Fudging the truth is a way you show respect for entities. It's like when a young mother of three dies of cancer, religious people will mention it and then say, "God is sovereign". This a sign they are deferring to God. Also, when a high-status person ghosts a lot...
I am not learning the lessons from my suffering that those in power want me to. They want me to concoct some kind of redemptive narrative out of all I suffer. I can't and I won't. Some of the lessons. Power is the most important thing. Power and empowerment are the...
I don't think people telling you to have faith realize what they are saying when they are telling you to have faith. It's like saying "push this button". When you push it you rarely get hurt but half the time we push it we get an electric shock. For people in low...
Who would have thought repeated exposure to trauma doesn't make you stronger.
In the mental hospital there is a cabinet designated sharps that is locked because it contains things that someone could cut themselves with. A cognitive sharp isn't something that necessarily hurts you but it is something that you can take and go hurt yourself with...
With regards to faith we are in the worst possible worlds. We could be in a world where God didn't exist and there was no innate desire for God. We could be in a world where God did exist and there was no innate desire for God. We could be in a world where God did...
Some preferences are pretty inconsequential like whether you prefer strawberry or vanilla ice cream. However, some have huge ramifications. I'm going to focus on a person's religion here though this could be applied to other things. A person's spiritual state is like...
divine election is like the Harlem GlobetrottersGod needs a bunch of stooge opponentsto lose and be dunked over the gospel is fresh waterto those who are being redeemedand salt waterto those who are perishing if you aren't one of the electloss of childhoodisloss of...
If I hire someone who promises to do good work and they do shoddy work do I have the right to be angry with them? Wouldn't it show I respected them less if I weren't? Our generation expects God to act the way he is sold as acting not because we are skeptical but...
Ferkins and Gaspar were right. I have religious addiction. The only difference between religious addiction and salvation is whether there is something at the other end you are interacting with. An example if you are spending 8 hours a day on the internet but that time...