Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Live each day as it were your last. 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
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. 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.
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.
teaching teenagers to ignore their hormones
Female Virginity: The great theological question of our time is not whether God exists, but whether He's too busy to check up on you personally. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - urban compliance
Female Virginity: We're all just trying to get a passing grade in a class we never signed up for. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
chastity
Female Virginity: Purity is a destination that is always receding, like a moral horizon. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
digital surveillance
Female Virginity: If men had to wear purity rings, they'd be made of silicone and sold in vending machines. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - religion vs modernity
Female Virginity: The history of religion is just a long story of rules being made and then immediately bent. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
moral symbolism
Female Virginity: The "sacred snag" is the flaw in the moral fabric of the universe. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
urban compliance
Female Virginity: Purity is a destination that is always receding, like a moral horizon. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
social standing
Female Virginity: The real miracle is that women haven't collectively invoiced the patriarchy for millennia of unpaid emotional and spiritual labor. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
moral expectations
Female Virginity: It's telling that no world religion has ever started a "Purity Ball" for boys and their fathers. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
parental monitoring
Female Virginity: The great irony is that the technology used to enforce purity is the same technology used to subvert it. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG