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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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The seven deadly sins are all things that have a serious negative impact on you and your life if you give into them too much. They’re all very general habits/feelings/desires that most people feel/experience which can lead you to hurt yourself and/or others, and haste/impatience checks both those boxes.

And I suppose as “sins” they’re supposed to lead you to do “un-Christian” things, but impatience probably does that more than sloth, right? Like you’re much more likely to hurt yourself and/or others if you do things fast without thinking than you are by just sitting and doing nothing all day.

I guess all of the sins are also all some form of carelessness too which also applies to being hasty or impatient.

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[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Both haste and impatience are considered to be manifestations of wrath. Also a lack of patience, which is a virtue

[–] Pirtatogna@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All of these seem to have very little effect in how (christian) people actually live their lives. More words, still so little action.

[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

The Christians who live by their principles generally are fairly discreet in doing so, both because that's one of their principles and because they're embarrassed by the ones who don't.

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Very little critical thought went in to the construction of that belief system. Its results can safely be discarded.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Has nothing to do with ops point and probably isn't true anyhow. But look at that, you got your jab in.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

https://www.lesswrong.com/w/chesterton-s-fence

Very little critical thought went in to the construction of that belief system.

What's your argument for that?

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It’s a system of morality utterly based on magical thinking that begins with the dubious requirement of faith in the existence of an omnipotent creator, a laughable and absurd premise that to me at least, invalidates most of its subsequent conclusions.

I would hazard a guess that that most Christians would say that the sins are commandments from God, who purposely omitted the “sin of haste” for reasons that cannot be comprehended by man and that you should go read your bible. What I would recommend instead is to continue the ethical line of thinking about the harms of haste, look for real world examples, and seek out what other ethical thinkers have to say on the issue instead of trying to fit that exploration within the context of an arbitrary belief system that encourages you not to think at all.

I find Christian “ethics” to make much more sense when understood as an autocratic system of power rather than one that is trying to grapple with what it means to be “good”.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

So you're saying that an all powerful God who created everything needed to come up with a convoluted way to game the system of sacrifice that he created, by splitting himself into a human form, sending that form to Earth, and brutally executing him, in order to "save" humanity (from the threat he created btw)? Also, he's all loving, but if you don't literally worship him, you will burn for all eternity.

To you that seems rooted in critical thought?

[–] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No, not that summary.

(Please excuse that quip)

There is a difference between the usage of the story as explanation of the physical reality and as a way of interacting with the spiritual reality.

Law works because we assume free will while there is not much room for it. Similarly, a society can be constructed by telling more elaborate stories. Those stories don't have to be true but they can be formed by many hours of critical thought.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

spiritual reality

Is an oxymoron

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

and as a way of interacting with thoughts.

Better?

But then, are numbers real?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago

Numbers are actually useful. And no, not all of them are real.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I agree. I have suffered immensely as a result of impatience.

[–] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

Arrghh, I said pull the beads out slowly!

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Can confirm; impatience has caused a lot of problems for me

[–] IlmariGanander@lemmy.wtf 1 points 6 months ago

Sloth is another word for neglect.

And sustained neglect can do terrible things.

Think a parent watching TV or playing with their phone and their child suffering from their inaction.

"I'll do it tomorrow" can have huge repercussions when the thing needing tending is important.