Comments on: Spitzer’s Cheating Heart. Or Hormonal Brain. Or Misunderstood Situation. http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/03/spitzers_cheati.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:22:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Jonathan http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/03/spitzers_cheati.html/comment-page-1#comment-49899 Jonathan Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:48:05 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/03/spitzers-cheating-heart-or-hormonal-brain-or-misunderstood-situation.html#comment-49899 In Book 8 of his <i>Confessions</i>, St. Augustine noted this about his own concupiscence: <i>I was bound not by an iron imposed by anyone else but by the iron of my own choice. The enemy had a grip on my will and so made a chain for me to hold me a prisoner. The consequence of a distorted will is passion. By servitude to passion, habit is formed, and habit to which there is no resistance becomes a compulsion. By these links, as it were, connected one to another (hence my term a chain), a harsh bondage held me under restraint.</i> -Jonathan In Book 8 of his Confessions, St. Augustine noted this about his own concupiscence:

I was bound not by an iron imposed by anyone else but by the iron of my own choice. The enemy had a grip on my will and so made a chain for me to hold me a prisoner. The consequence of a distorted will is passion. By servitude to passion, habit is formed, and habit to which there is no resistance becomes a compulsion. By these links, as it were, connected one to another (hence my term a chain), a harsh bondage held me under restraint.

-Jonathan

]]> By: Frank http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/03/spitzers_cheati.html/comment-page-1#comment-49898 Frank Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:24:35 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/03/spitzers-cheating-heart-or-hormonal-brain-or-misunderstood-situation.html#comment-49898 These lines of thought sometimes worry me; "to explain all is to forgive all"? These lines of thought sometimes worry me; “to explain all is to forgive all”?

]]> By: sharon http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/03/spitzers_cheati.html/comment-page-1#comment-49897 sharon Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:40:53 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/03/spitzers-cheating-heart-or-hormonal-brain-or-misunderstood-situation.html#comment-49897 I counter your Hank Williams with Tanya Tucker's "Stand By Your Man", which still continues to be the mantra for women, as they must behave in the "appropriate" way before the public, no matter how humiliating, when their "men" have cheated. I counter your Hank Williams with Tanya Tucker’s “Stand By Your Man”, which still continues to be the mantra for women, as they must behave in the “appropriate” way before the public, no matter how humiliating, when their “men” have cheated.

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