Emotional Porn :: What say you?
I have been having this discussion for a # of years with the female friends in my life who persist, insist, and other ‘ists’ that what they engage in, throw gatherings for, and discuss over many a dinner is equally as damaging as me reading & watching porn. While I can see the extremism in my statements and don’t think it’s directly black/white….I do think it’s a fine line that all of us, not just women, have disregarded and chalked it up to cultural relevancy & ‘just entertainment’. I think guys can struggle with emotional porn as well, this is not just a women issue….however do believe that women have been targets for longer in this sense of the term while males are targets for the obvious porn we all define in the same terms.
I stole the pic from this article written by Relevant Magazine that can be found here : Link to Article. I highly suggest the read for a good perspective on the matter.
A good quote from the article:
We’re taught to crave the moment of romantic ecstasy or to live for the wedding day. We’re raised to think these are the real stories of love and relationship, and we’re confused when they are so few and far between that we aren’t sustained. So we turn back to that which led us to believe in this fantasy all along. And we’re left with an old woman sitting alone, in her love seat, in front of the television watching her “stories.”
A friend told me, which is of use here: men sin like dogs, women sin like cats.
It’s very obvious when we make an @ss out of ourselves. We are just dumb and sit there right next to where we crapped on the floor and in some cases go back and eat it…gross I know - analogy is correct though.
Women, often times, look much better in their sin and are far more savvy with it’s cover up. They are good image managers, much better than us dogs….they tend to come out smelling better than we do.
How emotional porn relates to the analogy above: it’s completely under the radar for the most part, it’s cat-like.
Hilarious video from Toyota. Well done, well done.
Blessed are the fat, the bald, and the old
As many who read this blog know I have a strong sentiment for a book called ‘The Divine Conspiracy’ by Dallas Willard. It is the book that if stranded on an island and couldn’t take the Bible I would take it (freakin sunday school statement I know).
Reading it sends shockwaves through my soul as I grapple with the truth it brings to the forefront. In my habits I find outright lies that have me believing I am better than most, that i deserve praise, and that I should have a good seat at the table.
You might think the most unfortunate people in the world today are the fat, the misshapen, the bald, the ugly, the old, and those not relentlessly engaged in romance, sex, and fashionably equipped physical activities.
If I am honest I think this. So I wrestle with these thoughts, how to live, in light of the modern day Beatitudes:
Blessed are the physically repulsive,
Blessed are those who smell bad,
The twisted, the misshapen, deformed,
The too big, too little, too loud,
The bald, the fat, the old,
For they are all riotously celebrated in the party of Jesus.
Blessed are the crushed ones; the flunk-outs, drop-outs, and burned-outs. The broke and the broken.The drug heads and the divorced. The HIV-Positive and herpes-ridden. The brain damaged, the incurably ill. The barren and the pregnant too many times or at the wrong time. The over-employed, the underemployed, the unemployed. The unemployable. The swindled, the shoved aside, the replaced. The parents with the children living on the street, the children with the parents not dying in the ‘rest’ home. The lonely, the incompetent, the stupid. The emotionally starved or the emotionally dead. And on and on.
The condition of life sought for by human beings through the ages is attainted in the quietly transforming friendship of Jesus.
Another Facebook Video. What is FB good for?
Facebook in reality….you have prob seen it.
TV is a DRUG! I highly suggest watching this and sharing your thoughts
Jesus + Darwin = Truth?
Could it be? It just may.
I just got done reading ‘The Language of God’ that goes into detail regarding the harmony between Science & Faith. Am I an evolutionist now?…..maybe. The term he puts forth to explain the perspective is called ‘BioLogos’ (www.biologos.org) and I would strongly suggest that you, no matter if you are an atheist, agnostic, Muslim, or a Christian, read this book.
Many times christians have these poster child arguments against evolution (fossil gaps, evolution = atheism, etc) and they are just old, dated, and faded. Evolution actually demands a beginning, a bang, a spark to start life on it’s course therefore the view is completely compatible with Theism. Could God use natural laws to create all things? Of course he could.
I find that I had to clean my mind of sorts from some terms I thought I knew or carried a certain sentiment about…you will have to do the same no matter which angle you approach it from. Happy reading, dig in!
