That it is easier to remember the Virtues than the Sins?

Or perhaps you can remember one sin and not the others?  I can always remember apathy, and I think that is mostly because ends the same way as empathy.  I think that those two get a bit memetically entertwined for that reason in addition to the fact that empathy and apathy do seem to make interesting opposites.  Empathy Apathy, Apathy Empathy.  Probably we can imagine scenarios in which they don't form opposites, but why bother? ;-)  :::Jake shrugs empathically:::

Of course being the scheming bastard I am, I realize that it might make some sense to really learn the Sins so I can pull them out of the hat faster and better than other Virians who may fall prey to too much virtuous thinking.  heh! :-)  I dream up mnemonic devices, but I find myself resisting them on intellectual grounds.  No, I can't learn some gimmick to get me by on this one, I insist to myself.  When I remember each sin, I want to really remember the concept and think about it in a sinful way.  Perhaps even imagine how somebody might commit that sin.  And that takes some effort to really remain true to the task. Hypocrisy, and Dogmatism.  Certainly we have our wardogs to provide some common examples of dogmatism.  I also feel myself beginning to like thinking of hatred as dogmatic anger.  And for Hypocrisy I think of really humorless fuck who wouldn't think twice about going back on his word and can spontaneously rationalize doing so in under ten seconds, and then I wonder if he has something wooden and square shoved up his ass, like the business end of an ankh or a cross.

Love,

-Jake