A person or a society has not learned its lesson when it denies there is any lesson to learn.

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Recognizing that you are being punished means you are on the cusp of not being punished, because you are starting to repent.

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Repentance is a process of admitting to yourself that God knows what you are.

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The damned are euphoric with the justice of their damnation.

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