Acedia by gavincci

Acedia

Deadly Sin : SLOTH

These sins are called sins because they supposedly destroy the charity in a person's heart and thus may lead to eternal death.

Sloth is defined as spiritual or emotional apathy, neglecting what God has spoken, and being physically and emotionally inactive. Acedia is a Latin word, from Greek ἁκηδείᾱ, meaning "Carelessness".
Sloth can also indicate a wasting due to lack of use, concerning a person, place, thing, skill, or intangible ideal that would require maintenance, refinement, or support to continue to exist.

The sin of sloth in Bible


Lazy person falls prey to poverty
Ridiculously indolent and a lover of sleep, the lazy person sees lions all over the street (overestimating the difficulty of getting a job or working); his desires ″kill″ him because ″his hands refuse twhatever o labour″, and his path becomes a ″hedge of thorns″ ... while he is wiser than seven sensible men in his own eyes. .... His household becomes a real ruin and he falls prey to his ″want″ (scarcity) coming like an armed person and in the end to poverty, coming upon him like a robber. The sluggard (lazy person) will share this fate with the talkative persons, with dreamers that ″watch the wind″ or ″regard the clouds″ and with those who ″chase fantasies″ (follow worthless pursuits).


The employed lazy person and the rich lazy person
If, however, this lazy person is the type that, eventually, ″takes his food to mouth″ (because there is a type of lazy person who doesn’t even take his food to mouth) and has a job, he is like ″vinegar to the teeth″ and ″smoke to the eyes″ for those who send him with any task. If the sluggard is rich, he should avoid getting that lazy insensitiveness of the chief people of Zion, that delight themselves in every way possible, and whom the prophet Amos predicted they would become slaves.


The lazy person leaves God's gifts unused
The wicked, worthless servant, that buries his talent in the ground, instead of investing the money with the banker, i.e. one who disregards God's gift, leaving it unused, is also lazy. His talent will be taken from him and will be given to the one who has 10 talents and the worthless servant is thrown into the darkness of hell, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (See the parable of the talents.)


The lazy person breaks again the commandments of God
Whoever is lazy (slack) in his work becomes brother to one who destroys (meaning The Evil-One, the devil because the devil is murderer) for the second time He breaks again the command of God, Who sent him to work this time, for not obeying God, Who forbids them to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.


The growth of the virtues is the enemy of laziness
The Christian must not become sluggish (lazy), but be a zealous follower of those who ″inherit the promises″ because the growth of the virtues makes the laziness go away.

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“Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues”

~Benjamin Franklin

“Moderation cannot claim the merit of opposing and overcoming Ambition: they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and sloth of the soul, Ambition its activity and heat.”

~ François de la Rochefoucauld

Fantastic
October 19th, 2011  
awesome
October 19th, 2011  
A good photo choice,and nice processing too.
October 19th, 2011  
very cool
October 19th, 2011  
So magical and beautiful! love this so much!
October 23rd, 2011  
Insightful.
November 12th, 2011  
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