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2025.01.23 18:50 Mediocre_Fox_ Chain on discord

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2025.01.23 18:50 Physical_Program6433 Amity Affliction Concert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey all! I’m a 27f and Unfortunately, none of my friends enjoy this kind of music, and they are my favorite band. I would like to see them before I die, and they are coming to Norfolk in March!! Now is my chance I feel, I live in PA and this is the closest concert from them I could find! Hit me up if you’re also into that genre of music, yes there is screaming involved, (no it’s not “angry music”) or down for new experiences! Thank ya! 😊
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2025.01.23 18:50 Odd-Friend1293 Cosa devo fare adesso?

Ciao a tutti, vi sintetizzo in breve una mia “situationship”, la più tossica che potesse capitare. Sono due mesi che mi sento con una ragazza e siamo usciti solo due volte. La prima volta che siamo usciti c’è stata un’ottima chimica, infatti è stata lei a continuare la conversazione via chat. La reinvito ad uscire e comincia a rimandare fin quando non ammette che è una persona confusa, che non sa quello che vuole, dicendomi anche che va dalla psicologa (suppongo per motivi inerenti a questi temi). Continuiamo a chattare e a salutarci di persona visto che frequentiamo ambienti in comune, fin quando dopo una ventina di giorni, stufo dai suoi comportamenti strani, minaccio di voler chiudere tutto. Improvvisamente, seppur ribadendo ancora i suoi problemi, mi propone di uscire. Anche questa serata è andata molto bene ed insieme si vede ancora che c’è grande sintonia, però di nuovo, rimanda la terza uscita e sparisce per qualche giorno, per poi scrivermi che non si mette di impegno a far andare bene le cose e che è un periodo in cui non vuole vedere e sentire nessuno. Io rispondo brevemente che se vuole tagliare completamente i rapporti non ci sono problemi, e lei replica con “no è che non sono in grado al momento di portarlo avanti”. Stufo dalla situazione ho deciso di non risponderle più da un giorni, però visto che mi interessa e ho investito un po’ di tempo vorrei almeno concludere nel fare qualcosa.. Secondo voi dovrei continuare a ghostare per poi rimetterla di nuovo alle strette?
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2025.01.23 18:50 B00PB00PAurgelmir [PC] [WTT] Prolonged Paralysis (valkyr's augment)

Hi ! WTT a valkyr augment for any augment from Redveil or Steel Meridian. Ingame name is Aurgelmiir
Thank you <3
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2025.01.23 18:50 PerspectiveRemote176 Plata Grande

Plata Grande Does anyone have pictures of Plata Grande (later also known as Margarita Maggies) - the Tex Mex restaurant that was across from the mall near where Uncle Julio’s is today? I have very fond memories of that place but I was a little kid. It can’t be as cool as I remember, but maybe?!?
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2025.01.23 18:50 WheelandDeal300 Have some Hammarlund Radio Receivers, Speakers and more in this sale you may find of interest.

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2025.01.23 18:50 lola_lala23 Best daycares? Communities?

Moving there within the next year and having a hard time getting community input on what are really the best daycares in the area. Any good insight on where people feel most comfortable leaving their kids? Or ones that they don’t like?
Welcoming any other general tips about the area including family friendly communities to rent homes and school districts.
Thanks!
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2025.01.23 18:50 Archmalice Kinda exhasting

40h into my first actual playthrough in years and I feel a bit exhasted from all the management in this game. How do you guys go about that? Is there any way to play that alliviates this aspect or for that I must necessarily seek mods? I would firstly seek vanilla alternatives as I like achievements. I'm looking for something that can make this funnier as in less stressful, as I feel like too much management is required in order to progress, which makes it feel like it's taking forever to progress and I guess this is not quite what I want from this experience... Ofc this is a game with management in its core, but it feels too much for me to enjoy myself. So, I seek alternatives...
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2025.01.23 18:50 Ordinary_to_be Need Ideas for a Computer Vision Final Year Project!

