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To: average joe who wrote (53742)	8/19/2009 12:50:52 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217838

There has been a lot of theological contemplation over thousands of years. <Everything in this life boils down to jealousy.> My conclusion is that greed is the root of all evil. But more thoughtful people have enumerated the seven deadly sins or temptations. The founding sin is pride from which the others flow [they say]. In modern psychobabble, I suppose that's ego. Pride leads to envy, one of the seven. Envy is jealousy by another name. Envy seems endemic and drives the political process with most of the population using political process to get OPM and control over other people. Few are contemplative and fewer still promote Virtuous Victorian Values which are essentially targeting the seven primary temptations: sloth, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, wrath and pride. How am I doing? Sloth is regularly tempting. It's a moral hazard which comes from success against the others. The rest I have in check. The following epitaph has been suggested for me: He slept beneath the moon, he basked beneath the sun, he lived a life of going-to-do and died with nothing done. Wow cyberspace is amazing. I wondered what the source was - an instant later, here is the author of that epitaph. en.wikipedia.org Life is a constant battle of self-improvement. I have been slothful about sloth, so much energize against it. To achieve perfection I have been working on achieving humility and modesty, but have let sloth creep in while distracted. Those sins are slippery little brutes. Give me another week and I should have the whole lot nailed. Then I'll be tenth dan perfect. Humbly, modestly, but energetically and nearly perfectly, Mqurice