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	Acedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Acedia is a Greek word, literally meaning caringfree.
		In Roman Catholicism, acedia is one of the seven deadly sins, and is defined as spiritual laziness, putting off what God asks you to do, or not doing it at all.
		Acedia implies the attitude of the people that goes from fury to laziness in a second.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acedia (89 words)

	Acedia, Bane of Solitaries - Articles - House of Solitude - Hermitary
		Acedia was historically a signal about maturity -- but not a "sin." By resolving the issue of good or evil in acedia and by "fine-tuning" one's threshold for non-virtue, the individual could reach a functional state of equanimity that would dispel acedia.
		Is it the angst of Kierkegaard, the "nausea" of Sartre, the alienation and revolt of existentialists from Camus to Marcel?
		Acedia is never without a sense of guilt or complicity, not as sin but as complicity in the horrors of contemporary life.
	www.hermitary.com /solitude/acedia.html (1887 words)

	The Scientific Acedia
		Acedia is an occupational hazard among men of learning that takes the form of a gradual withdrawal of motivation for research and an increasing alienation from science.
		One might surmise that this is often the etiology of acedia in scientists of lowly origin in aristocratic societies, for example, Faraday, son of a flsmith, and Priestly, son of a weaver, both working in England.
		We see that acedia of differentiation, in contrast to the acedia of specialization, seems more likely to be a predicament of the scholar born in a well-connected upper-class family whose members are called upon to manage the financial or political affairs of the society.
	www.zetterberg.org /Papers/ppr1968a.htm (3767 words)

	Spiritual acedia, torpor and depression - John Navone - Homiletic & Pastoral Review - August/September 1999
		In Aquinas’s schema, acedia is the harvest of despair, for it comes upon the person who no longer believes in the ever-present gift and call of Happiness Itself, the fulness of life in the Triune God.
		In coming to the conclusion that today acedia is in ascendance, Bennett relies on two literary giants—men born on vastly different continents, the product of two completely different worlds, and shaped by wholly different experiences—yet writers who possess strikingly similar views, and who have had a profound impact on his own thinking.
		According to the Catechism, (2733), acedia is a form of depression due to lax ascetical practice, decreasing vigilance, and carelessness of heart.
	www.catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Homiletic/Aug-Sept99/depression.html (2645 words)

	Acedia
		He considers acedia to be like what, in the Buddhist tradition, we call Mara, or the evil one: a demon that enters your consciousness and begins to undermine your resolve, your state of mind and your vows.
		One of the antidotes to acedia is to throw yourself into your daily life, the details of your daily practice, to enter the "quotidian", the everyday.
		When she is at work and the demon acedia has entered, and she is wondering when lunchtime is going to come, and pliancy and joyfulness seem far away, then, being a Good Friend to her own self, she can say, "Sister, regain your state of mind." Recover your presence of mind.
	www.whiterobedmonks.org /macedia.html (2888 words)

	Seven deadly sins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Cassian in his "Conferences" describes the eight principle vices as gluttony, fornication, avarice, anger, sadness, acedia (anxiety, or weariness of the heart), vainglory, and pride.
		Sadness would later be replaced by acedia, or sloth in putting off what God asks you to do, or not doing it at all.
		An equilibrium: one does not produce much, but one does not need much either (in Dante's theology, sloth is the "failure to love God with all one's heart, all one's mind, and all one's soul" - specific examples including laziness, cowardice, lack of imagination, complacency, and irresponsibility).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deadly_sins (1828 words)

	Catholic Community Forum Discussion Groups - Acedia
		So, that's what acedia is. As to the remedy, I would say the person has to keep on going, even though he doesn't feel like it.
		Acedia, or spiritual sloth, is a voluntary and culpable repugnance toward spiritual works.
		Acedia is a dangerous temptation for otherwise sincere and devout people during a time of aridity, and emptiness of consolations.
	www.catholic-forum.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1178&goto=nextnewest (874 words)

	Calvin College - Spark - Spring 2005 - Resistance to the Demands of Love
		Thomas Aquinas’ account of acedia stands at the crossroads between this ancient tradition and the modern conception of sloth in terms of a failure of effort in one’s work, Christian or not.
		It is tempting to draw the conclusion from his answer that acedia strikes when the pursuit of our religious duties or spiritual good (things of “the spirit”) takes too much effort, sacrifices bodily comfort, or is physically difficult (thereby opposing the desire of “the flesh”).
		In fact, the person with acedia may pour significant bodily effort and emotional energy into the difficult task of constant distraction and denial of her condition, so the aversion cannot be to effort itself.
	www.calvin.edu /publications/spark/2005/spring/sloth.htm (1989 words)

