A Taste of the Forbidden Fruit- Chronicles of Lies, Confessions and Love: A Compilation of Readings and Poems

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Finally, it could be argued that the Forbidden Fruit Effect reflects our basic human desire for autonomy and self-expression. The Zohar: The First Ever Unabridged English Translation, with Commentary; Rabbi Michael Berg, ed., Vol. 2, pp.388-390 I could give you what you crave, take you away to my domain where you answer to no one but me. But it will not be for free my dear.”

But whether the forbidden fruit was an apple, fig, peach, pomegranate or something completely different, it is worth revisiting the temptation scene in Book 9 of Paradise Lost , both as an homage to Milton (who composed his masterpiece when he was blind, impoverished and in the doghouse for his regicidal politics) and simply to savor the sublime beauty of the language. Thomas Jefferson loved this poem. With its superfood dietary advice, celebration of the 'self-help is the best help' ideal, and presence of a snake-oil salesman, Paradise Lost is a quintessentially American story, although composed more than a century before the United States was founded. William Dudley Gray (1973). The Use of Fungi as Food and in Food Processing, Part 2. CRC Press. p.182. ISBN 0-8493-0118-1. Jerome had several options," says Appelbaum, a professor of English literature at Sweden's Uppsala University. "But he hit upon the idea of translating peri as malus, which in Latin has two very different meanings. As an adjective, malus means bad or evil. As a noun it seems to mean an apple, in our own sense of the word, coming from the very common tree now known officially as the Malus pumila. So Jerome came up with a very good pun."There’s a lot to be said for domestication. Though Henry David Thoreau insisted that he much preferred the wild apple (“of spirited flavor”) to the civilized versions found in Massachusetts orchards, even he admitted that the occasional spirited bite was “sour enough to set a squirrel’s teeth on edge and make a jay scream.” The truth is that wild apples – grown from seeds—are generally pretty awful. Several proponents of the theory that the forbidden fruit was a banana exist dating from the 13th century. But their flowery words did not do the boy Justice, just being near was enough for him to want to have him spread out on grass and mark him for all to see. How observant of you Commander-sama. I left some of Commander-sama’s semen there so that for a short time I could walk around the venue with your sperm still there”

Let his lithe fingers curl around it and felt a deep satisfaction when the little God did not flinch from it. Pretty thing, you know not what the price of your freedom will be, are you that desperate to be stolen?” Deep in the garden where fresh and delectable fruits, and the most eye catching flowers grew, hid a little God. The story doesn't end there. "To complicate things even more," says Appelbaum, "the word malus in Jerome's time, and for a long time after, could refer to any fleshy seed-bearing fruit. A pear was a kind of malus. So was the fig, the peach, and so forth."All of Wikipedia can’t fit into one handy apple. Each tiny bacterial carrier can only cope with a few thousand words—which means the whole of Wikipedia, some two and a half billion words long, may require an entire forest of apple trees. (One critic guesses 666,000 trees.) And eating such an apple, sadly, won’t make any of us more knowledgeable. Retrieving the info from apple DNA will require a DNA sequencer and some decoding software. On the other hand, this may be just as well. Most M. sieversii varieties are what apple growers refer to as “spitters”—because the common response to the first mouthful is to spit it out, fast. The key element in the passage is not the fruit itself, but the prohibition against eating it. God gave Adam and Eve only one prohibition in His instructions. Whether there was some spiritual property within the fruit is really irrelevant. The sin was in disobeying God’s command. By eating the fruit (an act of disobedience), Adam and Eve gained personal knowledge of evil. They already knew good, but now they had the contrasting experience of the evil of disobedience and the guilt and shame that came with it. Satan’s lie was that knowing good and evil would make them like gods (Genesis 3:5). In reality, they were already made in the image of God and had the blessing of His good pleasure. Ultimately, whether the Forbidden Fruit Effect is good or bad depends on the individual situation and how it is handled. This desire may also reflect our need for autonomy and self-expression. Humans have always craved the freedom to self-determine their destiny; breaking societal limits can offer an intoxicating taste of that freedom in miniature form.