Human Nature--Two Scenarios
from PGIMF Worship Services Hosted by Paul Thiessen
On January 30, 2022, Paul Thiessen spoke on two different scenarios that portray human nature, each of which follows a group of marooned boys. One is a novel that debuted in 1954 called Lord of the Flies, where a group of British boys stranded on an island descend into a state of depravity and violence. The other is a true story from 1966 following a failed maritime joyride of six bored teenage boys of the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga. These boys, in spite of also being stranded on an island and with little hope of being rescued, were able to survive by cooperating and creating a system for handling disputes. The later story paints an optimistic view of human nature that it might not be as dark as we often believe.
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