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Originally Posted by lotsofmagnets
wouldn´t it be boring if you found the perfect person? no difference of opinion, always doing exactly what you want all the time. i think parallels can be drawn to a thread i think in philosophy about free choice in heaven.
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Yes. It would be absolutely boring. An interview I read from back in college (by Stanley Hauerwas, theology prof at Duke, if I remember correctly) had a quote that went something like this...
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Originally Posted by Hauerwas
It is a horrible thing to get what you want in life. It is a horrible thing to get what you want. It’s like, what happened if you really married the “right” person, or had the “right” children? I mean, how would you ever know what life is like, and should be like? .... some of the most frightening and terrorizing words/phrases in the English language for me is, “If you always have a happy marriage,” that just tells me that someone lost early! I mean, what it does is suggest that marriage is a consensual relationship that is constantly being renegotiated for the self-fulfillment of both people, that they can’t stand to have conflicts which might threaten the marriage.
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And think not you can direct the course of Love;
for Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
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Last edited by abaya; 09-05-2008 at 05:00 AM..
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