Leo D.M.J. Aurini - The Eight Daughters of Lust

00:00:00.000 the sexual instinct is the most powerful instinct that we have and this is for a very good reason

00:00:09.240 if it weren't so powerful if it didn't drive so much of our behavior most of us would choose

00:00:16.300 celibacy the act of sex the consequences of sex these are terrifying to us just ask any teenager

00:00:26.180 that's first feeling those stirrings and wants to approach the opposite sex but is just so nervous 0.99

00:00:33.700 of what's going to result the the challenges of trying to bond with the other half of the species 1.00

00:00:42.540 who thinks differently than us who who needs different things than us who is our complement

00:00:47.880 but nearly impossible to understand think about raising children the amount of effort

00:00:55.960 and work that goes into it and the amount of heartbreak that results if the sexual instinct

00:01:03.440 were any less intense most of us would choose celibacy and because it is this intense it is very

00:01:14.500 very prone to abuse it overwhelms us it dominates the mind and so it's very easy to go into sin

00:01:25.480 sin meaning that you're missing the mark you're not doing something quite right you're going off in

00:01:32.580 the wrong direction and when you're overwhelmed with lust it is very easy to do this

00:01:39.840 now sex in and of itself is one of the least of the sins it's it's up there with overeating

00:01:51.040 having a little bit too much cake after dinner lust is pursuing something that is good but simply doing it

00:02:02.300 slightly the wrong way and if you're going to talk about sins that truly damn the soul

00:02:08.360 envy envy treachery hatred pride those are demonic sins whereas lust is a human sin

00:02:23.420 it's something that everybody has experienced and everybody has messed up to one degree or another

00:02:32.180 it's hardly the worst of them but it's dangerous because of what results from engaging in sexual sin

00:02:43.400 the physical consequences are self-evident having sex the wrong time with the wrong person when you're

00:02:54.120 not ready for it can result in a lot of cruelty a lot of damaged emotions it can result in unwanted

00:03:04.460 children or children that you're not prepared to raise or that you're now raising with the wrong

00:03:11.520 person sex exposes you to infections to disease it's a very powerful vector for these bugs to get into

00:03:23.240 you on the purely material sense sex is very dangerous but even on the spiritual side even though sex

00:03:35.560 itself is not that great of a sin it can lead to sins that are very very destructive of your soul

00:03:45.540 thomas aquinas listed eight daughters of lust which he identified as being the result of sexual sin

00:03:58.200 the first four are sins of the intellect failures of the intellect whereas the last four are failures of the will

00:04:10.500 so what does this mean what is the intellect what is the purpose of our intellect and what is the purpose

00:04:17.380 of our will the purpose of our intellect is to behold the truth to perceive the truth

00:04:26.980 this is scientific truth this is personal truth moral truth

00:04:35.700 is to perceive the best way to go about achieving our ends because the truth is just one of the many

00:04:45.980 faces of god co-equal with the others truth and goodness are equally embodied in god and when we fail to use

00:04:55.720 our intellect we fail to accurately perceive god and the will the will has again a twofold nature

00:05:07.060 the will is there to regulate our animal instincts animals need do nothing more than follow their instinct

00:05:19.140 but men being half animal and half angel we are called to regulate those animal instincts and employ them in the best manner possible

00:05:30.640 our will is used to regulate that but our will is also there to look towards the ineffable to look towards the good

00:05:40.280 to will good in the world to will good in ourselves and to will good for those around us

00:05:47.440 and so a failure of the will is when the will is weak or where the will is looking elsewhere

00:05:56.300 now the first four daughters of lust

00:06:02.380 they are of the intellect and they tend to be a confusion of means and ends

