Noutakun Posts

Unfortunately It's the same here. Please forgive me but I've already been roped into hosting my own room on an rp server (I get no time to go elsewhere ._.)..But.. If you ever want to check out the place I'm at they already have somethings similar taking place in other rooms. That is if you'd ever like another option or if that doesn't get rolling for you..I know my home there would be quite accepting.

Aside from that, wow Noutakun didn't actually know you'd played, never would have taken you for an rper. Guess I've not been spending enough time on the forums.

*curiosity strikes*
what can a Man do, that a Woman can't?

This is why I have a hard time tolerating guys irl ;p Because of shitty responses like that.

And yes, a good sense of humor and confidence means a lot. Sometimes if your innards are attractive, it radiates to the outside and makes you seem attractive.

But 'even if you're the funniest girl around and exude in confidence, if you're ugly, we won't touch you' <- that is why I detest the male gender and have a hard time dating. I don't trust your kind ;p

Before I venture into discussion, I want to establish one thing. Sin, in the Christian sense, basically damns one to hell. To commit sin is to get oneself to hell, and forgo divine salvation in favor of the influences of the flesh and death.

Has anyone read Dante's Divine Comedy? It provides a lot of insight into the nature of Christian sin. In part one, Inferno, he splits Hell into nine concentric circles, each catering for a different type of sin under three broad groups: Incontinence, Violence, and Fraud. All those who are punished outside the City of Dis have sinned on Incontinence. Out of the seven deadly sins, this would clearly include three of them (Lust, Gluttony, and Greed), but Dante also punishes the slovenly and the wrathful outside Dis.

According to Dante, Incontinence, while still a sin, results from our inability to control the desires of the flesh (which, if you know anything about Christianity, is where sin acts on all through death). Thus, the incontinent turn away from God and succumb to Satan, and are punished in hell for this. A non-religious explanation as to why incontinence is bad is the lack of self-restraint, allowing our base desires to dominate our reason. This is bad for two reasons. One, it is evidence of a flawed personality. Two, it breaks down social order and stability if uncontrolled. For example, lust can cause adultery and rape, and greed causes disputes and can lead to worse things, such as envy from another person. Gluttony I'm not too sure, because you can't really say it harms anyone else (let's assume the glutton has more than enough food, and this food doesn't need to be fed to anyone else; is gluttony really that bad now?). I'll settle for the fact that gluttony is a sign of a flawed personality, an inability to control one's appetite.

The sin of Sloth is more than just laziness. It is a serious form of apathy, one that turns you away from God. The slovenly basically lose hope for everything and don't care about what is happening in their own world or in heaven. You don't have to be lazy to be a sloth; you qualify as one if you just don't give a shit about anything, including getting to heaven, which qualifies it as a sin. On a non-religious standpoint, the slothful are bad because they don't contribute to society. However, again, it is not clear whether a sloth would really affect anyone else, as with gluttony.

Wrath is more serious. It refers to uncontrolled anger and/or hate, and can lead to violence. Dante punishes the simply wrathful outside the City of Dis, but within Dis, in the seventh bolga, God punishes the violent. In other words, anger by itself is not that serious (probably because anger by itself can have nothing to do with self-interest), but the violence that results from anger is very serious indeed. It is interesting that Dante punishes the suicidal very, very severely, because he sees suicide as violence towards oneself.

And we have the last two deadly sins, envy and pride. These two have been regarded as the most serious of the seven because, unlike incontinence, it does not involve the succumbing of the spirit (reason) to the flesh (desires, apathy, anger): it also involves corruption of the spirit. In other words, envy and pride is voluntary: the envious and the proud were not simply overpowered by something, but chose to sin.

Envy is an enhanced form of jealousy. It does not overlap with greed because greed is concerned with what you already have and is thus incontinence, while envy is concerned with what someone else has and you do not. Thus, envy can be interpreted as hatred against God for being unfair. Envy results in violence and fraud: for example, a jealous husband may murder his wife and her lover. People may swindle money and property away from the rich. Robbery can result. The detrimental quality of envy can be seen from the fact that the earliest civilizations on Earth made laws against jealousy. For example, one of the Ten Commandments prohibits the coveting of property of one's neighbors.

Pride can be described as irrational belief in one's own superiority. What makes pride so serious is not only the fact that it is voluntary, but also it is wholly concerned with oneself. Christian doctrine teaches strongly against pride. The religious explanation of why pride is bad is because by elevating yourself you, at the same time, devalue God's position as the omnipotent creator. Satan himself was punished for his pride, his belief that he could defeat God, his own creator. However, pride, when examined in non-religious terms, is not really that serious. Pride in moderation, confidence, can be conducive to success, and a certain amount of pride in humanity is definitely required for us to delve into the secrets of nature and advance science and technology. For example, there existed absolute humility to God during the Early Middle Ages, resulting an absolute standstill in the advancement of science and technology. Excessive pride (for example, cocky bastards) can be annoying, but in the end it's nothing serious. Hurt pride can result in violence or fraud, but, when taken in perspective of the possible consequences of the effect of the other deadly sins on humanity, it definitely does not deserve the position as the most serious of the seven deadly sins.

Ugh, seems like I went ahead and wrote an essay on FAKKU. What a way to start the New Year eh. >_>