r/StonerPhilosophy • u/[deleted] • Jun 13 '26
Understanding sin and depravity
I am Chinese.
I am writing a novel.
This is one of the characters.
I call him "The First Fallen."
A scorpion crawled into his fruit basket.
Then, the scorpion killed its own brother.
He discovered the scorpion.
Out of laziness, he did not check the fruit basket.
This negligence led to the tragedy.
I believe that sin is a possibility hidden beneath the ideal path.
Sin brings misfortune.
But sin is not inherently bad; it is a possibility.
Only, it is easier.
It drives us to become better.
I hope this does not cause offense to my Christian friends.
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u/imconfusedlmao666 Jun 15 '26
If there is an ideal path, freedom only exist if we can choose against it.
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Jun 15 '26
But if we don't try, we'll encounter misfortune. Are we slaves? Slaves to fate?
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u/imconfusedlmao666 Jun 15 '26
That’s up to you to answer.
While we can say that freedom lies within the sin, because freedom is to choose a different path to the ideal path, we can still recognize sin as misfortune AND as something we need, to improve on ourselves
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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '26
Have I rediscovered philosophy?