Excerpt from Ismael

[Clifford Black]

"There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will act as the lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now."

[Clifford Black]

First sentence of the second paragraph is a thought that needs close attention.

B.

[Eric D. Jenkins]

There goes the "born in sin" theory out the window.

[Adisa]

I had a discussion with my son yesterday about being a product of the environment.