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If you could revise the seven deadly sins, what would you do?
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I would totally change the Seven Dwarfs if I could. There should be a Dwarf called "Smelly", because that's funnier than "Sleepy". And Doc? What the heck is that about? He should be um.... Sloppy. Now that's a dwarf!
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I would make it eight and add "Apathy" as number one.
Though, apathy is sort of included in sloth, and is a direct byproduct of pride, I think it is the most dangerous, and most vile, of human vices and needs to be recognized as such.
To feel apathy is more damaging to one's own soul, even than hatred. If you feel hatred, you need to recognize the value of the person you hate. Nobody truly hates something that they don't think matters. Hatred is an affirmation of passion, and of humanity (not a good way of affirming it, mind you, but a way) We hate because we care.
Apathy is numbing--it means you do not care. Rape prevention classes tell women to well "fire" if they are attacked, because to save somebody from a fire makes you a hero, but people don't want to get involved if they hear "rape." It strips the person of some of the crucial aspects, not just of humanity (animals will generally protect their own) but of life and sentience.
edit: perhaps not eight. Maybe replace sloth with apathy. Apathy is probably the leading cause of sloth, and those who are slothful but not actually apathetic (that is, they care, they really do, but they have trouble getting up and doing something about it) will probably work that out in due time. Either that or they will sink into apathy. One or the other. So---recap: in most cases apathy is the cause of sloth. When it is not, it probably won't last too long, or be too extreme. Yeah, replace sloth with apathy.
Though, apathy is sort of included in sloth, and is a direct byproduct of pride, I think it is the most dangerous, and most vile, of human vices and needs to be recognized as such.
To feel apathy is more damaging to one's own soul, even than hatred. If you feel hatred, you need to recognize the value of the person you hate. Nobody truly hates something that they don't think matters. Hatred is an affirmation of passion, and of humanity (not a good way of affirming it, mind you, but a way) We hate because we care.
Apathy is numbing--it means you do not care. Rape prevention classes tell women to well "fire" if they are attacked, because to save somebody from a fire makes you a hero, but people don't want to get involved if they hear "rape." It strips the person of some of the crucial aspects, not just of humanity (animals will generally protect their own) but of life and sentience.
edit: perhaps not eight. Maybe replace sloth with apathy. Apathy is probably the leading cause of sloth, and those who are slothful but not actually apathetic (that is, they care, they really do, but they have trouble getting up and doing something about it) will probably work that out in due time. Either that or they will sink into apathy. One or the other. So---recap: in most cases apathy is the cause of sloth. When it is not, it probably won't last too long, or be too extreme. Yeah, replace sloth with apathy.
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i would probably sum it up in one sentiment:
"do nothing that goes against loving your neighbor as yourself. seek and ye shall find."
(well honestly i would be tempted to just write the last part out, "figure it out for yourself and pray" but that could give the wrong impression cause i don't mean it in the harshness that the last part could sound like."
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Well, I'll tell you one I might add: MULTI-TASKING IN YOUR CAR! This is without doubt one of the stupidest, most dangerous, non-thinking, self-centered habits the United States has seen in DECADES!!! It seems to have started with cell phones, but we Yankees have so much ingenuity, we've branched out. I see people out on city streets reading books while they're driving. What's next, knitting?
Such a deadly sin should have a codicil that if someone catches the sinner he is allowed to beat him about the head with a telephone book and take his phone away from him and step on it.
I would use stronger language but this is a Christian site. I firmly believe such people shouldn't be allowed within fifty feet of a motorized vehicle of any sort. Let somebody install ignition switches on wheel-barrows that don't do actually anything. The fools who want to drive with their cell phones can go out to their back yards and turn their wheel-barrows on and off - provided there are no children out there for them to maim-!!
Such a deadly sin should have a codicil that if someone catches the sinner he is allowed to beat him about the head with a telephone book and take his phone away from him and step on it.
I would use stronger language but this is a Christian site. I firmly believe such people shouldn't be allowed within fifty feet of a motorized vehicle of any sort. Let somebody install ignition switches on wheel-barrows that don't do actually anything. The fools who want to drive with their cell phones can go out to their back yards and turn their wheel-barrows on and off - provided there are no children out there for them to maim-!!
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