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In Reply to: fear.. posted by ray on September 05, 2004 at 09:55:02:
...is grasping or the "lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life."
I do tend to believe that original sin or that which disposes humans to suffer and cause suffering is fairly simple on a conceptual level: rejection (fear) and grasping (lust/desire).
As to the complexity of how it all works out in real life, well now, the devil is in the details.