Mojotronica
Expect Irony.
The Bible says that we are all sinners for being descendents of Adam & Eve, because they committed the Original Sin -- disobeying God by eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
By modern legal standards, children are not held accountable for the sins of their parents (although this was not always the case -- see, for example debtor's prisons, or the slave system.) Our underlying supposition -- children are born with a "clean slate.
Original Sin is an exception to our modern concept that children are a clean slate.
So why should the descendents of Adam & Eve be held liable for the sins of their ancestors?
Because the descendents of Adam & Eve somehow PARTICIPATED in the Original Sin, in some way.
My explanation for this is that the consequences of Adam & Eve getting banished f/ Eden benefited their as yet unborn descendents in some way. The nature of time is "stackable..." that is, every event that precedes another event by its nature supports the subsequent event, but not the reverse. In other words change the past and the future is also completely changed.
Each child born is a miracle of coincidence. A missed glance here, a missed bus there, an ill-timed headache -- any one of a billion -- no -- a trillion factors might have resulted in a child not being born. It was important that every event happened exactly the way it did in order for all of us to be sharing in this e-mail today.
This means that (unwittingly?) I had a vested interest in every atrocity of human history up until sometime in July of 1970, when I was conceived. The Original Sin, the slaughter of the Native Americans and colonization of the New World, slavery, the Irish potato famine, the Civil War, Nazi Germany's rise, the Holocaust, the use of the A-Bomb against Japan, segregation, JFK's assassination, the Vietnam war, Nixon's election...
All of these events were almost certainly NECESSARY if I were to exist on this Earth. So I share in the atrocity.
Imagine in a parallel dimension all the as yet unconceived souls diligently manipulating the time-space continuum to manifest their own existence. Those as yet unborn children function as guardian angels, helping the living here and there, or as demons, driving the living to commit atrocities, all to create circumstances favorable to their existence.
In some other nether-realm are all the unborn who missed their window of opportunity. The instinct to survive -- to exist -- is so powerful that they are tormented by their lack of being. They are always seeking ways to work the system. There are more loopholes than you might expect. This drive to exist is strong enough to overcome our natural reluctance to share in the cesspool that is the accumulated sin of humankind.
In fact, the younger one is the more sinful they necessarily are, since w/ each passing year the number of sins and atrocities grows larger. One of the purposes of recording history is to record the sins that we, the recently born, are guilty of. Intuitively we know that whatever we may do in life -- a petty-theft, an oath broken, a furtive murder, a night spent drinking and gambling away your child's college fund, a visit to a prostitute... all of these acts pale in comparison to the overwhelming balance already tallied against us on our karmic scale.
Recognizing this, our human laws seek to reduce this behavior. We pass laws intended to keep people from sinning, to at least prevent future children from inheriting still greater sin from us. But these laws never work completely. The debt grows, the sin grows and the wages of sin is death.
Whenever someone writes a time travel story they speculate about going back in time and preventing the death of Lincoln or Kennedy, assassinating Hitler when he was a child or accidentally sleeping with their great-great-great Grandma... But they never think about taking the time machine back to the Garden of Eden before the Cherubim would guard the entrance and throttling that strange, legged Serpent before it had the chance to tempt Eve into eating the fruit.
By modern legal standards, children are not held accountable for the sins of their parents (although this was not always the case -- see, for example debtor's prisons, or the slave system.) Our underlying supposition -- children are born with a "clean slate.
Original Sin is an exception to our modern concept that children are a clean slate.
So why should the descendents of Adam & Eve be held liable for the sins of their ancestors?
Because the descendents of Adam & Eve somehow PARTICIPATED in the Original Sin, in some way.
My explanation for this is that the consequences of Adam & Eve getting banished f/ Eden benefited their as yet unborn descendents in some way. The nature of time is "stackable..." that is, every event that precedes another event by its nature supports the subsequent event, but not the reverse. In other words change the past and the future is also completely changed.
Each child born is a miracle of coincidence. A missed glance here, a missed bus there, an ill-timed headache -- any one of a billion -- no -- a trillion factors might have resulted in a child not being born. It was important that every event happened exactly the way it did in order for all of us to be sharing in this e-mail today.
This means that (unwittingly?) I had a vested interest in every atrocity of human history up until sometime in July of 1970, when I was conceived. The Original Sin, the slaughter of the Native Americans and colonization of the New World, slavery, the Irish potato famine, the Civil War, Nazi Germany's rise, the Holocaust, the use of the A-Bomb against Japan, segregation, JFK's assassination, the Vietnam war, Nixon's election...
All of these events were almost certainly NECESSARY if I were to exist on this Earth. So I share in the atrocity.
Imagine in a parallel dimension all the as yet unconceived souls diligently manipulating the time-space continuum to manifest their own existence. Those as yet unborn children function as guardian angels, helping the living here and there, or as demons, driving the living to commit atrocities, all to create circumstances favorable to their existence.
In some other nether-realm are all the unborn who missed their window of opportunity. The instinct to survive -- to exist -- is so powerful that they are tormented by their lack of being. They are always seeking ways to work the system. There are more loopholes than you might expect. This drive to exist is strong enough to overcome our natural reluctance to share in the cesspool that is the accumulated sin of humankind.
In fact, the younger one is the more sinful they necessarily are, since w/ each passing year the number of sins and atrocities grows larger. One of the purposes of recording history is to record the sins that we, the recently born, are guilty of. Intuitively we know that whatever we may do in life -- a petty-theft, an oath broken, a furtive murder, a night spent drinking and gambling away your child's college fund, a visit to a prostitute... all of these acts pale in comparison to the overwhelming balance already tallied against us on our karmic scale.
Recognizing this, our human laws seek to reduce this behavior. We pass laws intended to keep people from sinning, to at least prevent future children from inheriting still greater sin from us. But these laws never work completely. The debt grows, the sin grows and the wages of sin is death.
Whenever someone writes a time travel story they speculate about going back in time and preventing the death of Lincoln or Kennedy, assassinating Hitler when he was a child or accidentally sleeping with their great-great-great Grandma... But they never think about taking the time machine back to the Garden of Eden before the Cherubim would guard the entrance and throttling that strange, legged Serpent before it had the chance to tempt Eve into eating the fruit.
