Tag: private
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Officer Commission
I’m thinking about my time in the Army Reserve when I first became an adult. I was never a good soldier. I didn’t qualify on my rifle and I didn’t pass the physical training tests. I had trouble keeping my head down and my mouth shut. When a drill sergeant yelled in my face, “Don’t…
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Pleasure and Intimacy
I can entertain myself on my own. I played board games and card games by myself as a child. Granted someone had to produce those things in the first place. The same is true for videos and video games. Once they are up and running I can entertain myself without extra work from the original…
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A Relationship not a Religion
You’ve probably seen people typing or maybe even talking about their walk with Jesus Christ being “a relationship not a religion.” I have always been suspicious of the idea. I grew up in the Episcopal Church and for all its faults it was still a community of believers. There is a power in organized religion…