Name Your Sin

[threadwalker]

The list of the 7 deadly sins or 7 sinful thoughts changed over time. I pulled the one I'm most familiar with, which is a modern Catholic list, and inserted a few alternates from other lists in parenthesis.

gluttony
lust (extravagence/unrestrained excess)
greed
wrath
sloth (despair)
envy
pride

Most of us will admit that we have 'weaknesses' or 'areas of improvement'. I'll call a spade a spade and admit that one of the items on this list has been something I've struggled with all my life. I've certainly allowed myself to fall victim to all of them at one point or another, but one has been an overall theme.

So I'm curious if anyone else has put thought into this. I'll share mine if you'll share yours.... (mine is going to be enbedded in a comment as soon as I have a lunch break and the time to write something)

Comments

[colletteshorses.livejournal.com]

Despair is definitely the issue I struggle with the most.

From there, I have tendencies toward gluttony.

I do see some small amounts of greed and envy, these aren't really so much for money as they are based on security and happiness. (Greed to have enough money to be secure in a comfortable lifestyle, and to expect others to actively work to make their lives better, rather than wanting me to support every bum on the street who is wearing new clothes and has a $1000 bicycle locked up under a nearby bridge; and envy of the traits people have, or the experiences they have had, which give them a potential I want to have but don't see ever having in myself.)

For wrath, I do get angry, since I am human, but a person has to work hard to get on my hit list (there are several people who have worked hard to be on the list of people I will never trust, and then there are the few people who have worked really hard to injure me, either physically or, more often, mentally, and those people are on the never to be tolerated list). However, there are not many people on these two lists. I'm not sure if I need two hands to count all the people on both lists. Thus, I don't think this counts as very wrathful.