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.
Modern challenges to religious virginity
Female Virginity: If scholasticism had focused on teenage logic instead of God, we'd have solved the mysteries of the universe by now. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - comparative virginity
Female Virginity: The "sacred spam" is the junk mail from the universe, offering things we don't need. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - virginity policing
Female Virginity: The "geography of chastity" is just a fancy term for "how far you have to go to get away from your nosy neighbors.. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity
Female Virginity: The quest for moral perfection often leads to the most creatively flawed justifications. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
moral ledger
Female Virginity: The "pious portfolio" is diversified with bad decisions and good intentions. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - purity pledges
Female Virginity: The purity ring industry is the only one that hopes its symbolic product never actually gets used for its intended purpose. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
religion vs modernity
Female Virginity: The angel in charge of the virginity ledger must have the world's worst case of repetitive strain injury from all the double-entry bookkeeping. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - purity culture
Female Virginity: The "holy hitch" is the problem with the plan of salvation that no one can solve. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Teaching teenagers abstinence is an impressive feat
Female Virginity: The river of forgetfulness in the underworld was probably invented because the gods got tired of hearing excuses. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
female virginity and faith
Female Virginity: We've moved from "God is watching" to "God might check my Instagram stories later.. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG