http://www.laitman.com/2008/10/freedom-of-will-lies-only-in-the-environment/ Kabbalah and the Meaning of Life - Michael Laitman's Personal Blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:12:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.laitman.com/2008/10/freedom-of-will-lies-only-in-the-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-1694 Orlando Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:12:12 +0000 http://www.laitman.com/?p=1503#comment-1694 <strong>The problem of not underestanding ones condition is not "quid pro quo", or "tit for tat"; that you'll get overlooked by the Creator, that's non-sense. The problem of not understanding ones condition is of discipline. Let's, for example, give ourselves the benefit of the doubt that we are as we are, "evil" in that sense. Not grasping the notion of the enormousity of it would easily bring an opportunity for monstrosity, and I don't mean it in the lighter sense. We cannot judge ourselves according to our "worst" of deeds as an individual. Justice requires that we judge ourselves as the worst of the worst according to humanity in whole; anyone of us is a "Jim Jones" a "Hitler" in potency. Any less of a belief that you or I would not be capable of commiting such monstrosity is ignorant and pressumes innocence of the dangerous sort; the type of innocence that later excuses their lack of knowldege, due to ignorance, "I didn't know better". We are not only egoist in wanting "all things", but we are also glutton for justification and self piety.</strong> The problem of not underestanding ones condition is not “quid pro quo”, or “tit for tat”; that you’ll get overlooked by the Creator, that’s non-sense. The problem of not understanding ones condition is of discipline. Let’s, for example, give ourselves the benefit of the doubt that we are as we are, “evil” in that sense. Not grasping the notion of the enormousity of it would easily bring an opportunity for monstrosity, and I don’t mean it in the lighter sense. We cannot judge ourselves according to our “worst” of deeds as an individual. Justice requires that we judge ourselves as the worst of the worst according to humanity in whole; anyone of us is a “Jim Jones” a “Hitler” in potency. Any less of a belief that you or I would not be capable of commiting such monstrosity is ignorant and pressumes innocence of the dangerous sort; the type of innocence that later excuses their lack of knowldege, due to ignorance, “I didn’t know better”. We are not only egoist in wanting “all things”, but we are also glutton for justification and self piety.

]]>