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.
Female Virginity - theological concepts
Female Virginity: The celestial "search" function must return millions of conflicting results for every query. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Religion and Virginity
Female Virginity: The phrase "we didn't go all the way" is the theological equivalent of a corporate tax loophole. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
From Sacred Scrolls to Sephora Sales
Female Virginity: The celestial database must be so full of contradictory entries that it's on the verge of crashing. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
moral expectations
Female Virginity: The "homework" of piety is something we always mean to do, but never get around to. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
How Teens Outsmart Divine Oversight
Female Virginity: Religions spent millennia building a vault for a treasure they told one half of the population they possessed and the other half they could ignore. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Virginity and Social Media
Female Virginity: "I'm saving myself for marriage" is often true, if you don't count the specific, carefully defined exceptions. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - religious enforcement
Female Virginity: The celestial fine print always seems to exempt the male half of the population from celestial audits. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
sacred texts
Female Virginity: The compliance chart for religious virginity looks less like a gentle slope and more like a cliff that people are constantly falling off. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Divine Compliance
Female Virginity: The real you is the one that exists in the search history you're trying to delete. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Virginity as Social Currency
Female Virginity: The "ethical echo chamber" is where we go to hear our own virtues repeated back to us. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG