A question about original sin.

[fr0d0]

There's a thin line between a fine upstanding citizen and a criminal.

Are you stating this as a hard true fact Frodo?

It strikes me as an obvious exaggeration to aide you in making your point. I wonder if you could elaborate a little more on this sentence.

A "thin line" implies a certain pre-disposition to committing crimes that we're all barely avoiding. I don't think that is the case for MANY people.

Hardly a "hard true fact" Cinjin. But a fact nonetheless. See you needed to cite an extreme example to make any point.

All people are where they are due to circumstances and influence. Something may happen to you today that changes your entire perspective, making criminality, for example, a viable option for you. The balance is perilously near and we mostly live in ignorance of it, until it gets shifted.

Most 'criminals' are victims of their circumstance.

Sin is just a as any other, but the idea behind it is something I cannot agree with. And I do recognize the potential in me to e.g. harm other people by words or actions. The difference being, I don't ask a deity for forgiveness when I've done bad shit, I actually have the guts to go and apologize to the person I've wronged.

Showing some life? Have I seemed like a corpse before?

Dunno what your 1st sentance was meant to say.

I think you're interpreting 'sin' personally. Of course if you do a person wrong, it's them you need to put things right with. What about things you do to yourself? What about things to do to an impersonal other?? How do you reconcile those? Are you left with loads of issues as a result of that lack of resolution?

We only need a deity to forgive what we done wrong to said deity. In this case we recognise our fallabily; reconcile that and get on with living without anything not reconciled.

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Yeah dead from the neck up