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Re:I Do Not Marry a Married Man by vageli on Saturday August 24, 2019 @09:45AM (#20787092)
> The only doctrine I believe anymore is that of original sin. I've spent too much time among humans to imagine there are any who aren't broken.

But your belief is that we are born broken, and not that it is the world that breaks us?

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Re:I Do Not Marry a Married Man by jessaustin on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @06:53PM (#20824881)
The world is us. Everyone here is the culmination of the same eons of evolution. Considering humanity to be somehow separate from the mess that humanity makes is a form of magical thinking.
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Re:I Do Not Marry a Married Man by bobthechef on Saturday August 24, 2019 @09:51AM (#20787121)
And how is the world that it could break us? The world is made of broken men. We are born broken, that is, with a propensity toward sin.
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Re:I Do Not Marry a Married Man by DoreenMichele on Saturday August 24, 2019 @10:42AM (#20787376)
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

-- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

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Re:I Do Not Marry a Married Man by Klinky on Saturday August 24, 2019 @10:13AM (#20787221)
That's just far too simplistic. Child abuse, mental illness, PTSD from traumatic experiences, traumatic brain injury, can all lead to impulsive erratic behaviors. Sin is also vague, and biblical sin is often completely disconnected from the actual cause of why someone is making poor choices.
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Re:I Do Not Marry a Married Man by johnisgood on Saturday August 24, 2019 @10:39AM (#20787356)
The answer to nature vs nurture is epigenetics.
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