Tarzan will tell them about the treasure he found right after he settles Jane’s credit card bill in Zanzagrad, or whereever it it was she was shopping.
The thing about nobility is that it can come after repenting of one’s ignobility – which is exactly how the story is running here.Remember that his brand of nobility was being undermined by a certain, shall we say, politics-driven mythology and in time he got disillusioned about that. After being so, he began to see the open cruelty of those who still bought into the myth for what that cruelty was and his own part in the myth haunted him accordingly.When he had a chance to rectify that part he took it, and got more than he expected.The thing about all of us human beings is that we are at best a mixture of good and evil. There aren’t two kinds of normal human beings, those who are tempted by evil and those who aren’t. There are only those who resist their temptations to evil and those who don’t. That choice, not some imagined inherent purity in ourselves, marks the difference between nobility and ignobility.I do find that one of the biggest stumbling blocks we have as human beings is the naive and sometimes arrogant assumptions that we’re inherently good. A worse one is that we have the inherent ability to decide between good and evil. Neither is true. And people wonder why human history has been such a mess…
But at least we have the inherent ability to figure out when we’ve been hitting the gym wall at the School of Hard Knocks (school colors: black and blue) with our foreheads long enough. When you run head-on into universal moral law long enough, usually you can figure out it’s there.
Polsixe about 11 years ago
Yes, wonder how many soldiers were tormented by their actions against the locals, whatever side they were on, and a need to make things right.
panelhead about 11 years ago
Okay,I recant. Kurt seems to have a soul after all.
ossiningaling about 11 years ago
How bored is Tarzan?
marvee about 11 years ago
Who the war criminals are depends on who wins. Leaders are the ones tried because they are the most to blame.
alleyoops Premium Member about 11 years ago
Curt was rewarded for his good deed by Fatima, or Jeanne, or whatever her name is.
Rakkav about 11 years ago
Whatever else one might say about this plot, I’m beginning to love this part of it. (Anybody NOT see it coming? :::grin::: )
jmcx4 about 11 years ago
Tarzan will tell them about the treasure he found right after he settles Jane’s credit card bill in Zanzagrad, or whereever it it was she was shopping.
Rakkav about 11 years ago
The thing about nobility is that it can come after repenting of one’s ignobility – which is exactly how the story is running here.Remember that his brand of nobility was being undermined by a certain, shall we say, politics-driven mythology and in time he got disillusioned about that. After being so, he began to see the open cruelty of those who still bought into the myth for what that cruelty was and his own part in the myth haunted him accordingly.When he had a chance to rectify that part he took it, and got more than he expected.The thing about all of us human beings is that we are at best a mixture of good and evil. There aren’t two kinds of normal human beings, those who are tempted by evil and those who aren’t. There are only those who resist their temptations to evil and those who don’t. That choice, not some imagined inherent purity in ourselves, marks the difference between nobility and ignobility.I do find that one of the biggest stumbling blocks we have as human beings is the naive and sometimes arrogant assumptions that we’re inherently good. A worse one is that we have the inherent ability to decide between good and evil. Neither is true. And people wonder why human history has been such a mess…
Rakkav about 11 years ago
But at least we have the inherent ability to figure out when we’ve been hitting the gym wall at the School of Hard Knocks (school colors: black and blue) with our foreheads long enough. When you run head-on into universal moral law long enough, usually you can figure out it’s there.
quartermain about 11 years ago
The story seems to have brought out the philosophy of the thinkers among us.