List your sins...

[Paul1]

ONE: You shall have no other gods before Me.

TWO: You shall not revere false idols

THREE: You shall not take the name of the lord your god in vain.

FOUR: Keep the Sabbath holy.

FIVE: Honour your father and your mother.

SIX: You shall not murder.

SEVEN: You shall not commit adultery.

EIGHT: You shall not steal.

NINE: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.

TEN: You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour's.'


Let me see... I've disobeyed:
ONE - I consider myself to be more moral than the Jewish god
TWO - I consider science to be our greatest tool
THREE - Oh my god!
FOUR - Never kept the Sabbath holy
FIVE - Sometimes been dishonourable to my parents, haven't we all?!
SIX - Ok, so I've never murdered another human being
SEVEN - Does kissing an engaged guy count?
EIGHT - Stolen pennies from a guy who never paid his fair share of the bills
NINE - I have blamed a team member in order to escape blame
TEN - Coveted my friend's flat, she even suggested of selling it to me in the future. Also coveted people's boyfriends, their men servants but decided to leave the ox and donkey alone

[Rie]

My erring type decisions are none of your beeswax.

[Free in Freeport]

Broken all except for killing. I covet my neighbor's ass on a regular basis.

[Silly Sausage]

Broken all but number 6.

[Jobar]

I keep the Seven Deadly Sins on the wall above my bed. Really!

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Pride and Lust are my favorites. :D

[Eudaimonist]

ONE - I have no other gods, so I've kept this one. I've kept it so well I don't have Yahweh for a god either.

TWO - Idols don't have a true/false value, so I've kept this one.

THREE - I don't have any "lord my gods", so I've kept this one.

FOUR - I keep it holy by sleeping late.

FIVE - I suppose that I have done this.

SIX - Easy one to keep.

SEVEN - Clean slate here.

EIGHT - Well, there was that paperclip I stole when I was four. D'oh! Way of the Mastered again!

NINE - I have never been in court, so I've kept this one.

TEN - I admit my thoughtcrimes to Big Brother and to all of the Inner Party and Prolesector. I ask for swift and uncompromising justice from Big Brother, which the Newspeak dictionary defines as goodness itself. I admit my complicity in conspiracy with Goldstein to overthrow Big Brother...


eudaimonia,

Mark

[Politesse]

SIX: You shall not murder.

Once when I was about seven, I came upon a snake in the yard. Just a harmless gopher snake, I thought it. What came into my mind to pick it up and start swinging it around, I have no idea. I was not customarily a cruel child. But what happened next made the cruelty worse, by adding to it a misunderstanding and a horrible bit of violence. Taking another look at the frightened creature, suddenly I noticed that its head was more triangular than at first I thought, and it was thrashing about. Rattler! I thought. Suddenly terrified myself, I flung the snake to the ground and started throwing rocks at it. Slowly- terribly, terribly slowly- I stoned the poor innocent to death. Never had I felt more ashamed of myself than sitting there, bludgeoning to death an animal that I had myself provoked. At least, not until a few years later when in a biology class I learned that gopher snakes can change their shape to mimic rattlers when imperiled. The snake had never been any threat to me, but only I to it.

[Ozymandias]

I have broken 3, 4 and 10 only (and 9 if you translate it to be lying more generally).

[Ray Moscow]

I pretty much hold to 6, 7, 8, and 9. The others are nonsense.

[Paul1]

SIX: You shall not murder.

Once when I was about seven, I came upon a snake in the yard. Just a harmless gopher snake, I thought it. What came into my mind to pick it up and start swinging it around, I have no idea. I was not customarily a cruel child. But what happened next made the cruelty worse, by adding to it a misunderstanding and a horrible bit of violence. Taking another look at the frightened creature, suddenly I noticed that its head was more triangular than at first I thought, and it was thrashing about. Rattler! I thought. Suddenly terrified myself, I flung the snake to the ground and started throwing rocks at it. Slowly- terribly, terribly slowly- I stoned the poor innocent to death. Never had I felt more ashamed of myself than sitting there, bludgeoning to death an animal that I had myself provoked. At least, not until a few years later when in a biology class I learned that gopher snakes can change their shape to mimic rattlers when imperiled. The snake had never been any threat to me, but only I to it.

You were under-age and of duress, so we'll just label it snake-slaughter rather than murder.

