The betrayal of original thought. To forgive is divine.

Ready! Set! Go!

Prepare to be enlightened.

Enlightened!?

Wholly!

Hopefully…..

True or False?

”To err is human, to forgive is divine.”

Ain’t no mountain high enough, to keep who or whom from loving you?

Multiple Choice:

Alway.

Your choice.

Depends on the Book of Faces?

The interest in and of all things Pinter?

The connections of the Link-ers on this button pushing “platform”.

After all, a platform is intended to lift, Right? Like anyone who lived in the seventies knows. 👠👠👡👡Platform shoes lifted us up to new heights. We began thinking we were all that AND that we could dance like the young twenty somethings on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand, or Tony Manero on a Fever of a Saturday Night.

We, lifted up when someone likes us. Buzzed, even. They like our latest trend. We feel famous, invincible, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.

The problem?

The problemo?

Although we may feel lifted up. There is a difference between being awake and being.

Woke.

If one really drops it like it’s hot, one may realize.

Wake is present tense.

Woke is past tense.

A cocophany of innuendo and falsehood may move “it” along. In the end. It is still balderdash.

True or False.

”To err is human to forgive is divine” is a phrase in the Bible.

False.

The concept is referred to in passages in the Bible. In Matthew and Luke for example. Romans, too. But, again. It is reference to the concept.

Alexander Pope originated the phrase. Coined it, even. He wrote of forgiveness and the various ways and tentacles with which we “wish” for ponies and rainbows to lighten up and fall from the sky.

Pope wrote and his phrase in “To err is human, to forgive is divine” was published in his 1711 work “An Essay on Criticism.”

Yes. True. The idea humans are really prone to error is a biblical concept. In Romans, too, 3:23, it says, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

Matthew.

Luke.

Romans.

Ephesians, too.

Etcetera, etcetera.

Pope “attacked” the concept of forgiveness from a stalwart and different sense of duty.

A bonafide duty to one another. When chips are down, gone, too. In addition, Pope “splashed” in his wokeness phrases such as “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” 😊 And. One of my faves: “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”☺️

Was Pope writing about the spiritually critical? Those who gossip and put asunder their neighbor for their own personal gain?

Maybe.

A possibility.

Ask Luke, or Matthew or Romans.. Again.

Open to interpretation.

Humans are weak.

He. Is not. Weak.

However.

Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery…..

Pope has a thought on this point as well. He explored the concept in his An Essay on Criticism.

”Imitation of the ancients” is the ultimate standard for taste. “True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance/, As those move easiest who have learn’d to dance” (362-363)

Poets are made, not born.

And.

Do the hustle?

Perhaps, ya better start💃🕺🏻👯👯‍♀️👯‍♂️🪩🩰? ….dancing like there is no tomorrow. Hint: Tony Manero did. He became a sort of societal icon. The songs he danced to live on even today. As do his platforms.👠👢Shoes.

Pope’s life was cut short by tuberculosis and ended in his50’s. Not before, however, he explored the role of man, human man and his relationship with wishes and rainbows and ponies falling from the sky.

Pope believed man learned about nature and God’s creation through science.

Hmmmmmm.

Huh?

What might this mean?

Pope was a believer in optimist philosophy. In The “Great Chain of Being.”

Hmmmmmm.

Huh?

What might this mean?

Like. Wow Man. What time IS it?

Time to hop on the God chain.

Time to join a club? Any club.

If one chooses to and is or was or were subscribing to the Pope way of critical thinking. It bears repeating,

”Pope believed in the existence of a God who had created, and who presided over, a physical Universe which functioned like a vast clockwork mechanism.” (wk)

As in: What time IS it?

🕕⏰🕦🕚🕐🕰️🕥🕧⏱️🕣🕠🕝

”Human beings cannot come to fully understand their purpose in like by using only their mental faculties.. Although humanity is at the top of the fixed hierarchy of the natural world, there are many things we cannot know, and so we must not attempt to be godlike.”(wk)

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I get it.

Do you?

Do you want to?

Do you aspire to?

At the very least.

Do YOU know what time it is?

Maybe. Maybe not.

Interpretation, too, can be the sincerest form of flattery. Just ask the linkers, pinters and the bookers of all things face. It sadly, should or could be worth noting:

We reap what we sow.

Sooooooooooo.

What kind of soil are YOU?

Hard of heart soil?

A DIY kinda guy?

Enlighted-focused?

Woke?

A-Wake?

Ready to set the tone and go with a prosperous, fertile way,

A New Day!

Changes made from within most often are the most difficult.

Stubborners beware.

It takes a commitment like nothing you may ever know.

However.

I for one.

Wish this knowledge of duty on and of you.

Bonafide duty.

Uncompromising duty.

For you.

To awake when you notice the changing tide.And. Not after.

Why?

It may be to late.

To the party.

To the whatever.

Pope explored our human condition and our imperfections in the hope of a better world. A better life. We are stronger when we work together.

However the slackers weight down the progress when they do not do the hard work.

You ask?

What work?

What kind of work?

The hard work?

The hardest work of commitment in an uncommitted world.(hdc)

Having a hard heart causes humans to NOT understand. Always thinking we are right and the other is wrong. Until the proof is in the pudding, eaten by gumming the heck out of the point until there may be no more teeth.

No. More. Teeth.

The bump.

The grind.

Killed it all long ago.

How? Do you attack your own troubles?

How? Do you attack your own temptations?

How? Do you attack your own weaknesses?

Blame the other guy?

Nope.

Not on His watch.

And if and when and should you decide wholeheartedly to devote your life to Him.

Buckle up.

Overtime, Pope surmised, although he may not have been surprised human weakness, to be counter productive in a world of such great and grant possibilities. Pope got the hint: Humans are, were and can be weak. Pope, exploring the realm of and at times relying on science to form his critical thinking, seemed to come to the understanding and to understand……

God sent His son, Jesus to proclaim that the knowledge of truth.

It is up to we as humans to keep our tempers and temptations in check.