Hey everyone,
I’m a final-year Data Science student, and my team (3 of us) have to work on our final year project. We’re all passionate about Computer Vision, so we want to do something related to it that’s impactful, a bit unique, and realistic for bachelor-level students.
The goal is to work on something that not only challenges us but also looks amazing in our portfolio and helps us stand out in the CV/AI field in the future.
We’re open to anything creative, but here are some directions we’ve been thinking about:

If you’ve worked on something similar, or if there’s a problem in Computer Vision you think needs exploring, I’d love to hear your suggestions!
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2025.01.23 18:50 Economy_Wolf4392 Looking for Feedback on a New Series of Videos for learning English that I Am Creating on Youtube Involving Video Game Streaming/YouTube Videos

Hey all,
I've started to create a series of videos to help people learn English through video game live streams/YouTube. Each video itself has its own "meta-game" going on where I choose at random a "mode" and proceed in that mode for around five minutes.
The modes that I have chosen are:

  1. English Narration - I play the game and talk at normal speed. Since it is learner focused content, I do grade my language a bit and speak clearer than I would in a situation where I was speaking with my friends. I think it is suitable for intermediate to advanced learners.
  2. Spanish Translation - My TL is Spanish, so in this mode I will translate the Spanish on screen to English and talk about aspects which I think are interesting about the translation process. Those who are interested translation related issues may find this interesting (and you will quickly see that I am not a professional translator).
  3. English Comprehensible Input - In this mode, I speak at a level for beginners about what is happening on screen. I keep this very basic so that absolute beginners can have a section that is good for them as well.
  4. English Deep Dive - Here, I pick phrases from the game (that I translate into English) or just random phrases and give a more detailed look into their usage (shoutout to Notepad).
I chose these four modes to keep the videos interesting for me. Since my native language is English I feel like I can help others improve in a casual, relaxing way.
A caveat that I'm still wrestling a bit with is that I do think the absolute best experience for the viewers would be if I played the game completely in English, but I found that I did not enjoy making the videos if I did not have the game in my TL. So one potential drawback I could see is people not being interested if they cannot understand the characters in the game. But we will see what happens!
For this first one you may get a kick out of it especially if you are native Spanish or French speaker (you will see why).
Here is the first video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8D12o2VSp0
I've had a blast so far making them, and it's something that I think I could do for the long haul. Come and take a look and leave any feedback you would like.
Thanks!
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2025.01.23 18:50 ParappaTheRapperDan Does anybody have any connection to someone who worked at nick around 1998? I’m trying to find the full pilot of me and my friends

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2025.01.23 18:50 Narrow-Drag-9394 Kendrick Lamar Got bars For Drake And JCole #kendricklamar #drake #jcole...

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2025.01.23 18:50 Sunny_Gianni [Metamorphic/Instrumental/Experimental/Electronic] Last 12 free code for my current album

Ciao everyone,
I’m sharing the last 12 free download codes for my current self-titled album. If you enjoy what you hear, I’d love to know! Leave a comment and follow me on Bandcamp.
https://sunnygianni.bandcamp.com/yum
Free codes:

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Best,
Gianni
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2025.01.23 18:50 watered-cofee Vargvargvargvargvargvarg

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2025.01.23 18:50 Suitable-Green7902 engine won’t start

hello I bought a 2012 bmw x1 last year and it won't start anymore here are the codes that obd2 shows me. I was wondering if you have any idea what I should look at first
p1209: Barometric Pressure Sensor 'A' Afterrunning Diagnosis Pressure Too High
P13CD :Ignition and Injectors Relay Power Supply Circuit Injection Circuit/Open (Bank 1)
p13e5: Ignition and Injectors Relay Control Circuit/Open|
p13e8: Ignition and Injectors Relay Control Circuit/Open|
U1177 Lost Communication With Coolant Pump
P10E4 VVL-Relay Supply Voltage Circuit/Open (Bank 1)
p10d6: VVL-Relay Control Circuit (Bank 1)
P10F5 VVL-Control Phase V Circuit Open (Bank 1)
P13E6 Ignition and Injectors Relay Control Circuit Low
p10d7: VVL-Relay Control Circuit Low (Bank 1)
p10d9: Fuel Rail Pressure Sensor Signal Stuck (Bank 1
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2025.01.23 18:50 Such_Effective6319 Short notice I know. I have two free tickets to The Meffs at The Garage tonight.

As it says in the title. Anyone want them. They are email tickets from Ticketweb. I have not downloaded them, so can forward them on if anyone wants then. Doors open 1900, I imagine they will not be on until about 2030.
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2025.01.23 18:50 jordanl171 on-prem to 365 "Status : NeedsApproval" when Completing migration

so far, out of the 20 mailboxes I've moved, they always sit in Needs Approval for 5 to 15min. then they finish. can anyone explain this? I'm always waiting for one to get stuck in Needs Approval.
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2025.01.23 18:50 BigJobsBigJobs A James Ellroy thread...

