Temptation
First what comes to mind about a temptation - is some visible action which involves you into some more or less adventurous business, - promising sweet feelings or prophet profit or glory or something like this and mandatory containing some category of so called happiness. Of course! How can be otherwise?!
Generally the temptation is seemed as some unusual not natural way of thinking. Better I give a couple of illustrations… As they say - taking opportunity…
Probably the subject will become more clear if to bear in mind a definition of term ‘temptation’ from Greek (during the investigation of illustrations): it’s a peg holding a trap door. Nice, yes?
Firstly the temptation can appear clearly, visibly, like money on the road. Someone shows to you a way which will give you easy prophet profit or some kind of satisfaction. And it’s not only for you but for your well-wisher too. And with closer examination - this well-wisher will get more prophets benefit then you of course. Let’s imagine - a girl teases a man, seduces him. Finally man agrees for an intimacy. Where is temptation here? In the fact of making this offer (not the spoken offer but gesture of offer, a hint - if one may say like this). In spite of the fact that both of them got pleasure. But girl who was an initiator got something more - 1) probably, the paid evening (we don’t consider services of professional ‘priestess of love’), 2) probably, some information about him, and - 3) power over man’s will. This is first step of temptation.
Further this satisfied guy may think that intimacy with woman is just easy way of relaxation, of supporting keeping fit his form and as if way of self-assertion. And that is second step. Guy is trapped by the thought of availability of free relations as a normal style of life. But normal (a normal) - is line, straight line where relations between man and woman is considered like permanent and based not on body contact in the first place.
Now I foresee possible objections taking into account the free agreement of both sides, not puritan modern time etc… Don’t get me wrong.
When it comes to ‘love affair’ we often afford intimacy like … some innocent thing (and not always even as fault and moreover - as sin). But this innocent thing covers a passion, when flash prevails over soul and spirit… should it so? I’m not sure. If to extrapolate such thoughts into life line - what result we will get? Freedom in the relations or anarchy in love?
A peculiarity of human to approve _his_ so called free choice is a sort of temptation too. - I am a measure of things! I offer and you are free to cancel; you offer and I’m free to choose! Tempting thought, isn’t it? But if to look from other side - it’s a spiritual mock, substitution of responsibility for as if so called freedom (or permissiveness?). Nothing better than using the ‘freedom’ term here it’s impossible to invent. Such a limp philosophy!..
Another illustration.
Suppose one man wants or rather admits a possibility of some kind of doing the good deeds - to learn from some man, to help to some people, to search information. And he faces with the contradictory facts about man/people, hears negative information, listens to advices to give up ‘these thoughts’ - and now he turns out before in front of choice: to give up his wish to do something (and to do nothing), to begin to support obstruction of that man/people, to try to find out - why is so? why is that man wrong? to try to find out the results of that man’s activity, or to try to find another man/people for his goals… So he turns out before in front of temptation: to do nothing or moreover - to do something against. Hereby the temptation is a choice to easier side, temptation is a something which makes your way curved. And if to deflect to temptations and if to be tempted then one can lose track of initial thought and good intention can be absolutely dissolved finally…
He can stay in ease with the thought that he hasn’t done something wrong (it’s not concerned to the first illustration because there man should resist to temptation - and it’s an active state) and to be… but it’s already another theme.
Generally the temptation is seemed as some unusual not natural way of thinking. Better I give a couple of illustrations… As they say - taking opportunity…
Probably the subject will become more clear if to bear in mind a definition of term ‘temptation’ from Greek (during the investigation of illustrations): it’s a peg holding a trap door. Nice, yes?
Firstly the temptation can appear clearly, visibly, like money on the road. Someone shows to you a way which will give you easy prophet profit or some kind of satisfaction. And it’s not only for you but for your well-wisher too. And with closer examination - this well-wisher will get more prophets benefit then you of course. Let’s imagine - a girl teases a man, seduces him. Finally man agrees for an intimacy. Where is temptation here? In the fact of making this offer (not the spoken offer but gesture of offer, a hint - if one may say like this). In spite of the fact that both of them got pleasure. But girl who was an initiator got something more - 1) probably, the paid evening (we don’t consider services of professional ‘priestess of love’), 2) probably, some information about him, and - 3) power over man’s will. This is first step of temptation.
Further this satisfied guy may think that intimacy with woman is just easy way of relaxation, of supporting keeping fit his form and as if way of self-assertion. And that is second step. Guy is trapped by the thought of availability of free relations as a normal style of life. But normal (a normal) - is line, straight line where relations between man and woman is considered like permanent and based not on body contact in the first place.
Now I foresee possible objections taking into account the free agreement of both sides, not puritan modern time etc… Don’t get me wrong.
When it comes to ‘love affair’ we often afford intimacy like … some innocent thing (and not always even as fault and moreover - as sin). But this innocent thing covers a passion, when flash prevails over soul and spirit… should it so? I’m not sure. If to extrapolate such thoughts into life line - what result we will get? Freedom in the relations or anarchy in love?
A peculiarity of human to approve _his_ so called free choice is a sort of temptation too. - I am a measure of things! I offer and you are free to cancel; you offer and I’m free to choose! Tempting thought, isn’t it? But if to look from other side - it’s a spiritual mock, substitution of responsibility for as if so called freedom (or permissiveness?). Nothing better than using the ‘freedom’ term here it’s impossible to invent. Such a limp philosophy!..
Another illustration.
Suppose one man wants or rather admits a possibility of some kind of doing the good deeds - to learn from some man, to help to some people, to search information. And he faces with the contradictory facts about man/people, hears negative information, listens to advices to give up ‘these thoughts’ - and now he turns out before in front of choice: to give up his wish to do something (and to do nothing), to begin to support obstruction of that man/people, to try to find out - why is so? why is that man wrong? to try to find out the results of that man’s activity, or to try to find another man/people for his goals… So he turns out before in front of temptation: to do nothing or moreover - to do something against. Hereby the temptation is a choice to easier side, temptation is a something which makes your way curved. And if to deflect to temptations and if to be tempted then one can lose track of initial thought and good intention can be absolutely dissolved finally…
He can stay in ease with the thought that he hasn’t done something wrong (it’s not concerned to the first illustration because there man should resist to temptation - and it’s an active state) and to be… but it’s already another theme.