contentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 months agoA cool guide to Epicurean Paradoxi.redd.itimagemessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: epicureanism@lemmy.dbzer0.comcoolguides@lemmit.online
arrow-up110arrow-down1imageA cool guide to Epicurean Paradoxi.redd.itcontentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: epicureanism@lemmy.dbzer0.comcoolguides@lemmit.online
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoIs there actually “free will” without evil?
minus-squaremoriquende@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agowhy not? you can choose to eat a banana or an apple, both perfectly non evil
minus-squareNo1@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agoI will die on a hill that says a banana is more good than an apple. Making the apple relatively more evil on the scale from good to evil. Others may prefer an apple. But I guess that is their free will to choose so 😉
minus-squarelemmynparty@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoI mean there was that whole ‘garden of eden’ thing with the apples… But bananas are also kind of dangerous
minus-squareBreathingUnderWater@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoWasn’t the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden originally a fig or date or olive or something? It was changed to apple in the later translations. Something like that .
minus-squareQueen HawlSera@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoI thought it was a pomegranate
Is there actually “free will” without evil?
why not? you can choose to eat a banana or an apple, both perfectly non evil
I will die on a hill that says a banana is more good than an apple.
Making the apple relatively more evil on the scale from good to evil.
Others may prefer an apple. But I guess that is their free will to choose so 😉
I mean there was that whole ‘garden of eden’ thing with the apples…
But bananas are also kind of dangerous
Wasn’t the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden originally a fig or date or olive or something? It was changed to apple in the later translations. Something like that .
I thought it was a pomegranate