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Date Posted: 23:13:04 03/08/11 Tue
Author: George
Subject: Rappacini's Daughter (Was: "Re: ain't it the truth...")
In reply to: john 's message, "Re: ain't it the truth..." on 17:29:25 03/08/11 Tue

>i will lurk here george and may drop the occassional
>post...
>
>i cannot abide liars and lois has free reign here to
>do all the lying she wants... no need for me to
>continue posting. besides, this place is quite toxic
>most of the time...
>
>john

John, I do read your posts and think about them.

Your comment on toxicity made me think of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Rapacini's Daughter." Rapacini was an alchemist or some sort of scientist who wanted to make sure that his daughter did not die of poison. (Poisoning was common during those days.) In order to make her proof against all poison he fed her a steady diet of toxins until she became immune to them.

All was well until a young man fell in love with the young lady. Since she was completely permeated with poison, there was no way that the young lovers could establish any love relationship (physical contact being involved.) So the young man managed to obtain a universal antidote to poison and administered it to her. She died.

You see, John, the girl had been fed such a steady diet of poison that the healing medicine that would have cured anyone else was deadly poison to her.

That's what I see in your reactions here, John. The CofC has so permeated your spirit and mind with the toxins of false doctrine that when you come here and see the truth on the page, it is toxic to you. Just as there was strong, true love between the man and the woman in the story, there is love between us and you here. But there can be no relationship of any sort, despite the love, because the toxic program of the CofC has made you and us polar opposites.

So if you absent yourself, John, I'll understand. I don't want you to suffer any harm from contact with the truth.

George

Rappacini! Rappacini! So this is the upshot of your experiment!

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