Neosynergy

Jesus, <3, Religion January 17, 2012

What if I told you that poetry is catchy
But sometimes it covers up ideas that are patchy?
Wide, sweeping statements aren’t as useful as we might think
Cause they often leave holes in our boat and cause us to sink
But as long as they’re wide enough to cover our personal holes
Then we tend to overlook the ones left in other people’s souls

The intentions are always noble, the belief is always true
People don’t write stuff like that just trying to mislead you
Cause after all, we’re each the hero in our own superhero story
And it’s not often that we tell ourselves “yeah, all I want is the glory”
So this response isn’t a criticism as much as a chance to question
An opportunity to explore these ideas without any aggression (more…)

Complacent or Content? January 16, 2012

The heart wants that which is sinful.  Evil comes from the heart.  The devil looks beautiful in disguise.  You can’t trust your flesh.  Satan promises ease, Christ promises difficulty.  If it feels good, it’s probably sinful.  Pride is the root of all sin.

Only through the grace of God are we saved.

Those messages were drilled into my head growing up, explicitly and implicitly.  Looking back, I honestly don’t think that my parents, mentors, and teachers meant for me to internalize them in the way that I did.  You see, I internalized the idea that anything which originated from within my own thoughts and mind was worth very little without external validation.  This was particularly true of things which couldn’t be “proven”, such as values, doctrine, beliefs, etc.  And so even when that external validation confirmed my internal conclusions, I would become suspicious of my sinful subconscious, especially when those conclusions contradicted the views of the organized church or respected religious leaders in my life.  After all, the church leaders were the authority on scripture and I was sinful.  Who was I to read things into scripture that 2000 years of church tradition hadn’t seen? (more…)

Neosynergic January 12, 2012

I feel like writing.

Notice that I don’t say I feel like starting a blog.  Because I’ve done that before, and it never works out.  I try to set myself a schedule and for a while it goes alright until I feel like I have to keep writing, keep coming up with some terribly interesting idea and then it starts stressing me out and my writing starts to feel like crap and my attitude goes down the tubes and eventually I forget why I even started and hate the idea of ever blogging again.  So.  This time, I’m not going to start blogging.  This time, I’m just going to write.

I’m not going to promise a posting schedule.  I’m not going to promise a nice, neat set of topics.  I’m not going to promise you that all of the writing will be amazing.

But I am going to promise honesty.  I am going to promise vulnerability.  I am going to promise that it will at least be interesting.

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