"In the country of the blind, the man with one eye is king."

Seeing things. Visions, are very important. Be it, the literal sense of sight, or the prophetic allegories from dreams and stuff, someone who 'sees' is considered a very important person. Almost everyone values thier sense of sight as the most vital sense they have. A gift of telling the future is immediately labeled a prized possesion, with everyone wanting it. Everyone wants to know what the future holds anyway, don't they?

Therefore, seeing is directly linked to knowing. Thrall says, "Seeing is believing", and I believe this mentality holds true for the many beings residing on planet earth. That was how the major topics of research came about, from curiousity, from a desire to see. Thats right, almost every subject mankind has went into. From the greats like history and science to the regular talk-of-the-town gossips. Even stuff like enlightenment, getting a divide attribute or thinking out of the box, they all contain the essence of seeing.

Indeed, this want for seeing is great. Man had said ignorance to be bliss, but that was only after they had seen. Before that, they had the desire to see, and therefore had wanted to see in that first place. Take the tale of Adam and Eve. So, in wanting to see, is there a consequence? I don't suppose a consequence applys in every case, but in a way, it does. We would have the consequence of being robbed of our previous innocence.
But innocence... is it really that valuable? I had watched a part of the show 'Agnes of God' and to see Agnes suffer becuase of her innocence, it does show we a different part of what innocence reveals. Yeah, afterall, a reason why we want to see is to be sercure. For the sense of sercurtiy. And to be sercure, one had better not be innocent. (Well, you must be for law and justice... but not for the plot of the world)

In the aspect of Christianity, seeing does play quite a role as well. Besides knowledge of the scripture, there's the many propheies that involve the end of days, the rapture and stuff as such. I know that there are christians that are mainly interested in these stuff and its this knowledge of propheies that spur on to become better christians.

But prophets... these guys are sometimes not what they mean. Most prophets go by the way of symbolism, interpretation of meaings by dreams, visions and things they see. Taking the prophet in Troy for example. A major reason why Troy had fall was him and his prohesies. The king had even believed him and not his sons, leading to two major mistakes. The first mistake of going to attack the greeks after their defeat had even lead to the death of Hector. And heard the great irony by this conversation: (paraphrased)

Hector: (Goes to his father the king and hugs him)
King: (Hugs him back, when he turns to leave...) Hector.....
Hector: (looks back)
King: You are the best son a father can ever have. May the Gods guide you.

When you are able to see, respect is immediately shone onto you. You gain trust from everyone and partake a special glory. As the seer has the solutions, the seer has the answers, the seer has that thing that everyone else does not posses. The seer...

He knows.

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