The seven deadly sins

Dear friends,

Here's a series of posts related to the most common attitudes in society in general. The seven deadly sins reflect in a very curious way how people deal with life.
First of all, I'd like to stress that biblically, these sins are NOT considered to be deadly. As John says in his first book, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1:9) The only sin the won't be forgiven is blasfemy against the Holy Spirit - but that's pretty much enough for another post.

The first sin I'm going to talk about is PRIDE. According to http://www.deadlysins.com/sins/index.htm, pride is is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known as Vanity.

Well, it is widely known that pride is present in every society, group of people, civilization. Men tend to see themselves as independent of God and think they can all do anything they want as they want. However, it not like this.
Pride is the very smell of a society in an advanced stage of decomposition. Every person has at least once commited this sin, but just because they have doesn't mean that they're proud. But have you noticed how haughty people act? It's the most rediculous thing... and they don't even need to say a word to cause enmity to arise. The way they walk, talk, think and look down on others show their readiness for bad relationships. This problem can well affect rich, middle class or poor people. It is funny to see how they behave.

Rich people are proud of what they have. "Have you seen my new mansion by the lake? What about my last trip to Europe - have you seen the pictures?". They think they can get more privileges than others and believe their money can buy them everything, even judicial decisions. Little do they know what I know...

Middle class people now. This one is really interesting. They're too proud to be rich - criticize the way affluent people act, say that if they had such a big amount of money, they wouldn't spend it so unwisely and so on. However, they're also too proud to be poor. "Oh, what will my colleagues think if they find out my shoes aren't original?" "What will people say when they find out I didn't go to the mall because I was out of money?" "Honey, today my boss is coming to pay us a visit. Bring out the best china we have so that he won't think we're a bunch of white trash."
Little do they know what I know...

Poor people. There are some very peculiar cases in this class. Some people know they are poor and they work hard to get a better life. Others know they have no money, but accept their situation. Nevertheless, there is this group of people who neither try to improve their living nor accept their situation. If someone tries to help them by giving them clothes or food, they say they don't need this kind of assistance. When they go to the mall or somewhere they know they'll find better off people, they wear their best clothes and act arrogantly to show they too are well-off.

Little do they know what I know...

Of course, the kind of pride I talked about in today's post was the financial one, as there are so many types I could've written about.
What I know is that people worry too much about their social status and situation... they worry about what other people will think about them and they keep trying to prove they're better than others by showing off. Little do they know what I know...

And I know that all of them are equal. All of them take a dump at least once a day and it does stink! All of them need to shower or else they will smell badly... as the saying goes, "The better-ff stink, but can afford to buy perfume."

There is a popular saying in English that goes like this: "All work no play has made Jack a dull boy."
This band called "Casting Crowns" reformulated it and made it like this: "All work no play may have made Jack a dull boy, but all work no God has left Jack with a lost soul." I love the way they rewrote it because it is so true! What are people's objectives nowadays? All they want is money, fame or maybe not that, but financial stability and social status. Don't think that I have never desired such things, but what I am questioning here is people's putting these things in the first place. There are more important things in life than money and success and currently people seem to have forgotten that. How many children grow without the presence of their parents because they're working? How many felons would've been avoided if only their parents had been around and supportive? This is hard to get nowadays. The other day, I was talking to two guys telling them that when I was little I used to watch the news with my father because that's what he used to tell me when I asked him to play with me. He would say, "We'll play after the news" and I would lie down and watch the news on TV. After watching them, he would play with me. How startled was I when both of these guys said at the same time, "my father never played with me." It is so incredible... but it is real. And it has been more and more real over the past years. But most of all, parents work a lot and teach their kids to do the same. I am not saying here, dear reader, that people should not work, but that it should not be their number one priority. After kids become adults, they will go on to live empty lives and wil do same to their kids as their parents did to them. Think about it... life is much more worthy than money.

People and their bad manners...

You know when you run into someone you know and that person doesnt even pay attention to you? Sometimes it is someone you had longed to see and really missed or maybe just someone you know from a certain place. You wave at them or try to call their attention to at least have them say hi, but then they look at you and walk by or turn their faces. I've got this kind of behavior so many times that I dont care to count. That's when you see how false people are and how ridiculous they can be...
But one might say people do that because they dont see you sometimes or they have bad days sometimes. Well, i do agree with that... but the most terrible thing is when it is clear that someone pretends they didnt see you. You can get it when the person is about to walk by you and then you say "John, how are you?". And then all of a sudden, the person puts up a 'friendly' smile and and looks at you really quickly and not in the natural way when you see someone, those fractions of seconds that you take to recognize the person's face and starts to talk to you. That kills me because then it becomes obivous that the person DID see you but resolved not to talk to you. I think that from the moment you walk out your house, your social life starts and it doesnt matter if you are having a bad day... at least be polite and say hello to people you know when you run into them. Dont be a jerk...

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