James Ellroy is a great American crime novelist.
I've read pretty much everything he has written. His early novels like Brown's Requiem and Killer on the Road are tight, standard LA crime novels.
He really broke through with The Black Dahlia, a crime novel set during the pre-WWII struggles in LA - the Zoot Suit Riot opens the book. The conceptual basis for his later work is inherent here - EVERYONE is corrupt and corruptible. Mainly cops. Even the innocent have something to hide and there are no innocents here. (It's a realistic view of the world.)
The Big Nowhere is the second novel in the loose LA Quartet series and a bleaker vision.
LA Confidential, his most well-known book and basis for the Academy Award winning film, continues that grand vision with a few of the same characters and deeper and darker conspiracies. Brilliant writing - terse and hard. Ellroy doesn't pull punches. His characters live in the writing.
My favorite is White Jazz. I think it's his best writing. There is a chapter in the book where a (evil bad) detective walks into a crime scene and analyzes everything he sees. Ellroy just tells - and it might be the best example of stream-of-consciousness writing I can think of.
After that, Ellroy dives deep into conspiracy territory with the American Tabloid series - the JFK, RFK and MLK assassinations. Good writing, but I tired after the rehashing of well-known theories and lost patience - but I also lost patience for another reason.
James Ellroy is a very bad person. Racism oozes out of every page from The Black Dahlia onward. He calls himself "The White Knight of the Far Right".
In his autobiography, My Dark Places, Ellroy shows some of where that darkness comes from. He believes that his mother, a woman who liked to party. was taken by a serial killer (see The Black Dahlia.) I think his reward for information regarding her murder still stands. He was a peeper, a stalker and a break-in artist in his youth. He joined the Nazi Party.
"Good evening peepers, prowlers, pederasts, panty-sniffers, punks and pimps. I'm James Ellroy, the demon dog with the hog-log, the foul owl with the death growl, the white knight of the far right, and the slick trick with the donkey dick. I'm the author of 16 books, masterpieces all; they precede all my future masterpieces. These books will leave you reamed, steamed and drycleaned, tie-dyed, swept to the side, true-blued, tattooed and bah fongooed. These are books for the whole fuckin' family, if the name of your family is Manson."
So, another good writer with feats of clay. I deal with this ambivalence in my own way, you do you.
His biblio and bio graphy here. James Ellroy - Wikipedia
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2025.01.23 18:50 PreciousPinay Moana on titkok

Moana on titkok idk if u know her pero Moana name niya dati sa Tok and nagchange sya
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2025.01.23 18:50 albocake17 Steamulation Flex

Steamulation Flex Big shout out to stelth2k1
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2025.01.23 18:50 underwaterhp93 After the new star-craft update, my diamond cards are missing

I lost some diamond cards in the Fall of Ulduar Golden Mini-Set, Delve into Deepholm Golden Mini-Set, and Festival of Legends Golden Mini-Set. I am 100% sure that I did not disenchant
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2025.01.23 18:50 HashuGP Thread: Hot Deals:: [Boardlandia] Dent & Ding Live Sale Jan-23-2025 19:30 EST

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2025.01.23 18:50 Mental-Examination-7 CD of "Bride of the Devil" availability

Has anyone heard about any issues with "Bride of the Devil" availability on CD? I am a collector of physical media and would like to pick up a copy. Bandcamp reports the CD will be back in stock by Nov. 30. https://electricsix.bandcamp.com/track/bride-of-the-devil .I had been following this since last summer and that didn't happen.
Most other Electric Six cds are available through Metropolis Records https://metropolis-records.com/product/cd. I would prefer avoiding the secondary market to put some coin back in the artist's pocket. I did purchase the digital album in the meantime.
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2025.01.23 18:50 Desperate_Arm_4518 Looking for a new laptop for college and GIS system, any recommendations appreciated! (Can't find flair option?)

