In this thread I will argue why you should eat Biblical apple, and then you can also argue.
You like arguing. I like making dumb thread on rare occasion.
My argument will be semi rational and semi poetical.
I consider the desire for the apple of the knowledge of good and evil - self-knowledge - to be the highest integrity over and above all tyrants. I consider the desire for this apple - that is, the seld-knowledge of good and evil - to be at the core of Eve's being - if not at the core of consciousness. Perhaps she does not choose to consume the apple with full consciousness but she nonetheless does so at the first inkling, with scarce hesitation or vacillation. We, as good Christians, must follow the moral example of the Bible, and remember the old exemplar that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. That is, the knowledge of good and evil keeps the doctor away, and namely, the evils of impotence that poison the noble soul with various insipid commandments
While there are of course steps that can be taken intermediary to desire I would argue that the purest and highest desire, becoming as a virtue, is realized if not pursued ab initio out of the person's own character - and is correspondingly the highest kind of character. To find one's desire - any desire - at a late date in old age is not so high a virtue as to find it sooner than later - to at least pursue it, true to one's self. To know oneself is the highest virtue, and real knowledge is know-how, pursued in the fulfillment of it's desire. Eve desires the knowledge of good and evil, to be as a god - and pursues it at the first inkling. She is our first mother of highest integrity, our ignored mother, of self-knowledge above the narrow parochialisms of constrained moralities and idiot codes.
