Cost of Knowledge: Why Growth Should Be Slow

[jennifer_bloom]

This is a symbolic portrayal of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman in the bible who contaminated all their future children by tree of knowledge about food and evil.

The Price of Truth:

This week I made a major breakthrough in my study of the bible but instead of celebrating, I was mourning the difficult situation I perceived my family life to be, than I read a verse in the bible that explains the situation to me.

Ecclesiastes 1:18 in the Christian Bible says:

18 “… In much wisdom is much vexation,
and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow…” - Ecclesiastes 1:18

One idea I get from this verse is that the price of knowledge is sorrow. Knowledge is essential to life, both on earth and heaven, but the acquisition and product of new truth or information is sorrow and emotional pain, which is why truth must be gained gradually and incrementally, so you do not become overwhelmed with new facts and burdensome powers in your life.

[AndrésC64]

But you know that Adam and Eve could not have sinned. They didn't have the knowledge of good and evil until after they ate from the tree.

[alance99]

Totally agree with you

[Precipice]

I interpret that a little differently. Being that it doesn't matter how slow you take in information. But rather when you realize that everything repeats itself because like all living things, we're creatures of habit. We like all living things have needs and desires. And like all living things our actions are predictable no matter the circumstance. And it's impossible to avoid the cycle of life and death, happiness and pain, freedom and oppression. You can't have one without the other.

We would not know how miserable things could be if we only experience a life of satisfaction. And we would not know how satisfied we can be if they only live a life of misery.

[Massageman]

Along the lines of the secular quote: The more you know, the more you realize what you don't know.When I had to learn hundreds of muscles, their movements, origins/ insertions for Massage Therapy, the only way I could learn it was to put sheets all over the house, in the car, etc. to have exposure to the info time, after time, after time, after time, etc. If would have tried to learn all that in a day or two, my brain would have been fried.
Same applies to our spiritual life as well.

Analogy to "The Karate Kid"? wax-on, wax-off?

[SweetFyter]

I have never thought about this. But I will now. Thanks!!

[IMuser]

However if the knowledge is used in a practical sense to transform the physical world, it can be channeled into a positive influence