Some of them I regret breaking, although I won't be asking for forgiveness any time soon. Life is about making mistakes and learning the emotional and social impact of them.

[Lugubert]

The OP set differs from my Swedish Lutheran collection.
ONE: You shall have no other gods before Me.
Does revering no gods at all qualify?
TWO: You shall not revere false idols
Graven images do not apply here.
THREE: You shall not take the name of the lord your god in vain.
My #2. I'm cool, if you don't count mentioning the Devil against me.
FOUR: Keep the Sabbath holy.
What does that even mean? My text (#3) tells me to do some thinking on the day of rest. I'm OK with that.
FIVE: Honour your father and your mother.
I really think that I fulfilled any literal or expanded interpretations of this, my #4.
SIX: You shall not murder.
Correct translation of my #5. No murders. I haven't ever killed a supposedly sentient being. I'm however guilty of killing garden pests and microbes.
SEVEN: You shall not commit adultery.
Useful pun: In Swedish, this command number (6) is pronounced exactly like our word 'sex' (IPA [seks]). Already this definition is difficult, and even more is Dr. Luther's expansion. Taking adultery as some kind of "breach of promise" as a partner might object to, I'm fine.
EIGHT: You shall not steal.
#7. Guilty of some pilfering, scores of years ago.
NINE: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.
Safe, 8.
TEN: You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour's.'
In my book, 9 and 10. Free in Freeport beat me to that kind of confession, but her ass was really delicious.

[Politesse]

FIVE: Honour your father and your mother. The moment I lost my respect for my parents came late in life, comparable to most I suppose, but it was a long time coming. It was the day my father confessed to having an affair. Had been having it for almost my whole childhood, and bringing his lover and her son into the house as "family friends". Danced with her at my fucking wedding. I haven't forgiven him, though I know I ought to. And I wanted my mother to throw him out or at least admit that she was upset, but she didn't. I'm not doing a very good job of honoring either of them these days.

THREE: You shall not take the name of the lord your god in vain.
The seminary was this, in a lot of ways.

TEN: You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour's.'I remember the first time I really broke this one as well. Children are selfish, of course, but they don't covet. It takes a certain amount of self-awareness to be truly covetous.

It had to do with my first romantic entanglement. Now this was for a boy, another in my year and a friend of mine. But it wasn't straightforward because this was a Christian school and no one was allowed to admit, even to themselves, that they might be gay. So I couldn't admit, even to myself, that I was attracted to- let's call him Paul- in quite that way. Instead I convinced myself it was friendship I wanted, and that's what I went after. And we were friends, though in retrospect I think the more confused feelings under the surface probably went both ways. He attended my confirmation service, I his thirteenth birthday party. We were "buddies". But it ended badly, and that's where the coveting comes in.

It started with me badly interpreting a glance between Paul and another friend of his, Benny, with whom he had been friends since third grade. We had been forced to watch a scare tactics video about abstinence (separated boys from girls, of course), which warned in dire tones that even other sexual activities other than actual intercourse could lead to face-disfiguring STDs. But I was watching Paul, not the video, so I alone saw the sudden worried look he shot at his best friend when that part came up. It would have been humorous in another context.

But for me, shock turned into a deep-rooted fury that wouldn't go away. I wanted what I presumed they had had more than anything. And I learned what envy could really be like. Everything I had previously admired about my friend became something I had to have and was barred from having. His house, his laugh, his intelligence, and yes, his male servant. How quickly love can turn to hate, especially when you are young! I became very jealous and angry for quite some time. And being thirteen, I responded to that anger in not quite the best of ways. A few months later, I outed him in front of the whole school. And he never spoke to me again.

[toker]

Fuck that list. Sometimes I want to hurt people who have wronged me.

Then I get over it.

[Paul1]

Politesse, I do admit, I found it amusing that you hold your parents in low esteem, BUT then go on to talk about your own "wrong" doings when desire and jealousy meet.

I've done wrong things in my time. My father and mother have both done wrong things in their lives. They're just human like us. They are still my parents, any problems they have with each other is strictly between them.:)

[Politesse]

Politesse, I do admit, I found it amusing that you hold your parents in low esteem, BUT then go on to talk about your own "wrong" doings when desire and jealousy meet.

