That was great, I would not have known about that. Thanks for posting.
The Off-Topic and Random Thoughts Thread(Anything Goes!)
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That was great, I would not have known about that. Thanks for posting.
Not necessarily. I heard (I believe it was from Fr. Kosmas's Orthodox Talks) that there are generally two types of people in the Church. The first type is those who start out as great Christians, being really good at fasting, following the commandments, etc. The biggest danger for them is that they can become prideful of this and eventually some of them fall into great sin. For example, imagine staying chaste for two years and thinking you're such a great Christian then suddenly succumbing to temptation and going back to prostitutes or erotic massage parlors. Well the right thing to do is go and confess and get back up. But sometimes they don't, they are so filled with shame and pride that they cannot even bring themselves to confess this to their priests after being so good for so long. They can't get back to being as faithful to Christ and keeping the commandments, and when the going gets rough, they quit and abandon the Church.
The second type, which is supposedly better concerning long-term outcomes, is those who really struggle with Christianity at first. They slog through it, barely able to keep up with fasting, prayer, and all the commandments. Constantly they are bombarded by awful temptations for the first months or years they are in the Church. The risk here is that they will give up and fall away because the struggle is overwhelming. But if they keep getting back up and fighting, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. They're not proud of being Christians at first because they're so bad at it. When they fall, they are already used to confessing the same sins over and over again so it doesn't hurt their ego to do it again.
I myself am of the second type, and perhaps you are too. I still haven't seen the light at the end of the tunnel, but I trust God will deliver me when it is time as long as I stay faithful to Him. Perhaps TrainedLogosmotion was of the first type and he couldn't handle his fall so he convinced himself it's all a lie and he wouldn't have to put in the hard work to get out of the pit. I don't know. But what we are going through in the present is no indication of the future and we shouldn't be looking to others' successes or failures, only our own. We all have our own path.
Today I had a coffee, bagel with cream cheese and two mozzarella cheese sticks at the warehouse. Then came home after a workout and made two good size filet mignons with a little bit of roasted potato's and asparagus. That was a couple hours ago.
I'm still hungry! Very hungry actually....mind you I'm a pretty decent sized donkey but I shouldn't still be hungry after those two filet mignons. I'm fighting the urge to go downstairs and go eat something because I refuse to get "winter fluffy", as I like to call it, this winter. Can't figure out if I'm actually hungry and really need more calories or just bored and God knows one of my favorite activities is eating!
I dodged everyone who wanted to do something tonight because I was tired, just came back from a rough business trip to grimey Chicago. Now I'm laying in bed and all I want to do is eat...haha I should have went out!
Don't mind me just having big donkey bear water buffalo problems over there!
I'm still hungry! Very hungry actually....mind you I'm a pretty decent sized donkey but I shouldn't still be hungry after those two filet mignons. I'm fighting the urge to go downstairs and go eat something because I refuse to get "winter fluffy", as I like to call it, this winter. Can't figure out if I'm actually hungry and really need more calories or just bored and God knows one of my favorite activities is eating!
I dodged everyone who wanted to do something tonight because I was tired, just came back from a rough business trip to grimey Chicago. Now I'm laying in bed and all I want to do is eat...haha I should have went out!
Don't mind me just having big donkey bear water buffalo problems over there!
Sounds like you’ve got my problem, hollow legs.
Right now, part of what I do involves preventing theft. I told one of my coworkers that instead of fighting people, I wish that I could tell them that it's a sin to steal and that they will go to hell for it if they do not repent. My coworker told me that I could tell them that but it wouldn't mean anything to them. I told him the reason he thinks that is because nothing has any meaning in the secular perspective. But from my perspective, even thieves are created in the image of God and cannot help but feel their consciences pricked when you warn them of the penalty for breaking God's Law.