I appreciated Con-She’s revelation that she felt her heart softened and a later sense of peace as she inched toward religion/Christianity. This is the true experience of feeling Christ’s love. So many feminine hearts are hardened and held hostage by earthly wokeness. How liberated they could be if only they dared to seek as Con-She has.
Yes! Christianity saved my spirit when I was canceled—it was a complete 180 from my past as a progressive atheist. That experience transformed me, and now, despite all the chaos in the world, I feel an unshakable peace. I use this wisdom to be a refuge for others and bring hope where there is none.
Just yesterday, I shared an insight inspired by Matthew 22:21—one that offers a powerful counter to the narcissism that runs rampant on the internet—like recruiting our own kind of army that has the power to reverse the toxicity of social justice warriors.
If one wants to get close to God, reading the Bible is essential. For example, in Romans 8, we read, "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?...No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us, For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
The beginning of this interview made me think of this rabbit hole I’ve just started going down -
The Adolescent society by James S Coleman
I haven’t got my hands on a copy yet but it’s about how 100 years of herding young people into high school and making their peers the most important influence as made us molded to & stuck in that stage even as adults. Interesting idea. Written in the 60s. I’m trying to read a book continuing on with this idea ‘Teen Spirit’ by Paul Howe
I feel like people were smarter and FAR MORE WELL READ in prior generations and I love reading sociology type analysis written in the 70s and earlier because I just have more faith in the intellectual capabilities of people who actually had rigorous education and could read books and deeply engage their mind. Seems rare these days even among supposed modern intellectual
Basically if sort of play with this idea that adult behavior and maturity level is increasingly molded more and more to adolescence because of how we grew up/were socialized, it makes sense that we would be doing all this stupid identity nonsense
That is interesting! I never thought of that before re: the influence of our peers from adolescence continuing into adulthood. But now that you mention it, it's the plot of like 80 percent of all mom comedies coming out of Hollywood!
It’s a new theory I’ve just stumbled upon - Paul Howe wrote a book on this as well which I’m going to dive into further . I haven’t gotten a copy of the Coleman book yet but Howe’s book introduces the idea in his book
I appreciated Con-She’s revelation that she felt her heart softened and a later sense of peace as she inched toward religion/Christianity. This is the true experience of feeling Christ’s love. So many feminine hearts are hardened and held hostage by earthly wokeness. How liberated they could be if only they dared to seek as Con-She has.
Hard hearts is such a good way of phrasing it -- it's really evident that's exactly what is happening. Almost makes me feel sorry for them.
Yes! Christianity saved my spirit when I was canceled—it was a complete 180 from my past as a progressive atheist. That experience transformed me, and now, despite all the chaos in the world, I feel an unshakable peace. I use this wisdom to be a refuge for others and bring hope where there is none.
Just yesterday, I shared an insight inspired by Matthew 22:21—one that offers a powerful counter to the narcissism that runs rampant on the internet—like recruiting our own kind of army that has the power to reverse the toxicity of social justice warriors.
https://open.substack.com/pub/emmakearney/p/dialectical-judo-how-to-reverse-all?r=9ocx5&utm_medium=ios
The page from that link wasn't working, but I read two other essays of yours and subscribed. I am now a fan. You really are doing God's work!!! 💜💪🏼
Oh yeah I took it down due to some misinformation, but it will be back up this week with corrections.
If one wants to get close to God, reading the Bible is essential. For example, in Romans 8, we read, "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?...No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us, For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
The beginning of this interview made me think of this rabbit hole I’ve just started going down -
The Adolescent society by James S Coleman
I haven’t got my hands on a copy yet but it’s about how 100 years of herding young people into high school and making their peers the most important influence as made us molded to & stuck in that stage even as adults. Interesting idea. Written in the 60s. I’m trying to read a book continuing on with this idea ‘Teen Spirit’ by Paul Howe
I feel like people were smarter and FAR MORE WELL READ in prior generations and I love reading sociology type analysis written in the 70s and earlier because I just have more faith in the intellectual capabilities of people who actually had rigorous education and could read books and deeply engage their mind. Seems rare these days even among supposed modern intellectual
Basically if sort of play with this idea that adult behavior and maturity level is increasingly molded more and more to adolescence because of how we grew up/were socialized, it makes sense that we would be doing all this stupid identity nonsense
That is interesting! I never thought of that before re: the influence of our peers from adolescence continuing into adulthood. But now that you mention it, it's the plot of like 80 percent of all mom comedies coming out of Hollywood!
It’s a new theory I’ve just stumbled upon - Paul Howe wrote a book on this as well which I’m going to dive into further . I haven’t gotten a copy of the Coleman book yet but Howe’s book introduces the idea in his book
Introduces the idea as he summarizes Coleman’s work.
I will read, or listen, later. But the idea of embracing "conscientious objection" appeals to me right off the bat...