00:06:09.980 the first is what Aquinas calls the blindness of mind

00:06:17.000 this is where the ends are lost into lust

00:06:23.160 the means are still there

00:06:26.500 the intellect is still there regulating the means

00:06:30.460 finding the best means

00:06:32.660 but the ends itself

00:06:35.100 the happiness and pleasure

00:06:37.300 of sex itself

00:06:39.640 is viewed as the end

00:06:41.460 as opposed to simply one step towards a higher end

00:06:47.160 you've seen this before

00:06:50.660 with people that

00:06:52.160 confuse their addiction

00:06:54.120 for being good

00:06:55.540 with the glutton

00:06:58.020 who regularly overeats

00:07:00.040 and takes pleasure in the food

00:07:02.060 but shows no regard

00:07:04.160 for their body

00:07:05.100 they have lost what the end of food is

00:07:09.740 that pleasure from eating is only one part of what eating is

00:07:13.720 they think the end is the pleasure itself

00:07:16.800 and so think of the sodomite

00:07:20.920 he who pursues pleasure for pleasure's sake

00:07:25.840 without realizing that it's just one facet of something higher

00:07:31.420 and thus he loses himself in false ends

00:07:36.480 the second daughter of lust

00:07:41.320 is rashness

00:07:42.420 and this one 1.00

00:07:44.280 will turn you into a fool 1.00

00:07:46.200 the man who engages 1.00

00:07:50.540 in sex rashly 0.55

00:07:52.500 they have the correct end in sight

00:07:55.540 the end

00:07:56.960 is romance

00:07:59.040 love

00:07:59.900 marriage

00:08:01.000 but they act rashly

00:08:04.680 they are so overwhelmed with lust

00:08:07.620 they don't think

00:08:08.680 about who they're doing it with

00:08:10.560 about how

00:08:11.740 they're going about it

00:08:13.200 they have the correct end

00:08:15.860 but rather than

00:08:17.460 discipline their mind

00:08:18.580 and think about what they're doing

00:08:20.920 they rationalize

00:08:22.560 what they're doing 1.00

00:08:23.480 they turn themselves into a fool 1.00

00:08:26.200 getting married too early 1.00

00:08:28.240 to the wrong person

00:08:29.820 or having sex too early

00:08:32.020 and thus undermining the relationship 0.78

00:08:33.860 the second daughter of lust

00:08:36.720 is when you lose

00:08:37.880 the means

00:08:39.560 when you don't think

00:08:40.780 about what you're doing

00:08:41.840 the third daughter of lust

00:08:46.540 is thoughtlessness

00:08:47.840 this

00:08:50.400 is the person

00:08:52.080 who has completely abandoned the intellect

00:08:54.840 they do not think about the means

00:08:57.080 and they do not think about the ends

00:08:59.140 they are 0.99

00:09:00.460 the sex addict 1.00

00:09:01.900 think of Hank Moody 0.93

00:09:04.180 in Californication

00:09:05.440 or the eponymous

00:09:08.080 Bojack Horseman

00:09:09.500 both of these characters 0.99

00:09:12.500 will have sex 0.99

00:09:14.300 at the drop of a hat 0.99

00:09:15.320 they don't plan it out

00:09:17.620 they don't think about it

00:09:18.620 they don't think about

00:09:19.500 who they're doing it with

00:09:20.920 they don't have any end

00:09:22.600 in mind

00:09:23.480 and so repeatedly 0.73

00:09:25.600 they have sex 0.65

00:09:27.060 with the wrong people 0.95

00:09:28.260 at the wrong time

00:09:29.860 hurting the other person

00:09:31.520 hurting themselves

00:09:32.860 hurting their friends

00:09:34.220 and destabilizing

00:09:35.540 their own life

00:09:36.300 because they don't

00:09:37.240 think about it

00:09:38.180 at all

00:09:39.180 and the fourth daughter

00:09:43.080 of lust

00:09:43.660 is inconstancy

00:09:45.840 this

00:09:48.080 is the Lothario

00:09:49.820 they have means

00:09:53.200 they have practiced

00:09:54.120 they have thought

00:09:55.020 about how to pursue

00:09:57.280 sex effectively

00:09:58.380 their ends

00:10:00.520 are very romantic

00:10:02.060 but because

00:10:04.920 there is so much

00:10:05.880 unbridled

00:10:06.800 lust in them

00:10:07.780 they use

00:10:11.100 the means

00:10:11.560 and the ends

00:10:12.020 they use it

00:10:12.820 to excess

00:10:14.100 and then once

00:10:15.800 the act

00:10:16.340 is completed

