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Merhaba arkadaşlar bu metni kendimce çevirmeye çalıştım ama siz yardımcı olur musunuz? Çok zor geldi ya
In the Greek New Testament the word used for sin is a term from archeryhamartaneinmeaning to miss the mark. We aim to do the right thing, gain a positive end, even if its only some sort of pleasure, but our arrow veers off and instead of the bulls eye we hit someone in the field beyond. In other words, our mistakes are usually misdirected attempts at the good rather than intentional pursuit of the bad. But there is one exception to this positive understanding of sin: envy.
Every other sin offers some gratification, if only in its early stages, but envy is an empty and desolating experience from beginning to end. It is the meanest sin in the book, which is why few people ever own up to it. François de La Rochefoucauld captured its joyless secrecy in 1665: We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shame-faced passion we never dare acknowledge. Virginia Woolf thought it was the besetting sin of writers, and Gore Vidal agreed with her. Whenever a friend succeeded, he wrote, a little something in him died; for him it was not enough to succeedothers had to fail. Vidals spleen captures both aspects of envy: sorrow at anothers good and satisfaction at anothers misfortune, what the Germans call Schadenfreude, shame-joy, pleasure in the distress of others.
The most obvious symptom of envy is malice. However witty and entertaining you may find their skilful dismembering of the reputations of others, you can be certain that the malicious person is being eaten alive with envy at anothers success or celebrity. Behind many a bitchy comment there lurks a troubled and dissatisfied heart.
And since envy is a sin between friends or equals, another of its symptoms is hypocrisy, acting pleasure in anothers good fortune when you actually feel gut-clenching pain. It shows in the tightness of your smile and the shadow behind your eyes as you dredge up your congratulations from a well of bitterness.
Is there any remedy for this nasty little sin? There are two steps we can take to get it under control. The first is to acknowledge its presence and admit our own meanness of spirit. The other step is to recapture our capacity for sharing the joy of others. It is not what John Donne said, of course, but it is nevertheless true that anothers good also increases meso rejoice!
In the Greek New Testament the word used for sin is a term from archeryhamartaneinmeaning to miss the mark. We aim to do the right thing, gain a positive end, even if its only some sort of pleasure, but our arrow veers off and instead of the bulls eye we hit someone in the field beyond. In other words, our mistakes are usually misdirected attempts at the good rather than intentional pursuit of the bad. But there is one exception to this positive understanding of sin: envy.
Every other sin offers some gratification, if only in its early stages, but envy is an empty and desolating experience from beginning to end. It is the meanest sin in the book, which is why few people ever own up to it. François de La Rochefoucauld captured its joyless secrecy in 1665: We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shame-faced passion we never dare acknowledge. Virginia Woolf thought it was the besetting sin of writers, and Gore Vidal agreed with her. Whenever a friend succeeded, he wrote, a little something in him died; for him it was not enough to succeedothers had to fail. Vidals spleen captures both aspects of envy: sorrow at anothers good and satisfaction at anothers misfortune, what the Germans call Schadenfreude, shame-joy, pleasure in the distress of others.
The most obvious symptom of envy is malice. However witty and entertaining you may find their skilful dismembering of the reputations of others, you can be certain that the malicious person is being eaten alive with envy at anothers success or celebrity. Behind many a bitchy comment there lurks a troubled and dissatisfied heart.
And since envy is a sin between friends or equals, another of its symptoms is hypocrisy, acting pleasure in anothers good fortune when you actually feel gut-clenching pain. It shows in the tightness of your smile and the shadow behind your eyes as you dredge up your congratulations from a well of bitterness.
Is there any remedy for this nasty little sin? There are two steps we can take to get it under control. The first is to acknowledge its presence and admit our own meanness of spirit. The other step is to recapture our capacity for sharing the joy of others. It is not what John Donne said, of course, but it is nevertheless true that anothers good also increases meso rejoice!