For a ballpark idea, I think there are two kinds of sin: 1 sins that are fairly simple to atone for and 2 sins that are much worse, like murder. Most sins are of the simple easy kind: As people get older they learn more about how to live. Learning the best way, they are also learning the wrong way -- so as to avoid it. At first understanding sin is very simple: don't kick the dog, don't hit your sister. Later its more complicated. The concept of sin changes while people get older and wiser. Analogously it can change for civilizations and groups of people.NiceCupOfTea said:so what is it ?
i have realised I dont know.
Politicians use that kind of thing. Sometimes parents use it. Its not necessarily a part of the Christian experience. The word 'Sin' is useful in a semantic way, because it can denote the debt aspect of wrongs that you've done. When you do something wrong there should be an awareness that you owe to try and undo damage. Its part of being a community.Etu Malku said:oh really now . . . isn't the "idea" of Sin an emotional weapon of guilt used to control Sheeple?
That is hyperbole. A sin can be pleasurable, but that doesn't mean all pleasure is sin. Its true some people ridiculously see sins everywhere but not most people. Also as people get older even those like myself without so much sense tend to mellow a little.Your Sins are my Pleasures!
Parents? Not this parent Perhaps "Christian" parents use the weapons they have been afforded, but real parents don't need such weapons.Politicians use that kind of thing. Sometimes parents use it. Its not necessarily a part of the Christian experience. The word 'Sin' is useful in a semantic way, because it can denote the debt aspect of wrongs that you've done. When you do something wrong there should be an awareness that you owe to try and undo damage. Its part of being a community.
That is hyperbole. A sin can be pleasurable, but that doesn't mean all pleasure is sin. A lot of youths find pleasure in joining the military, but some find that they have made a big mistake.
The Original Sin as the tradition of the Fall from the Garden of Eden' is an archetypal structure embedded deep within our unconsciousness. The Original Sin is Man's guilt of being carnivorous and lycanthropic.
We are all descended from males of the carnivorous lycanthropic variety, a mutation evolved under the pressure of hunger caused by the climatic change at the end of the pluvial period, which induced indiscriminate, even cannibalistic predatory aggression, culminating in the rape and sometimes even in the devouring of the females of the original peaceful fruit-eating bon sauvage remaining in the primeval virgin forests.
It was the 'clothes of skin' and the 'aprons of fig-leaves', that produced the nakedness of man, and not the other way round, the urge to cover man's nudity that led to the invention of clothing. It is obvious that neither man nor woman could be 'ashamed' (Gen. ii. 25) or 'afraid because they were naked' (Gen. iii. 10 f.) before they had donned their animal's pelt or hunters' 'apron of leaves', and got so accustomed to wearing it that the uncovering of their defenseless bodies gave them a feeling of cold, fear and the humiliating impression of being again reduced to the primitive fruit-gatherer's state of a helpless 'unarmed animal' exposed to the assault of the better-equipped enemy.
The uncovered body could not have been considered 'indecorous' or 'im-moral'.The very feeling of sin, the consciousness of having done something 'im-moral', contrary to the mores, customs or habits of the herd, could not be experienced before a part of the herd had wrenched itself free from the inherited behaviour-pattern and radically changed its way of life from that of a frugivorous to that of a carnivorous or omnivorous animal.
- from a lecture delivered at a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine by ROBERT EISLER - First published in 1951 by Routledge and Kegan Paul Limited Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane, London, B.C.4
Printed in Great Britain by Butler and Tanner Limited Frome and London
Not christian parents, just parents in general. It happens naturally.Parents? Not this parent Perhaps "Christian" parents use the weapons they have been afforded, but real parents don't need such weapons.
Everyone starts out closed minded, not open minded. I understand that miscreants have taken advantage of some sheeple by taking over churches; but christianity doesn't create sheeple. It humanizes sheeple into people. Christianity can take 'Sheeple' and humanize them which is its real calling.Christianity has its adherents born into this imaginary debt to pay for an imaginary Sin, without remorse this Cult immediately chains its Sheeple into submission, subservience, and guilt.
No one starts out 'closed minded' this is something introduced to you at an early age from backwards religions such as Christianity, it's called Indoctrination.Not christian parents, just parents in general. It happens naturally.
Everyone starts out closed minded, not open minded. I understand that miscreants have taken advantage of some sheeple by taking over churches; but christianity doesn't create sheeple. It humanizes sheeple into people. Christianity can take 'Sheeple' and humanize them which is its real calling.
