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By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.
— peter kreeft Jesus-Shock

Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?
— Roman Payne

タグ: young-love, women-s-strength, women-s-liberation, women-s-inspirational, women, womanhood, woman-s-strength, woman-s-character, woman, wisdom, wildflower, wilderness, wet-hair, wayfaring, wanderlust, wandering, wanderess, wanderer, wander, true-love, travel, time, thighs, the-wanderess, sweet, surrender, sunshine, summer-showers, summer-rain, summer, strength, storybook, spring, short-love-quote, sexuality, sexual-quote, sensuality, sensual, seductive, seduction, secrets, secretive, sea, sacred, running, romantic, romance, roman-payne, roman, quotes-from-poems, poetry-quotes, poetry-quotations, poetry, poem, payne, passion, parisian-reverie, opium, nocturne, making-love, loving-someone, loving, lovers-sadness, lovers-love-story, lovers, love-quote, love-making, love-at-first-sight, life-change, kissing, intoxication, innocence, hope-and-despair, god, garden-of-eden, eden, dreameress, desiring-someone, desire, courting, children, childlikeness, childlike, childhood, change, blushing, blush, beauty, adam-and-eve

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)
— Joseph Campbell Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

タグ: holiness, god, garden-of-eden, duality

Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.
— Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy

タグ: poetry, garden-of-eden

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!
— Robert G. Ingersoll The Works Of Robert G. Ingersoll

タグ: tree-of-knowledge, thought, superstition, skepticism, religion, myth, knowledge, ignorance, garden-of-eden, faith, eden, action

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.
— Clarence Darrow

タグ: whiskey, tree-of-knowledge, laughing-gas, knowledge, happy, genesis, garden-of-eden, fear, eden, creationism, church, brain, adam-and-eve

You cannot unsee what has been seen once the veil is lifted, Reverend Olumide says in church. We cannot return to the garden of Eden. When I meet with him he says I need to confront my fears, that the devil torments us with that which scares us most. So, I cross the line between the blue hallways tiles and the white locker-room floor and navigate my way to locker number thirty-two.
— Uzodinma Iweala Speak No Evil

タグ: knowledge, garden-of-eden, fear

You cannot unsee what has been seen once the veil is lifted, Reverend Olumide says in church. We cannot return to the garden of Eden. When I meet with him he says I need to confront my fears, that the devil torments us with that which scares us most. So, I cross the line between the blue hallways tiles and the white locker-room floor and navigate my way to locker umber thirty-two.
— Uzodinma Iweala Speak No Evil

タグ: knowledge, garden-of-eden, fear

This century will be called Darwin's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers. Write the name of Charles Darwin on the one hand and the name of every theologian who ever lived on the other, and from that name has come more light to the world than from all of those. His doctrine of evolution, his doctrine of the survival of the fittest, his doctrine of the origin of species, has removed in every thinking mind the last vestige of orthodox Christianity. He has not only stated, but he has demonstrated, that the inspired writer knew nothing of this world, nothing of the origin of man, nothing of geology, nothing of astronomy, nothing of nature; that the Bible is a book written by ignorance--at the instigation of fear. Think of the men who replied to him. Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin, and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task. He was held up to the ridicule, the scorn and contempt of the Christian world, and yet when he died, England was proud to put his dust with that of her noblest and her grandest. Charles Darwin conquered the intellectual world, and his doctrines are now accepted facts. His light has broken in on some of the clergy, and the greatest man who to-day occupies the pulpit of one of the orthodox churches, Henry Ward Beecher, is a believer in the theories of Charles Darwin--a man of more genius than all the clergy of that entire church put together. ...The church teaches that man was created perfect, and that for six thousand years he has degenerated. Darwin demonstrated the falsity of this dogma. He shows that man has for thousands of ages steadily advanced; that the Garden of Eden is an ignorant myth; that the doctrine of original sin has no foundation in fact; that the atonement is an absurdity; that the serpent did not tempt, and that man did not 'fall.' Charles Darwin destroyed the foundation of orthodox Christianity. There is nothing left but faith in what we know could not and did not happen. Religion and science are enemies. One is a superstition; the other is a fact. One rests upon the false, the other upon the true. One is the result of fear and faith, the other of investigation and reason.
— Robert Green Ingersoll Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--Etc. Etc. Etc