Secrecy's deconstruction of the Heart by Daniel Moser https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si Made with much anguish en-us 2020-11-10 19:20:15 UTC 2023-02-08 06:30:07 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f643.png In chapter 11, page 137, You see how Dimmsdales' secret of his adultery has physically hurt him and marked him. danielmoser https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/910946751 "For, as it was impossible to assign a reason for such distrust and abhorrence, so Mr. Dimmesdale, conscious that the poison of one morbid spot was infecting his heart’s entire substance, attributed all his presentiments to no other cause."]]> 2020-11-10 23:31:41 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/910946751 Still, in chapter 11, page 137, as Dimmesdale is struggling with guilt from his secret he has still claimed a position of respect in his church and is preaching as someone who has all the answers due to his great intelligence. danielmoser https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/910969358 "While thus suffering under bodily disease, and gnawed and tortured by some black trouble of the soul, and given over to the machinations of his deadliest enemy, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale had achieved a brilliant popularity in his sacred office. He won it, indeed, in great part, by his sorrows. His intellectual gifts, his moral perceptions, his power of experiencing and communicating emotion, were kept in a state of preternatural activity by the prick and anguish of his daily life."]]> 2020-11-10 23:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/910969358 In chapter 11, page 139, Dimmesdale feels his secret tearing through his soul and he sees himself as not worthy of having grass grow over his grave. danielmoser https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/910982195 When poor Mr. Dimmesdale was thinking of his grave, he questioned with himself whether the grass would ever grow on it, because an accursed thing must there be buried!]]> 2020-11-10 23:52:32 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/910982195 Chapter 11, page 140, Dimmesdale confesses on the pulpit but the congregation does not see the severity of his words danielmoser https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/910990336 2020-11-10 23:57:37 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/910990336 What the Bible says danielmoser https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/911017623 In the book of acts chapter 2, verse 38 Peter says to the group 
"Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." When Peter says to repent he means to tell all of your sins the small ones maybe not specifically but you do this to get the guilt out of your heart so that you can be forgiven by God, if people don't forgive you that's ok because it is better to be judged by man than to be judged by God.

]]> 2020-11-11 00:13:40 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/911017623 danielmoser https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/914825838 2020-11-12 01:54:49 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/914825838 The effects of secrecy in other literature danielmoser https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/914839805 In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (fitting isn't it), Ginny Weasley is possessed by Tom Riddle(Voldemort) to do his will.
"I d-didn't know," sobbed Ginny. " I found it inside one of the books Mum got me. I 
t-thought someone had just left it in there and forgotten about it----" ch. 18 pg. 330
Ginny had found an enchanted journal that was the cause of her being possessed but she was too nervous to tell the secret and that led on to Voldy almost coming back! ]]> 2020-11-12 02:03:19 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/914839805 More from God's Word danielmoser https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/914859273 In the book of Luke, ch. 8 pg.17, the text states
"For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light." 
This is to say that all secrets will be revealed either in this life or the next, most will be in this life because secrets cannot be hidden without the constant longing for them to be revealed.]]> 2020-11-12 02:15:16 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/914859273 And now a bit of my own thought on the topic ',:) danielmoser https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/914872714 First of all, why do we have secrets in the first place? Many secrets are kept because they are going to hurt someone that we love and others are going to hurt ourselves. Now I think that when you bottle that secret up the secret is still longing to complete the purpose it was made to do, to hurt someone. Now if we never let it out the secret is still going to hurt someone, YOU, like in the Scarlet letter Dimmesdale's secret was never confessed so he has massive guilt and it is hurting him immensely in his heart but if he were to confess he would be free of his secret. Dimmesdale runs into a few problems with this though. First of all, he DID confess but the congregation only sees him better for it and this only builds on his guild, and second of all, this isn't really a problem but fears his own congregation. In the Bible it says that it is better to be judged by man that to be judged by God, and that man is not to judge his brother but to merely correct him and lead him on the right path. So Dimmesdale shouldn't fear the people and the people are not supposed to judge him in the first place for it is not there place to condemn. ]]> 2020-11-12 02:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/914872714 danielmoser https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/918835678 2020-11-12 23:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoser/lvl4xt1gc1og75si/wish/918835678