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Declinism: Is the World Getting Better or Worse?

One anthem of the older generation is how the youth of today are morally bankrupt, how the world has changed for the worse and how life was better back in their days. It looks like, with each passing day, something new comes up to remind how worse everything is getting. Global warming, war threats, political unrests, heat waves, natural disasters, well-planned genocides, unforeseen suicides,…

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What At All is the Meaning of Life? I Need Answers!

The first time someone really close to me died was in 2005. I had lost my grandad. I wasn’t particularly sad. I was alarmed. “So I won’t see him physically again?, So that’s it? He’s gone? Is that all?”. 19th August, 2005. My grandad was gone. After the final funeral rites and all, life went on as if my grandpa never existed. All his stuff was quickly sent out the house. His favorite radio was no…

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#destiny #essence of life #fate #Life #meaning #purpose #reality

Distractions: Social Media, Abstinence & the Secret of Addiction

Who doesn’t know what to do to achieve good results? Who doesn’t know that salad is healthier than chocolate candy? In the Information Age, there’s barely any excuse for not knowing. Everything is basically one Google search away. What is common is learnt ignorance, where we choose to not know because we don’t what to know. Perhaps, the truth is a bitter pill to swallow. Many are afraid of…

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#addiction #demotivation #discomfort #distractions

Habits & Distractions: Why Our Brain Tricks Us to Avoid Discomfort

Sigmund Freud proposed that everything we do is in pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain. However, not every habit we find ourselves in is necessarily pleasurable, and pain is a strong word for the kind of feelings we avoid. Neurologically speaking, we all do things to avoid discomfort. Physiologically, this is true. In fact, that is how our body is run instinctively. When the weather…

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#brain #distraction #habit #Timothy Wilson

Cravings & Addictions: How Our Bodies Lie to Us

Experts speculate up to 10 percent of the total Christian population in the United States is sexually addicted. If true, this means that in a congregation of 500 members, 50 are sex addicts. And this percentage may be increasing. In one study, two-thirds of all Christian men admitted to “struggling” withpornography. In another study, 40 percent of pastors surveyed confessed to looking at…

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If You Want to ReDedicate Your Life to Christ, This Is For You

Many start well and end terribly. It is better if they never started in the first place. That makes one begin to ask, “what even happened along the way?” How on earth did Solomon mess it all up at the last minute? Was Samson always that stupid? How did Saul keep messing up in the end like that? What at all was Adam thinking? To think we are above their errors is a joke. You can mess it all up…

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Be More Engaged & Less Attached: Living Rent-free from Negative Attachments

The more attached you are to someone or something, the more expectations you have for him/her/it. You’d expect a reciprocation of every affection and effort. Do good to others, not so they will reciprocate it, but because YOU want to do good. Love someone, not so that they will love you back, but because YOU choose to love the person. More people are broken, not just because they chose to love…

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#attachment #engaged #friendship #relationship

Making It Into Purgatory

Usually when a choice is presented to someone, it can be reduced to two simple options; it’s either yes or no, good or bad, right or wrong. There are no two ways about that. You can’t be an in-betweener. You cannot sit on the fence. However, liberals believe in a third option. Not everything should be rigid. Why the need for dualistic thinking when we can barely decide on what is right or wrong.…

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#heaven #hell #purgatory

Making it to Hell

THE ONLY WAY TO HELL Would you believe it if I told you that there’s only one way to hell? Absolutely not! In Jesus’ own words, broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many walk that path. However, the only reason someone would be thrown in hell is because they didn’t accept Christ’s sacrifice on Calvary. “Whoever does not believe is already condemned”. By default, we are all headed…

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I Sleep because I Can't Come and Go and Come and Kill Myself

I Sleep because I Can’t Come and Go and Come and Kill Myself

Death is inevitable, not because life has an end. Our bodies are subject to the law of diminishing returns, that’s why. We grow, peak and decay. This is true for the general picture as well as the details. When I say the details, I mean the little things we do everyday. Basically everything grows, peaks and fades out, even sleep. So does energy levels. Once we begin to grow weary, there is the…

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#sleep #struggle

Cultivating your Peace, Patience & Philanthropy

I walked into a store with unending rows of colourful fruits and produce. I just didn’t know what to pick. Everything looked so pleasing and satisfying. In fact, I wanted everything at the store. I went to the counter to negotiate if such a transaction was possible. In my spirit, I knew that I knew in my heart of hearts that the young man with bright countenance behind the counter was Jesus. He…

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#patience #Peace #philanthropy

Knowing Your Purpose, Your Pursuit & Your Passion

Purpose is a simple thing. It’s not any super-spiritual phenomena that quakes the earth when you tell people. It mostly can be summarised into a simple sentence or even simple words. It’s not far-fetched, hidden in some foreign land and needs years to discover. It’s within you, gradually showing its head in the outcome of your simple decisions. The first step to knowing your purpose is to start…

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#passion #pursuit

Finding Your Path, Your Place & Your People

Life Life promises you so much beyond your imagination on the day of your arrival. Literally everyone has a clean sheet and a bright future. However, we stepped in blind from a dark womb. Our own cry puzzles us. Aren’t we supposed to be happy to be born? And this one that I’ve caused such extreme pain, why is she pretending to be happy? Will it cause similar pain to leave this realm? It didn’t…

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#destiny #journey #Life #path

Why Does Life Have To Be So Hard?

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. Where there is no challenge, there is boredom. Passion dies whenever there’s nothing new to try. There ought to be something that looks bigger than us. Something that alters our mindset at the end of the journey. Something that challenges us, not just to do better, but BE better; to live to our utmost potential. Something experiential that…

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#struggle

Is It Even Necessary to Go to School in Our World Today? (II)

Education has no end but school does. When school is done, that’s when reality hits. You begin to wonder why the reality of school has been made so different from the real world. That’s why we all question the relevance of what we are being taught and how it is going to help us in any way in future. Should we, though? Information & Instruction There are two things that makes school so great…

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#education #school

Is It Even Necessary to Go to School in Our World Today?

There are more smartphones being used by people in the world today than there are potable water available to everyone. The world keeps evolving. There is always a new healthcare system that makes us live longer, a brand new technology that changes our lifestyle, and a new app more explorative than our schooling system. Perhaps, it’s because the latter has barely changed. Let me not bore you with…

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#education #school

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