10-06-2021, 12:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-06-2021, 01:18 PM by Eric the Green.)
(10-06-2021, 04:05 AM)AspieMillennial Wrote:(10-05-2021, 04:00 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(10-03-2021, 08:52 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:(03-19-2021, 04:13 AM)Captain Genet Wrote:(03-16-2021, 03:28 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Civic types do not go for the Bohemian expressions. Economic realities make that impossible during their childhood as Bohemian styles are ridiculed as "old hat". in a Crisis, anything unconventional is suspect, and much is being deemed unconventional, including 3T fads (none of which are bohemian). They may adopt conventional standards of behavior because all else creates personal trouble without offering any compensation. By the time the 1T sets in, the focus is on solving the problems of the Outer World.
A lot of Bohemian trends have become a part of conventional standards of Millennial behaviour. Tattoos. Searching for casual sex partners on Tinder. Rap music. The opposite of all that will be stern, ascetic spirituality.
The coming 2T will probably have the feel of the clash between early Christians and decadent Roman aristocracy.
I can't wait to see the looks of horror on their faces when their children are into Christianity. It will be the absolute nightmare of the secularists in my generation and it will finally be justice to the religious Millennials who have been persecuted.
How can you believe in a religion of child predators, Aspie? Catholic priests molest millions of children all over the world. Just today a report came out in France about 350,000 young teens abused by priests over 7 decades, and their leaders even steered children toward abusers.
The Catholic church creates its own problems. Ironically, it is their own suppression of sex that causes the sexual abuse. They never even consider revising their long-outdated rules. What kind of man is attracted to a profession which requires celebacy? And to a profession which no woman can practice? Sex is part of who we are; it can't be suppressed. The Taliban can't do it, and neither can the Catholics. Go around in Rome to some dens of sin and you'll find priests there. The Catholic Church is a relic; its doctrines and rules are obscenely outdated and superstitious. In the long run its fortunes can only decline, since it is unable to reform itself, or to return to the long-abandoned actual teachings of Jesus and other mystics.
Because it's one of the only institutions that is a stable rock in society that's constantly changing and one of the only institutions not saying things like "God and heaven are metaphors" and all kinds of nonsense you see. I think today's society is too sex obsessed. They are willing to throw out concepts like God, meaning, eternal salvation, and heaven just because of issues with sex and sexuality.
Our society WAS too sex-obsessed. Now it is sex-repression-obsessed. Or both at once, depending on which part of culture you meet. I don't see people throwing "out concepts like God, meaning, eternal salvation, and heaven just because of issues with sex and sexuality." I don't see any connection between these issues.
Our approach considers God and heaven etc. as aspects of reality to experience and learn more about, rather than stories in a book to believe in, and a basis for knocking others who don't believe in them.
Catholic Church doctrine used to teach that God created the world in 6 days, and all creation is the same as it was 6025 years ago. But it is established knowledge that life has evolved and changed over millennia, and therefore life progresses and develops rather than being like a stable rock. You don't even have to consider evolution; just consider how a plant or animal develops in its lifetime. It grows from a seed and continues to grow and change. That is the way of life. Your Church simply refuses to be alive.
Of course, today even the Church is more willing to accept science. And those like me who accept evolution don't have to reduce it to natural selection or some other mechanical cause, but also see it as divine spirit or God unfolding and expressing.