Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins"
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Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins"
Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins" Napsal uživatel Kloudová Štěpánka Veronika Pavlíčková The seven deadly sins: THEN AND NOW The seven deadly sins – lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride – have always been a certain border, which a good Christian would have never come across. But what makes the border today, when a majority of people are non-believers? I have decided to make a list of nowadays sins, of which are people maybe unconscious but might be suffering in the near future. I only should add that my point of view is a bit different and untraditional then readers might expect. We live in the 21 st century, which for sure have an effect on today’s sins. The following paragraphs contain the seven deadly sins which are modified into way that is more convenient for our time. 1 / 17 Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins" Napsal uživatel Kloudová Štěpánka Fast-food overeating . Gluttony in modern way with several side effects. Of course, above all fast-food is business. We pay and fast-food owners provide us with tasty meals and save our time. How convenient, isn’t it? The problem is that our body suffers – not immediately after eating a hamburger or chips, but in some time while regularly eating at fast-foods the menace of civilization diseases (obesity, heart stroke, cancer of digestive organs etc.) is coming closer and closer… Is it necessary? For me not. Even if I am hungry and the way back home is long, I buy pastry or a whole-meal roll rather than French fries soaked in fat or big cheeseburger full of empty calories – because I do not want my body suffer from my sins! 2 / 17 Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins" Napsal uživatel Kloudová Štěpánka Genetic manipulation . Though for someone it is a peak of modern science and a gate into the world of unlimited possibilities, I see genetic engineering more like a good idea with a bad base, which should be unceasingly controlled. The truth is that it is in controversy with nature. Artificial replacement of cells? Cellular multiplication like through the carbon paper?? Or even creating identical human individuals??? If nature once made a system, which works through ages up to the present day, there is no need to intervene in it and “help” it. From my point of view, it is alright 3 / 17 Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins" Napsal uživatel Kloudová Štěpánka when cloning cells helps to find a cure for so far incurable diseases, but whole organisms should definitely not be cloned. Technical addiction . As science goes constantly ahead and makes our lives easier and more comfortable, the more people get addicted to all the technical devices – although they do not realize their addiction. And I am not talking only about mobile phones without which no one leaves his house today, televisions without which many people do not know how to spend an evening, or 4 / 17 Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins" Napsal uživatel Kloudová Štěpánka the Internet – which is a chapter about itself. Some things we are addicted to are often considered as a piece of furniture, for example a fridge: it preserves food that would soon go rotten in our overheated flats and houses. Or even warm water from the tap, the light and the electricity – can anyone imagine, what would happen if all those things stopped working for one week? I cannot. Virtual identity. And the Internet once more, this time in a lead role. You 5 / 17 Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins" Napsal uživatel Kloudová Štěpánka probably know some of the get-acquainted websites, like libimseti.cz, myspace.com or facebook.com, or at least you have already come to some chat-room by chance, do you? Those communities are fine, because they associate people with the same or similar interests, and I can personally say it is nice to talk with someone who really understands your passions and hobbies and does not consider you as a fool. Well, it is OK, but 6 / 17 Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins" Napsal uživatel Kloudová Štěpánka as with everything – it is too much with a good thing. A brilliant example may be one ex-wedded pair from the USA, who got divorced from a wife’s initiative. The reason was a husband’s cuckoldry – on the Internet, in the game Second life (more information on www.secondlife.com ). For me, it is like that: one body - one soul. It is similar to cloning but on a spiritual base. And my opinion is that 7 / 17 Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins" Napsal uživatel Kloudová Štěpánka people should not have their second lives when they cannot fully cope with the real life. Environmental neglectfulness. The biggest sin against the Mother Earth. It seems like people do not mind if they live in a clear and healthy environment or not. It depends much more on 8 / 17 Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins" Napsal uživatel Kloudová Štěpánka their own comfort: why should they throw litter into a bin instead of onto ground? Why should they sort out the rubbish? Why should they not burn it and emit it into the air? I know that the most serious problem are big companies whose impact on the Earth is worse than from a big amount of people, but the essential is a cooperation 9 / 17 Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins" Napsal uživatel Kloudová Štěpánka of all of us. One man can do very, very little. But we all together are able to do a lot. So, let us protect our Earth! Material wasting. Quite close to the previous paragraph. My personal example: when I find one-page printed paper sheets at home, 10 / 17 Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins" Napsal uživatel Kloudová Štěpánka which are not intended to use anymore, I take them and cut into squares, and those squares put in a box with papers for messages, so they can be used for writing notes on the clear, blank side! This is a simple way how to save materials, and it does not cost a thing. Why do people not do it? 11 / 17 Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins" Napsal uživatel Kloudová Štěpánka Relational superficiality . Or social sin, if you want. Maybe it is not such a modern sin, but I perceive it very intensively. I got an impression that most of people do not know the 12 / 17 Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins" Napsal uživatel Kloudová Štěpánka actual meaning of the word “friendship”. I think it is considered as a common feature, too common to be respected. “Friends are here and friends will be always here.” Is that true? I know personally some people who think they can buy friends – 13 / 17 Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins" Napsal uživatel Kloudová Štěpánka they give them presents without any reason, they always pay in cafes and bars and so on. Well, it has been working up to this day and maybe will be working for a while. But those people – “buyers and sold ones” – do not realize that friendship 14 / 17 Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins" Napsal uživatel Kloudová Štěpánka cannot be based on something so down-to-earth and materialistic. I hope they will find out soon – sooner than it will be too late. My lecture is over J . No, my intention was 15 / 17 Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins" Napsal uživatel Kloudová Štěpánka not to moralize. I only feel something is wrong in the world. And if we call it sins or anyhow, the important is to realize it and ask (who? God? ourselves?) for forgiveness. And act a little bit different next 16 / 17 Studentské eseje na téma " The Seven Current Mortal Sins" Napsal uživatel Kloudová Štěpánka time. 17 / 17
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