I like to write because I am conceited and like to hear my own voice and read my own words.
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Depression and the Christian passion, psychologically speaking
“The Christian passion psychologically: Voluntary acceptance of suffering produces a transformation… sufficiently powerful to transcend tragedy and to keep malevolence at bay.”
Don’t know what to say? Humanity is evil?
Hopelessness, powerlessness, God, and shame. Repressing our evil potential co-represses celebrating our goodness. Suffering is our fate, and why the Redeemer came. Psychology yaps out both sides of its mouth, so I prefer a Polish poet.
Noah and his damned movies irk my soul
When Noah seems to adhere to the norms of a 16-year-old young man, it is coincidence, not conformity.
My love letter to you
If you fail at raising me out of my sadness, then you too will be sad. That will make me sadder. I choose and own my sadness right now because I believe it is where I am supposed to be, to be true to my Self. It is not despair. It is widening, not deepening.
Love always fails
No one, especially our own self, is ever enough for another person. If because of unreadiness we reject God’s love, we are bound to reject any and all conditional human love — self-love included.
