About IAbsolve.com

The Idea
The Process
The Rules
Absolution Disclaimer
The Seven Deadly Sins

The Idea

All religions/moral philosopies emphasize the importance of repenting wrongdoings and forgiving the wrongdoings of others. The idea of this site is to bring the two actions togther in an interesting, modern way.

The Process
  1. You come to the site with a guilty conscience and make your confession anonymously.
  2. We review the sin and then post it. It will remain up on the site for a week or two depending on volume. During this time other users will be able to view your sin and vote on whether or not you should be forgiven.
  3. After the designated period, we take a look at the votes. If the votes to absolve outnumber those against, you're forgiven and can, once again, sleep at night.

The Rules
  1. Be honest.
  2. Be nice (karma will right the wrongs for you)
  3. Be anonymous.
  4. Do not display any advertisements, or like information.

Absolution Disclaimer

This site is solely for entertainment purposes. Sins are not actually forgiven, at least not in a "biblical sense." Voting serves to create a consensus only. Seek true forgiveness from your religion, etc. In other words, being "absolved" on the site does not mean you won't burn in Hell for the sin.

The Seven Deadly Sins

IAbsolve.com has chosen to structure its categories around a classical paradigm: the Seven Deadly Sins. Ranked in order of severity (worst sins listed first) as per Dante's Divine Comedy (in the Purgatorio, the seven deadly sins are (nod to Wikipedia for content):

Pride (vanity) — a desire to be important or attractive to others or excessive love of self (holding self out of proper position toward God or fellows; Dante's definition was "love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbor")

Envy (jealousy); resentment of others for their possessions (Dante: "Love of one's own good perverted to a desire to deprive other men of theirs")

Wrath (anger) — inappropriate (unrighteous) feelings of hatred, revenge or even denial, as well as punitive desires outside of justice (Dante's description was "love of justice perverted to revenge and spite")

Sloth — laziness; idleness and wastefulness of time allotted to love God with all one's heart, all one's mind, and all one's soul" - specific examples including laziness, cowardice, lack of imagination, complacency, and irresponsibility)

Covetousness (avarice, greed) — a desire to possess more than one has need or use for (or, according to Dante, "excessive love of money and power")

Gluttony — wasting of food, either through overindulgence in food, drink or intoxicants, misplaced desire for food for its sensuality, or withholding food from the needy ("excessive love of pleasure" was Dante's rendering)

Lust — unlawful sexual desire, such as desiring sex with a person one is not married to.; fornication (Dante's criterion was "excessive love of others," thereby detracting from the love due God). In the Latin lists of the Seven Deadly Sins, lust is reffered to as 'luxuria'

Some relevant Wikipedia entries:
Sin Seven Deadly Sins, Guilt, Confession, Forgiveness