Rant on Original Sin

The whole concept of original sin condemning everyone really irks me, because it's really *not* our choice. It was Adam's choice, and Eve's if you want to blame it on her, for listening to that curiously vocal snake...But anyway, one would think that if any human had the option of living in eternal paradise s/he would take it, especially if the rules were so lax as they were in Eden..."Just don't eat fruit from the 'special' tree, cause you'll have to leave then!"

The story of original sin is about the boundaries of human nature: if we're told not to do something, we'll get as close to doing it as possible usually, and maybe even openly defy what we're told not to do. It's undeniable (in my view, anyway) that humans can't handle for the most part such a simple thing as playing by the rules.

So it's either all Adam's fault for not rising above his minute level of human nature and making the more enlightened decision to not eat the fruit (which if it had done what it was supposed to would have given him the wisdom to not eat it in the first place...heh, what a paradox)...or it could be God's fault for giving him a nature, which, when presented with such a choice, would almost always go for the worse of the two options, to defy the rule.

I guess a major question in the realm of the choice in Eden is, would we be better off ignorant of this life and the trials it brings, but blissfully happy? Or should we really be here suffering for some sort of meaning? In the words of Cypher, "Ignorance is bliss," but as Trinity argues, "The Matrix isn't real, Cypher!" But then, "What *is* real?" For what *are* we really here? (Read: What are we really here for? for those of you normal people who don't avoid preps at the end of sentences )

But as the Oracle says in Reloaded (Horrid movie yet some great philosophical substance  "You've already made the choice. Now you have to understand why."


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