Can you ever really know anyone?
Have you ever had someone you thought was a friend turn on you and do something nasty, or betray you?How about a boyfriend that once claimed to love you but cheated on you? Said awful things about you in an argument? Turned cold towards you?
I used to think you could know and trust someone after a certain amount of time. How long could someone who is a jerk fake being nice? But the fact is, people change. They can hide parts of thier personalities well, for a long time. How else can you explain a husband cheating on his wife, whom he once loved enough to vow to stand by forever? How about a boyfriend or girlfriend saying horrible things to someone he or she once said loving things to? Or a friend you shared many memories with giving you the cold shoulder or gossiping behind your back? Or someone you thought would be there for you in a time of need turning their back on you?
These things happen all the time- Can you ever truly know and trust anyone, to be there for you, like in a forever sort of way? Perhaps trust is foolish and naive, because humans are flawed ...
There is nothing permanent except change.
~Heraclitus"Trust enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of your partner's hand, knowing they will be handled with care." -Carl S. Avery
It takes years to build up trust...and seconds to destroy it ~Rachel Jolley
posted by Evil Genius @ 10:49 AM
6 comments
6 Comments:
Yes, of course it's possible to trust someone. Whether people can ever deserve such trust is a separate matter. Better to jump off the cliff and have faith than to live forever in fear.
this sounds like more than a purely intellectual discussion. someone take a dump in your cheerios?
ugh, i have a very vivid imagination so euphamisms like that are entirely too disturbing. Especially if they were honey-nut-
Noam, did you know that in the new testament when satan took jesus to the desert he said, ok if you believe so much in your precious god then jump off this cliff or whatever, and have faith that god will save you. jesus didn't do it. and you know the eternal question, WWJD, the answer is, in this case, NOT JUMP off the cliff. so that puts all kinds of holes in your theory. Anyway I *think* thats the story. I did read the bible recently, but I have the memory of a goldfish. I think that story would have been a lot more convincing about christianity if he jumped and god saved him and put him back on the cliff. then they could do a high-five, right in front of satan. Damn, I should write a new-new testament!
your imagined rewrite of christian doctrine is much more "matrix"
did jesus transpose his sandals and nappy hair for a slicked back trench coat look too? just thank him for the fish and wine and be done w/it.
You missed the point of the Jesus story! He said he wouldn't jump off a cliff because you shouldn't test God, you should just have faith without testing it. If he had jumped off a cliff, then the message would be, if you're not sure it God exists then jump off a cliff and if he doesn't save you then he must not exist. Obviously that message wouldn't work too well. His point is, as he said to Thomas, "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
Moral is: Jesus trusts without having to jump off an actual cliff, and that kind of trust is in my view a leap in itself, off of a metaphorical cliff.
Amen and Halleloujah! :)
Gotta have faith... even if it is hard sometimes.
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