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curious and don't investigate into the world to test the gods. It is
is, and try to change it or figure out what or why something happens
to be how it is.
Have you ever heard the phrase, "Curiosity killed the cat"? If
curiosity got the better of her and she opened the lid on that box, she
we have death in the world, and your fluffy cat will eventually push
about exercising a restraint over your curiosity. After all, who wants to
And who would want Zeus sending things to eat your internal organs?
Not me, I'd imagine. If you could prevent horrible things and keep all
your body parts in their rightful place by not being curious, why
have hope even with all the terrible things in life. If Pandora had shut
the box before hope came out, what would've happened? The Greeks
maybe thought that without all the horrible things, there couldn't have
not bothering to do anything because they can't hope that it'll turn out
well. So looking back, maybe it was a good thing Pandora opened that
box.
Adam and Eve: Adam and Eve is the story in the bible of how evil got
into the world. God made man, Adam, to live in the Garden of Eden,
his choice of companion, but none fit. So God took a rib from Adam
and made woman-- Eve. They were warned never to eat of The Tree
until Eve was tempted by the serpent into eating the fruit that they had
been forbidden to eat. By eating the fruit, they committed the first sin
and were banished from the garden. Outside the garden, they were
forced to endure pain, work for their food, and there was suffering and
death.
the world. Prometheus had made mankind, and given them fire, the
told her never to open it. They lived happily, until Pandora grew
curious. She opened the box, and out flew all the bad things in life;
pain, suffering, hatred, and all bad things. However, one good thing