I've done wrong things in my time. My father and mother have both done wrong things in their lives. They're just human like us. They are still my parents, any problems they have with each other is strictly between them.:)

Shall we add an eleventh one for hypocrisy, you think?

[Rie]

I have murdered thousands of ants. A friend of mine to whom I once spoke about being squeamish re killing crawling things said the way to even the balance was to say the word "TRANSCEND" after the slaughter is over.

I love murder mysteries. They are an intellectual exercise in solving a puzzle but I have wondered at the fact that this genre is so popular:p

[Lugubert]

I have murdered thousands of ants.
No, you haven't. You may have killed a lot of ants, but "murder" is reserved for human victims. The Bible is very clear on the difference.

[Paul1]

Shall we add an eleventh one for hypocrisy, you think?
Meh, we could just scrap them all and accept that humans will be humans?!:D

[Politesse]

We could, though that might not form a very substantive basis for a rule of law.

[crazyfingers]

ONE: You shall have no other gods before Me.

This is sort of like have you stopped beating your wife. Don't have any gods including this pompous dink of a god.

TWO: You shall not revere false idols

Don't have any false idols. All idols are false. Pompous god is false too.

THREE: You shall not take the name of the lord your god in vain.

My god? I don't have a god so this is moot. Fuck his imaginary feelings.

FOUR: Keep the Sabbath holy.

I have no sabbath days. There is nothing holy about Saturday vs Sunday or Friday or any other day. There is nothing to keep. Another moot demand ignored.

FIVE: Honour your father and your mother.

Sure. I respect them and never did anything bad to them. We are friends. They babysit my kids for me now and then. Of course that the pompous god says so has nothing to do with it.

SIX: You shall not murder.

Never killed anything with a brain larger than a house mouse. I admit to using mouse traps in the house from time to time. I did once accidentally kill a tadpole as a kid by catching it in the pond and throwing it up in the air. It accidentally landed on a rock. I did try to revive it with a 9v battery and electrodes to the chest and the brain but it failed to revive.

SEVEN: You shall not commit adultery.

Never done that. Of course that the pompous god says so has nothing to do with it.

EIGHT: You shall not steal.

When I was about 10 years old I took a few quarters from my parents change bowl to get a candy bar. As an adult I have never stolen. What pompous god says has nothing to do with it.

NINE: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.

I do not believe that I have lied about anyone else.

TEN: You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour's.'[/I]

My house is nicer than my neighbors house and his wife is 15 years older than I am. He doesn't have a servant or an ox or a donkey. I did admire his lawnmower once so I went to Home Depot and got one a lot like it. It was time for a new one.

Does participating in a semi-capitalist system count as coveting? I try to make a good living for me and my family. I guess since Jesus loves the cheese-makers, who presumably don't just give cheese away for fun, it's OK to actually try to make a living. I am as admirable as the cheese-makers!

[Rie]

But Murder was in my heart and mind as I slew the ants. Isn't the Babble clear on this?

[espritch]

ONE: You shall have no other gods before Me.

As I have no gods at all, I guess I'm OK on this one.


TWO: You shall not revere false idols

I have a little Tiki god I got in Maui, but I don't actually revere it, so I guess I'm OK on that one as well.


THREE: You shall not take the name of the lord your god in vain.

Considering that I don't know his name, I don't know how I could take it in vain. Also, he's not my god.


FOUR: Keep the Sabbath holy.

Saturday or Sunday? Never mind. I failed that one on either count.


FIVE: Honour your father and your mother.

I guess I honor my mother. But if my dad wanted to be honored, he should have acted more honorably.


SIX: You shall not murder.

OK on this one unless the thought counts.


SEVEN: You shall not commit adultery.

Haven't broken this one. Sigh.


EIGHT: You shall not steal.

OK on this one.


NINE: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.

OK on this one.


TEN: You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour's.'

Probably broken this one on several occasions. But then I suspect it would be impossible not to, as coveting is essentially a thought crime.

[MattShizzle]

All of them!

From just over 4 years ago:

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[Rie]

I once upon a time told a wacking great and terrible lie and that is the only sin worth mentioning. Don't know what the bible says... I formed my own moral precepts long ago and I count big time hurtful lies as the only sin worth regretting.

[MrFungus420]

A sin is a crime against God's (a god's) law.

I am an atheist.

There is no such thing as sin.