Compiling
I was looking through my rants and I noticed double posts so I started cleaning those out. Then I noticed that my entries also had many double posts. I started cleaning those out too. I noticed that I used to post quite frequently. These days not as much. It’s not that I’m not thinking – which I am. These days, I’ve been assimilating thoughts and processing them to get the big picture of what’s going on and then writing instead of just having verbal diarrhea. More and more these days I’m trying to understand the culture. Every year, people are increasingly post-modern and as someone who’s more modern in thinking I need to understand this new culture so that I can be relevant and speak and relate in ways they understand. There’s an awesome quote in an article that I posted but will discuss later about the affect of tolerance has on our understanding of shame and sin. Another incredibly interesting comment was made last night in Heart Motives. “How can I control my feelings?” This generation is ruled by their feelings. This idea of controlling their feelings is a foreign idea – “What do you mean I don’t have to feel this way? That’s the way I am – accept me” Tolerate me. Love me for who I am. Who are you to judge me? On a tangent but this generation is defined by external forces – they are defined by experience, social factors, external influences. There is little internal intrinsic responsibility. I’m this way because my parents made me this way. Society’s forced me into this role. I can’t control my feelings because they’ve been created by external factors outside of my control. It’s an incredible victim mentality. But I digress – this is for another day.