Sins
By Tiffany
Sect of the Horned God Member
“Satanism advocates indulging in each of these ‘sins’ as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification.” -Anton LaVey
The sins being referred to are the seven deadly sins: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Here I will discuss three of these “sins” and how they are actually good for you.
Lust. This seems to be one of the biggest ‘no-no’s’ out of all the rest. For clarification, we’re not talking about whoring around with no intention of physical pleasure. What we are talking about is feeling good and recognizing that undeniable, uncontrollable feeling of wanting someone, sexually, of needing them to make you feel good and you returning the favor.
This situation doesn’t just happen suddenly as both parties need to be feeling the same way about each other to capture a lustful experience. Certain things need to be in order, such as where you are, how you’re feeling etc.. For example, if you’ve just finished an 8 hour shift at work, it’s pouring rain, your bus is late, and you forgot your umbrella, chances are are pretty good that if you see a good looking guy/girl lust wouldn’t even enter your mind.
But lets say you’re laying on the beach. and see that same person from the bus. Only this time the situation is in agreement with the feelings. You like how they look and you can’t stop staring, and they come over asking if they can join you. Perfect recipe for a truly lustful experience. Lust is the yearning for physical gratification. If it feels good and you hurt no one, go for it. Just in case my opinion isn’t enough included are a couple of links to peruse:
Envy. Envy is a motivator. Very simply, if you see something (or someone for that matter) that you want, you do what you have to do to get it (without sacrificing yourself) For example if you see someone with a car that you want you wouldn’t steal it because it would be sacrificing yourself to either jail or worse if the owner catches you. So instead you may get a job, open up a bank account to save your money and when you have enough you buy the car. Perhaps without seeing this person in the car, your mind would have neglected the motivating factor it needed, thus this achievement never would have taken place. But since it did and you now possess the car, it leads us into the third ‘sin’ pride.
Now after setting and meeting goals, and finally reaping the rewards, you feel pretty good about yourself. And you should! Having a sense of pride builds up confidence as it allows a person to believe in herself. In your mind you may say “I did it!” which in turn plants the seed of “If I did that, then I know I can do (insert goal)…” So the next time your goal may be set a little higher knowing the feeling of pride would intensify. Pride doesn’t mean your nose is constantly in the sky or your attitude is woefully arrogant, but rather feeling good about yourself. There is nothing wrong with that.
I don’t understand how pride has gotten misconstrued into a sin. Is it because people think of pride and being vain are the same things? They are not.
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” -Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Concerning the Sins, I think these feelings were disguised as immoral to create a sense of fear. When fear is created control is possible. Each of the seven deadly sins are unavoidable and in most cases uncontrollable. Doesn’t this also make them natural?
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