Hi laptop experts. I am a college student in need of a laptop upgrade, and know nothing about tech/computers. I've tried to do my own research but am making myself more confused the longer I look. I'd like to buy a new laptop ASAP as mine is creeping closer to death by the minute. Thank you in advance. The form is below:

Thank you so much!
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2025.01.23 18:50 Yurii_S_Kh What is Sin, or Why is Christ the Savior? Experiences in communicating the essence of sin to listeners

What is Sin, or Why is Christ the Savior? Experiences in communicating the essence of sin to listeners Agapius (Golub), Hieromonk of the Assumption Zhirovich Monastery (Belarus)
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Annotation. The article is a recording of a talk from the cycle “Fundamentals of Spiritual Development”, which Hieromonk Agapii (Golub) conducted in the drug rehabilitation center “Anastasis”, and now - in the first year of the theological and pedagogical faculty of Minsk Theological Seminary. The article develops the idea that sin is not reduced to a violation of morality, but is an ontological corruption of man, an irrational beginning acting in him, destroying his spiritual and psychophysical constitution. And not only people individually are affected, but the whole world as such. Passion is the transformation of our God-given abilities and talents into “cancer cells” under the influence of sin. It is sin that underlies neuroses, as well as intra-family and interpersonal conflicts. Since the mind and will are also affected by sin, man is unable to overcome sin on his own. Out of the understanding of his condition comes the acceptance of Christ not only as Teacher and not only as Son of God, but precisely as Savior.
Preface
In the Sunday queue for confession one will almost always meet a certain percentage of people who are unfamiliar with Christianity and who have a very blurred idea of the essence of sin. And they come to confession because “tomorrow is the wedding/baptism/christening; the child is sick; taking advantage of the visit to the monastery for an excursion; because I have a spoilage; to feel better at heart. The following statements are used to justify their condition: “God is in my soul”; “the main thing is to believe in my soul”; “I do not violate God's commandments” (as a rule, without knowing them).
But for many church-going people sin is reduced to some emotional states and moralism: “I sin by irritation, idle talk, I had an argument with my neighbor...” And a “properly constructed” confession should give the impression of moral well-being. As a result, there is a risk of formalizing the religious experience. This condition is as difficult to “break through” as the condition of people who are unchurched. A person can recount his or her errors in detail without feeling sinful.
With such an inner sense of one's religious and moral well-being, one loses the understanding of why Christ is not just a teacher and philosopher of antiquity. Not just a Redeemer. And not “just” the Son of God. But precisely the Savior. “And what am I to be saved from? I didn't rob, I didn't kill, and if I quarreled with my colleague, it was on business. And at confession I will receive absolution for this sin...” Such an idea of one's own spirituality reminds one of a person who was brought up on Dan Brown movies and various TV shows and yet considers himself a part of the treasury of world culture. And no culturologist will be able to show this person his real cultural level until something awakens in the person himself. But it doesn't mean that culturologists should keep silent at all. Always among three or four dozen pairs of eyes there will be at least one look in which a response will shine. And before this person will open a new exciting world of classics, which will encourage him to work on himself in order to educate and develop a healthy taste for art.
It is important to convey this different perception of the world, a new “system of coordinates” to those who are able to respond to God's call. Because only through a radical rethinking of the basics of life is it possible to come to an understanding of sin and, accordingly, to repentance.
Unfortunately, most of the literature available in church kiosks is not suitable for this purpose. After all, they are mostly various manuals for preparation for confession, the task of which does not include the disclosure of the fundamental foundations of the Christian worldview. Or books like the Law of God, which contain biblical history and catechetical minimum, sometimes with a somewhat outdated style of presentation.
That is why when I took up a position at the Spiritual Education Center of our monastery, where I deal with people of various levels of churching and education, I myself had to search for words that could be used to express the experience of living the tragedy of sin and that would resonate with the listeners - from the rehabilitants of the local drug addiction center “Anastasis” to the students of the theological and pedagogical faculty at the local theological seminary.
This publication was born out of the experience of the conversations.
The Ontological Essence of Sin
Sin is not simply an offense against God's law. God is not a prosecutor, just as the priest in confession is not an investigator. Sin is an irrational beginning that tears man away from God and drowns out his thirst for Him. Sin has become ingrained in us, has become second nature, like nicotine for a smoker. “Committed in the depths of the human spirit, sin excites the passions, disorganizes the will, takes emotions and imagination out of the control of consciousness"[1].
