Avarice

A list sins: Pride, Anger, Sloth
B list sins: Lust, Envy, Avarice, Covetousness

The A-list are all TOTALLY DISTINCT. The B-list all kinda blur into one another: they're basically just variants on "wanting stuff", and you could surely get away with just three of them, maybe even ONE at a push (use lust more than just sexually and it does the lot). So is this a "seven better than six" deal or WHAT IS IT? Four is just as good as seven, to my way of thinking, and so they're BOTH better than six (and five isn't actually a number at all, as you know).

Pride, Anger, Sloth, Lust: much more concise and powerful. And less Benny Hill-ish, too.

Especially non-benny hill-ish = the bit where Ally lusts after her own ass

I thought it was greed for money.

I thought is was like " heya howa you doin? havarice! its a nicea chinese fooda!"

Hey I am GOD here, I get to post about all the deadly sins. ;-)

Nathalie, you're not even worth as much as the dirt the rest of us walk on.

From the Catholic Encylopedia . ( the online one , my print edition is prior to V2)

Avarice Avarice (from Lat. avarus, "greedy"; "to crave") is the inordinate love for riches. Its special malice, broadly speaking, lies in that it makes the getting and keeping of money, possessions, and the like, a purpose in itself to live for. It does not see that these things are valuable only as instruments for the conduct of a rational and harmonious life, due regard being paid of course to the special social condition in which one is placed. It is called a capital vice because it has as its object that for the gaining or holding of which many other sins are committed. It is more to be dreaded in that it often cloaks itself as a virtue, or insinuates itself under the pretext of making a decent provision for the future. In so far as avarice is an incentive to injustice in acquiring and retaining of wealth, it is frequently a grievous sin. In itself, however, and in so far as it implies simply an excessive desire of, or pleasure in, riches, it is commonly not a mortal sin.

Just as well its not a mortal sin since the Roman Catlick Church has been pretty much up to it since its foundation.

Hey, Voice of Reason, I was joking!

that and simony. i really cannot defend the churches history.

mark s: The B-list all kinda blur into one another: they're basically just variants on "wanting stuff"

Aye. I'm having trouble working out which one's which, so while I'm a big fan of the whole "wanting stuff" thing I have to plump for "sloth" as my favourite sin just because it's less confusing. Mind you, sloth = pure rock. And ai = variety of sloth with unusual number of toes = classycke Scrabble/Wordox two-letter word, and two- letter words = path to Scrabble victory. Well, that and knowing lots of big words and thinking fast, but I can't do that bit, memorising two-letter words is easier.

(also if you pronounce it to rhyme with "cloth" yr mouth comes to pieces...)

how does it?

try and see (out loud, mind)

yeh, i did before i posted the question. is this another thing about me being unable to say Carl - ie my Scottishness? All Scotland's Carls = Carols.

oh yeah, it is!! cz you say the "o" in cloth longer than englanders (southern region): try saying it brit-posh and clipped (not that i talk like that, it just magnifies the effect)