Friday, September 18, 2009

The Origins of Addictions


Substance abuse has been doing it’s rounds ever since just after Adam ate the apple. The apple grew on the Tree of Knowledge of Good or Evil; BUT that tree must have grown more than just the one fruit. Of that I’m pretty sure, and the law of probability will support me.
If there is fruit, there must to be wine, and once Adam got to know the ways of the evil, it would have taken him half a second to figure that out. Imagine – the aroma of rotting apple, on a deserted planet with only Eve for company; would be enough to drive anybody to drink.
Here is a fact to help establish my premise – in Latin "malum", as an adjective means evil, but as a noun means apple.
I haven’t given much thought to the origins of other forms of substance abuse but I shall be happy to be enlightened.

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