People who spend long periods of time at home and slowly lose the desire to go outside often think they're just resting. But psychologically, many of them are experiencing something called mental rumination. It's a state where the brain starts slowing down while the number of thoughts inside keeps increasing and the motivation to do anything slowly disappears. The mind gets stuck in the past, worries about the future and burns itself out. This isn't laziness, it's a nervous system stuck in survival mode. And the longer it lasts, the more distant normal life begins to feel. And the difficult part is that you usually can't escape it through one massive burst of motivation. And sometimes,recovery starts with just one small step.
@orthodoxkat Yes!
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Female hyper capacity for empathy was created and designed specifically to empathize with children, especially toddlers and babies who can’t advocate well for themselves—to intuit their needs and feelings.
Normie women use this empathy only for criminals. And because it was not designed for this, it is always wrong.
@Donjaytrix001@Ukandi_one You do not understand the power they possess within this paradigm. Non voters have ruined this country.
Men consumed by work, party, video games, liberal arts, sports ball and chasing tail have ruined the nation that was built by men through God.
A Record of Sins According to the Passions
1. Neglecting Prayer
This category includes missing or leaving clerical and church prayers unattended. It also encompasses neglecting one's personal devotion to Jesus out of laziness.
2. Pride and Vanity
Pride manifests through stubbornness, persistence in wrongdoing, shamelessness, and irritability. It breeds self-love, self-admiration, self-justification, and self-confidence. It also includes "Jakania" (the constant focus on "I") and all other forms of vanity. Anger frequently stems from this underlying pride and vanity.
3. Deceit and Lying
This involves outright lying, inaccuracy in storytelling, and specific manifestations of untruth through words, deeds, and the mental intent to deceive. When examining this sin, one must identify the underlying reason for the lie. Consider what prompted the deceit: was it a desire to belittle someone else, praise oneself, or acquire material gain?
4. Cruelty and Hardness of Heart
This passion shows itself through cruelty, refusal to help, indifference, anger, and irritability. All of these are manifestations of a lack of love. It also includes unforgiveness and related sins.
5. Other Disobediences
These sins include violating prescribed fasts and misbehaving during temple services or while performing one’s spiritual rule. They also include failing to read spiritual books, neglecting to read the Holy Gospel daily, and violating the holiness of the sanctuary.
6. Impurity
This category covers impure desires, unholy thoughts, daydreams, and shameful feelings.
7. Sins of the Tongue
These include condemnation of others, judging, blasphemy, idle daydreams, self-praise, and self-defensive speech. It also includes senseless laughter or laughing merely to please others, which amounts to a form of idolatry. When examining why you condemn others, ask yourself if it stems from a lack of love, high-mindedness, pride, idleness, a lack of meaningful communication, or envy. In this way, you reveal the passion that acts as the root of the sin.
8. Avarice and Carnal Indulgence
This involves pampering the body through excessive sleep and gluttony. It includes seeking excessive physical comfort, pleasure, and infidelity. It also encompasses an excessive, vain care for the outward purity of the body.
9. Intrusive Thoughts and Despair
This passion involves battling intrusive thoughts, dark desires, and the inability to overcome despair. Regarding these thoughts, you must identify their origin and cause—discovering where they came from and why they arose. Consider whether your personal will, interest, desire, curiosity, or a heartfelt inner conversation fueled them. Ask yourself why you did not immediately abandon the thought or drive it away. Ultimately, you must answer for the state of your heart and your will.
10. Laziness
Laziness can be divided into three distinct types: Laziness toward God
Laziness toward yourselfLaziness toward other peopleIf laziness overcomes you, the enemy has won and rejoices. The day is entirely lost if you fail to record the pangs of your conscience, your wayward thoughts, your verbal sins, and your unchristian deeds. If you do not truly desire to examine yourself in this way, it will be impossible to obtain true spiritual joy and rejoicing.
-Hieroschemamonk Sampson Sivers
Orthodox monk Fr. Lazarus El Anthony explains When you decide to take your spiritual life seriously and try to pray to God with true faith and love, you shouldn’t expect a smooth path.
Spiritual warfare intensifies, as unseen forces will try to block your progress.
@JoaquinCastrotx You've said many times that "nobody is above the law."
By "nobody" you must mean only your political adversaries, and not people who broke our country's immigration laws.
These books will give you a better education than almost any school curriculum in the West today.
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