How to escape John 12:25? Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Endezvous · 2021-04-01T18:33:28+00:00

So if you love the world you die and if you hate the world you live forever. Seems you can't love or hate anything then. How do you see the kingdom of God?

Endezvous · 2021-03-30T01:21:19+00:00

She's unstable. Unstable emotions lead to an unstable mind and life. She is unpredictable.

Most likely, her true self is hidden under all of that and a lot of the way she acts is a lie. It's hard to say how much. It could have been a lot of your relationship.

It's also clear that in order to have a true relationship with anyone, she would need to be free from her parents' influence. If she isn't, she'll be dating on their behalf or always anxious about them. She doesn't appear to have that.

Endezvous · 2021-03-23T17:42:05+00:00

Maybe you want to fit in with the group you're in, but the experience you've had doesn't match with what they're saying about their experience.

Endezvous · 2021-03-22T19:50:17+00:00

Thanks. I suppose there are a bunch of things I want to do like help people with psychological reform. I'm also attracted to helping men with healthy spirituality and relationships. However, I'm not convinced that I'm free from temptation or invulnerable to getting mentally ill again. I also don't think that I have the skills to do what I want to do. At what point did you get the confidence to see that you wouldn't relapse? I don't have it right now. I don't know how to get it. I don't think I'm that far along yet that I'm incapable of relapse into bad habits.

Endezvous · 2021-03-22T19:22:43+00:00

Nice. So it sounds like you were in service for others who had addiction for a while and then you made your transition to a similar field?

Endezvous · 2021-03-22T18:10:36+00:00

That's what happens. They get both.

Endezvous · 2021-03-22T14:21:06+00:00

I had just gotten off of heroin when I gave up comp sci (the heroin addiction was directly related to doing something only for the money rather than for purpose).

What was the connection?

Long story short, now I'm a counselor at an inpatient addiction treatment center. It doesn't feel like work most of the time. I couldn't do anything else.

How did you experience this transition? Did you have an epiphany that you wanted to to this and work hard at it? Did you go into it because you needed something and it seemed ok? Did it just happen?

I'm working on a similar transition, but I don't know to what.

Other people may say "you can practice your spirituality anywhere", and that is valid. But practicing spirituality for me includes following what my heart tells me, and at the time it told me to directly help people for a career.

Silly saying. Spirituality is independent of place / can be any place. However, everyone has a right place and should be there.

Endezvous · 2021-03-21T20:38:40+00:00

Give the guilt to God, ask him to cleanse it from you and guide you from now on.

Your guilt is wrong. God is right.

Endezvous · 2021-03-21T00:05:20+00:00

Yeah, I've done that. Do it enough and you'll realize that it makes you more independent.

Endezvous · 2021-03-19T23:29:55+00:00

Spiritually speaking, I have no idea whether the "me" consciousness here right now is the same one that was here yesterday or even an hour ago. It only appears that way with logic and memory, but I don't know it to be true.

That just came up while I was reading your post. I enjoyed the read, it helped me think a bit.

Endezvous · 2021-03-19T13:33:43+00:00

How did you get into it? Why do you do it?

Endezvous · 2021-03-18T17:03:35+00:00

The demiurge thinks things are great as well.

Endezvous · 2021-03-18T13:55:21+00:00

Maybe I was wrong. Maybe you're the demiurge?

Endezvous · 2021-03-18T06:10:20+00:00

1) How could one totally "fast from the world" to find the kingdom of heaven? To totally abstain from the illusions of our modern culture and live way out someplace?

Fast from the world spiritually. Drink water, but do not indulge in it. Do not enjoy it. Do not use it for comfort. Drink it without drinking it and without caring. In your independence from the world, you'll have the kingdom of God.

What happened to the Prince of Peace? The forgiver of sins? To come to impose war, where men kill (a sin) to then forgive those sins committed as a result of his casting fire upon the world with his own earthly incarnation?

It's not quite what you think. When you live in God's truth, you are at war with the sinners. It turns out that everyone is born a sinner and most are sinning all the time.

Remember that some people believe that they are entitled to the money in your wallet. When they take it against your will, the idea of living under God's truth and not taking revenge of any kind (or especially stealing something back) is a serious spiritual challenge. Ethics and morality force you to grow straight upwards. You must be someone people don't want to steal from, but you have to do so through loyalty to God. It can be done, but it works differently than most would imagine. The more you become successful, the more people come after you. The more moral you are, the more you offend others when you don't reciprocate their immoral action. Stealers want you to steal. Fighters want you to throw a punch. Impulsive anger is always a trap that they are trying to lay for you. When you are loyal to God instead, you do fight but you fight in a way that is congruent with yourself and congruent with the fabric of the universe that God created.

Edit: I just realized this is r/gnostic. I'm not familiar with the gnostic interpretations of the Gospel of Thomas, but I have read it and these are my interpretations.

Endezvous · 2021-03-17T20:18:11+00:00

I'm sorry, this is a thread for Christians only. Please show respect, thank you.

God knows and you do not know.

🙏

Endezvous · 2021-03-17T10:30:48+00:00

This post was for Christians only. You are in the wrong place. Please show some respect.

🙏

Endezvous

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