So, I had this thought as we talked about Ulysses(Odysseus), "Curiosity killed the Achaean." At first we find good ole Odysseus searching again, searching for something beyond what humans should know. He says he is searching for the cause of human vices, but like Dr. Mitchell questioned, "Where the best place to learn about men?" Answer is from living among mankind, not secluding yourself out on the sea. So curiosity was not really his crime, was it? His thirst for special knowledge, which was really a thirst for power was a crime. His deceptive tongue which doomed his crew was a crime. His audacity to think that He could challenge God's boundaries was also a crime. He committed sins greater than incontinence, greater than just violence, and even greater than fraud. These combined sins together is one we reason we find him placed so deep in Hell, yet not in the deepest pit.
This whole story of Ulysses reminds me of a scene from Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, where at the end the Soviet Lady says "I want to know! I want to know everything" and ends up having herself literally exploded from 'knowledge'. There are some things humans minds are not permitted, because they can not understand it.
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