One time too many,i have asked myself,"why do people act the way they do?"am not trying to reincarnate the book by Tim Lahaye,really am not,i have never fully read that book ,but ofcourse have flipped through the pages a couple of time, out of curiousity of what really is in the book. Tim lahaye wrote so much stuff which eventually from the world point of view did justice to the question, but from my point of view, it brought to my mind more questions(maybe cos i never really finished or even started the book).
To me he(Tim Lahaye) brought so much vocabulary and terminology i needed to cram just to understand how people behave.That itself is more complex than the problem that the book is trying to solve. That doesnt still mean the book isnt great,ofcourse it is!it sold over a million copies!
Truth is, i want a quick answer like, people act the way they do because ........., if you cant explain something to a seven year old, then you probably dont know what you are talking about.
A story was told of a man trying to save a drowning scorpion, the scorpion was drowning and each time the man reached out his hand to rescue the scorpion it stings the man, yet the man kept on trying to save the scorpion and the scorpion kept on stinging the man.
Someone watching nearby amused, said to the man "why are you hurting yourself,stop trying to save what continually hurts u", then the man said,it's the nature of the scorpion to sting,and it is my nature to save! This man obviously understands that despite the stinging from the scorpion this scorpion actually meant no harm,it is just responding the way it should when it feels danger around,though this man is not trying to hurt the scorpion,but how do you explain that to a poor scorpion. It's simply its nature!
But understanding the way people behave comes with a very heavy price,which is one becoming judgemental! If you are not GAY, you will never understand what gays see that get them attracted to same sex!
The world is now so civilized that a stone can be sold as a Gem, if the seller can explain his/her way out,i mean the world is now so civilized that one can explain away morals successfully.
Human ability to learn fast is also one of our greatest disadvantage,we learn so fast that we outlearn things,we go too deep that we imagine and think the unimaginable.
Human nature is learning,learning leads to development of human mind,the mind determines who you become.Imagine someone reading or following Karl Marx hmmm...........
Bottom line,human nature is intelligent, diverse and unexplainable, but not impossible to understand!
