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Originally Posted by brantshali,Nov 23 2009, 05:52 PM
If that's the case, why do we bother with religion? If we're doomed to be filled with (and spew) sin, what's the point of trying to get back in God's good graces...?
. . . and then the real fun begins.
Original Sin, to me at least, is a great burden lifted off my shoulders. Consider it the same way one would approach the First Noble Truth of The Buddha (Dukkha):
"This is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering."
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Originally Posted by brantshali,Nov 23 2009, 06:03 PM
Is it really true that nothing worth having is easy?
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Originally Posted by zzziippyyy,Nov 23 2009, 06:07 PM
Unkie, Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections? 