Matrix of Causes, Matrix of Desires

[Dimmesdale]

See that forbidden fruit, yonder, in terms of your imagination? What does it signify? All of us have one, at least one, thing we would like to taste, enjoy, experience, but which our scruples cause us to look away. Just in time as it were.

But sometimes we yield to it. That desire, or sin, or however else you wish to term it. We decide we want to pay the price. We know the price exists. It appears to us instantly the moment we think of that thing we want. Some form of Anxiety, of Dread, attends our desiring this thing. We know it is a kind of trespass, a kind of law breakage. But sometimes our lower nature chooses it, nevertheless.

Think of our world. Think of how much anxiety our own world is saturated with. Now think to the beginning of time. When the first "angels", or our "first parents" or our original "progenitors" sought that very first fruit. That fruit which plunged us into the debacle that we see now unfolding before us.

Did they know what they were getting into? What Pandora's Box they were unsealing? Yes and no, I suppose. Yes, in the sense that they recognized the Anxiety they knew attended the objects of their desire. That it was forbidden. That some price they knew they had to pay would summarily follow, and that this was a penalty. No, because they did not foresee all the ramifications that their desire would precipitate. The whole chain of causality which it would cause to unfold.

So, that seems the best explanation of the problem of evil. Freely, did we choose this world. And now we have, a Matrix of Causes, due to a Matrix of Desires. One following on the heels of the other, and seemingly no way out.

But there is an out. But it has to be sought beyond this Matrix of Desire, whether external or internal. It cannot dispense with the external. But it has to come from a place of No Anxiety. Of peace. One must will oneself to peace.

[Dimmesdale]

[Replying to Dimmesdale in post #1]

To add to this line of thought. What if we entered into this world, for the express purpose of acting as fodder for the desires of yet others, who could not but will their desires in the context of others, who both provide company, as well as the resources for said desires, which could not be got by any other way.

Hell truly is other people. And yet we have Stockholm Syndrome. Does not this explain a great deal?