Laziness

The causes of this propensity are many and the need for that which astounds is not the only cause to be mentioned.

Indolence is never a stranger to illusion.

It is so delightful to foresee a solution which conforms to our desires.

For certain natures stained with moral atrophy, it is far sweeter to hope for that which will be produced without pain.

As he crossed the big room, he came upon his father-in-law.

"'Well, how do you like our Temple of Indolence?' said the prince, taking his arm.

"'Come

along, come along.'

The straw that broke the camel's nervous system's back.

This is where lazy becomes a terrible explanation.

Lazy is such a convenient word because it explains everything without requiring us to investigate anything.

Like mindset and perspectives and religions and beliefs.

Oh my god.

Oh my.

Didn't clean? Lazy.

Didn't answer? Lazy.

All able-bodied men and women alternated in two-week periods between military and industrial service.

except those who were needed for household work since working conditions in the plants and offices were ideal and everybody thus had plenty of healthy outdoor activity in addition the population was sturdy and active Laziness was regarded as nearly the greatest of social offenses.

Hard work and general merit were variously rewarded with extra privileges, advancement to positions of authority, and with various items of personal equipment for convenience and luxury.

In leisure moments I got great enjoyment from sitting outside the dwelling in which I was quartered with Bill Hearn and ten other men, watching the occasional passers-by.

We must submit to this fatigue in order to live at ease ever after, and must cultivate true metaphysics with some care in order to destroy the false and adulate.

Indolence, which to some persons affords a safeguard against this deceitful philosophy, is with others overbalanced by curiosity, and despair, which at some moments prevails, may give place afterwards to sanguine hopes and expectations.

Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy fitted for all persons and all dispositions, and is alone able to subvert that abstruse philosophy and metaphysical jargon which, being mixed up with popular superstition, renders it in a manner impenetrable to careless reasoners and gives it the air of science and wisdom.

Eight: Besides this advantage of rejecting, after deliberate inquiry, the most uncertain and disagreeable part of learning, there are many positive advantages which result from an accurate scrutiny into the powers and faculties of human nature.

As he crossed the big room, he came upon his father-in-law.

"'Well, how do you like our Temple of Indolence?' said the prince, taking his arm.

"'Come

along, come along.'

It is the motive to activity and virtue.

Indolence, sluggishness is the source of all vice.

How to enjoy as much as possible, how to do as little as possible.

That sentence in italics.

Application He who defers his work from day to day does on a river's brink expecting stay, till the whole stream which stopped him shall be gone, which as it runs forever will run on.

Indolence is like a stream which flows slowly on, but yet it undermines every virtue.

It rusts the mind and gives a tincture to every action of one's life, the term of which does not allow time for long protracted deliberations.

And yet how many waste more of their time in idly considering which of two affairs to begin first than would have ended them both.

This is probably the easiest one.

Guess what it is? Laziness.

Laziness.

Now, this is again, this is not rocket science.

This is something if you've been doing the discipline challenge, you're like, oh, we've already read a lot about laziness because we've been reading Proverbs and the discipline challenge and you've already come across this.

The enemy of a hardworking farmer is laziness.

And if you're a lazy farmer, you go broke real fast and starvation's not far on its heels, right? Not only do you not have enough for you and your family, you don't have enough to sell at the market, there's gonna be absolutely no profit.

Now, here's my question, all right? If in a culture where everybody could understand like an agricultural system, Laziness was still an enemy even though starvation was a possibility.