Everybody Loves a Fireman, part 2

Falling

“…superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira, acedia.”

—from the Latin, 14^th century

Pride goeth before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.

—Proverbs 16:189

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What is pride, if not some sort of self-delusion? Convincing oneself that he possesses a certain trait when he, in fact, does not? And if and when that lie is ever unmasked, the truth is a very long fall indeed. On the way down, he has all of eternity to regret his error, replay his mistake over and over...

Hell is not an abyss; it is the fall itself.