Make war for peace & make love for chastity – when intentions and actions fail to align

To “make war for peace” or “fucking for chastity” sounds like oxymorons, don’t they?  Sadly if you take the time to observe, they are exactly the sort of patterns that people engage in.  There’s plenty of people who would like to be rich, yet spend freely without a budget.  I’ve seen my share of women … More Make war for peace & make love for chastity – when intentions and actions fail to align

Church Shopping and Grimoire Shopping – shared pitfalls between Christians and occultists

“Surely you know that if a man can’t be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighborhood looking for the church that ‘suits’ him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.” – Screwtape from the Screwtape Letters The above quote is from the book The Screwtape … More Church Shopping and Grimoire Shopping – shared pitfalls between Christians and occultists

Your world cannot be changed without changing yourself

I play the guitar.  For musical instruments, repetition plays heavily in the learning of songs.  To play a song smoothly means memorizing it and ingraining in your mind specific ways of playing it.  As such, after you’ve learned a song, it becomes somewhat a pain in the behind to try to change the way you … More Your world cannot be changed without changing yourself