Notes - the species sometimes makes me tired

         I am thinking about our present politics and how argument appears to evoke at least one of the traditional seven deadly sins (pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony and sloth) and one or more of the following logical fallacies: over-generalization, thin-wedge, name calling, cause & effect, false analogy, appeal to authority, statistics misused, appeal to the crowd, circular argument, self-evident truth, black or white, and guilt by association. – As the author Kurt Vonnegut proclaims in a slightly different context in one of my favorite books, Slaughterhouse-Five, “So it goes.”

         Checking Wikipedia I see that now there are seven holy virtues. This is I did not know.

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Each of the seven deadly sins now also has an opposite among corresponding seven holy virtues (sometimes also referred to as the contrary virtues). In parallel order to the sins they oppose, the seven holy virtues are humility, charity, kindness, patience, chastity, temperance, and diligence.

Wikipedia

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         I like the concept as it brings an order to the universe of metaphysics. Sadly, I wonder why it is we crave such order? Is it for knowledge or a supposedly understanding? In either case it appears to be connected to our basic moral sense of fairness and/or justice. If such a perceived moral sense is innate, what does this say about our species? I swing down to Golding’s Lord of the Flies and across to Slaughterhouse Five. What a themed pendulum with a return to Lord of the Flies. So, is the gear work of this biological/species ‘clock’ forever to move our face in an existential mode? A four-faced clock tower with no exit. It is no wonder the species invented hope, it had/has no choice but to do so. There is a humor in this, a long shadowed lingering humor, but humor nonetheless. It can’t stay for long in consciousness though timeless here it sits with a slight and clever grin.

         You are the very sunshine beyond the clouds today, boy. Such an enlightenment. - Amorella


          I hope a good night's sleep will help. 


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