Tim Mackie
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to know what abstract goodness is.
But when someone named Jesus of Nazareth comes and like treats lepers and widows, right?
And tax collectors and prostitutes the way he did, you're like, that's goodness.
And it's not abstract goodness.
It's like...
That's goodness in concrete form.
And that's what I want.
Yeah.
Sorry, you just... No, this is great.
It was a great little mental exercise.
Yeah.
Totally.
Yeah.
All right.
But let's just play out how many of the other nine commandments would be addressed if I took it as a challenge to really begin to reshape what I desire.
Would lying, stealing, violent seizure, adultery,
Would those things decrease in average if people were to become more grateful for the things that God has given them and to realize that my neighbor's things actually will never fulfill my deepest desires?
They won't.
They simply won't.
So stop setting my attention on them and playing the little fantasies.