00:10:17.140 they become

00:10:18.820 inconstant

00:10:20.100 the vows

00:10:22.440 that they made

00:10:23.240 the professions

00:10:24.460 of love

00:10:25.160 are no longer

00:10:28.420 something they believe in

00:10:30.020 they believed in it

00:10:30.900 entirely

00:10:31.660 while they were

00:10:32.620 inflamed with lust

00:10:33.560 but with lust

00:10:34.460 sated

00:10:35.000 they changed

00:10:37.980 their mind

00:10:38.660 the four failures

00:10:44.820 of will

00:10:45.480 occur when the will

00:10:48.720 is not focused

00:10:49.400 in the correct

00:10:50.240 direction

00:10:51.280 and so the first

00:10:54.720 the fifth daughter

00:10:56.400 of lust

00:10:56.880 and the first

00:10:57.560 failure of will

00:10:58.640 is self-love

00:11:00.700 this 0.99

00:11:02.380 is the porn addict 0.99

00:11:04.260 the will 0.98

00:11:07.060 is supposed to be

00:11:07.800 focused on the world

00:11:09.040 around you

00:11:09.680 it's supposed to be

00:11:10.820 focused upon

00:11:12.100 God

00:11:12.720 that is the

00:11:14.960 the direction

00:11:15.920 that the will

00:11:16.660 should be pushing you in

00:11:18.020 but he who engages

00:11:21.980 in self-love

00:11:23.240 who puts the will

00:11:25.120 entirely towards

00:11:26.900 themself 0.90

00:11:27.500 and who ignores

00:11:28.620 the outside world

00:11:30.340 winds up

00:11:33.020 becoming a very

00:11:34.060 sick sort of 0.95

00:11:35.280 introvert 0.93

00:11:35.940 their will

00:11:38.380 drives them to the

00:11:40.040 point where they

00:11:40.560 cannot truly perceive

00:11:41.860 others

00:11:42.500 and so you have

00:11:44.480 the

00:11:44.720 the worst

00:11:45.880 patheity

00:11:46.560 of the 0.97

00:11:47.960 the porn addict

00:11:49.020 who has no idea 0.97

00:11:50.900 how to speak

00:11:51.780 to others

00:11:52.360 the next

00:11:57.280 daughter of lust

00:11:58.480 is the hatred

00:11:59.900 of God

00:12:00.460 this is

00:12:02.460 the hatred

00:12:03.720 of what is

00:12:05.040 good

00:12:05.460 and true

00:12:06.760 this is where

00:12:08.860 the

00:12:09.200 the lust

00:12:10.320 drives the person

00:12:12.100 to will

00:12:13.580 a reality

00:12:14.760 which cannot

00:12:16.640 exist

00:12:17.360 which is

00:12:17.900 contradictory

00:12:18.520 in nature

00:12:19.900 thus we have

00:12:23.140 the fetishist

00:12:24.480 he who takes

00:12:27.420 pleasure

00:12:27.860 not in

00:12:29.060 the true

00:12:29.820 act of sex

00:12:30.740 but in a

00:12:31.820 twisted

00:12:32.500 and broken 0.87

00:12:33.700 act of sex 0.86

00:12:35.220 an act of sex

00:12:37.580 that can never

00:12:38.300 truly satisfy

00:12:39.780 them

00:12:40.160 and because

00:12:41.780 their will

00:12:42.360 is focused

00:12:42.900 upon the

00:12:43.320 impossible

00:12:43.860 they start

00:12:45.640 growing

00:12:46.100 resentful

00:12:47.160 angry

00:12:48.300 and eventually

00:12:49.240 hating

00:12:49.840 all that is

00:12:51.220 good

00:12:51.520 and true

00:12:52.280 in the world

00:12:52.840 the seventh

00:12:56.920 daughter of lust

00:12:57.760 is love

00:12:59.720 of this world

00:13:01.180 the will

00:13:04.700 is focused

00:13:06.460 not on

00:13:07.620 the ephemeral

00:13:08.880 it is focused

00:13:11.280 entirely on

00:13:11.920 the objective

00:13:12.480 they put

00:13:15.240 all of their

00:13:16.200 life essence

00:13:17.340 into that

00:13:19.740 which is

00:13:20.220 temporary

00:13:20.720 we have

00:13:23.220 the

00:13:23.840 pornographer

00:13:24.520 the man

00:13:26.340 who dedicates

00:13:27.180 his life

00:13:27.800 and his

00:13:28.500 artistry

00:13:29.460 into celebrating

00:13:30.940 the most

00:13:33.180 bestial

00:13:34.360 and venal

00:13:35.800 nature

00:13:36.900 of man

00:13:37.460 who focuses

00:13:39.220 all

00:13:40.160 of his

00:13:40.880 will

00:13:41.300 and energy

00:13:42.480 on the

00:13:44.760 merely

00:13:45.220 animal

00:13:46.340 he takes

00:13:49.020 all of the

00:13:49.700 beauty

00:13:50.100 of artistic

00:13:50.800 creation

00:13:51.560 and degrades

00:13:54.800 it

00:13:55.220 because his

00:13:58.480 will

00:13:58.880 never looks

