My friend and I were discussing (some might say arguing) the other day about links she threatened to send me. It all goes back a few years ago when she sent me a link to some comics and said, "By the way, don't read the first one on that page. It is the most disturbing thing I've ever read." Well, of course, I immediately wanted to know what would could possibly be that bad. So I read it. And, quite predictably, I responded with, "GAH!!!! How could you possibly send me that?!?!?" To which my friend said, "I told you not to read that." Which, I was forced to concede, was true.
Anyways, so when my friend says the other day that she found another link in the same forum that that link had come from, I automatically responded with "NO! Don't EVEN send me anything like that again." And she tried to convince me that a) it wasn't anything that bad and b) it was my fault for looking at it the first time. So I brought up the story of Eve from Genesis to explain why it was HER fault because she told me not to read it, so of course I had to read it. I was all like, see, you are like the serpent tempting me with this apple that I'm not supposed to eat by telling me all the reasons I shouldn't. And she pointed out that actually God was the one who told Eve she shouldn't eat the apple from the Tree of Knowledge. Which of course lead to her conclusion: "I'm like f***ing God in that story." (A dangerous concept all on it's own and the whole reason that I had to write this post. Because I had to use that as a title.) And I am unable to resist my curiousity. But I learned my lesson. If my friend says something is disturbing, I now trust her on it. Never again will I question what could possibly be that bad. So history may repeat itself, but hopefully we learn something at least from our own.
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