i know that once you do bad things in the world you aren’t considered pure or innocent anymore, but well maybe you aren’t innocent but you can be pure?? if you did bad things can you be pure again?? this is not about religion but rather the truth of being a person yea!!
This is all assuming a human could be pure from the very beginning. I’d say no.
However, I do think you can learn from your mistakes and redeem yourself, to yourself.
“The Good Place” suggested that what you have done is less important than what you are currently doing to improve as a person.
You may never erase the your moral failings from the past, but as long as you are still trying to be better, that’s what matters.
What a good show. Funny thing is OP might both enjoy ane learn from it based on where they are.
Purity is a human construct. Purity doesn’t exist.
What you can do… What you can effect… Is to always improve, always learn, and always grow.
Press forward in goodness and wholeness. Let that be purity enough.
There is no pureness of heart so-to-speak. The whole point is we’re creatures with gradient circumstances. Life just has too many moving parts for the idea of perfection many of us have, as any watcher of the show Wander Over Yonder will tell you.
To be imperfect is to be human.
I believe so. Purity of heart is cultivating authentic “goodness.” That is, doing the “right thing” for the sake of the thing, not for reward or recognition, although that may be a by-product. Not necessarily “right” by social standards, while also recognizing that what is right for you may not be, for someone else. I noticed you said later you hold a Christian perspective. Jesus said the well don’t need doctors. He was a champion of the poor, outcast, and women. He forgave what temple authority wouldn’t. He interceded for his murderers. I would also refer you to the 51 Psalm.
What you want to be is “good”. Purity is a weird concept mostly used by people who want to get rid of other people.
Yes, you can be good after being bad. It’s a hard struggle though, because you have to alter the parts of yourself that generated the bad behavior.
If you think you’re pure, you definitely aren’t.
Everyone is an asshole. It’s about how big of an asshole you are or can be.
You’re irredeemably an asshole once you’ve assaulted someone, have had a very lengthy criminal history, raped someone, sexually abused someone, abused children, abused any positions of power, murdered someone and any other heinous criminal activity I’ve not listed.
There’s just simply a point of no going back.
Yes, often people need to learn through pain how to be a good person. It can be someone who bullied others in school and later realized how much pain they caused and feel severely ashamed by it.
I don’t know about the concept of pure, I don’t think in those terms myself. But we should aspire to make a positive difference in this world. Every time you meet a person, you affect how he or she feels.
you can be pure of heart and be an absolutely evil wretched being, so long as you’re purely evil and wretched. Really commit to it.
I don’t believe there is such a thing as pure of heart. Naivety and ignorance sure, but no such thing as pure of heart.
And it is about religion as my religion rejects the Christian moral concept of purity.
I was never pure of heart.