	FT August/September 2003: Fighting the Noonday Devil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Acedia is a word of Greek origin that means, literally, “without care.” In the Latin tradition of the seven deadly sins, it comes down to us as tristitia or otiositas, sadness or idleness.
		For Dante, on the fourth ledge of purgatory, those afflicted by acedia are described as suffering from lento amore, a slow love that cannot motivate and uplift, leaving the soul stagnant, unable to move under the heavy burden of sin.
		Acedia, then, is a real threat, a deadly sin doing its deadly work in the present age.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0308/articles/reno.html (4050 words)

	Unitarian Society of New Haven
		Acedia is a word with Greek roots that underscores the human responsibility for this psychic condition...
		Acedia also points to the religious significance of boredom....[which, at heart, is] an incapacity to love deeply...[acedia is the sin of sloth].
		Nowhere is their tendency toward sloth or acedia more glaring than in the story of what happened in the garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus went to wait for his betrayal and eventual death.
	home.att.net /~USNH/20010204.htm (2603 words)

	Sloth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Acedia, according to Cassian, ‘greatly troubles monks at noon; it strikes like a recurring fever; it lays the soul low with sultry fires at regular and fixed intervals.’ Damascene (quoted by Aquinas) says that acedia ‘is a kind of oppressive sorrow’ (tristitia aggravans) which so depresses a man that he wants to do nothing.
		Acedia is a kind of sorrow over spiritual good; it shrinks from spiritual good as laborious or irksome to the body.
		The acedia of the Eliot of The Waste Land, perhaps in all the stories in Joyce’s Dubliners, where Dublin and Ireland is represented as a centre of paralysis, is not the sin of an individual.
	www.bfpubs.demon.co.uk /sloth.htm (4393 words)

	ProbSolu's Home Page 15
		So acedia means a mental and physical sluggishness from lack of excitement.
		So the sexual dysfunction called acedia is the waning of love that happens to couples after they have settled down and become comfortable with each other.
		Acedia is present when one feels like they must go out to find themselves.
	members.aol.com /probsolu/ps15.html (944 words)

	Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Climacus devotes an entire chapter (Step Thirteen) to acedia; echoing Evagrius and others, he characterizes it as "one of eight deadly vices, and indeed the gravest of them all." In its most typical conception acedia leads to boredom, rudeness, aversion to others, spite, and aggression.
		Like the other deadly vices, acedia is the property of its own specialized demon who takes advantage of any opportunity to subjugate its victims; acedia's designated demon is commonly known as the "noonday" or "midday demon," the daemonium meridianum featured in the ninety-first Psalm in the Septuagint Bible.
		That Gogol' would seem preoccupied with acedia or despondency in 1844 comes as no surprise, given the way in which his increasingly paranoid religiosity and obsession with the devil were evolving during his final decade.
	aatseel.org /program/aatseel/1999/abstract-32.html (236 words)

	Spero Forum - Baptist, Protestant, and Catholic Discussion - New
		"Acedia" in Latin means sorrow, deliberately self-directed, turned away from God, a loss of spiritual determination that then feeds back on in to the process, soon enough producing what are currently known as guilt and depression...
		I am lazy by nature but acedia is worse and I am often guilty of not going to mass, not saying my prayers, not going to confession when I need to.
		When I read the definition of Acedia - 'the deadly sin of sloth' - I thought, 'My goodness, who would claim such a name for themselves!' I must have seen the name ending in 'a' and thought female.
	www.speroforum.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1082 (560 words)

	Aquinas's teaching on acedia: Flight from God as friend (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
		In his sustained analysis of the vice in Q. 35 of the Secunda secundae of his Summa Theologiae, Aquinas identifies acedia with “the sorrow of the world” that “ worketh death” and contrasts it with that sorrow “ according to God” described by Saint Paul in 2 Cor.
		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).
		Aquinas's teaching on acedia in Q. 35 is therefore rendered fully intelligible only 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.
	escholarship.bc.edu /dissertations/AAI3103298 (356 words)

	Fighting Acedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Curiously, loss of motivation can produce what appears to be the opposite of sloth or acedia: hyperactivity.
		Acedia is an old word that I wish was still in use.
		It means spiritual sloth or sluggishness and the metaphor of "the noonday devil," or "the destruction that wastes at noonday" came to be it's face.
	fightingacedia.blogspot.com (1801 words)

	Tribes Unique "Acedia" ABB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		His purpose on the field is defensive, only absorbing magical attacks cast at Acedia.
		The tragedy that is his parents is unknown to Acedia, and to most people.
		Acedia isn't even his real name, but one given by the priests, for lack of having the memory of one.
	www.aphelion-shade.com /tu/abb.html (1594 words)

	acedia :: the official site
		Acedia's new stuff is supposedly really good, you'll have to wait until their recording or the SHOW ON NEXT FRIDAY to find out.
		Acedia's drummer Kevin Otto is going to try to set up a show at the Talkhouse sometime soon, possibly with The Natural History and The Isles, if all goes well.
		So I decided that Acedia is in need of a new website, just to list general info about shows and stuff.
	www.freewebs.com /acediamusic (450 words)

