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mine is pride. i have just realised this lately and it isnt nice to acknowledge.
it is fine for me to help other people, but hell when it comes to accepting help for myself i get all 'uppity' and refuse it, even getting angry although the help offered or given is meant well and sorely needed.
i just cant seem to overcome this stumbling block of pride.
what is your 'thing'?

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

or do you hold the lot dear to your heart? hahahaha.

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

sloth...lazy answer, I know...

― DG (D_To_The_G), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

A healthy mix of gluttony and sloth.

I over-indulge on "wants" and keep procrastinating on the "needs".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i've found that sloth and envy nullify each other when taken in high enough doses

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

definitely LUST. i blame ass.

― kate, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

sloth.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the word Avarice (it's the kind of word that crops up in metal songs), and I do have alot of stuff and desire to get more stuff, but mine is probably sloth too!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

sl...

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Can someone list the options? I'm guessing I score highest on lust.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Pride
Envy
Gluttony
Lust
Anger
Greed/Avarice
Sloth

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

virtues:

Faith
Hope
Charity
Fortitude
Justice
Temperance
Prudence

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://maddys-treasure.com/images/TyBeanies/slowpoke.jpg

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

No one who's met me will believe this but it really is anger. Pride may be next.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah im thinking of adding anger to my list too.

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

All of them. :\

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sticking with lust (but not sticky with lust, you'll be glad to hear).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Does desiring oblivion = sloth? Is it possible to envy people who were never born? (genuinely curious)

― marc, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

These sins sound sexy. They are mine, all mine!!! (total greed):
Pride
Envy
Lust
Greed

I am proud of my sins. I have managed to rationalize to myself that they are all virtues in one way or another.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Definitely pride.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Ew, Martin!

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

greed + sloth = GOTH

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha MARTIN ON DA PROWL!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I said I WASN'T sticky with lust! WASN'T!

And I am not on the prowl at all (middle-aged English white guys shouldn't say 'DA' - people will only point and laugh), for the first time in a while. I have been going out with a really fabulous Italian woman for a little while now, and it is getting serious and looking like something that could really last. I'm crazy about her.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

If anyone should say 'da' it is middle-aged English white guys. Though I was a bit taken aback with Iain Sincair's freqent invokation of the term 'cashmoney' in his Lights Out. Really now.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

anger, pride, lust

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

mainly sloth, i have to push myself sometimes, perhaps a little bit of envy sometimes also

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Mine is Pride and Anger.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

didn't we prove that there are actually only four deadly sins?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

here

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

At the job I had a year ago I was feeling so many of the deadly sins I didn't know whether to consult a psychiatrist or an exorcist. :^\

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

what was your job? sexy cake tester?

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Pride + Sloth = Proth

― V, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I'm not really greedy, but as for the other 6... let's say I prefer to think of myself as well rounded.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

ANGER

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Pride + Sloth = SLIDE!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

All seven.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone who says 'all seven' obviously succumbs to GREED the most.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Sloth, lust and envy.

WE'RE USING AN INTERNET MESSAGE BOARD TO WASTE TIME, OF COURSE WE'RE ALL GOING TO SAY SLOTH.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone who says 'all seven' obviously succumbs to GREED the most.

This makes sense given the amount of CDs in the house. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Pride but only if you accept a Christian view of the world in which things now generally deemed healthy are actually v.bad. Which is quite possible.

Otherwise, sloth. And a dose of envy as a rider.

I reckon I'm fine on gluttony, anger, avarice and possibly lust.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I am currently beslothed

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

N. pride is bad because if you are proud of things that don't belong to you then you are claiming things that belong to others for yourself; if you are proud of yourself then you claim for yourself what was given by to you God, who made you. "Look at my horse!" The horse is beautiful, not you. "Look at my hair!" The hair was given to you by Kiehl's Silk Groom, not yourself. (this proves that Kiehl's Silk Groom IS God)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Pride - definitely. I really, really want to think of myself as a decent person. So then I'm like "oh but you really really care about your opinion of yourself, that's awfully proud of you, don't be proud" but this little voice says "but if you try to not be proud it's just to give yourself an excuse to be proud." catch-22!

Envy and greed - bad but much, much easier to work on.

Gluttony and sloth - well, I enjoy them.

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

if you are proud of yourself then you claim for yourself what was given by to you God, who made you.

Yeah Tracer, I know. But my point was of the seven, this is the one whose inclusion people now find it hardest to understand. Fear of God, original sin, 'we are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under your table'. Even hardcore Christians have a hard time thinking like that these days. Which could mean pride is what characterises our age.

There ain't no mention of 'self-esteem' in the Bible. Or the seven deadly sins, come to think of it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

A nice combo of sloth (Anna is right) and envy.

If I could just get up the energy I could do a better job than all of you... blurgh.

― Aaron W, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I just wanted an excuse to mention Kiehl's Silk Groom.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

put me down for sloth and gluttony

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Sluttony!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

A raging battle of pride and lust (no fancy word trick, all I can come up with is lude, which doesn't exactly have the right connotation). I do feel that I have a strong sense of justice, though (lustice?)

― webcrack (music=crack), Thursday, 5 December 2002 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

My old post, which I'd forgotten about until I followed mark's link, still applies and probably said the same thing much better. Well, except for the irksome "quaint" misspelling, ugh. But anyway.

It's between sloth and envy, and I think sloth wins. I don't agree with jones' suggestion that they cancel each other out; I do a great deal of both and I find sitting around being bitter perfectly addictive without trying to do anything about actually getting what I want. It's much more fun to pretend that other people didn't do any work to get them either and it's just that life's so unfair.

Can't be bothered with lust, far too much effort, and as soon as I get into any kind of relationship I always think, "Oh, I should probably talk to this person, except I have no life and nothing to talk about, er, maybe I'll complain about my life and hope they feel similarly obliged to pretend they care!" so I usually get the whole "yeah well maybe you'd deserve better if you'd ever DO ANYTHING" rant, which disturbs my slothful vanity. And they expect me to spend time with them instead of doing nothing! Tchah. Actually maybe if I bothered to get out of the house and Meet People I'd start reacquainting myself with the idea.

None of the virtues apply at all, you will be unsurprised to learn.

― Rebecca (reb), Thursday, 5 December 2002 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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of the seven deadly sins, which is yours?

ANGER