"No I want to be Ehud!!"

Something that is intrinsically good is something that is good in its own right. It does not have a definition as to why it was good, it is simply good.

Silence

Fellowship

Worship

Love

Creating something completely new

Darkness

Motion

Art

Persuasion of individuals

The mind

Combat

Justice specifically the process of executing it justice

Playing especially socio-dramatic (Your challenge is accepted….)

Laughing

Imagining entire worlds

Prayer

Discovery

Reading

Heroes with fatal traits, that are hated by some and loved by others

Adaption

This summer at New Life Ranch, I told the story of Ehud to my campers as a bed time story. It’s one of my favorite Bible stories, so I know a lot about it that isn’t in the Bible. Such as culture, the significance of left hand, inflections, and so on. So I got pretty eccentric and excited with it, and I was rather disappointed when they didn’t seem to notice or talk about it in the final moments of the night. I had no idea, however, that they whispered to each other till after midnight about it. The next day they loudly and excitedly announced to me that they loved this story and wanted to hear more or play an “Ehud game”. They didn’t understand socio-dramatic playing—playing pretend, roleplaying, make-believe—so during free time we got our group together, bundled a bunch of sword-sized-shaped sticks together, and went to the trail. I found a rock and gave the speech Ehud gave to the people of Israel, and then I raised my sword towards the trees and bushes and yelled charge…
We fought the Philistine army—foliage—for hours.

Think of something that is intrinsically good,but that you don’t usually do, or that you have not done in a while. Why haven’t you done it? If it is intrinsically good, shouldn’t it be compulsory to do it?
Can something that is intrinsically good, be an unacceptable activity?
If so, how could this come to be?

(Finally a post...)