Sepultura – Nuclear Seven
“In this new world, painted black. Sloth and pride and envious anger. In this new world, another mark. Excess and lust with arrogance. In this new world, without a past. Atomic shit to fuck with our heads. In this new world, that’s full of crack. Our children cry, they’re lost and mad.”
The other day, I was reading and article by François Gabriel Antoine Gagin, titled Passions in Estoicism (2005) and could find an interesting analogy to the following song:
After some general reflections on what the Greek Experience of Passion represents, the positions of Plato and Aristotle are considered and then underline, in counterpoint, the originality of Stoic Psychology.
I think by not considering the presence of an inherent irrationality to the Human Soul, both philosophers define Passion as resulting from an Error in Judgment.
This is considered as Diseases of the Soul that, in a Stoic perspective, are the passions reveal a lack of understanding and a disagreement between man and his environment, incapable of living in the present.
The Physical Discourse, propaedeutic of ethics, is revealing of virtuous conduct freed from Passions. if you analize them, from a rational point of view, we all feel negative emotions and can be called Sinners.
Let’s say we’re all Possessed!
According to Western European beliefs, a Demonic Possession is thought as a cause of Mental Disorders that have been traced through the Medieval and Early Modern Periods.
Generally Demonic Possessions appear at the rank of Antisocial Personality Disorder. Yet some Psychotherapists have gradually narrowed such idea.
Everything is linked. At this period of history, there seem to have been marked individual and cultural differences in outlook.
Nowadays, this approach is still evident in the survival of faiths that associate Demonic Possessions to Pentecostal Sects. When people act wrong, it is due to their predominance in low levels of consciousness and emotions, portrayed as the Seven Deadly Sins.
The Seven Deadly Sins
You’ll understand this concept easily by watching the movie, from 1995, Seven. It’s American crime thriller film directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker that stars Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, and John C. McGinley.
Set in an unnamed, crime-ridden city, Seven’s narrative follows disenchanted, nearly retired detective William Somerset and his newly transferred partner David Mills as they try to stop a serial killer from executing a series of murders based on the Seven Deadly Sins.
The Seven Deadly Sins are also known as the Capital Vices or the Cardinal Sins. They’re a grouping and classification of vices in Christian, particularly Catholic, teachings.
The standard list considers they are:
Pride
Greed
Wrath
Envy
Lust
Gluttony
Sloth
Lust
Lust or Lechery comes from the Latin word: luxuria. It means intense longing sexual excess or dissipation . It’s considered the intense or unbridled sexual desire that may lead to fornication.
It could be so strong it turns into adultery, rape, bestiality, and other sinful and sexual acts. On the other hand, it can also mean other forms of unbridled desire, such as for money, or power.
Henry Edward Manning thinks the impurity of Lust transforms one into “a slave of the devil.” Thomas Aquinas thinks of it as an abuse of a faculty that humans share with animals and Sins of the Flesh are less grievous than Spiritual Sins.
Gluttony
Gluttony come from the Latin word: gula. It means the overindulgence and overconsumption of anything taking you to the negative point of waste. In other words, it refers to gulp down or swallow.
Medieval church leaders such as Thomas Aquinas had a more expansive view of Gluttony. He argued it could also include an obsessive anticipation of meals and excessive fixation in delicacies and costly foods.
Greed
Henry Edward Manning, expressed Greed or Avarice “plunges a man deep into the mire of this world, so that he makes it to be his god.” It represents the demon Mammon.
Outside Christian writings, it translates into an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs, especially with respect to material wealth. Aquinas considers that, like Pride, it can lead to Evil.
Wrath
Wrath or Ira means the uncontrolled feelings of anger, rage, and even hatred that reveal themselves in the wish to seek vengeance.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states the Neutral Act of Anger becomes the Sin of Wrath when it is directed against an innocent person, when it is unduly strong or long-lasting, or when it desires excessive punishment.
In other words, “if anger reaches the point of a deliberate desire to kill or seriously wound a neighbor, it is gravely against charity; it is a mortal sin.” (CCC 2302)
Moreover, “hatred is the sin of desiring that someone else may suffer misfortune or evil and is a mortal sin when one desires grave harm.” (CCC 2302–03)
You can feel Angry when you have the sensation someone you care about has been offended. When you’re know the nature and cause of the trigerring event, when you’re certain someone else is responsible, and when you feel you can still influence the situation or cope with it, you’ll get out of control.
It’ll slave yourself.
Sloth
Sloth comes from the Latin words: Tristitia, or Acedia. It means “without care” and refers to a peculiar jumble of notions, dating from antiquity and including mental, spiritual, pathological, and physical states. It’s defined as absence of interest or habitual disinclination to exertion.
