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What exactly are you trying to convey? What you present here is a little too abstract for anybody to work with I think, esp if you are looking for answers or ideas. This sounds more like a situation where someone who is trapped in negative thinking goes to see a therapist and after some time...

This is where I thought you might have been ironic - if taken straight it's really lame and irresponsible advice. Well, but that's not what you believe, right? What? In light of the other post I quoted, it has me scratching my head.

Debates about the Trinity almost always center on Christology. Once in awhile pneumatology figures in (But usually only if someone brings up the idea of Binitarianism by contrast) Almost never is Paterology mentioned. It's almost as if God as he might have been known or thought of amongst the...

The forum isn't going anywhere in the foreseeable future AFAIK. See the thread "Interfaith is doing fine" or ask @iBrian if unsure.

Hunh?

Define woo

It doesn't logically follow that each individual must have children. Which is what I thought you were implying. Having children with the explicit idea someone else can raise them? What the hey? Sounds irresponsible. Poor planning in many if not most cases where someone does this, and certainly...

Hunh?

For all their problems, my mom and grandparents are the mainstay of what I remember from early life. Our relationship wasn't perfect, and maybe not entirely healthy, but by and large I got along with them most of the time. I have my criticisms of them, my frustrations, but if I was ever really...

Sorry for the loss of your friend. 😑

Sorry for the loss of your friend 😑

It did seem like a good question though, from @wil to wonder whether there were any etymological links in the deep past, between the two words and concepts. I've wondered that two but never found any link yet. I didn't dig deeply on this topic in particular though. As you said, they may just be...

there are choices to actions. most of the time there are dozens of things we could do next.

Something like that, that I learned as a teen, is pretty foundational to my understanding of other worldly matters

Whether you think something is true or not is not really chosen. A lot of things I think are true don't have anything to do with how I think they affect me. I think water is wet. I think that whether or not I'm at risk of getting wet. It's just in alignment with reality as I know it. Now if you...