I'm reading. (BTW, I bought the book.)
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From Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
"If I come down in the morning and find you copulating on my table with a foreign deserter, as if you were some sort of Vagabond," Huygens said, "I am annoyed. I admit it. But that is not as important as what you do next. If you posture defiantly, it tells me that you have not learned the skill of recognizing when you are running awry, and correcting yourself. And you must leave my house in that case, for such people only go further astray until they find destruction. But if you take this opportunity to consider where you have gone wrong, and to adjust your course, it tells me that you shall do well enough in the end."
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Definitely struck a chord with this thread, and my view of some of the posts. Somewhat parallel to Cathar's statements as well.
Might be worth thinking about.
Anyway, I don't have Cathar's eloquence, so I'm just going to drop this thread at this point.