[fatcat500]

What in me is dark

Illumine, what is low raise and support;

That to the highth of this great Argument

I may assert th’ Eternal Providence,

And justifie the wayes of God to men.

[ksenzee]

...malt does more than Milton can / To justify God’s ways to man. —Housman

[bryanrasmussen]

clever, but I don't think it's true. Otherwise people when they get drunk wouldn't start to get argumentative and dissatisfied with life.

Perhaps it's more a normal distribution, at the beginning with a light buzz the ways of God seem to be more OK, at its height in the middle everything God ever did is GREAT, and then the fall and the eventual conclusion that everything is unjust and then vomiting.

[konart]

> get drunk > dissatisfied with life.

That just means they were dissatisfied with life before drinking. Just were holding it inside.

[bryanrasmussen]

sure, they were dissatisfied with life, and malt did not work to justify god's ways to them, at best it helped them express their dissatisfaction.

[konart]

>at best it helped them express their dissatisfaction.

Which is good. All roads start with a single step and to make this step you have to realize where are you now. And expressing this dissatisfaction verbally can be a very goods first step as long as you are not just drinking it away.

Not trying to say that this is as good as therapy or something and alcohol my lead to some bad results but still.

[echelon_musk]

My favourable interpretation is that seeing the dissatisfaction that comes from drinking indicates that it is out of line with God's will.

Whether those drinking realise this is another matter.

I suspect there are more people who have tried alcohol and no longer drink than have read Milton. Perhaps we need some data on that!

[highcountess]

Addicts are easiest spotted by their rationalization