The seven Deadly Sins used to be 8 !

Apparently the seven deadly sins were written by a monk who was exiled into an Egyptian desert because he was having an affair with an aristocrats wife. This monk, who has a long ass name, was without the company of anyone for a very long time before writing the list.

The seven deadly sins were never printed in the bible but in Dante Alighieri's "Inferno."

Now think about this: I was watching something on the History Channel today about the coming about of the prison system around the world. Seems that when this system first opened its doors to bad people these people were left alone...alone in their cells, alone to eat, never getting the company of another human being. The narrator of this show continued to tell me (the watcher) that most of these prisoners went crazy for the lack of emotional and physical stimulation which is why we integrate prisoners with one another now.

So what does this say about that first guy I mentioned? Think about it: alone for long periods of time = insanity. Alone for long periods of time gives a person the time to be inside his/her own head where left without contact of other human conversation = a cycle of thoughts that never leave the brain, that never find syllables.

I've always been a seeker of truth and information. I read a lot about anything that interests me, but I've learned that if one can't express these thoughts and talk about them with someone these thoughts are often irrational (which is why I have to verbally hear my thoughts in order to see if they make sense).

So apparently, millions of people around the world feel guilty or shameful because of their own human desires. I am one of those people. A scholar on the show quoted Mary: "there is no such thing as sin." So I ask you, my reader, what do you believe? If there is one thing that I learned from my Literature studies is "believe nothing that you read." Well, you can believe it if you want to , but you must always remember, the older the texts the better chance you get for misinterpretation in its translation over the years.

So a deprived monk, who had sex with someone's wife went crazy from being alone too long and feeling guilty about what he had done wrote a list that some how got into the hands of a poet. That poet wrote a book and the church accepted it as their own. Typical!

So no matter if this is true or not, it's true for me that nothing written can be taken at face value. Not even this blog!

Oh yeah, the 8th Deadly Sin was, get this, "sadness!" So in order to be a true child of God all we had to do is feel...nothing except guilt for thinking about how we feel!

Any thoughts?