Lucid Living
Everything officially came to an end with B today, 5 years of marriage, friendship and time, gone in front of my eyes. I am okay with the fact that things are over, I can see where she’s coming from and I understand that desire to not be tied down and to not be raising someone else’s kid (I’ll be damned if I don’t love her though).
I guess the things I struggle with in this are the fact that I didn’t do anything specifically wrong (I wasn’t perfect, but in the long run I was a good partner to her) and the fact that she knew I had a kid 6 years ago when we met (he was 5 when we got married – certainly she noticed him, right?).
These things are tough, but you keep moving forward. Still got that PMA.
wgta:
Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out. #spsf #WGTA
TRUTH here.
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When Your Church Calls For Killing Others, It's No Longer A Church
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It’s not a mood if you’re always in it, it’s your shitty personality.
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OLOC > YOLO
One Life, One Chance is way, way, way, way, way better than You Only Live Once.
PMA!
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Is it possible that grace is counterintuitive to the religious mindset? I believe it is. Religion is about us and what we do to gain God’s favor and to make spiritual progress. It’s focuses on doing better to be better.
Grace takes a totally opposite approach. Grace assures us that isn’t about you and me and what we do to improve ourselves for God. It never has been and never will be. It’s about Him and His ridiculous, irrational, excessive, loving grace. The self-righteous crowd might as well calm down. Jesus is Jesus and He’s not going to change to fit their expectations or ours. Thank God.
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It is absolutely true that the “hero” rhetoric that is attached to all things related to the U.S. military is used to shut down real debate about the merits of what exactly it is that all those heroes are doing out there. If all soldiers are heroes, then all soldiers are righteous. If all soldiers are righteous, then the soldiers’ cause is righteous. The soldiers’ cause is war. Therefore the war is righteous. This is one of the oldest tropes in the “Manipulating the Free Press During Wartime” handbook. You need only look back at the profusion of American flag graphics and distinct lack of pointed skepticism that defined the U.S. media in the run up to the Iraq War to know how well this tactic works. It is easy for a TV network and its pundits to be patriotic. Theirs is a cheap patriotism. It is a patriotism of platitudes and comfortable symbols and cartoonish enemy villains to be opposed. Dissenters are just easy weenies to be picked on in the media schoolyard.
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