>
> 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
>
Or our knee-jerk peaceniks
>
> 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,
>
or one who refuses to own his own erroneous assertions when
subsequent events prove them to be erroneous,
>
> 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


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