Admitting You're a Sinner

[The Grand Nudger]

In the larger view, it's hard to say that people weren't at least trying to express some notion of the greater good - or simple harm avoidance.  They may have made mistakes..confusing conformity with decency, for example...but for the majority of our time on this planet we've had no means of transmitting knowledge other than by word of mouth and memory, and so mistakes like that are relatable.  What does it mean to be good?  It means to be like Bob.  OFC, when a person tells you that, they may remember bob differently than you..and so you walk away thinking "being good is to have bushy eyebrows" when..in point of fact, being like bob was meant to be taken as being generous.  When you tell the story to your grandchildren they won;t know who or wtf a bob is, and so it -becomes- a story about bushy eyebrows.  4k years later...half of the people are glueing on fluff and the other half are shaving and before you know it everyone is killing each other.  It only sounds silly until we remember how many people have died over ghost stories.  

How many people could accurately tell me the story of green eggs and ham even if they did read the original? Why is blasphemy sinful? Maybe bobs last words were "goddamit!". Long story short, you don't tempt the gods no matter how bushy your brows.