Message #982

[JJ]

Aw sorry that you were tired and I know typing on a forum can often be straight from the hip!

I think what I have been saying over several different threads now is that pain causes people to react badly and the more the pain inflicted on them by outside or internal forces the more they are likely to 'sin' as their behaviour becomes stunted.  That is the connection.  For example soldiers suffering from PTSD can be violent and horrible to others.  I have mentioned that sort of thing many times I think.  I see damaged people every day who can be quite abusive and that abuse may be traced to terrible abuse when they were children.  So that is the connection with sin.

Love and attachment are stored in the amygdala and hippocampus and are released by the flooding of the hormone oxytocin.  (As I have pointed out several times before over the months!) People with behavioural problems have small amygdalas - and a lack of oxytocin and too much cortisol, and there is evidence to show that amygdalas are shrunk by bad treatment as a child.  So my contention in this argument is that benign conditions provide for a 'sinless' human being - but conditions are never benign, once the baby is out of the womb.  Something is bound to colour the brain once the growing baby has to contend with various stimuli, good and bad.  And the consequent commitment of sins start to happen.  And the person is deemed imperfect, as we all are.   

No I am not suggesting just genes particularly - other things relating to the mind and body can also make us all different - I know a set of triplets here very well and the three of them look identical but their behaviour and abilities have developed in three different ways. 

What I said was 'PS as I said before "It's wrong to compare siblings from a family if one turns out bad, no-one can tell the psychic effects of birth and upbringing on an individual, it doesn't mean that the bad person was born bad - biochemical, circumstantial and innate abilities cause every person to turn out different.  One person thrives in a lovely family - another is suffocated by the same family conditions or a very bad experience at school.  Our experiences make us what we are and most people grow quite well, but some are ruined by something another would find a healthy challenge."'  As well as our genes.