Very good post, and thought provoking. I've thought about the use of words and the complete de-valuation of them, I'm guilty of it as is everyone, I've been called out by people before for saying, "oh, I haven't heard from, whoever, in ages." Or "I love (insert thing I mildly like here.)"

Only to have someone do a bit of brow beating by saying. "Ages? As in centuries?" Or something along those lines. I get it, yeah we should all just say the appropriate language to describe it. But, in a way, we're the generations raised on sensationalism and hyper-media, if something isn't extream, it's boring. We need exciting speech, otherwise who would listen.

Also, about lust, I think it comes down to modern society. Years ago, people lived in small communities, the average person would only ever get 5km away from where they were born, now, we have access to the entire world, which is good, but we're hairless apes, and are ruled by our own enjoyment. We indulge ourselves in everything we can get - drink, sex, cigarettes, drugs, sugar, caffine, food in general, shopping - for our bodies, then use our super computer brains to justify our actions. !LOLZ

I watched a great video where George Lucas was talking with a college class about a bit of his life, but he ended it by talking about the difference between pleasure and joy.

"Pleasure is purely selfish and greedy in a way. It's all about my pleasure. The peak with pleasure is very high, but it goes away fast. Buy a car, you're at the top, if you buy another one you don't peak as high so need to buy more, kind of like drugs. Joy on the other hand is long lasting, without an extream peak, but you can share it with others, and take joy in others happiness and recall it whenever we want. They're both great, but don't chase pleasure, because you'll never maintain the high." - that's a rough quote of his, off the top of my head, it's the general jist.

It's 11 minutes long, well worth watching ^