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Re: Favorite Biblical Book (s)? [Re: Deviate]
    #19310552 - 12/22/13 04:44 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Deviate said:
If you havent experienced that, you are very lucky. Truly if one looks at the state of ones soul, there is much to be depressed about. The orthodox church teaches that Orthodox Christians should live in mourning if they are capable of it, mourning for their lost grace. Life in the world is misery in my experience. I aim to find the Kingdom of God through contempt for the world, as the Imitation of Christ suggests. I hate the world and I hate life in the fallen state.




Oh no love! I have had my fair share of tribulations. Fuck, I didn't really get my life on a good track until I was about 25 or so and that was after years of dealing with a narcissistic mother, verbal/emotional/mental/physical abuse from her husband, terrible relationship and life choices, and a well of depression that was so deep at times I thought death would be my only way out. I really believed I was just waiting to die so all of it could be over and I could have some peace.

I don't know what changed. Maybe it was me coming to believe I was going through an initiation process and once I came to this understanding it was like some kind of switch went off and I began to try to handle things differently. People who "have it rough" aren't unlucky, they're Odysseus, Heracles, Job, and Aeneas. Myths and parables are written about those who, through great trials, come out on the other side not always for the better but different and able to contemplate lessons others cannot. They become heroes in their families and communities. They're able to stand for something because they've already been tempered by flame, blood, or despair.

That means something to me. It means I can offer compassion when I see someone who's down on their luck because I've been there. I can understand hunger and loneliness and, though I often fail, I can try to help someone else indure their own initiation and welcome them once they come to the next steps their gods/spirit/universe/HGA/self has laid out for them.

Life can be beautiful even when we have to question if it's art.  :holyshit:


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