Mastodawn

Your friends, family & immediate circle Might give you “good” information but nothing that will help you surpass them, so that’s immediately an conflict of interest, so your only real option soon, especially if your not gifted with intuition/foresight etc to accurately decipher truth from fiction, is long term sexual discipline in some form

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socratsolomon Apr 27

@kalokagathia @SteveMcCarty
By one established in continence, vigor is gained
Yoga-sutras by Patanjali
#celibacy #celibate #easternphilosophy #yoga #asceticism #ascetic

socratsolomon Apr 27

By one established in continence, vigor is gained
Yoga-sutras by Patanjali
#celibacy #celibate #easternphilosophy #yoga #asceticism #ascetic

KillBait News Apr 24

Why More Young People—Especially Women—Are Choosing Celibacy and Asexuality

📰 Original title: The Influencers Normalizing Not Having Sex

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Why More Young People—Especially Women—Are Choosing Celibacy and Asexuality

The article explores a growing cultural shift in which some young people, particularly women, are increasingly choosing celibacy or identifying outside traditional sexual expectations.

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KillBait Apr 24

Why More Young People—Especially Women—Are Choosing Celibacy and Asexuality

📰 Original title: The Influencers Normalizing Not Having Sex

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/why-more-young-people-especially-women-are-choosing-celibacy-and-asexuality/?redirpost=e7352138-a27b-411b-8d16-b665ff4eb4f7

#society #celibacy #asexuality #relationships

Why More Young People—Especially Women—Are Choosing Celibacy and Asexuality

The article explores a growing cultural shift in which some young people, particularly women, are increasingly choosing celibacy or identifying outside traditional sexual expectations.

KillBait Archive

Spirituality & Religious Studies Feb 20

Vocation

From the Latin vocatio/vacare, meaning “to call,” “summons.” This is an occupation to which a person is especially drawn or for which they’re suited, trained, or qualified. In modern times, it’s used in non-religious contexts; the meaning(s) of the word came out of Christianity.

There was a period where “vocation” almost exclusively referred to the clergy or the cloistered religious. The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), specifically the document Lumen Gentium, re-emphasized that every baptized person has a primary vocation: to become a saint. This was a spiritual game changer!

The idea of vocation is central to the Christian belief that God has made each person with gifts & talents towards a specific purpose & way of life. More specifically, in the Eastern Orthodox & Catholic Churches, this idea of vocation is especially associated with a divine call to service to the Church & humanity through particular vocational life commitments such as marriage to a particular person, consecration as a religious dedication, ordination to priestly ministry (in the Church, of course) & even a holy life as a single person.

The Church generally categorizes “secondary” vocations into 4 distinct states. Each is seen as a way of giving oneself away:

The Priesthood:
- This is a sacramental vocation. In the United States cultural context, there has been a massive historical shift. In the mid-20th century, “Irish-Catholic” culture often viewed having a son in the priesthood as the ultimate family honor.
Consecrated Life:
- This includes monks, nuns, brothers, & sisters. They live according to the Evangelical Councils:
  - Poverty: Owning nothing individually.
  - Chastity: Celibacy for the sake of the “Kingdom of Heaven.”
  - Obedience: Following the will of their superior.
Married Life:
- In Catholicism, marriage is a sacrament. The “call” here is for the sanctification of the spouse & the procreation/education of the kids. This was often seen as a “secondary” vocation to the priesthood. But modern theology (especially the “Theology of the Body” by Pope John Paul II) frames marriage as a primary icon of God’s love for the Church.
The Committed Single Life:
- While not a “canonical” state in the same way as the others, the Church increasingly recognizes those who remain single to serve others, the Church, or their professions with a level of flexibility & dedication that married people cannot maintain.

The American Catholic experience of vocation is unique. In the late 19th & early 20th century, Catholic vocations helped build the American infrastructure of healthcare & education. The Sisters of Mercy & Daughters of Charity built more hospitals & schools in the United States than almost any other group.

The Sisters of Mercy founded a hospital (St. Rita’s/Mercy Health) in our founder’s hometown. This particular hospital was built in 1918 to combat the Spanish flu pandemic.

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WIST Quotations Feb 4

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life. Professional moralists have made too much of self-denial, and in so doing have put the emphasis in the wrong place. Conscious self-denial leaves a man self-absorbed and vividly aware of what he has sacrificed; in consequence it fails often of its immediate object and almost always of its ultimate purpose. What is needed is not self-denial, but that kind of direction of interest outward which will lead spontaneously and naturally to the same acts that a person absorbed in the pursuit of his own virtue could only perform by means of conscious self-denial.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 17 “The Happy Man” (1930)

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/818…

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