When do I see the innocence of childhood?
When do I see the innocence of childhood?
Like St Augustine on the subject of Time, ‘If you do not ask me what time is, I know it; if you ask me, I do not know.’ When I watch my youngest daughter, Louise, playing for an hour with Sylvanian families, singing to herself, I know I see it. When I watch my 10-year-old, Eva, dancing as if no one is watching, I know I am also seeing it.
Is it true that you are innocent until proven guilty?
Every ounce of your understanding of the law tells you that you are Innocent until proven guilty. When you went to court the first time, and every time after that, you found that just wasn’t true. You are GUILTY until proven innocent. They use tricks and threats to make you plead guilty.
Why is the innocence of childhood so heartbreaking?
Innocence is not merely lovely, it is heartbreaking because it represents Housman’s “blue remember’d hills” … the “happy highways where I went/and cannot come again”. The gap between innocence and experience is endlessly explored, like a gap in a tooth, by artists and writers.
Like St Augustine on the subject of Time, ‘If you do not ask me what time is, I know it; if you ask me, I do not know.’ When I watch my youngest daughter, Louise, playing for an hour with Sylvanian families, singing to herself, I know I see it. When I watch my 10-year-old, Eva, dancing as if no one is watching, I know I am also seeing it.
Why do people believe children are innocent and pure?
This is more prominent in latin countries, were they believed are immune to evil, they protected kids more of fear of their own sin. You can go to hell if expose a kid to something impure. In Victorian age had the fear that the child and adult go to hell. Also kids died much more easily in old times and people feared that they could go to hell.
Every ounce of your understanding of the law tells you that you are Innocent until proven guilty. When you went to court the first time, and every time after that, you found that just wasn’t true. You are GUILTY until proven innocent. They use tricks and threats to make you plead guilty.
Innocence is not merely lovely, it is heartbreaking because it represents Housman’s “blue remember’d hills” … the “happy highways where I went/and cannot come again”. The gap between innocence and experience is endlessly explored, like a gap in a tooth, by artists and writers.