	January 19, 1997 Bethlehem Baptist Church - John PIper
		Christianity is diametrically opposed to the culture of acedia -- the
		are a nation in the grip of weak, irresolute, lazy acedia with regard to
		acedia -- the culture of apathy and boredom.
	www.soundofgrace.com /piper97/1-19-97.htm (2235 words)

	October 10, 2004
		For some reason, Nancy was talking about acedia (a kind of spiritual ennui, classified as one of the seven deadly sins).
		Normally I think of acedia in terms of afflicting desert-dwelling monks, but she was talking about grad students.
		This total disconnect between us and food in the modern world struck me as grounds enough for acedia as the normal mental state of modernity.
	world.std.com /~jegan/mt041010.htm (698 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Acedia and the Noonday Demon in Nikolaj Gogol&soft;'s
		Like the other deadly vices, acedia is the property of its own specialized demon who takes advantage of any opportunity to subjugate its victims; acedia's designated demon is commonly known as the
		with a conception of acedia that is, despite its idiosyncratic Gogolian coloration, remarkably consistent with the manner in which the temptation is historically understood in Christian theology.
	aatseel.org /program/aatseel/1999/abstract-32.txt (381 words)

	Fundamental Moral Theology -- Class 24
		He then mentions the seven in this order, which might be of gravity or of opposition to grace: vainglory, envy (sadness caused by others’ success), acedia (sadness caused by things concerning God), anger (sin, not the emotion), avarice, gluttony, and lust.
		Mullady and his mentor’s surveys, lust, gluttony, acedia, anger, vainglory, envy, and avarice.
		With women, the worst is vainglory, envy, avarice, anger, lust, gluttony, and acedia.
	www.cfpeople.org /Books/Moral/moralp25.htm (3143 words)

	Acedia - TheBestLinks.com - Greek language, Seven deadly sins, Roman Catholicism, Apathy, ...
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	Ruth L Ratny presents REEL CHICAGO \| Welcome
		Creating “The Incorruptible” was a brief detour from the final post sound work on Collamati’s debut feature “The Acedia Thing,” which Mark Messing is overseeing at Maestro-Matic with an expected completion date within a few weeks.
		“Acedia” producer Rob Hanlin produced “The Incorruptible.” Collamati shot along with “Acedia” editor Neal Gold (“Design.”) Sound is by Robert Aguilar.
		“Acedia,” which is surprisingly light considering its weighty themes, follows four friends facing different forms of Acedia in their work and love lives.
	www.reelchicago.com /archive.cfm?storyID=38 (649 words)

	Beware The Most Fattening Emotion!
		“Etymologically, the word acedia is said to have two derivatives.
		(Acedia) is a kind of ennui, depression, cynicism, sadness, boredom, listlessness, couch potato -- it is, being passive, apathy, psychic exhaustion, having no energy.
		I am convinced that acedia is a very intense and dangerous emotion that permeates quite a bit of American culture.
	www.ediets.com /news/article.cfm?article_id=5403 (595 words)

	AcediaMusic.org
		After its release on acedia (on the "Pangea Republic" Compilation) it has also been part of the very succesful Provinznest Sampler.
		This release by Acedia newcomer "Coax" is his tribut to the book "Solaris" written by Stanislaw Lem.
		The scifi novel was written as an attempt to create a setting that totally escapes human analysis, an accumulation of events where the traditional scientific concept of causality is nullified.
	www.acedia-music.org /music.html (1804 words)

	HERMENAUT: An Idler's Glossary
		It seems that neither an ascetic contemplation of the divine, nor an immersion in the pleasures of the flesh will suffice; one must instead balance these modes of being with care.
		Epicurean: The Greek philosopher Epicurus evolved a code of life and behavior which stressed the avoidance of pain, but his name has since been used as an adjective to describe those who actively seek pleasure (particularly, for some reason, through eating).
		But just as the melancholy concomitant with acedia can give one insight, so too can mind-wandering expand our horizons.
	www.hermenaut.com /a158.shtml (8312 words)

	BadJon.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		That is some fucking faggot shit homo fag fucking cokcing sucking bull shit.
		Acedia sounded good, that crowd was unforgivingly terrible.
		I really like acedia and have been listening to it for a couple years and was very excited about seeing them and was disapointed in the sound.
	www.badjon.com /viewvideo.php?vid=122 (236 words)

	Struggle in a Bungalow Kitchen
		The comfortable lies we tell ourselves regarding these “little things”—that they don’t matter, and that daily personal and household chores are of no significance to us spiritually—are exposed as falsehoods when we consider that reluctance to care for the body is one of the first symptoms of extreme melancholia.
		At its Greek root the word acedia means “lack of care”.
		I was slow to recognize that combating sloth, being willing to care for oneself and others on a daily basis, is no small part of what constitutes basic human sanity, a faith in the everyday.
	blogs.salon.com /0001754/2004/12/07.html (547 words)

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