Sex & Shenanigans

[crazychemgirl]

You are very intuitive CCG.

Yes, one of the seven deadly sins you know.

I have my moments

 

[UnquietDreams]

You are very intuitive CCG.

Yes, one of the seven deadly sins you know.

The Operative: Do you know what your sin is, Mal?
Mal: Ah Hell... I'm a fan of all seven.

--Serenity

 

[LostHorizon]

The Operative: Do you know what your sin is, Mal?
Mal: Ah Hell... I'm a fan of all seven.

--Serenity

Lust is the one that gets me every time

 

[UnquietDreams]

Lust is the one that gets me every time

In the older list, they had tristitia, which got retranslated later as "envy." It actually meant "sadness" or "depression." John the Ascetic, you wacky bastard!

 

[Qky75]

Lust is the one that gets me every time

IKR? Every time the table next to me has better food than me, I catch myself staring.

 

[MandaPandaa]

In the older list, they had tristitia, which got retranslated later as "envy." It actually meant "sadness" or "depression." John the Ascetic, you wacky bastard!

Wait so sadness/depression is a deadly sin?

 

[UnquietDreams]

According to early Catholics, yes. The list isn't Biblical.

 

[crazychemgirl]

IKR? Every time the table next to me has better food than me, I catch myself staring.

I love seeing what other people order at restaurants

 

[UnquietDreams]

I love seeing what other people order at restaurants

And then taking a bite when they are distracted!

What?

 

[Qky75]

I love seeing what other people order at restaurants

Oh there's no harm in the looking. It's the letting the want marinate in your mind, seeing yourself getting to do what that man is doing to that pie.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Wait so sadness/depression is a deadly sin?

Gonna get explainy, heh.

Originally there were nine, not sins but "bad thoughts," per Horace, three each of physical, mental, and emotional. Later list got down to 8 (gluttony, prostitution, greed, sadness, wrath, acedia (apathy, more or less), boasting, and arrogance), and they dropped boasting and retranslated a bit to get it down to The Non-Magnificent Seven. But yes, this was all out of the mouths of monks, not the Bible.

It becomes a bit of fascinating Western culture, in art, literature, and everything. Well, fascinating to me...

 

[MandaPandaa]

Gonna get explainy, heh.

Originally there were nine, not sins but "bad thoughts," per Horace, three each of physical, mental, and emotional. Later one got down to 8 ( gluttony, prostitution, greed, sadness, wrath, acedia (apathy, more or less), boasting, and arrogance), and they dropped boasting and retranslated a bit to get it down to the seven. But yes, this was all out of the mouths of monks, not the Bible.

It becomes a bit of fascinating Western culture, in art, literature, and everything. Well, fascinating to me...

Very interesting...

Last night I was watching Terms of Endearment with my kids and my son told me that if I ever got cancer and died he would not want to be around anymore. I told him I'd be watching from heaven to make sure he didn't do anything and my daughter piped in and said, "mom, we all know you'll be in hell."

I'm glad they know me well enough to know that I'd never want to be in heaven. That list looks like a day in the life to me.

 

[Bry1313]

 

[Qky75]

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Taking notes

 

[UnquietDreams]

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Ow...

 

[LostHorizon]

One of my two Christmas themed shirts.

Yes, l look like this most days minus the green skin.

 

[LostHorizon]

Wait so sadness/depression is a deadly sin?

Only if it leads to jealousy. Like if you get sad or depressed because you don’t have what someone else does so you covet it. Which is also a Ten Commandments no no.

Very interesting...

Last night I was watching Terms of Endearment with my kids and my son told me that if I ever got cancer and died he would not want to be around anymore. I told him I'd be watching from heaven to make sure he didn't do anything and my daughter piped in and said, "mom, we all know you'll be in hell."

I'm glad they know me well enough to know that I'd never want to be in heaven. That list looks like a day in the life to me.

Which leads us to Dante’s Inferno. A place dedicated to hyper sexed lustful people. Their punishment being they are never satisfied while they are there for eternity. I don’t remember the details, it’s been a while since I read it and now I will have to go look it up.

If that’s true we are all screwed. Although not as bad as what awaits the really bad people.

 

[Wriggle]

Apologies to drag it back to British food - my wife and son are watching Friends and Rachel is making an English trifle

 

[Wriggle]

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I wish I was nasty enough to write that sometimes

 

[UnquietDreams]

Only if it leads to jealousy. Like if you get sad or depressed because you don’t have what someone else does so you covet it. Which is also a Ten Commandments no no.

Sort of? As I remember, Evagrius cribbed from Horace's logismoi, but the Orthodox Church is the one who changed it from depression to "depression based on envy." Which got tied into "covet not," but was still originally '"don't be depressed." Angela Tilby has an excellent book on the subject that I read last summer.

Which leads us to Dante’s Inferno. A place dedicated to hyper sexed lustful people. Their punishment being they are never satisfied while they are there for eternity. I don’t remember the details, it’s been a while since I read it and now I will have to go look it up.

If that’s true we are all screwed. Although not as bad as what awaits the really bad people.

Dante wrote one of the most popular self-insert fanfics ever, and it rewrote how people see the afterlife. The Bible describes hell as eternal separation from God, and that is it. Everything else we see came from Dante and Milton -- level and layers, a massive, winged Satan as the ruler, sinners punished, flame and/or ice, fighting, all of it.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Sort of? As I remember, Evagrius cribbed from Horace's logismoi, but the Orthodox Church is the one who changed it from depression to "depression based on envy." Which got tied into "covet not," but was still originally '"don't be depressed." Angela Tilby has an excellent book on the subject that I read last summer.

Dante wrote one of the most popular self-insert fanfics ever, and it rewrote how people see the afterlife. The Bible describes hell as eternal separation from God, and that is it. Everything else we see came from Dante and Milton -- level and layers, a massive, winged Satan as the ruler, sinners punished, flame and/or ice, fighting, all of it.

Ftr, this is the right amount of explainy in my book. Thank you sir!

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Dante wrote one of the most popular self-insert fanfics ever, and it rewrote how people see the afterlife. The Bible describes hell as eternal separation from God, and that is it. Everything else we see came from Dante and Milton -- level and layers, a massive, winged Satan as the ruler, sinners punished, flame and/or ice, fighting, all of it.

I learned everything I know about Hell and the Abyss from Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

 

[SWR101]

 

[MandaPandaa]

I wish I was nasty enough to write that sometimes

Just do it...

 

[Bry1313]

If that’s true we are all screwed. Although not as bad as what awaits the really bad people.

I’m not going to pretend I know any basic truths about the universe but I’m 100% certain that Dante’s revenge porn is not the truth of what awaits anyone. We are good.