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8/4/2025, 6:12:50 AM
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>I said that this is a burden because it's caused by the evil treatment by other human beings, not because it is inherently destructive to my mind
How do you know? The effects are the same and the reality of the situation isn't changing anytime soon, and this is despite unprecedented normalization efforts. You will likely spend the rest of your life in mental illness if you persist regardless of if the cause is internal or external.
You have a low view of happiness sadly... Our culture teaches us that to be happy means more stuff, more vacations, more food, more entertainment, more stimulation. All these things are fleeting and never truly satisfy, which is why you always need more. It applies to pleasure too, in all its forms. Pleasure in the proper context has a purpose, but if abused even in a monogamous marriage it can and will end in disaster, or at the very least dopamine addiction... which is still going to end in disaster. That's why one of the universal virtues (identified by the Church Fathers, but also by secular/pagan philosophy like Aristotle) is temperance, or self-control.
The man in the OP, Fr Seraphim Rose, struggled with homosexuality in his early life. He went on to becoming one of the most influential men in American Orthodoxy, and many consider him to be a Saint and are waiting for his canonization. He brought innumerable people to healing in the Church, was an astounding intellectual and professor, as well as started a monastery in Platina, California which continues today to provide some of the most needed translation work of ancient texts into the English language.
Do you think he lived a happy life? Do you think he lived a meaningful life with purpose?
>I said that this is a burden because it's caused by the evil treatment by other human beings, not because it is inherently destructive to my mind
How do you know? The effects are the same and the reality of the situation isn't changing anytime soon, and this is despite unprecedented normalization efforts. You will likely spend the rest of your life in mental illness if you persist regardless of if the cause is internal or external.
You have a low view of happiness sadly... Our culture teaches us that to be happy means more stuff, more vacations, more food, more entertainment, more stimulation. All these things are fleeting and never truly satisfy, which is why you always need more. It applies to pleasure too, in all its forms. Pleasure in the proper context has a purpose, but if abused even in a monogamous marriage it can and will end in disaster, or at the very least dopamine addiction... which is still going to end in disaster. That's why one of the universal virtues (identified by the Church Fathers, but also by secular/pagan philosophy like Aristotle) is temperance, or self-control.
The man in the OP, Fr Seraphim Rose, struggled with homosexuality in his early life. He went on to becoming one of the most influential men in American Orthodoxy, and many consider him to be a Saint and are waiting for his canonization. He brought innumerable people to healing in the Church, was an astounding intellectual and professor, as well as started a monastery in Platina, California which continues today to provide some of the most needed translation work of ancient texts into the English language.
Do you think he lived a happy life? Do you think he lived a meaningful life with purpose?
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