Desperate Housewives (Season II)
Fahrenfeit 9/11 by Michael Moore (The documentary)
2 of the stuff that i have watched recently. in fact i spent so much of my time watching TV programmes and reading online that as if i am making up for the lack of TV watching and random reading over the past 6 years.
Both hit me the hardest. or rather, coldest. the perennial question of human nature was raised up again at the philosophical theatre in my mind. i feel so cold. and shivel at how dark we are or we can potentially be, both at the micro level as a person and at the macro level as a society as an organisation. but the way our civilisation has turned out is probably a manifestation of our human nature.
of course, as i have always believed, every human being is good in nature. everyone has the potential to be nice. but the way our society has been has made us deviant from our nature as we grow up, to be far from good, far from ideal. in this aspect, Christianity has some truths. Adam and Eve were created to live blissfully (and ignorantly) in the Garden of Eden. But once they ate the forbidden fruit and obtained knowledge, they were expelled from Heaven and needed to work and suffer. In the same principles, human babies came to the world being simple and happy and having nothing substancial in their minds, and grew up and obtained knowledge and started to suffer. Philosophically, the eating of the Forbidden Fruit is seen as the point when human beings started to be less than perfect, less than ideal, and began to SIN.
but the question is, are we a sinner only after eating the Fruit, or are there already seeds of evil in us that prompted us to eat the Fruit? (keep in mind that i am speaking fuguratively, very and plainly figuratively) In another word, my question is whether it is our original human nature to be bad and evil, or it is a part of the shells that we developed to protect ourselves from this bad bad society? In short, is evil nature or nurture?
I always wonder about this question. I don't want to settle for a quick fix-all answer...
Someone said before that "Human being is fundamentally good in nature. but the extent of goodness is merely fundamental."
perhaps so. it takes enlightenment and wisdom to be good in a way further than fundamental.
Fahrenfeit 9/11 by Michael Moore (The documentary)
2 of the stuff that i have watched recently. in fact i spent so much of my time watching TV programmes and reading online that as if i am making up for the lack of TV watching and random reading over the past 6 years.
Both hit me the hardest. or rather, coldest. the perennial question of human nature was raised up again at the philosophical theatre in my mind. i feel so cold. and shivel at how dark we are or we can potentially be, both at the micro level as a person and at the macro level as a society as an organisation. but the way our civilisation has turned out is probably a manifestation of our human nature.
of course, as i have always believed, every human being is good in nature. everyone has the potential to be nice. but the way our society has been has made us deviant from our nature as we grow up, to be far from good, far from ideal. in this aspect, Christianity has some truths. Adam and Eve were created to live blissfully (and ignorantly) in the Garden of Eden. But once they ate the forbidden fruit and obtained knowledge, they were expelled from Heaven and needed to work and suffer. In the same principles, human babies came to the world being simple and happy and having nothing substancial in their minds, and grew up and obtained knowledge and started to suffer. Philosophically, the eating of the Forbidden Fruit is seen as the point when human beings started to be less than perfect, less than ideal, and began to SIN.
but the question is, are we a sinner only after eating the Fruit, or are there already seeds of evil in us that prompted us to eat the Fruit? (keep in mind that i am speaking fuguratively, very and plainly figuratively) In another word, my question is whether it is our original human nature to be bad and evil, or it is a part of the shells that we developed to protect ourselves from this bad bad society? In short, is evil nature or nurture?
I always wonder about this question. I don't want to settle for a quick fix-all answer...
Someone said before that "Human being is fundamentally good in nature. but the extent of goodness is merely fundamental."
perhaps so. it takes enlightenment and wisdom to be good in a way further than fundamental.
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