I have to say I would probably pick none of them. I want a place I can create and live in. Yeah pride I can create my own but I won't get to live in it.
Envy, as it's not limited to just one woman and a nice house and just chilling. There are PLENTY of other people I've been envious of... so I'd be banging hot women and having people from the food network fix every meal for me while I fly around in a jet between my houses across the world as I go on awesome vacations. Plus my mega-yacht.
It's also a portal to all the others, as I could just be envious of anyone in the other "worlds", include pride by being envious of God.
It doesn't even have to be non-fiction. I could be envious of Dr. Manhattan and become Dr. Manhattan in my own envious world.
Envy usually breeds contempt and then depression, so I could just counter that by being envious of someone happy.
Yeah, I like the idea of living in Greed in a small cottage but the thing I would be "greedy" amount is the amount of land cause I would want it in the middle of a field with a forest and a creek (and a vineyard cause hell why not?)
I get that this text has a certain aesthetics and makes you ponder about sin, excess and life itself. However I find it kinda difficult to get an actual moral out of the story. Is it that pride is the least evil of the sins, or that pride is justified if you have created something awe-inspiring. What do you guys think ?
I don't think it was there for any kind of morals at all, just to surprise and make people think. No sin is better or worse than the other. To me, God didn't want anyone to pick it not because it was more special but because he was proud to be the only one there. As he told in the beginning, "everyone sins".
Wrath.
Sloth.
Envy.
It's also a portal to all the others, as I could just be envious of anyone in the other "worlds", include pride by being envious of God.
It doesn't even have to be non-fiction. I could be envious of Dr. Manhattan and become Dr. Manhattan in my own envious world.
Envy usually breeds contempt and then depression, so I could just counter that by being envious of someone happy.
I'd probably go with Lust or Greed... yourself?