What someone says about their priorities is a story. What they repeatedly do is the truth. Their patterns are their real priorities. Patterns don't lie. If you don't like their patterns, stop arguing with the evidence and start managing their access to you.
You don't outgrow people, you outgrow the version of yourself that tolerated them. They didn't change. You did. And the distance isn't betrayal, it's evolution. You're not abandoning them. You're reclaiming yourself.
Human nature is wired for survival, not truth. People believe what keeps them safe, accepted, or comfortable, even when it contradicts reality. If a lie protects their ego or status, they’ll defend it fiercely. Understand this, and you’ll stop expecting honesty.
@NicchiaBiblica@LarsTheBadMan Numbers 31:17–18
“Now therefore kill every male among the little ones and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
But all the women children that have not known a man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.”
Lmao
@ShorteeTexas@JesusSavesUs777 Unable to refute my point on your cherry-picking scripture, you default to insults. That’s not just a loss of the argument; it exposes the fragility of your position.
Embarrassing.
@ShorteeTexas@JesusSavesUs777 Leviticus calls gay sex an abomination, but uses the exact same word for eating shrimp and demands death for kids who curse their parents.
So if you eat bacon or wear cotton-poly but still condemn gays, you’re just cherry-picking which “abominations” to hate.