Christianity can stimulate thought, teach the subjective nature of knowledge and organize people outside the government's control, and it speaks out against evil. That helps everyone. What governments do is to try and subvert it, but it can resist government subversion. It needs a little bit of help sometimes.
Parents? Not this parent Perhaps "Christian" parents use the weapons they have been afforded, but real parents don't need such weapons.
Christianity has its adherents born into this imaginary debt to pay for an imaginary Sin, without remorse this Cult immediately chains its Sheeple into submission, subservience, and guilt.
The Original Sin as the tradition of the Fall from the Garden of Eden' is an archetypal structure embedded deep within our unconsciousness. The Original Sin is Man's guilt of being carnivorous and lycanthropic.
We are all descended from males of the carnivorous lycanthropic variety, a mutation evolved under the pressure of hunger caused by the climatic change at the end of the pluvial period, which induced indiscriminate, even cannibalistic predatory aggression, culminating in the rape and sometimes even in the devouring of the females of the original peaceful fruit-eating bon sauvage remaining in the primeval virgin forests.
It was the 'clothes of skin' and the 'aprons of fig-leaves', that produced the nakedness of man, and not the other way round, the urge to cover man's nudity that led to the invention of clothing. It is obvious that neither man nor woman could be 'ashamed' (Gen. ii. 25) or 'afraid because they were naked' (Gen. iii. 10 f.) before they had donned their animal's pelt or hunters' 'apron of leaves', and got so accustomed to wearing it that the uncovering of their defenseless bodies gave them a feeling of cold, fear and the humiliating impression of being again reduced to the primitive fruit-gatherer's state of a helpless 'unarmed animal' exposed to the assault of the better-equipped enemy.
The uncovered body could not have been considered 'indecorous' or 'im-moral'.The very feeling of sin, the consciousness of having done something 'im-moral', contrary to the mores, customs or habits of the herd, could not be experienced before a part of the herd had wrenched itself free from the inherited behaviour-pattern and radically changed its way of life from that of a frugivorous to that of a carnivorous or omnivorous animal.
- from a lecture delivered at a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine by ROBERT EISLER - First published in 1951 by Routledge and Kegan Paul Limited Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane, London, B.C.4
Printed in Great Britain by Butler and Tanner Limited Frome and London
Etu Malku; Your Sins are my Pleasures![/QUOTE said:do do do do dooo... I'm lovin' it...
wouldn't we first have to define "Christianity"?
seems otherwise there will be differing thoughts....
Question; Does this apply to those of us that don't accept the existence of an Abrahamic god?Amergin, right good matchbook review there! "Sin" should (I believe) be reduced to "straying from the path of G!d".
"Good" "Bad", are both subjective and rely on period, culture, and society.Not doctrinally, but rather by "bad" behavior.
Would measurable effects an act has upon your mind be objective or subjective?Question; Does this apply to those of us that don't accept the existence of an Abrahamic god?
"Good" "Bad", are both subjective and rely on period, culture, and society.
Measurable? In what way?Would measurable effects an act has upon your mind be objective or subjective?
Measurable? In what way?
Interesting, this again makes me think of the Qliphoth in regards to every Creation having its 'negative' energy, its shard, a Shadow aspect of itself.Let me give you an analogy: You believe that what is in your subjective mind has a manifest effect in the objective world, correct? Think this through backwards: toxic substances accumulate in the predators on the top of the food chain. Subjectively, wouldn't that indicate greater toxic waste, high voltage lines, etc, in the shadow side of the psyche (and hence, greater entropy feeding back?)
There is also plenty of research regarding the effects of the psychopathic mind out there to explore, as well.
Darkness doesn't necessarily mean twisted. It just means unknown, or hidden. The best use of darkness, imo, is to hide your good karma there, and bring the bad, twisted karma out into the light where you can work on untwisting it. JMHO.
Khaibit as a killer t-cell in an immune system? Interesting.Interesting, this again makes me think of the Qliphoth in regards to every Creation having its 'negative' energy, its shard, a Shadow aspect of itself.
Traditionally, the Qliphoth vampyrically feed off of negative energies and grow stronger from them, just as our Shadow Self would, just as the Khaibit would!
Entering the Qliphothic Tunnels of the Tree of Knowledge (Tree of Daath) and engaging these Dæmons, returning to the mundane world is associated with other traditions of decending into an Underworld, defeating a monster, gaining a magickal weapon, and returning to the normal world with new found powers!
Psychologically I see an alighment with all of this (Qliphoth, Khaibit, Underworld, etc.) with coming face to face with our Shadow Self and conquering it.
**Just a few crazy thoughts from a madman . . .