[lbo-talk] Individualism and psychiatric treatment

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 13:40:58 PST 2010


Chris Doss: You really have no clue what being unto death means. It's really weird, like seeing a donkey trying to count.

^^^^^ CB: You might be losing points for the Rapture.

See Pride/Vainglory

Seven deadly sins

3 The sins 3.1 Extravagance 3.2 Lust 3.3 Gluttony 3.4 Greed 3.5 Acedia 3.6 Despair 3.7 Sloth 3.8 Wrath 3.9 Envy 3.10 Pride 3.11 Vainglory

Pride Main article: Pride In almost every list Pride (Latin, superbia), or hubris, is considered the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins, and indeed the ultimate source from which the others arise. It is identified as a desire to be more important or attractive than others, failing to acknowledge the good work of others, and excessive love of self (especially holding self out of proper position toward God). Dante's definition was "love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbor." In Jacob Bidermann's medieval miracle play, Cenodoxus, pride is the deadliest of all the sins and leads directly to the damnation of the titulary famed Parisian doctor. In perhaps the best-known example, the story of Lucifer, pride (his desire to compete with God) was what caused his fall from Heaven, and his resultant transformation into Satan. In Dante's Divine Comedy, the penitents were forced to walk with stone slabs bearing down on their backs in order to induce feelings of humility.

[edit] Vainglory Main article: Vainglory Vainglory (Latin, vanagloria) is unjustified boasting. Pope Gregory viewed it as a form of pride, so he folded vainglory into pride for his listing of sins.

The Latin term gloria roughly means boasting, although its English cognate - glory - has come to have an exclusively positive meaning; historically, vain roughly meant futile, but by the 14th century had come to have the strong narcissistic undertones, of irrelevant accuracy, that it retains today.[11] As a result of these semantic changes, vainglory has become a rarely used word in itself, and is now commonly interpreted as referring to vanity (in its modern narcissistic sense).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins



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