“Understand” / “Understanding”: It is necessary to point out the common abuse of the word “UNDERSTAND,” or of the notion of “UNDERSTANDing”: we are told that one has to “UNDERSTAND” an evil-doer or a bad man and that to UNDERSTAND is to forgive. If this were so, what is one to think of sinners who convert, and above all of the traditional injunction to “know thyself”? The good thief of the Gospel did not go to Paradise for nothing, and Saint Augustine knew what he was doing when writing his Confessions. With a quite characteristic inconsistency, the partisans of unconditional “UNDERSTANDing” – it is as if it sufficed to be “ME” to always be right – are always careful to keep from “UNDERSTANDing” those who think otherwise, and whom they vilify shamelessly; a one-way charity necessarily ends in an upside-down justice. (GTUFS: PlayMasks, On Intention)