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!!
Honestly, I think the whole concept of purity is ridiculous.
We are all 100% pure human.
Except if you have prosthetics. Then you’re man and machine
Cyborg?
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.
If you think you’re pure, you definitely aren’t.
Then again, if you’re striving for it, you’re probably doing better than most
Striving for purity is a fools errand. Striving to be better than you were before? That could work.
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.
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.
Purity is the choice of a disciplined, mature, knowing mind and heart. It is not a thing the young can do. Even so, you are the inheritor of your past actions. Even if you choose purity and blamelessness, some will never forgive your past actions. Trust that the wise will see your pure heart.
Purity is a bullshit concept. You can’t be good without understanding what that is. Doing bad things is one way to figure that out, and yeah you can be good after doing harm, particularly if you face the harm you’ve done and work to fix it and not repeat it.
To be imperfect is to be human.
To err is human. As long as you are capable of genuine remorse, you’re as “pure” as possible.
I am going to need you to define what it means to you to be “pure of heart”.
There is a decent chance that you will find an answer to your question by doing this.
I was never pure of heart.
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.