Sin is always division, discord, inability to hear God, each other, and even ourselves. This leads to an inner emptiness, drowned out by alcohol, drugs, work, soap operas, gossip. As well as family and other conflicts. Neuroses, which afflicted modern civilization, and is a consequence of the action of sin in us.
But sin begins with the choice of a false goal and, consequently, a false path.
What is the true purpose that stood before our forebears and stands before each of us? What was the false choice and how exactly did it affect us?
There is such a concept - the constitution of an organism. It is a set of initial parameters, laws, functions, within which the organism lives and develops. It cannot go beyond the constitution. By force of will you cannot change black hair color to brown, you cannot become choleric from phlegmatic. Attempts to go beyond the limits of one's psychophysical constitution threaten destruction. Sin is an attempt to go beyond the basic constitution that God gave us at creation.
According to the Bible, God created man in His image and likeness. The image of God in man is his “constitution”. Likeness is a vector, a direction, an opportunity to resemble God. On the way to this goal the harmony and integrity of human nature is achieved.
What is the image of God in man?
God is freedom, therefore man, as His image, has inner moral freedom.
God is Love, therefore man is capable of giving and receiving love.
God is a self-conscious Person - and so are we.
God is the Creator, therefore we too have the gift of creativity.
God is infinite - and man has an undying desire to go beyond boundaries, pushing his horizons further and further.
God is eternal - and we have a thirst for immortality.
God is the Fullness of Life - therefore we also have a thirst for that fullness which is commonly called happiness.
Freedom, love, self-consciousness, self-awareness, creativity, communion with eternity - all of these are the image of God in man.
And in the act of thanksgiving and praise, working on his spiritual growth, man returned everything to God, growing, developing his abilities and talents, transforming the whole world into a comprehensive sacrament of meeting with God. Becoming a god - by grace, by gift - for the created world.
But people wanted to become gods without God. They decided to manage their own lives, to possess the world only for themselves, turning it into an independent goal, to become self-sufficient[2]. And as a result they only disfigured their own spiritual and psychophysical nature. The spirit detached from God - and began to atrophy. The soul became dependent not on the spirit, but on the body. The body, unable to sustain life on its own, became entirely dependent on the world. The world, too, was cut off from God by man and therefore doomed to mortality. Thus, being dependent on the mortal world, man also became mortal. Thirst for immortality remained (however, often successfully put to sleep), but it became impossible to quench it. Any attempts to circumvent the law of death, to achieve immortality by “self-possessed hand” - through magic or technical achievements - are doomed to failure. Being powerless to heal itself, humanity became in need of salvation.
We have become so accustomed to our fallen state that we have come to regard it as the norm. The rumble of civilization, its constant noise, prevents us from hearing the silent call of Heaven. It is difficult for man to even realize his own emptiness. “The fall of Adam and Eve is committed, continues, always acts, and the place, the locus of this action is civilization. It is the “tempter-serpent”. It opens to man his possibilities (unlimited!) and thus hides from him his ontological limitation, it tells him: “you will be like gods”"[3].
In the depths of the psyche, the longing for the heavenly fatherland, for one's original image, will never completely disappear. But the daily flow of affairs, news feeds, information and noise pollution of the environment allow us to create the appearance of a busy life. This is the alienation from one's own personality that E. Fromm described so vividly. Maybe that is the meaning of the high-speed rhythm of modern urban civilization, the constant “crises”, as well as the creation of problems for ourselves - so that there is no time left for “eternal questions”?
By destroying the image of God in man and condemning him to the emptiness of individualism, sin dehumanizes him. Vivid images of the development of mankind under the laws of sin are shown in such literary works as “1984” by D. Orwell, “Oh Wonderful New World” by O. Huxley, “451 degrees Fahrenheit” and “Concrete Mixer” by R. Bradbury, “Immortality Corporation” by R. Sheckley by R. Sheckley. Many of the plots of these works, alas, are already realities of our days. The voice of Eternity is not heard in the described civilizations. Civilization becomes an end in itself - and perishes ...
The origin of the passions
The next global effect of sin is that the God-given talents, abilities, feelings, no longer dependent on the spirit, were out of touch with each other. Having ceased to serve their intended purpose - to develop in accordance with God's plan for us - they are reborn into passions, just as the cells of the body are reborn into cancer cells.
Freedom under the influence of sin turns into willfulness, which inevitably leads to total unfreedom (I am not sure that this needs to be explained, as it is so obvious - as obvious as the unfreedom of a chauffeur who finds himself and his deformed car in a ditch because of speeding).
Self-awareness degenerates into self-centeredness.
The ability to love - into egoism (narcissism).
