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The video went viral quickly. Many parents and professionals who work from home empathized with the situation and thought it was the funniest thing they had ever seen. I have certainly been interrupted by my kids or my dog while on video calls with clients or the media. Some people, however, watched the video and immediately drew different conclusions, like these from the video's Facebook comments:.
Not funny Child abuse He shoves the girl and his slave wife drags her along by her arm. They assumed Kelly would fire her. And, they made judgments: Kelly is a bad father. As it turns out, none of this is true. Making assumptions before having enough information can be harmless if it's just comments on a viral video.
But, in the business world, it can lead to prejudice, discrimination, and bias. As an executive coach and leadership educator, I have observed business leaders and entrepreneurs suffer the repercussions of making unchecked assumptions, which can include damaged relationships, ruined reputations, and lost opportunities. So how do we stop this behavior before it becomes damaging? I boil it down to a simple three-step process I call DAB -- describe, analyze, and bridge. Here's how it works. One of my clients is a multi-national company made up of American and Japanese employees working side by side.
The clash of cultures often leads to many judgments: The Japanese are workaholics because they work very long hours. Americans are lazy because they go home at 5 pm. Americans constantly job-hop, so they are not loyal and can't be trusted, while Japanese workers devote their entire lives to one company. The first step of DAB involves describing something new and unfamiliar as it is, without attaching any judgments.
For example, most Japanese employees work for the same company their entire life while the average American stays at a job for 4.
Bureau of Labor Statistics. The beginning of man's pride is to separate himself from the Lord and to rebel against his Creator. The beginning of pride is sin. Whoever perseveres in sinning opens the floodgates to everything that is evil. For this the Lord has inflicted dire punishment on sinners; he has reduced them to nothing.
The Lord has overturned the thrones of princes and set up the meek in their place. The Lord has torn up the proud by their roots and has planted the humble in their place. The Lord has overturned the land of pagans and totally destroyed them. He has devastated several of them, destroyed them and removed all remembrance of them from the face of the earth. Pride was not created for man, nor violent anger for those born of woman. Which race is worthy of honor? Those who are good.
Which race is despicable? Those who break the commandments. The leader is worthy of respect in the midst of his brethren, but he has respect for those who are good. Whether, they be rich, honored or poor, their pride should be in being good. It is not right to despise the poor man who keeps the law; it is not fitting to honor the sinful man. The leader, the judge, and the powerful man are worthy of honor, but no one is greater than the man who is good. A prudent slave will have free men as servants, and the sensible man will not complain.
Do not feel proud when you accomplished your work; do not put on airs when times are difficult for you.
Of greater worth is the man who works and lives in abundance than the one who shows off and yet has nothing to live on. My son, have a modest appreciation of yourself, estimate yourself at your true value.
The Eighth Deadly Sin. Image: ThinkStock. As a young man, I remember reading that before there were Seven Deadly Sins, there were Eight. The seven deadly sins pretty much cover the waterfront, do you truly need to look for more? Actually, historically, there were eight; for instance, Evagrius lists.
Who will defend the man who takes his own life? Who will respect the man who despises himself? The poor man will be honored for his wisdom and the rich man, for his riches. Honored when poor-how much more honored when rich! Dishonored when rich-how much more dishonored when poor! The poor man who is intelligent carries his head high and sits among the great. Do not praise a man because he is handsome and do not hold a man in contempt because of his appearance. The bee is one of the smallest winged insects but she excels in the exquisite sweetness of her honey. Do not be irrationally proud just because of the clothes you wear; do not be proud when people honor you.
Do you know what the Lord is planning in a mysterious way? Many tyrants have been overthrown and someone unknown has received the crown. Many powerful men have been disgraced and famous men handed over to the power of others.
Do not reprehend anyone unless you have been first fully informed, consider the case first and thereafter make your reproach. Do not reply before you have listened; do not meddle in the disputes of sinners. My child, do not undertake too many activities. If you keep adding to them, you will not be without reproach; if you run after them, you will not succeed nor will you ever be free, although you try to escape. Jacob Bidermann's medieval miracle play , Cenodoxus , pride is the deadliest of all the sins and leads directly to the damnation of the titulary famed Parisian doctor.
In Dante's Divine Comedy , the penitents are burdened with stone slabs on their necks to keep their heads bowed.
It is translated to apathetic listlessness; depression without joy. It is related to melancholy: In early Christian thought, the lack of joy was regarded as a willful refusal to enjoy the goodness of God; by contrast, apathy was considered a refusal to help others in time of need. It also indicates love for those outside one's immediate family, specifically forming a new family with one's "beloved. Pope Gregory combined this with tristitia into sloth for his list. When Thomas Aquinas described acedia in his interpretation of the list, he described it as an uneasiness of the mind , being a progenitor for lesser sins such as restlessness and instability.
