Athanasius

I believe that lust is an incredibly powerful force in a man's desires. It has the ability to control and devastate a man, and I would like to spend some time trying to reflect on my own experience with lust to better understand it. I believe that in better understanding the power of lust, I will better control it in the future. I think that lust is a very interesting force in a man's mind.  In many cases, lust is like firework. It is driven by an initial spark that leads to a great wave of lust that controls and drives the action of an individual until the final explosion or climax of satisfaction is achieved. Typically, the cycle begins with provocation by exposure to an initial stimulant of lust. It could be a provocative Instagram real or YouTube short that is sexual in nature that acts as the initial force or push in one's mind that stimulates the desire for lust and initiates the chain reaction. This spark turns on a wave of momentum, a continuous feedback loop, that ...

    I was reading something on the internet and one person asked a professed Christian who was a homosexual how homosexuality was not antithetical to the Christian faith. This is a paraphrase but the individual asking the question said something like this: "I am asking this question in no bad faith. I am genuinely curious. How can one come to the conclusion that homosexuality is not sinful?" Another person on the internet replied to this questioner something along the lines of, "I am asking this question in no bad faith. I am genuinely curious. I found that I fall short of Christian ideals so much that I am too focused on fixing myself and rarely have time to gaze outwardly and question the morality of the actions of others. Can you explain what the benefit to you is of questioning the morality of others' actions?"      After reading this interaction, I found myself wondering the same question as the initial inquirer. From my understanding of Christianity, I bel...

      Well, it has taken me almost another year to write my next blog post. I definitely did not achieve the goal I set to write every week. Well, I will start writing now and how ever much I get to writing in the future. I think it is important for me to continue writing. Writing helps think and form ideas and it will help me think more carefully and form my mind and who I believe I am in life. So I will continue to write.     I feel I want to grow up to become a good man. At least, this is what I think I want to become right now, from the amount of thinking I have done so far. I guess I should define what I think a good man is. A good man is a man that possesses certain virtuous qualities and lives by some sort of moral law that I believe should be attainable through reason. One quality of a good man is integrity and honesty. A good man who dedicates his life to the pursuit of the good and the true should live a life in real life that is true and honest. I hav...

It is the night of Saturday, February 3rd 2024. I am at the moment sitting at a table watching over a room with sleeping homeless men and women as I work my shift at a shelter. In this quiet night, with just the silent snores and grumbles of the unconscious, I find time to write, write my first entry into this personal blog, a blog which only I will probably ever read. I have been planning to start writing seriously for several years, but I have only just now begun my first entry. I am a young writer. Filled with the excitement and spirit of adventure characteristic of my age, I begin this journey with optimism for what I could potentially achieve and what type of writer I will eventually become at the end of this long journey called life. Will I end up writing frightening horror, exciting sci-fi/fantasy, or heart wrenching romance? Perhaps my talents will lead me to become a great nonfiction writer, dabbling in such disciplines as philosophy and/or politics. Whatever I do, I want to b...