Acedia Allover Earth...
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From: Automutt on 6 Aug 2010 01:27 Acedia Allover Earth... by ~Automutt Acedia Allover Earth... For sure as the meek do seek; and as so many by the wayside Of Acedia I do now speak, and to which I shall never Abide. For the levels are so astounding as the sorrows of the world And so many worketh death with the theme of war unfurled. Negligence in action; bound to the depression and the giving in, Temptation here from ourselves own inward expressions sowing sin. Our apathy the bed of our thoughts as we lullaby our own suicides The vice that stalls the progress as our own deliverance now hides. http://automutt.deviantart.com/ Acedia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Acedia (also accidie or accedie, from Latin acidÄa, and this from Greek á¼ÎºÎ·Î´Î¯Î±, negligence) describes a state of listlessness or torpor, of not caring or not being concerned with one's position or condition in the world. It can lead to a state of being unable to perform one's duties in life. Its spiritual overtones make it related to but distinct from depression.[1] Acedia was originally noted as a problem among monks and other ascetics who maintained a solitary life. Description The Oxford Concise Dictionary of the Christian Church [2] defines acedia as "a state of restlessness and inability either to work or to pray". Some see it as the precursor to sloth - one of the seven deadly sins. In his sustained analysis of the vice in Q. 35 of the Second Part (Secunda Secundae) of his book Summa Theologica, theologian Thomas Aquinas identifies acedia with "the sorrow of the world" (compare Weltschmerz) that "worketh death" and contrasts it with that sorrow "according to God" described by St. Paul in 2 Cor. 7:10. For Aquinas, acedia is "sorrow about spiritual good in as much as it is a Divine good." It becomes a mortal sin when reason consents to man's "flight" (fugam) from the Divine good, "on account of the flesh utterly prevailing over the spirit." (ST, II-II, 35, 3). Acedia is essentially a flight from the world. It leads to not caring even that one does not care. The ultimate expression of this is a despair that ends in suicide. Aquinas's teaching on acedia in Q. 35 is rendered fully intelligible when read in light of his prior teaching on that to which the vice is directly opposed, charity's gifted "spiritual joy," which he explores in Q. 28 of the Secunda Secundae . As Aquinas says, "One opposite is known through the other, as darkness through light. Hence also what evil is must be known from the nature of good." (ST, I, 48, 1). The demon of acedia holds an important place in early monastic demonology and psychology. Evagrius of Pontus, for example, characterizes it as "the most troublesome of all" of the eight genera of evil thoughts. As with those who followed him, Evagrius sees acedia as a temptation, and the great danger lies in giving in to it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acedia
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