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Reminds me of this verse from Gensis: > By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust
by abnry 6y ago
Reminds me of this verse from Gensis:
> By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.
In other words, work will always be work.
- Hydraulix989 6y agoReminds me of the intro to Bioshock
- gameswithgo 6y agoeat arbys
- dwaltrip 6y agoSome context might be helpful. In that verse, god is literally cursing Adam and Eve for eating the forbidden fruit. The author of genesis is not making some prosaic observation of human nature. There may be some truth to the idea that work will always be work. But it certainly has nothing to do with a curse from a supernatural being for eating a forbidden fruit.
- tankenmate 6y agoBut if you look at what "eating the forbidden fruit" was meant to symbolise, i.e. self realisation, then it does speak to the point made by the first poster. Once you have theory of mind you realise that other people have it different experience than you do; some better some worse. So then you could argue that happiness then comes from meta meta cognition; other people have it different from you, but you don't always realise the problems those others have. You come to the realisation that you can't control everything; you change what you can to make things better, and accept what you can't.