In reference to the Fall from the Book of Genesis, in my opinion it is a perfect example of a Magnetic Plot Device. Without it in the story, the entire rest of the Bible cannot happen. It is an inescapable booby-trap, because Adam and Eve, created as total innocents, would never be able to resist the temptation to eat from the tree and an omniscient God should anticipate this fact. Yet He put the Tree into the Garden of Eden and then sits back and waits for events to play out according to predictable lines. From a literary standpoint the Tree is crucial to driving the narrative forward, but it's presence within the narrative is highly contrived.
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There was probably a lot of stuff that they were not supposed to do and never did. We never heard of them, due to budgetary constraints and the tree thing came up first.
It is the earliest example of free will. Since Adam and Eve could not differentiate between Good and Evil, the free will came down to a more fundamental decision: Do what God tells you or don't. They chose not to; the rest is, quite literally, history.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has stated that the basic hostility of the universe to the human species is why he refuses to accept the Intelligent Design Theory as true, because no supposed "intelligent" designer would have made such a sucky, dangerous, lethal world for human beings to live in. The complete list of "Stupid Design" elements can be seen in this video.
I couldn't access the video and even if I could, I would never trust the man who fatwahed Pluto.
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The universe is only hostile to humanity out of revenge for that Pluto thing. Just wait, the Oort Cloud is gonna do a drive by shooting revenge for it one day.
I believe in the intelligent designer, an intelligent IAU is proving harder to find.
I suppose he also thinks we should lock kids up in padded cages or bubbles for their entire lives so that no harm would come to them.
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Homestuck constantly refers to Gnosticism. You find out later that each universe is essentially made by a bunch of kids... maybe this should refer down to the Gnosticism section back IRL?
Can't help noticing that in the page header illustration, God accidentally shakes the arsehole jar over Alaska. Does this explain Sarah Palin? As somebody who stopped more than her fair share?
Male, early sixties, Cranky old fart, at least two decades behind. So you have been warned. Functionally illiterate in several languages.