photo: meetupTemptation; conflict between duty (moral law) and personal inclination (desires)
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***Please arrive at 6:45pm to order your drinks/food so that we can start the event at 7pm with minimum interruption. Thank you.*** **"A**ll terrain erodes, including even the steepest slopes, and those of words do not escape this law of time. By dint of passing from one mouth to another (and from one generation to the next), some words are so old and oafish that they end up becoming nothing more than harmless pebbles, completely smooth and round, bland little gossip balls eventually. Such is the pitiful fate of the biblical word “temptation” in today’s usage: “Let yourself be tempted,” we say when offering another helping of a dish or when suggesting a pleasant outing. The extremely vague association of this pleasure with the transgression of duty, as if coming somehow from a past life or a lost underwater civilization, alone gives the word what remains of its spice." In our world of market society, consumerism and "greed is good", we have trivialized the word temptation as Jean-Lou
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