Meet: msholimstvo - it's a sin, and very insidious

Even unbelievers are usually fully aware of mortal sins. In the end, literature and cinema often mention them. However, the people tend to forget that sins are not limited to mortals - they are much more than seven, and sinful such deeds are considered quite justified. Another thing is that the harm caused by them is much less and is usually inflicted by the sinner to himself, so these misconducts are considered less "important." At the same time, such accusations are condemned by the church, and not for nothing. Among them there is a kind of "mzheloimstvo" - this is again a sin, and one that, in the first place, is dangerous for the person himself and his closest associates.

What does this word mean?

Its origin is connected with the Old Slavonic word "mshhel". There are several interpretations of it. The most common thing is a thing, but sometimes it is treated more broadly, then it means property. The church means by this word mainly profit, profit and profit. Accordingly, it can be said that mshoydomstvo - it's stuff, the dependence on objects, the desire to accumulate them, collect and in any case not to lose them (in any way: no sale, no gift, no use is even implied, because from the latter the object comes in Worthlessness, and the mseloimets no longer possess it).

Kinds of sin

The most simple and relatively harmless church is defined as bribery. In this version, the sinner takes bribes with things (the classic example is "greyhound puppies"). Next is collecting gifts, and they are stored, even if absolutely not needed. A person starts even begging or extorting souvenirs from donors, even if he gets some frank nonsense. However, the most difficult option, when mshoydomstvo - it's a dull gathering of everything in a row, pulling into the house and storing in it everything that a person can reach. In Soviet times this behavior was called "Plyushkin's syndrome".

Initially mseeloimstvo - sin, which was blamed for the monks, collecting things in the cells, did not comply with the monastic charter. Especially it concerned objects that do not carry applied value, or unnecessarily decorated, fancy items of everyday life. However, since then the notion of miscegenation has developed somewhat and received new interpretations.

And why is it sinful?

Spiritual fathers give several reasons why such a vice is counted as sins. The main of them is the disuse of things for their intended purpose. After all mseehoydom - it's just the storage of collected, purchased or donated items that were created for the purpose of serving people. Violation of purpose is a disregard for the Lord's instructions. Next: things should be purchased if necessary, and not for the sake of satisfying a painful inclination. And most importantly - a person becomes attached to objects, begins to serve them and his predilection, although he must serve God. Here it is appropriate to remember about "do not make yourself an idol", and such unrestrained accumulation is already quite like the worship of an artificially created idol.

A vice or an illness?

Modern medicine tends to believe that mossiness is one of the types of mental illness. And it is divided into several subtypes. One of them was called pathological accumulation (syllogism). Affected by this disease, people accumulate a huge amount of things that they never use. And the littering of the premises goes so far that its inhabitants can neither move around the house, nor lead a normal life: the whole space is crammed with some objects. An additional sign of this branch of the pathology is the unsystematic dumping of findings into the heap.

However, this is not the only form that gets mingled. The meaning of this term varies somewhat when a person does not collect trash, but buys it. The painful craving for constant purchases was called "shopaholism" in the modern world. In medicine, this variant of mashing is called "oniomania." With her, it does not matter to a person what, where and why to buy, just to do it. Often, purchases are not used later. But shopaholics can talk about them for hours, while they know in what stores and at what time there are sales, and themselves periodically wonder why they bought some trinket.

Clearly, stifling is not stealing, not murder, not adultery ... However, living with a man burdened by such a sin is both uncomfortable, and uneasy, and very costly. So if you are being drawn senselessly to spend money or to bring home anything that you can do without, think: do you want to become a mzheloimtsem? As with any addiction, it will be difficult to get rid of this later.