00:14:00.580 above the

00:14:01.660 horizon

00:14:02.120 and the

00:14:05.920 eighth

00:14:06.320 and final

00:14:07.240 daughter of

00:14:07.940 lust

00:14:08.280 is despair

00:14:10.560 of a future

00:14:11.780 world

00:14:12.260 this man

00:14:15.920 has so

00:14:17.180 soaked

00:14:17.920 himself 0.98

00:14:18.480 in sexual

00:14:20.080 sin

00:14:20.460 has so

00:14:21.180 depleted

00:14:22.120 himself

00:14:22.700 has so

00:14:23.700 burned

00:14:24.220 himself

00:14:24.840 up in

00:14:25.540 lust

00:14:25.980 that he

00:14:28.080 has no

00:14:28.600 will

00:14:29.040 left

00:14:29.740 he becomes 0.99

00:14:32.960 a coward 0.90

00:14:34.060 he 1.00

00:14:35.360 despairs

00:14:36.020 of virtue

00:14:37.100 he might

00:14:39.640 see

00:14:40.140 what the

00:14:41.560 purpose is

00:14:42.240 he might

00:14:42.640 see

00:14:43.180 the

00:14:43.800 ends

00:14:44.320 the true

00:14:44.840 ends

00:14:45.200 that he

00:14:45.540 should be

00:14:46.020 following

00:14:46.480 he might

00:14:48.040 see that

00:14:48.500 the path

00:14:48.900 he's on

00:14:49.460 is leading

00:14:50.640 to utter

00:14:51.380 destruction

00:14:52.240 but he's

00:14:55.700 become a

00:14:56.080 nihilist

00:14:56.580 he lacks

00:14:59.240 the will

00:15:00.120 he has

00:15:00.840 dissipated

00:15:01.640 his will

00:15:02.980 into

00:15:03.840 excess

00:15:04.440 and has

00:15:05.780 given up

00:15:06.500 on any

00:15:07.600 hope

00:15:08.020 of

00:15:08.620 truth

00:15:09.400 beauty

00:15:10.820 or virtue

00:15:12.140 the

00:15:18.180 intensity

00:15:18.620 of sex

00:15:19.340 easily

00:15:21.000 leads into

00:15:22.080 these eight

00:15:22.580 daughters

00:15:23.080 it easily

00:15:24.320 clouds the

00:15:25.180 mind

00:15:25.680 and breaks

00:15:26.780 the will

00:15:27.300 and yet

00:15:29.200 nonetheless

00:15:29.660 for some

00:15:32.400 men

00:15:32.700 and some

00:15:33.460 women 1.00

00:15:33.780 the pursuit

00:15:36.540 of lust

00:15:37.200 can actually

00:15:39.020 because it is

00:15:39.540 such a minor

00:15:40.180 sin and

00:15:40.580 because it

00:15:41.040 is a

00:15:41.640 good

00:15:42.160 thing

00:15:42.980 that they

00:15:43.900 are pursuing

00:15:44.600 can lead

00:15:46.840 towards

00:15:47.220 enlightenment

00:15:47.700 those that

00:15:51.860 keep a

00:15:52.260 clear mind

00:15:53.140 that define

00:15:55.220 the means

00:15:56.020 and the

00:15:57.040 ends

00:15:57.640 might

00:16:00.160 eventually

00:16:00.500 find themselves

00:16:01.320 might find

00:16:02.300 their will

00:16:03.000 starts

00:16:04.340 looking

00:16:04.640 upwards

00:16:05.280 rather than

00:16:06.960 falling

00:16:07.340 down

00:16:08.260 into

00:16:08.640 sin

00:16:09.000 they

00:16:10.040 stumble

00:16:10.460 upwards

00:16:11.100 into

00:16:11.960 virtue

00:16:12.480 but

00:16:16.200 nonetheless

00:16:16.520 there are

00:16:16.900 many

00:16:17.240 many

00:16:17.920 snares

00:16:18.400 here 0.99

00:16:18.700 sex

00:16:21.460 is such 0.98

00:16:21.900 a powerful

00:16:22.360 instinct

00:16:22.860 that it

00:16:24.880 must

00:16:25.600 be sated

00:16:26.500 in the

00:16:27.380 correct

00:16:27.740 manner

00:16:28.240 lest

00:16:29.780 you fall

00:16:30.480 astray

00:16:30.940 lest

00:16:31.340 you destroy

00:16:32.220 not only

00:16:33.240 your life

00:16:33.800 but your

00:16:34.900 soul

00:16:35.260 itself

00:16:35.960 and you

00:16:37.920 wind up

00:16:38.520 dragging

00:16:39.540 yourself

00:16:40.000 down

00:16:40.440 and dragging

00:16:41.220 everyone

00:16:41.660 around you

00:16:42.880 down

00:16:43.240 as well

00:16:44.400 and committing

00:16:45.420 horrors

00:16:46.140 that you can

00:16:48.280 never undo

00:16:48.900 so be

00:16:53.100 careful

00:16:53.500 keep your

00:16:54.980 head

00:16:55.180 clear

00:16:55.620 be good

00:16:57.560 to one

00:16:57.940 another

00:16:58.240 and try

00:17:01.520 and use 0.98

00:17:02.400 sex

00:17:03.520 appropriately

00:17:05.100 deus volt

00:17:08.460 Irini

00:17:10.100 out

Leo D.M.J. Aurini - November 06, 2016

The Eight Daughters of Lust

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