Greatshield17
Claritas Prayer Group#9435
It's a bit hard to describe, but Acedia refers to a lack of joy in the spiritual good; it's sort of like sloth, which is a sorrow of having to do the morally good, but Acedia goes much deeper than that. In Acedia there is a constant restlessness, especially in one's intellect; and one is constantly going from task to task, without any devotion or care, (Which is actually the etymology of Acedia, it comes from a Greek word meaning "carelessness" or "without care.") one's mind is always wanders away from the present, (often to the future) and one is often impatient for the day to be over. Acedia is often marked be a deep dissatisfaction with one's life and workaholic procrastination, in which one does a lot of things but gets nothing done.
Do anyone of you struggle with Acedia? (I certainly have, it's one of the reasons, if not the key reason why I'm having difficulties getting things done, although I did quite good today.) How common is Acedia among people of Autism-1?
An interesting side note, Acedia is often associated with a demon called the Noonday Devil, and this Noonday Devil has been identified with Nergal, the Mesopotamian god of the noonday sun. Mars, the Father of the Romans is considered to be the Roman equivalent of Nergal, and one of the key things that started Roman Imperial expansion, was that the Roman citizens would be let off there shifts at noon, and there would ultimately end up being riots and anarchy in the streets because the citizens didn't know how to spend the rest of their day. Thus the Consuls and later Caesars, would institute great building projects, bread and circuses, and ultimately wars of expansion, as coping methods to deal with that restlessness.
Do anyone of you struggle with Acedia? (I certainly have, it's one of the reasons, if not the key reason why I'm having difficulties getting things done, although I did quite good today.) How common is Acedia among people of Autism-1?
An interesting side note, Acedia is often associated with a demon called the Noonday Devil, and this Noonday Devil has been identified with Nergal, the Mesopotamian god of the noonday sun. Mars, the Father of the Romans is considered to be the Roman equivalent of Nergal, and one of the key things that started Roman Imperial expansion, was that the Roman citizens would be let off there shifts at noon, and there would ultimately end up being riots and anarchy in the streets because the citizens didn't know how to spend the rest of their day. Thus the Consuls and later Caesars, would institute great building projects, bread and circuses, and ultimately wars of expansion, as coping methods to deal with that restlessness.