The orgy is just one thought; you have to visualize sixty different conjunctions of orifices. It’s easier to do if you focus on one particular feature, and move (mentally) from one to the next, to the next.
In reality, more variability would be desirable.
That’s the great thing about the imagination: an unlimited special effects budget!
It depends on if you believe that something is a “sinful thought”; the more you believe it is, the more you will dwell on it. It’s the same principle as making someone think about purple elephants by telling them “don’t think about purple elephants”.
If someone *doesn’t *think that, say, sexual thoughts are “sinful” they’ll see someone good looking across from them on a bus, think “Ooo, nice” and then probably think something else. Someone who does think such thoughts are sinful is likely to get themselves into a loop of “mustn’t think about how sexy they are mustn’t think how sexy they are mustn’t think how sexy they are”.
This makes such a doctrine a very effective tool for generating guilt.
Apparently it is now, but it hasn’t been what you’ve been talking about throughout this thread. So your goalpost-moving is duly noted.
But goalpost-moving or not, it’s still worth responding to. What you’re saying is that if God really loved you, he would have created you in perfect conformance and obedience to him.
Gotta say, this is about the last thing I would have expected you to want God to do to you. Hell, I wouldn’t want him to have done it to me. But to each his own.
You’re welcome to your opinion, but I think you’re missing the point. If God loves you, then why do you think a not-you would be an acceptable substitute? Wouldn’t it be better to make you you and then provide you with a free and easy option to be forgiven? If God wanted not-humans, he could have stuck with angels and called it good.
I see what you’re saying, but I don’t think it matches my own experience of having “sinful thoughts.” I don’t remember the details of any specific example (which may give support to the “not dwelling on it”), but here’s an example like those that have actually happened to me: I’ll be driving down the highway, stuck behind someone going slow in the fast lane, and I’ll think (or even say, in the privacy of my own car), “Hey asshole, what the fuck is wrong with you?” And then I’ll realize that it’s uncharitable and wrong to be thinking that way, and I’ll repent and resolve not to indulge such thoughts in the future, precisely because I do believe they’re sinful and don’t fit with the kind of person I want to be—and recognizing that is what helps me break that train of thought.