ColoradoBoy
Excellent! I found that This Naked Mind really help me uncover all the lies that our culture tells about alcohol and not feel as tempted by the “fun” things or FOMO.
I mean, I wouldn’t take part in some “heroin tasting,” either and would be quite convinced I wouldn’t be missing out.
(I’m not connected to Annie Grace in any way, just felt like that book helped a lot).
The Bible for me is like a conversation with my 3,000 year old faith community. It is not:
- Inerrant: it was written by flat earthers
- The actual “word” of God: Jesus is the Word of God and the Bible shows how we’ve been wrestling with God over time
- In all ways permanent: the Bible writers and Jesus change meanings, interpretations and more — all over the place. So can we. Language, culture and science advance and we cannot expect every single thought someone had back then to carry forward or make sense.
I like your hermeneutic above. Christ first. Definitely the Holy Spirit although a lot of Protestant types are afraid to listen in silence and trust what they hear. Definitely the church, we are the body of Christ and it important to help each other grow in our understanding. As the UCC says, “God is still speaking.” I especially like that you listen to the margins. Christianity is a faith of the margins, despite how Christian nationalists and prosperity gospel preachers try to pervert it.
I’m indebted to Martin Luther in many ways, but Sola Scriptura is a pair of handcuffs on many faith journeys.
Yeah! Congratulations!
Thank you! I stumbled on this once and couldn’t find it again.
Awesome, congratulations. A friend of mine who would binge described it this way: you can choose whether you want to dance with the gorilla or not, but the gorilla chooses when you stop. Except he didn’t say, “dance with.”
Even if they truly are non-binary — and all signs point to an insincere attempt to thwart prosecution— they should be sentenced for hate crimes.
I went through a little of a sugar and dessert phase here and there. Treat myself for not drinking. It’s been five years now so not only do I have no desires or cravings to drink, the thought actually repulses me. So it’s a little easier to focus on other health habits. I go through two bottles of SodaStream a day, though. 😀
Health agencies and journalists are finally coming around in most places to admitting there are only downsides to drinking. Most of the studies that showed benefits were flawed in some way, including not screening for people who already ruined their health and then abstained. It’s sometimes referred to as the sick quitter effect.
But drugs are great at making you rationalize almost anything to take more drugs and this particular drug has big money and some very talented marketing behind it.