Resisting Grace

[Ian Livingston]

A little too quick a leap to the old dialectical approach for me there.
When you say sloth these days, you automatically set it up against
ambition, or some such extreme of activity in the name of 'productivity'.
But then there's always that nasty excluded middle that ole Pynchon's
always on about, or the transcendent next step that ole Nietzsche was
always touting....


On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 4:23 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Yeah....that old Protestant Ethic contains, as notion, that we work very hard
> to prove we are saved.
> how do we reconcile?...
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>   *From:* David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> *To:* "bandwraith at aol.com" <bandwraith at aol.com>
> *Cc:* "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:29 PM
> *Subject:* Re: Resisting Grace
>
>  So if we accept that sloth ain't good, we next have to ask, Sloth versus
> What?
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> We all need breaks now and then.  Sloth must mean taking too many breaks.
>  Some one behind that word holds a whip.
>
> On Wednesday, January 29, 2014, <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
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> "Unless the state of our souls becomes once more a subject of serious
> concern, there is little question that Sloth will continue to evolve
> away from its origins in the long-ago age of faith and miracle, when
> daily life really was the Holy Ghost visibly at work and time was a
> story, with a beginning, middle and end. Belief was intense, engagement
> deep and fatal. The Christian God was near. Felt. Sloth -- defiant
> sorrow in the face of God's good intentions -- was a deadly sin.
>
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> Perhaps the future of Sloth will lie in sinning against what now seems
> increasingly to define us -- technology. Persisting in Luddite sorrow,
> despite technology's good intentions, there we'll sit with our heads in
> virtual reality, glumly refusing to be absorbed in its idle, disposable
> fantasies, even those about superheroes of Sloth back in Sloth's good
> old days, full of leisurely but lethal misadventures with the ruthless
> villains of the Acedia Squad."
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