Men are that they might have joy.
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The Hebrew and Egyptian rites place one goal and one delight above all others, the joy in one's posterity, in patriarchal succession. Everywhere, both people give us to understand that the ultimate delight is to be in the company of one's own flesh and blood.
-Hugh Nibley, Approaching Zion, 270
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There is opposition in all things. Pleasure is the opposite of pain. Sorrow is the opposite of happiness.
What is the antithesis of joy then, if joy comes about by creating an eternal family? If doctrinally, creating a family brings happiness above any other happiness (sorry SU, it's not wine and cheese), doesn't it follow that a person who loses the same would quite possibly experience sorrow above any other sorrow?
09-02-2008, 03:25 PM
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