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Old 10-17-2013, 05:22 AM
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happyhour
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Originally Posted by losty View Post
I would like to know how bad is this?
hi losty, welcome to SR, you have asked a great question.

more importantly, why do we want something that we know is bad?

a quote that might make sense to you...

“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness — they have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it..."
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