Everybody has a little Demon inside of them.

Doesn't matter to them if you are a fanatical believer, a sanctified priest of some God or just a generally good person.

What does your afterlife concern them?

They only care about the here and now; and about their next meal.

The religious types and theorists will tell you that there are seven different kinds, the so called "cardinal sins":

Envy, Gluttony, Greed, Lust, Pride, Sloth and Wrath.

The ones all Gods warn you about.

But ask your own little Demon. Does he care?

He doesn't. If he even deems to answer you.

That's what makes all those religious types so nervous.

The lack of communication and knowledge.

Makes it really hard on them to find ways to sell their religions to people.

People say: "Why should I belief, if your God cannot even save me from this one little Demon".

And right they are.

Why concern yourself with your afterlife if you need to make sure to keep your little Demon fed.

Unless you want him to feed on you.

But let me tell you a little secret.

They are wrong.

All of them.

Well most of them.

Some people know.

Somebody somewhere always knows a little something.

Or tries to find out.

The Demons are not here when we come into this world. But they become shortly afterwards. And nestle themselves deep within our hearts.

And for this short moment, between their appearance and before they move inside of a new-born child, a person with enough aptitude and control can gauge the little Demon to find out what type of Demon the child will carry.

And, surprise, we all start with a little Greed inside of us.

You ask yourself what about this is a secret?

Well, turns out that little Greeds are very touchy about even the possibility of being denied entry into their promised host.

They react as  violently and destructive as only a Demon can.

And if they are afraid that they will not get their due, they take as much from everybody and everything in their surrounding as possible before unmaking themselves and their surrounding.

Unmaking in way that would make most devils in the hells of whatever religion you pray to proud.

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Oh, and little Greeds are always afraid of loosing something.

Even loosing some time might be a world ending tragedy to them and everybody in their surrounding.

So till now nobody survived such an experiment to tell the tale.

But every century a couple of somebodies think they came up with a smart idea that nobody considered before and try.

And fail.

So if everybody starts with a little Greed, where do those others come from?

In simple terms, what you are, how you behave and how other people treat you, defines what you become.

For example, if a new-born perceives that others are getting more breastmilk, chances are it's little Greed will turn into an Envy.

The child likes eating above all else? - Gluttony.

Child enjoys the tits and bodily contact more then the milk they offer? - Lust.

Child is always full and happy and get's praised for even taking a shit? - Pride.

Child gets pampered so much that it doesn't even have to suck on a tit to get milk? - Sloth.

Child is hungry and often gets disturbed while feeding or sleeping? - Wrath.

There are a million little things that influence your little Greed in the first few years of your life. And nobody really notices, because a young child cannot communicate and people tend to misinterpreted it's wants and needs based on their own.

This tends to have some very curious social consequences.

Envies will most likely raise an Envy or a Wrath.

Gluttons will raise Envies, Gluttons or Wraths.

Lusts will raise Lusts or Prides.

Sloths will raise Envies, Sloths or Wraths.

Wraths will raise Prides or Wraths.

And Prides, they can raise anything.

That's also one of the reasons why Prides are celebrated by the people as something great. Because they can supposedly archive anything they put their mind to, their Pride would not allow them to fail.

Greeds on the other hand are mostly forgotten.

People don't see them, so Greeds can't be that great if there are no adults with Greeds.

Most people also never met a god, but still choose to be religious to some degree.

Everybody has a little Greed.

Even if nothing much of it remains after polluting it with our base human desires.

And Prides? Fuck pride.

If you are proud it means you fulfilled your greed's and wants.

How utterly pointless is that?

Even Sloths have enough greed to always want more comfort for themselves. And they would fight for it.

Whereas a Pride would just stop striving at some point. He might be good at whatever he put his pride into, but he will never become more. A Pride will compete and try his very best, because Prides seek challenge and they crave the approval of the crowds. But in the end a Pride limits itself by reaching a self-made threshold. If Pride beliefs he reached the pinnacle he stops. Unwilling to improve. Unable to innovate. Afraid that even a small change could lead to loosing it's Pride.

Treading water till he dies.

So remember. Never give in to pride. Only ever feed your greed.

Because only by wanting for more, reaching for more and fighting for more will you eventually become more.