Thoughts

[lucidwanderer]

The concept of sin, like the concept that man owns this world, is sin itself

Comments

[theweezcheat]

But the tendancy to sin is obvious most in children who have been affected by society the least. Have you ever seen an unselfish toddler?

[lucidwanderer]

You are equating selfishness with sin... Selfishness is a natural thing, all animals who are incapable of sin do what benefits them most. But they are not blamed for it. The only reason that children are more selfish than adults is that they have not developed their sense of other enough to empathize with them... this occurs around the concrete phase of development, as any child psychologist can tell you. Before that, they only know the world as how it relates to them... they think that the way they see things is the only way, both figurative and literally.

[wolftailthefox]

"Why should man work for eight or more hours a day to simply live, when life is so much more than work

[lucidwanderer]

I didn't say no work was to be done. It only takes a few hours a day to grow food to support yourself, and make clothing and what not ... Think of Native American cultures. Do you think they spent their entire lives hunting and gathering? The problem comes when people think they own the land, and so have the power to make others pay just to live on it. Do you pay for your air, or do they own that too? Overpopulation causes this, and overpopulation is a result of the sanctification of our manifest destiny to dominate the world into one perfect human-controlled sphere. (said with a great deal of sarcasm) We seem to want to put into the mistake-inclined humans what was once up to God and nature to do, and they both seemed to do right well for millions of years

[wolftailthefox]

Ah, ok I see what you're saying :) Thanks for explaining :)