Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site bu-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!bu-cs!ccc From: ccc@bu-cs.UUCP (Cameron Carson) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian,net.religion.jewish,net.nlang.india Subject: Are you tempted to respond to this article? Message-ID: <756@bu-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 15:21:52 EST Article-I.D.: bu-cs.756 Posted: Fri Nov 8 15:21:52 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Nov-85 20:58:29 EST Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci. Lines: 40 Xref: lsuc net.religion.christian:331 net.religion.jewish:1518 net.nlang.india:395 For a presentation I am making in the near future, I would like to solicit some ideas from the net.religion.* community. Assumptions: 1) with respect to some supreme entity/concept, there is a set of actions considered good, virtuous, etc. 2) there is an opposing set of bad,evil,rotten actions. Query: What is the direct mechanism by which people are induced to knowingly commit actions from group 2)? Rephrasing this in christian terms: what is 'temptation'? Comments and Possible Ideas: Does the devil/Satan/etc place thoughts or desires in our minds? Does the damager-god place us in a combined set of cirumstances that is conducive to group-2) behavior? Is human nature so corrupt that there is no need for active external influence? No doubt other religious traditions deal with additional factors, which is why I am posting this to multiple newsgroups. Please send me your ideas BY MAIL - no need to spread this all over the net - and I will summarize responses if there is interest. Christians, Moslems/Muslims(?), Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, Taoists, Humanists, Malthiests, Thelemites, Wiccans, Toddists, and above all, members of the Church of St. Clint are invited to respond. By Mail. -- Cameron C. Carson Distributed Systems Group Boston University ACC UUCP: ...!harvard!bu-cs!ccc ARPA: ccc%bu-cs@csnet-relay.arpa