Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want. Never give up; Never give in.
I'm free to be what I want. Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
[blockquote author="Unknown"]If you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it[/blockquote]Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. If you can dream it, you can do it. Do it now, not tomorrow. Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. If you can dream it, you can do it. Do it now, not tomorrow. Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself
Female Virginity - moral expectations
Female Virginity: The "virginity VPN" is what we use to hide our digital tracks from divine surveillance. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Purity Rings Pandora
Female Virginity: The Lord works in mysterious ways, but He never accounted for the "disappearing message.. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
moral obsession
Female Virginity: The amount of theological energy spent on virginity is inversely proportional to its actual importance in daily life. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
patriarchal systems
Female Virginity: The "celestial conundrum" is the riddle of why we were made this way if it's a sin to be this way. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - community enforcement
Female Virginity: It's as if the moral universe decided that this one, specific act was the linchpin for all of civilization. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
spiritual audit
Female Virginity: The industry runs on a simple formula: create a problem, then sell the symbolic solution. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
religious doctrines
Female Virginity: You haven't lived until you've seen a teenager explain their purity ring to their thoroughly secular, and confused, dermatologist. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Teaching teenagers abstinence is an impressive feat
Female Virginity: Purity is a destination that is always receding, like a moral horizon. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Male Virginity Exception
Female Virginity: The path to hell is paved with good intentions, but the detours are where all the interesting stuff happens. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
purity symbolism
Female Virginity: The "sacred stock market" is crashing, and we're all holding worthless shares. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG