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  • #31
    Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
    IIRC, the "sloth" that was listed among the so-called seven deadly sins originally meant what today is understood as depression rather than laziness.
    Not true...

    That's what
    - She

    Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
    - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

    I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
    - Stephen R. Donaldson

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    • #32
      Feel better soon!
      "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

      "Forgiveness is the way of love." Gary Chapman

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      • #33
        Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
        Not true...

        Looking into while most sources liken it to depression they are usually careful to say that it is distinct from clinical depression requiring medical attention

        I'm always still in trouble again

        "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
        "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
        "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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        • #34
          Originally posted by Christianbookworm View Post
          Apathy?
          Despondency, per John Climacus. Passionlessness is a virtue.
          Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom

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          I recommend you do not try too hard and ...research as little as possible. Such weighty things give me a headache. - Shunyadragon, Baha'i apologist

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          • #35
            I feel amazing right now. My body is still sore as heck but my mind is clear in a way it hasn't been for about 15 to 20 years
            "Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ." - That Guy Everyone Quotes

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            • #36
              "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

              "Forgiveness is the way of love." Gary Chapman

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              My Novella blog (Current Novella Begins on 7/25/14)

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              • #37
                Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                Looking into while most sources liken it to depression they are usually careful to say that it is distinct from clinical depression requiring medical attention
                My point was that the sloth pictured was actually the deadly sin "Ninja Sloth"
                That's what
                - She

                Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
                - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

                I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
                - Stephen R. Donaldson

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by hamster View Post
                  I feel amazing right now. My body is still sore as heck but my mind is clear in a way it hasn't been for about 15 to 20 years
                  Who did you say you were again?



























                  Securely anchored to the Rock amid every storm of trial, testing or tribulation.

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by hamster View Post
                    I feel amazing right now. My body is still sore as heck but my mind is clear in a way it hasn't been for about 15 to 20 years
                    Praise God!
                    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by hamster View Post
                      I feel amazing right now. My body is still sore as heck but my mind is clear in a way it hasn't been for about 15 to 20 years

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                      • #41
                        Excellent!
                        βλέπομεν γὰρ ἄρτι δι᾿ ἐσόπτρου ἐν αἰνίγματι, τότε δὲ πρόσωπον πρὸς πρόσωπον·
                        ἄρτι γινώσκω ἐκ μέρους, τότε δὲ ἐπιγνώσομαι καθὼς καὶ ἐπεγνώσθην.

                        אָכֵ֕ן אַתָּ֖ה אֵ֣ל מִסְתַּתֵּ֑ר אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מוֹשִֽׁיעַ׃

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                        • #42
                          Great news

                          I'm always still in trouble again

                          "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                          "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                          "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by hamster View Post
                            I feel amazing right now. My body is still sore as heck but my mind is clear in a way it hasn't been for about 15 to 20 years
                            Yes, but the question we all want to know the answer to is - can you remember the Obama administration?

                            I don't think you can truly be happy until you can't.

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                            • #44
                              Hallelujah.

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                              • #45
                                Good to hear. Looking forward to more good news.
                                A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
                                George Bernard Shaw

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