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Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Sindobook:
2009-03-08 20:08: Reference number 303
This is a difficult question and I am not sure there is just one answer. The biblical nature is not lost, the statement itself is as if someone is hearing the words of god. We do not know the context for these words, we can guess at it, but ultimately we do not know it. The words are simply given.
> Do you know what is the sin?
> It isn't because you ate the forbidden fruit.
>
> Do you know what is the sin?
> It isn't because you listened to the serpent.
>
> You still don't know what is the sin?
> Then, that itself is your sin.
If you read the original storey, 3:12, man, confronted by god, blames woman. 3:13, woman, confronted by god, blames the snake. My immediate view here is that neither one admited guilt, ie. "I was wrong, please forgive me." They tried to justify their misdeed, this is why they were punished. Had they admitted guilt, that in itself would be punishment enough. The sin is 'pride'.
By another interpretation, the sin would be non-temperance or 'lack of judgement', but this would be paradoxical since neither man nor woman could be expected to practice judgement before the act. Both had will, but no judgement. So the first interpretation seems the most obvious.
Sindobook:
2009-03-12 09:28: Reference number 305
I don't feel sorrey for them. Really. To me they are both stupid. It is just a matter of who is more stupid. Right or wrong is beside the point, I'm tired of listening to the whining.
Sindobook:
2009-03-15 07:16: Reference number 307
It's not what you think it is. He has pleanty of time. It's deeper than that, it's the overall message. He's got complications with that overall message, hence it doesn't get done. Think of it this way, if you are told to do something, but that 'something' conflicts with your own sense of who you are, how the world works, your beliefs on right and wrong, etc., it puts some people into a state of cognitive dissonance where the act itself is never done. Excuses might be given, but those excuses are not real, they are made-up, decoys to justify their avoidance of the act.
Sindobook:
2009-03-18 23:39: Reference number 309
It was a delicate situation. Letting her run wild with her plans, not putting a stop to them immediately, would only invite further damage. When we put a stop to her scheme, we did find one already in the works. Sure, we could have put someone new in her place and kept operating, at least until a release was made. But those kinds of things are neither our field of expertise nor how we operate. And no, I don't know what they'll do with it now that the whole boondoggle has been revealed. Look at it from their perspective, they never intended to do this to begin with, so they'll probably just throw it away.
Sindobook:
2009-03-24 07:12: Reference number 312
To even act this way shows a total lack of perspective. It's like the old saying among pigs, don't get in bed with a cat and then complain you got bitten. The numbers cited alone should show this complete lack of perspective.
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