@Muscatean Look, we already know this. Leave the mutts to rot. Life is too short to be embroiled in the most retarded bottomfeeders to walk the earth, the rightwing democratic mass. It will kill its host but die eventually. There are other things to focus on. Sure you'd agree.
Q18 on one level is deeply allegorical; grammatical analysis will show you pearls gleaming in plain sight. It's a very good thing that the assorted mess of apologia, "historical-critical" anticritical analysis, etc. have no access to it. The swine should be relegated to the sty.
Utter vulgarity beyond simple diagnosis... there are no selves to improve, there is nothing at all there, let alone "versions", "growth". Marionettes just possess simple bodies which live by de-living, disviviendo, by stubbornly lacking and fleeing their own lives.
Questions of "practicality" and circular references to commonsense abound when engaging with the classical texts. Jilani was not metaphorical when he termed Eden the true and only home toward which we ought to be oriented. Any other cowardly appeals amount only to apostasy.