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.
religious texts vs. modern reality
Female Virginity: The "vow of abstinence" is a promise made in a calm moment to be broken in a storm of passion. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - doctrine vs practice
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 - double standards
Female Virginity: The "pious predicament" is the situation we're all in, with no easy way out. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
technology vs tradition
Female Virginity: The "virtue verdict" is always "guilty with an explanation.. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Teenagers and Abstinence
Female Virginity: If "theory" and "practice" were in a marriage, they'd have divorced over irreconcilable differences millennia ago. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Is God on a Coffee Break?
Female Virginity: The "final exam" for life is one you can't study for and are never sure you've finished. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - digital surveillance
Female Virginity: The Grand Canyon is a mere ditch compared to the chasm between what is preached and what is practiced. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - marriage market
Female Virginity: Treating virginity as a commodity is the quickest way to make it feel like a burden. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - reputation management
Female Virginity: The purer you try to be, the more you notice the impurities in everyone else. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
moral enforcement
Female Virginity: If the angels are keeping track, they're doing it on a celestial Excel spreadsheet that keeps crashing. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG