Jus' Tawkin to Muhsef

Luxuria (extravagance, later lust), Gula (gluttony), Avaritia (greed), Acedia (sloth), Ira (wrath), Invidia (envy), and Superbia (pride).

Do these sound familiar? Do you see them practiced on a regular basis by those who are considered the powerful? And isn't it ironic they are the same people who profess the loudest that they are christians?

I'm getting to the point that I don't even like to read the blogs because they enhance my depression. For some time I have decided that I don't like human interaction much simply because the animal is holistically unable to rise above it's base ability to practice evil. I know there are a few (definitely a minority) that make the effort to be better people but it is also a fact that we remember the negative 10 times over the positive.

Which brings me to another troubling reason why I feel resistance to engaging in human interaction to any depth: we are easily manipulated, duped, and otherwise foolishly blinded by said sins. We want to believe that our 'leaders' (be they governmental, business or otherwise) have our best interests at heart. We want to trust that they would not wantonly manipulate information and/or emotions to accommodate their needs but we know different. So we either choose to engage in outright denial or become highly cynical.

I fear that we are seeing the apocalypse of our own making, not one that's supernatural (although that has been one of the best responsibility requsers for 2 millenia). And they involve these simple seven sins.

Eat, drink, and be merry; for tomorrow we die.