"I'll tell you a secret, something they don't teach you in your temple. The gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now, and we will never be here again." - Achilles
Life as a subjective view.
Question : What happens with a blind guy? If he doesn't see the beggar can he know poverty ?
Extend that to other things - If someone is in ignorance, can they be held responsible ?
And if knowledge isn't absolute but only partial and evolving, we are always semi-ignorant and hence cannot be fully responsible except to the extent of our knowledge.
Life as wave cycles.
One main wave and then others interlayed over that as possibly 1) birth circumstance 2) health mental & physical 3) inborn personality traits 4) random events
How God cannot enjoy a football match or a penalty shoot-out as he already knows the outcome.
And so, can there be any real benefit of fore-knowledge ?
Are we destined to fully realise our lives only through living ?
Achilles' view that the gods envy us because we die; there is no enjoyment in anything that lasts for eternity. Yet somehow he seeks immortality himself. The eternal paradox.
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