If I had a decent shovel, I'd still know it would be pointless to dig a hole to China. The world is just too big, too hard, and I won't live long enough to break through all of it. Also, how is it really a healthy act to dig a hole you can never get out of? Sometimes it seems I try testing myself and turn away just before the event horizon. What is with the paradox of wanting to stay away from danger while also being attracted to it?
Perhaps the lesson we're supposed to learn from the fate of Lot's wife was that we shouldn't play with matches. Then again Lot seemed like a pretty horrible person offering his daughters to those awful men. His wife could have just been sick of it all. Everything was being destroyed, all her friends, her life, her home were to be no more. No where does is it indicate her desire to continue living. That may have been as far as her abilities were willing to take her.
She couldn't change as drastically as was required by her immediate situation. There were no support groups or antidepressant medications. Confiding in her husband just seemed out of the question after what he pulled with the angels back in the city with the mob. Then again I'm projecting my modern-day rationale on a woman from a time and place much different from my own. From what I understand about history, she would have had an understanding of what her limitations in her life were and weren't.
Or it was just a case where she should have listened to the warning, and instead curiosity killed the cat. Unsolicited advice is always difficult to take, especially if she had some degree of narcissism. Don't forget, it wasn't until the angels came into the picture that her life went upside-down. There may have been already a bit of resentment.
Now that I'm thinking of it, if she was more aware of her life and her surroundings I'd think she would have moved out of that horrible place long ago. Considering how bad the crime rate was there due to the corruption and lack of oversight of the city's law enforcement, I would never imagine raising my kids there. Her life must have consisted of quite a few bad decisions. The final one she made may have turned out to be the best one for her!
If someone is picking on a paraplegic in a wheelchair, it's definitely insensitive to tell them to "stand up" for themselves.
Intelligence is a double-edged sword. We can build technology to solve our problems, which is an unfair advantage over nature. So then we're eventually left in a vast, empty abyss. A void. If a cat could figure out how to be an intelligent capitalist and employ others to gather up mice in large quantities, what then is left? If God was in a call center waiting patiently on the phone as a customer service representative for you to explain your problems then swiftly fix all of them in a timely manner, eventually the process would grow tiresome. If I have a problem I "Google" it and almost immediately get the answer. God's smarter than you thought, because he put Google in place to do those menial tasks.
Now hopefully with the extra time he'll finally get started on his next book. I'm fucking eager to read it.
- Ether
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