Original Sin?

Quote: FrGamble

This is literally the recipe for and the beginning of all regret.

Explain, please.

Quote: Evenbob

FrG has asked me about regrets in
relation to sin. I always say I
do not really have any regrets.
I ran across this somewhere and
cannot say any of them apply
to me. Not one. I always do
what I want to do, and that leads to
few regrets.

https://bestlifeonline.com/most-common-regrets/

Couldn't be bothered reading more than the first 10. None of them apply to me.

Quote: Evenbob

Explain, please.

Always doing what you want is not taking into consideration other people or what you should do.

Quote: FrGamble

Always doing what you want is not taking into consideration other people or what you should do.

Nah, everyone is doing what they want

Quote: petroglyph

Nah, everyone is doing what they want

Sadly, you are not far off - hence the situation of our world today.

Quote: FrGamble

Always doing what you want is not taking into consideration other people .

How do you figure. Maybe doing what
I want means being nice to those
around me. When I say I do what
want, I mean I don't go places I'm
invited if I know I'll be bored. I don't
go on vacay with other people if
they're going some place I don't
want to be.

I never let others control my actions,
is the gist of it. I almost never complain
because I'm always doing what I want
and have no complaints. My wife, on
the other hand, complains constantly
because she lets her family push her
around.

I think not going places with people
I find boring is taking their feelings
into consideration. Believe me, you
do not want to be around me if I've
been forced to do something. So I
make it easy on people by avoiding
them if I can.

Quote: petroglyph

Nah, everyone is doing what they want

This is very true. It's actually quite
hard to force people to something
they don't want to do. The problem
lies in people doing things for the
wrong reasons.

On the flip side, I never force people
to do what I want, ever. Who wants
to be with someone you coerced
into being there.

Quote: Evenbob

This is very true. It's actually quite
hard to force people to something
they don't want to do. The problem
lies in people doing things for the
wrong reasons.

Even for women that continue to stay in a relationship with their abuser. If they keep going back to him, or never leave, that is their choice. Unfortunately some of them, allow their religious group to pressure them to stay around for the beatings.


" even if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"

In the 40's Alan Watts was the vicar
at Chicago College. He later quit
the religion and became a zen
Buddhist. In one of his books he
says a Xtion cannot know if whats in the
NT is really true, he only believes
it because he's been told it's true
by somebody who can't know either.

He said Xtions like to convert people
not because the give damn about them,
but because it bolsters their faith in
a religion that has no real proof of
anything. They can point to the newly
converted and say, look, it must be
true, I talked somebody else into it.

Bored, Bob?