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Show What about the apple? Remember when Isaac Newton discovered gravity and everyone thought he was the greatest. The famous physicist was sitting under an apple tree gathering his thoughts about life, the universe and everything, every-thing, when lo and behold, an apple fell on his noggin. "I will call this phenomenon gravity, which is why things fall to the ground," he said. 1 iL I v v1 ut I KRIS I JOHNSON J Staff Writer j Well, we all know the rest of the story; Newton became a legend in the world of physics and everyone forgot about the apple that fell on his head. No one ever talks about the apple and this makes me madl I bet none of you knew that Newton's famous apple was red, or that he made apple pie with it after his serendipitous discovery. No one ever gave the apple its due credit, including Webster's dictionary. All Webster has to say is that an apple is a fleshy, usually rounded and red or yellow edible pome fruit of a tree of the rose family. What a boring description. What about the Forbidden Apple of Knowledge that Eve ate back in the Garden of Eden. Remember how the slimy serpent told Eve that all of these groovy things would happen if she and Adam ate the apple. ap-ple. So they did and suddenly their little paradise disappeared. They became embarrassed to run around naked in the woods, so they put clothes on their bodies. The apple completely altered our lives. We would still be frolicking around naked, if it weren't for the the Forbidden Apple of Knowledge. Don't get me wrong, Eve's eating the apple turned out to be a good thing. Thank you, Eve, I kind of like wearing clothesout in public that is. Mankind has learned so much' because of Eve's little adventure in the woods. Paradise in the Garden of Eden may have been lost after she and Adam bit into the apple, but it was also regained. For example, we've sent a man to the moon, and built sky scrapers. We've even created spa fitness centers where men and woman can frolic k around in their exercise apparel. We invented portable telephones that people can take into restaurants so they can feel like a big shot when the phone rings. Now, that's what I call Paradise. The big shot in the restaurant thinks, "Gee, I'm so important that everyone has to know it; so I'll carry this obnoxious portable phone and when it rings, everyone will look at me and think I'm cool.' The big shot was probably so wrapped up in his "phone status' that he forgot that he wouldn't have a phone, if it weren't for Eve. Isn't it interesting that Eve-volution (evolution) started with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Anyway, man also invented Apple Ap-ple computers because of Eve. There were these two hippie freaks that decided to invent a computer in their garage during the 1970s. They called it the Apple computer, after Eve's apple of course and they ended end-ed up becoming millionaires. The logo for their invention was a multi-colored psychedelic apple with a bite "byte' taken out of it; just like the bite that Eve took out of the Forbidden Apple of Knowledge. The bite represented all of the bits and pieces of information that their computer could hold, and the Apple became the primary link in the evolution of computers. I bet Eve had no idea that our world would blossom like it did after she ate the apple. I also bet that Eve had no idea that there would be all of the wars and violence too. Eve didn't know better when she bit into the apple; she responded to the serpent's temptations like any innocent being would have. Had Eve known that there would be so much violence in our world today, she probably would have never bit into the apple. But, if she could see how much our human race has evolved since then and how we have learned so much from our mistakes, I don't think she would have any regrets. Live and learn, live and learn. Life is one big lesson for all of us. And what a lesson we've learned when we think how a piece of fruit altered the fate of mankind. |
