(July 28, 2014 at 6:49 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Alice!You’re conflating two very different things here. Understanding what death is and understanding what it feels like. I have never felt an earthquake, but I still understand what they are.
Not if you've never heard of an earthquake because one has *never happened* before.
Child's hand and the hot stove comes to mind.
Quote:Adam and Eve were perfectly capable of understanding what death was even though they had never witnessed it.
If they were indeed capable of understanding it, then they certainly did not act as though they understood it. Regardless, the language is so figurative with "the knowledge of good and evil" that one simply cannot know whether life and death count among the spectrum or not.
Perhaps an earlier translation might be more literal, but as it was written in such an underdeveloped language, it is probably anything but.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
