For a very long time I have had a memo on various notebooks that it would be interesting to look to the story of David in light of and Icelandic saying: “Vald spillir, algj\u00f6rt vald gj\u00f6rspillir”, or absolute power leads to absolute corruption. It is something about a young and beautiful boy playing a harp, turning into a monster that is interestingly exciting.<\/p>\n
However, I have been attending Bible Study at Redeemer Lutheran, were the teacher, a former professor in OT, seems to think that perhaps David always was a spoiled brat. He uses the phrase “a teflon politician”. You can throw anything at him, nothing sticks.<\/p>\n
I wonder whether that is more helpful, than my thoughts of the good and innocent turning bad, probably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For a very long time I have had a memo on various notebooks that it would be interesting to look to the story of David in light of and Icelandic saying: “Vald spillir, algj\u00f6rt vald gj\u00f6rspillir”, or absolute power leads to absolute corruption. It is something about a young and beautiful boy playing a harp, … Continue reading David and the evil nature of Power<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39,97,147],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-crap","tag-leadership","tag-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}