Natural attraction to the other sex for the purpose of creating a family and belonging to each other (Creator's commandment: “be fruitful and multiply”; “it is not good for man to be alone”) degenerates into lust and fornication.
The consumption of food (paradise is given to man as a meal of the Lord) instead of maintaining physical and emotional strength and joining the goodness of the Creator turns into a self-valuable process, even to the detriment of health.
The gift of creativity is used in such a way that it threatens the destruction of civilization, both spiritually (degeneration at the level of culture) and physically (man-made disasters).
The desire for spiritual perfection degenerates into magic and occultism.
Thirst for God, with the loss of the True God, leads to the creation of false religions, cults, ideologies, sects.
The enclosed desire for happiness is replaced by the pursuit of pleasure, which, by the way, is so easy to manipulate, and often turns into addiction to drugs, gambling and so on.
The possession of the world commanded by the Creator is perverted into the desire for wealth, luxury, power. And also in despotism (imposing one's will on others - starting from the family and ending with authoritarian rule in entire states).
The joy of developing one's abilities degenerates into pride and vanity.
The list goes on and on....
But that's not all. Each passion can “consider itself” self-sufficient and “compete” for possession of a person and his resources with other passions. It's like in an unhealthy family: the one who is shouting the loudest at the moment is the center of attention. It all depends on which passion is stronger than the others at the moment. It is not I who live, but “I am being lived”. For example, the greedy may perform a charitable act for the sake of vanity. The proud may force himself to “fit in” with his superiors in order to achieve power: “I am ready to humiliate myself just to get a little closer to the sweet goal.” Anticipating the excitement of watching a live soccer broadcast, a person may refuse a tempting offer to go on a kebab. This is fine with the person - like any drug, sin gives euphoria. First of all, the euphoria of “self” ...
Cancer cells, having ceased to fulfill their functions, “believe” that they are the “most important” and develop at the expense of the organism, bringing it to destruction. In the same way, these God-given, but detached from the connection with Him abilities, turning into passions and hypertrophied development at the expense of human resources, lead to destruction.
As for the mind and will, they themselves became a tool for the realization of passionate inclinations. The mind thinks over how to realize the attraction of the defeated passion, the will directs human actions to its realization. Trying to correct themselves by the power of reason and will, which themselves are distorted by sin, is about the same as trying to jagged planer to process the board.
When the passions are satisfied, they only intensify and demand more. Man gets used to “natural” fornication and cultivates a variety of perversions. Food flavors, all new gadgets and designs are invented and intensified. Ever sharper special effects in movies. Ever newer “levers of power.” The search for “freedoms,” reaching absurdity, leads to the totalitarianism of liberalism and “minority rights.” All new “creative” achievements of military technologies. The technologies of industry and mass media parasitize on passions, stimulating their further development. I think it is not wrong to say, for example, that at least 50% of everything sold in the supermarket is not necessary or even harmful. At the same time, somewhere there are people who chronically suffer from lack of food and drinking water ....
The next consequences of sin. Where is the way out?
As a consequence of the action of sin, man ceased to see in himself and in another the image of God, personality. We see the flesh. The body, the skin. “And they saw that they were naked” (Gen. 3:7). And so often even “love” is understood as an elementary consumer attitude to another person - and this is one of the main reasons for divorces and family problems.
As for the likeness of God in man, since the fall into sin, the vector of life has been directed toward anything but the true God. Hundreds of big and small idols are created, which become the meaning of life. Idols of power, work, pop idols, sex, food, science, even religion. Even from one's own children... In sin, man seeks paradise for himself as he wants it to be. When I commit sin, I'm in the business of self-gratification. And for the sake of this “paradise” I can destroy myself and others.....
And sin also has the property of inertia. Again and again it seeks to return even a person who has accepted the gospel to his former state of living in sin. To be freed from it, we need to go through the “withdrawal syndrome”, and more than once. Hence the discipline of fasting, prayer, worship, study of the Holy Scriptures and the Holy Father's experience. And the stronger sin's power over us, the greater the feat will be required.
The turn from sin to an authentic life in harmony with one's own “constitution” is not easy to make. We have to break through our own shell of stereotypes, passions, everything that the Internet and television, public opinion and the education system, relatives, neighbors and colleagues at work envelope us with - in the end, through our own laziness and fear of having to re-learn how to live. But this is the only way true Christianity is born. Only in this way can a person become truly Christian and accept the Savior into his life.
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