In his Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas defined sloth as “sorrow about spiritual good.” Spiritually, Acedia is thought as an affliction attending religious persons, especially monks, wherein they became indifferent to their duties and obligations to God.
Mentally, Acedia shares a number of distinctive components. Being the most important of these is affectlessness, a lack of any feeling about self or other, a mind-state that gives rise to boredom, rancor, apathy, and a passive inert or sluggish mentation.
Physically, Acedia is linked to a cessation of motion and an indifference to work; it finds expression in laziness, idleness, and indolence.
Envy
Envy or Invidia presents as an insatiable desire like Greed and Lust. It’s described as a sad or resentful covetousness towards the traits or possessions of someone else. It comes from vainglory and severs a man from his neighbor.
Thomas Aquinas considered the struggle aroused by Envy has three stages:
1) In the first stage, the envious person attempts to lower another’s reputation.
2) In the middle stage, the envious person receives either “joy at another’s misfortune.
“It gets bigger if the person succeeds in defaming the other person or if they fail, showing “grief at another’s prosperity”; the third stage is hatred. The reason is “sorrow causes hatred.”
Pride
Pride or Superbia is also known as futility. I’s seen as the original and worst of the Seven Deadly Sins on almost every list, the most demonic. Some people see it as the source of the other Capital Sins.
It was labeled the mother of all sins and has been deemed the devil’s most essential trait. In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis wriote “Pride is the anti-God” state, the position in which the Ego and the Self are directly opposed to God.
He also said: “Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.”
The Seven Heavenly Virtues
To have a clearer picture of what could mean the opposite concept of the Seven Deadly Sins, it’d be interesting if you watch Vikings: Valhalla, or simply Valhalla. The Viking culture perfectly reflects how you could feel if you ascend to heaven, which is called the Valhalla,
To let you know a little bit about it, i can tell you it’s a historical drama television series created by Jeb Stuart for Netflix that acts as a sequel to Vikings.
The eight-episode first season premiered on February 25, 2022. After announcing a 24-episode order in November 2019, it was officially renewed for a second and third season in March 2022.
To keep on describing the main topic we’re dealing with today, I must tell for some traditions, the Seven Deadly Sins contradict the Seven Heavenly Virtues. They are:
Chastity, opposing Lust
Concord, opposing Greed
Faith, opposing Gluttony
Good Works, opposing Envy
Humility, opposing Pride
Patience, opposing Wrath
Sobriety, opposing Lust
Inspiration for Artists
Many artists of the Renaissance Era and Death Metal musicians have found inspiration in the timeless themes of morality and human nature, and the Seven Deadly Sins have been a particularly fertile subject for exploration.
Within this Music Genre, Capital Sins have traditionally been depicted in a variety of ways, from allegorical representations to satirical observations of human behavior.
You can remember how Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a Flemish painter of the Renaissance, tackled this subject.
In 1557 he painted a series of woodcuts, known as the Seven Deadly Sins. This collection vividly captures the essence of each sin through a series of grotesque and comical scenes.
Sloth portrays a group of slovenly individuals sleep soundly, oblivious to the world around them. Avarice depicts a miser counting his coins with a miserly expression. Gluttony shows a gluttonous man consuming an enormous meal, oblivious to his surroundings.
You can notice the Seven Deadly Sins are discussed in treatises and depicted in paintings and sculpture decorations on Catholic churches as well as older textbooks. Doing so originated with Tertullian and continued with Evagrius Ponticus.
When someone is dirt, they get stuck to their own dark thoughts blocking their own survival. In this case, you pay too much attention to other’s success. It ruins your own balance because you Lack the Sense of Security in thissoul human existence.
Healing Empowering Music
It’s precisely what you can learn from the satyrical tone of Death Metal Lyrical Themes. The topics they deal with may include slasher film-style violence, political conflict, religion, nature, philosophy, true crime and science fiction.
Death Metal was built from the musical structure of Thrash Metal and Early Black Metal. It was a form of evolutiion. Consider Death Metal emerged during the mid-1980s, after Jeff Becerra of Possessed released their song, giving birth to the name of this Genre.
One can heal negativity by listening to this Music Genre. This Metal Subgenre is great for being aware that we are here on planet Earth.
We all share sinful human traits. Listening to it helps you focusing on solving your own issues instead of fighting delusional battles.
The song Filth Upon Filth of Soulfly explains it clearly:
“Sudden restrain
Plotting to escape
Rotting stench
Corrosion remains
I’ll never be this way again
Can I make amends
Filled inside
With the doubt
Of my mind’s eye
Filth upon filth
Persistence deceit
Filth upon filth
Consistent destiny
Suffocate
Strangle the past
Existing far beyond your own intention
Just to witness your demise
Blind to the reason why”
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