Could the tree of good and evil have been the "fermented" fruit of that tree? You start out good and happy and then if you eat enough of it you get mean or you get sick and throw up

Guys ?

Love you,

sunmystic

The tree of good and evil is given to us by birth....or at least the seed.

Some of us are good of Nature
Some of us are Evil of Nature

Most of us have something in between, and I feel it stay on our EGO line.

If we are a pure EGOIST, then we in most peoples eyes are Evil, because we only have thoughts about ourselves, and what gain us, we can destroy people in order to gain something our self.

IF we are pure GOOD, then we might be almost "SAINT", where we put every others need before our own, and where we might annihilate our self for the gain of others.

I think there is very few, if any, that is on each end of the tree line

But since I don't have read the first thread...I might be far out on the field with my answer

Fermented fruit - alcohol... something that messes with your mind and makes you lose your inhibitions, something that causes you to embarrass yourself, if you use it wrong. Knowledge can do the same, especially knowledge of evil choices. It will tempt you beyond belief. That's why we should also be careful what we expose our mind to. We need to be able to judge whether it will help us prevent evil or become perverted in our thinking. So if you study black magick, but plan to be good, make sure you don't underestimate the temptation you expose yourself to. You need to be mature enough to be able to handle it without abusing it. few of us are capable of that... there's my 2 cents!

Yep...agree....it is like steeling....for many people steeling are not an issue, but if one first do it one time, the next comes easier, and the excuses for doing it comes more and more easy.....so yes....self control, and developing of ones owns self is an important task.

The further away from your superego you manage to go, the easier it will be to control thing, because your outlook become bigger, and your own narrow view might vanish, so also the need for doing evil thing...like steeling

I agree with you guys and talking about the tree of good and evil is difficult at best.

The "tree of good and evil" part of the Jewish creation myth has always been an enigma to me. I have trouble getting an understanding that correlates with everything else. On one hand it could be symbolic and on the other hand could have something to do with physical reality or even both at the same time

Most of the creation myth actually fits physics and a possible physical reality in a scientific sense. All but the "tree of good and evil." And one bite out of that friut and all of humankind is screwed for God only knows how long. And yet the whole concept of Good and Evil is a philosophical question at best .

The creative chew part of the intuitive mind threw out the possiblity that an apple fell off of the Tree of Life and fermented and Adam and Eve ate it and found it good!

And alcohol has been historically speaking behind alot of mishchief and it and other intoxicants seem to follow humankind where ever we go and usually with unpleasent side effects to society and individual people's lives.

And when Adam and Eve left the Garden they seem to have taken the "tree of good and evil" with them but not the "tree of life." Oh and evil seems to have started all over again after the "Flood" when one of Noah's sons found Noah passed out drunk in Noah's own tent with his robe open.

Anyway I just thought I would run this by you guys and see what you thought.

love,

sunmystic