"“it is an strange shameful pain that we must love God before we can love one another, that we cannot love each other directly”. I said to her, I think God politely steps out of the room once he is assured that we are doing all right on our own."
I don't think there is an opposition between loving God and loving your wife - not a good way to think. You love your wife so you can love and draw near to God, "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself for her." Marriage is an icon of such love through which God concretely works in the world. In perfect marriage there is perfect synergy between serving each other and serving God. Nevertheless we are fallen and imperfect - yet we should strive for perfection. St Paul discusses in Ephesians
I think that when women say they want "equality," that they "want to be equal," what they actually want deep down is to be known and to be loved. (I'll allow that some of them, particularly the more autistic ones, actually do want equality.) A lot of what's going on now between the sexes is just an attempt at large to farm love at industrial scale. They want credentials they can put on display to prove, categorically, that they are worthy of love, that they deserve love -- because this psychologically allows them to give up on love ("I give to the other") and focus on the credentials ("I deserve this from the other"). Of course, there is a parallel for men, and it is here, in what you wrote.
The crystallization of love into credential is the problem; it is the very essence of the Faustian West. This is the last step of progress that cannot be taken.
I killed a baby robin last week I hit him with a shovel because he broke his leg trying to fly. I don't have bird healing powers I apologized to his mom I wanted to cry. he shit himself it must've hurt bad when he broke it i'm sorry there was nothing I couldve done to make it better
To love God is to love her. To love, is to love God. God is love. The Spirit of God is Love. To be in God, is to be united with each other, for God cannot be divided.
The eucharist, communion, is a small piece of this, for God is the eucharist, and when we partake of God, we are united to each other, through God
"“it is an strange shameful pain that we must love God before we can love one another, that we cannot love each other directly”. I said to her, I think God politely steps out of the room once he is assured that we are doing all right on our own."
I don't think there is an opposition between loving God and loving your wife - not a good way to think. You love your wife so you can love and draw near to God, "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself for her." Marriage is an icon of such love through which God concretely works in the world. In perfect marriage there is perfect synergy between serving each other and serving God. Nevertheless we are fallen and imperfect - yet we should strive for perfection. St Paul discusses in Ephesians
I think that when women say they want "equality," that they "want to be equal," what they actually want deep down is to be known and to be loved. (I'll allow that some of them, particularly the more autistic ones, actually do want equality.) A lot of what's going on now between the sexes is just an attempt at large to farm love at industrial scale. They want credentials they can put on display to prove, categorically, that they are worthy of love, that they deserve love -- because this psychologically allows them to give up on love ("I give to the other") and focus on the credentials ("I deserve this from the other"). Of course, there is a parallel for men, and it is here, in what you wrote.
The crystallization of love into credential is the problem; it is the very essence of the Faustian West. This is the last step of progress that cannot be taken.
>the more autistic ones
Hey buddy that's my beautiful princess you're talking about
"I know how to be alone."
You're the Last Psychiatrist, aren't you. Lets stop playing games. Just bring it all out in the open, you're not in trouble.
I say this with all conviction: man I wish (I had such a cushy well paying job)
I killed a baby robin last week I hit him with a shovel because he broke his leg trying to fly. I don't have bird healing powers I apologized to his mom I wanted to cry. he shit himself it must've hurt bad when he broke it i'm sorry there was nothing I couldve done to make it better
You're all right, it was the right thing
To love God is to love her. To love, is to love God. God is love. The Spirit of God is Love. To be in God, is to be united with each other, for God cannot be divided.
The eucharist, communion, is a small piece of this, for God is the eucharist, and when we partake of God, we are united to each other, through God
Thinking about this further; I think you should marry that lass and than proceed to give her 500 babies
it was never a “social issue”. Its a moral issue, and an issue about first assumptions, basic philosophical worldviews.
Isn't it it always.
Anyway, great read.