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Subject: Sin Celebration Months?

Apologies in advance for my ignorance, but these large ears of mine overheard discussion of a month-long celebration of the sin of Pride. Flipping through previous journal messages, I saw someone's question regarding whether or not Reverein celebrates it.

Well, that got me curious because we haven't had any variant of King Lucifer appear in quite some time. If this were the Pride Ring in Hell, I'd understand it, but I'd no idea that other worlds filled with the living celebrated the Deadly Sins!

What months are for the other six? We used to have avatars of Greed and Wrath, so they might be flattered to have their month-long celebrations should they ever return. It never hurts to get on the good side of a Deadly Sin's avatar!

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and what sin would you name the month after instead?

I admit I might not be an expert in various sins, I simply dabble in them ;)

Given it's about sexuality, it only seems reasonable to call it "Lust Month".

Your answer *did* make me chuckle.

But skimming through a lot of people explaining this here ... I think they keep hammering on the 'what' and not the 'why', it seems?

It's like ... you asked, what's breakfast, and getting the idea that breakfast is a meal that people eat because revolves around coffee. And everyone is getting bogged down explaining what coffee is and why it's great or why they don't like it and it's not for everyone ...

Instead of explaining why people eat breakfast to begin with.

A very astute metaphor, my dear! And upon reflection, it's precisely the issue! I don't understand why it's called "Pride Month" or even why it exists in the first place when such matters are no one's business!

Especially since a coffee is such a small component of breakfast, even if it's a popular one - see? Now *I* can get distracted by the what instead. ^_~!

All right. I'm afraid I'm going to start with a question, since I'm discovering these worlds are *very* different from each other. But if I understand a little more about the world you're from, I can maybe find a way to explain why this is on the Earths so many of these people remember, hm?

Are there traits in persons in your reality that others seem to look down upon? And I'm not really speaking of things like, 'has a tendency to talk with their mouth full'. Some things that are more fundamental, even being 'nobody's business'.

Perhaps ... thinking people from other nations are lesser, or ... a physical trait someone is born with that is 'not desirable' to what people want to see as 'normal' (even if it's entirely normal) ... or perhaps a sect or belief someone is raised under, that is not the majority ...

None of this is logical, of course! Half the problem. But does your reality have these qualities people irrationally poke at each other for? Even try to kill each other for?

Darling, if I've learned anything in my life and afterlife, it's that people will always find some reason to dislike other people no matter how superficial.

For example, I was born of parents with different skin tones, making me mixed race during a time when racial relations weren't the best. New Orleans being a port city tended to be more accepting given the high mixed population than either the North or South given how many different people ended up trading there, but mixed couples were typically socially unacceptable. Despite what some people might think, it wasn't the bigots of one particular race but from both that despised me: too dark for the lights and too light for the darks.

But my skin tone is something I can't help, that I have no control over, so why be proud of something that I had no influence on? Why not be proud of my accomplishments despite members of both halves of my heritage claiming I'd never amount to anything? Most of them didn't work their way up to become the premiere radio host of a major city, after all.

Trust me, my dear friend, I sympathize. What I am is certainly a result of my own talent and work - from when I was the best Mentalist in the world to my position as a diplomat now.

And certainly I’m observing this as a *tiny* bit of an outsider. The whole Pride Month thing seems to be a much better to-do in the west, like America. Or it was before my whole world turned to stone. But as I understand it …

It seems that facing similar hatred, shunning from society - as a group, people seemed to have reacted. To say they celebrate what makes them different, instead of accept that people say it is shameful. That seems to be their reaction.

Certainly, I can understand if you can’t personally relate to this … we’re both public figures, after all, from places where such celebrations weren’t a thing. I take far more pride on my *excellent* abilities, even here! None can match my skill.

But some people, when given something they can’t control - when told to be ashamed - for them to react in the opposite way? To celebrate and take pride? My dear, I *do* understand being motivated to be contrary out of spite. And there is a sort of power to embrace what others reject.

I'm American myself, but that still doesn't mean I understand it. I assume it came along long after my time.

Regardless, doing something out of spite I can understand, but I fail to see why celebrating something you can't help is the aim. I'd understand if it was celebrating what they've actually accomplished in spite of the naysayers, but basically sitting around celebrating what they prefer to put between their legs doesn't seem like much to celebrate to me. Particularly given I've no interest in sex to begin with.

But if that's what they choose to do with their time and energy, that's their business. I'll simply mind my own and avoid the festivities given I've no interest in sex as a whole. I do appreciate the attempt to properly explain it. It was certainly more helpful than most.

Frankly, that’s why asexual people are included in pride as well. The amount of times people might say something is “broken” about them - or that they’re “damaged” - or they need to be “fixed” - asexual people take pride in saying there is nothing wrong with them, that they are normal and able to be loved as they are.

Same with other expressions of gender. That has nothing to do with sex, either. It’s another thing people assume is conflated with sex, mind you, which is illogical as anything.

In the end, none of this is anyone’s business. But people *make* it their business, visiting violence and the like against them. Even in your era, that was likely the case.

I’m glad at least I’ve been able to help shed some light into this. It’s certainly not for everyone. But even though it’s new to me … I’ll certainly celebrate that there’s nothing wrong with me nor my dearest friend either.

I've heard of "asexuality" which seems to amount to "telling someone I have absolute no interest in it with more steps" since it's apparently a "spectrum" of how much someone wants to have sex.

[He's really frustrated.]

But, again, it's not my business. Enjoy yourself, I suppose.

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