Dante refined this definition further, describing acedia as the failure to love God with all one's heart, all one's mind and all one's soul ; to him it was the middle sin , the only one characterised by an absence or insufficiency of love. Acedia is currently defined in the Catechism of the Catholic Church as spiritual sloth, which would be believing spiritual tasks to be too difficult. In the fourth century, Christian monks believed acedia was not primarily caused by laziness, but by a state of depression that caused spiritual detachment. Vainglory Latin, vanagloria is unjustified boasting.
Pope Gregory viewed it as a form of pride, so he folded vainglory into pride for his listing of sins. The Latin term gloria roughly means boasting , although its English cognate — glory — has come to have an exclusively positive meaning; historically, the term vain roughly meant futile a meaning retained in the modern expression "in vain" , but by the 14th century had come to have the strong narcissistic undertones, that it still retains today. With Christianity , historic Christian denominations such as the Catholic Church and Protestant Churches, [55] including the Lutheran Church , [56] recognize seven virtues , which correspond inversely to each of the seven deadly sins.
Confession is the act of admitting the commission of a sin to a priest, who in turn will forgive the person in the name in the person of Christ, give a penance to partially make up for the offense, and advise the person on what he or she should do afterwards. According to a study by Fr Roberto Busa, a Jesuit scholar [ who? The second book of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy is structured around the seven deadly sins. The most serious sins, found at the lowest level, are the abuses of the most divine faculty. For Dante and other thinkers, a human's rational faculty makes humans more like God.
Abusing that faculty with pride or envy weighs down the soul the most.
To me, the most exciting part of the DAB process is the learning -- asking questions, reading books, and traveling. Not because they are disloyal, but because they approach their career paths differently. It is translated to apathetic listlessness; depression without joy. In other projects Wikimedia Commons. The Latin term gloria roughly means boasting , although its English cognate — glory — has come to have an exclusively positive meaning; historically, the term vain roughly meant futile a meaning retained in the modern expression "in vain" , but by the 14th century had come to have the strong narcissistic undertones, that it still retains today. From tristitia , asserted Gregory the Great, "there arise malice, rancour, cowardice, [and] despair It is also thought to be the source of the other capital sins.
Abusing one's passions with wrath or a lack of passion as with sloth also weighs down the soul but not as much as the abuse of one's rational faculty. Finally, abusing one's desires to have one's physical needs met via greed, gluttony, or lust abuses a faculty that humans share with animals. This is still an abuse that weighs down the soul, but it does not weigh it down like other abuses. Thus, the top levels of the Mountain of Purgatory have the top listed sins, while the lowest levels have the more serious sins of wrath, envy, and pride. The last tale of the Canterbury Tales , the "Parson's Tale" is not a tale but a sermon that the parson gives against the seven deadly sins.
This sermon brings together many common ideas and images about the seven deadly sins. This tale and Dante's work both show how the seven deadly sins were used for confessional purposes or as a way to identify, repent of, and find forgiveness for one's sins. The Dutch artist created a series of prints showing each of the seven deadly sins. Each print features a central, labeled image that represents the sin. Around the figure are images that show the distortions, degenerations, and destructions caused by the sin.
Spenser's work, which was meant to educate young people to embrace virtue and avoid vice, includes a colourful depiction of the House of Pride. Lucifera, the lady of the house, is accompanied by advisers who represent the other seven deadly sins. The seven sins are personified and they give a confession to the personification of Repentance. Only pride is represented by a woman, the others all represented by male characters. This work satirized capitalism and its painful abuses as its central character, the victim of a split personality, travels to seven different cities in search of money for her family.
In each city she encounters one of the seven deadly sins, but those sins ironically reverse one's expectations.
When the character goes to Los Angeles, for example, she is outraged by injustice, but is told that wrath against capitalism is a sin that she must avoid. Between and , the American painter Paul Cadmus created a series of vivid, powerful, and gruesome paintings of each of the seven deadly sins. Ferdinand Mount maintains that liquid currentness , especially through tabloids , has surprisingly given valor to vices, causing society to regress into that of primitive pagans: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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The Lutheran emblem of a rose was painted in a sequence on the ceiling, while a decoratively carved pulpit included the Christo-centric symbol of a vulnerating pelican. The interior changed to a degree in the s when Philip Tideman produced a series of grisaille paintings depicted the Seven Virtues which hang from the gallery behind the pulpit , as well as decorating the wing doors of the organ. Men And Women Sin Differently". Speaking in the medieval world. The making of the Magdalen: The religious, philosophic, and ethico-political background of the "Divine Comedy".
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