Tag: witness
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Followers and Influence
I want more followers but I won’t beg. I want more influence but I won’t sell my soul to promoters. So I quietly plug along hoping to at least be a little interesting. The algorithm doesn’t love me. But I’m confident that it doesn’t love you either. Likes and clicks are no match for real…
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Wrong Room
I miss being the smartest guy in the room. I try to have adult conversations but I just can’t. I’m not a rational man and I’m finding it harder to pretend I am. And why should I pretend? Why can I give myself the grace that I would give to anyone on antipsychotics. I want…
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Burden of Proof
I saw it again today. An atheist saying that the burden of proof is on someone else. That doesn’t work for me. It is not someone else’s job to prove me wrong. If I have even a sliver of a fraction of a doubt that I might be wrong about God, it is my job…
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Certainty
I fully admit that I am not certain of anything I believe. I believe my wife loves me. I believe the earth will continue to rotate and sunlight will reach everywhere it’s supposed to reach. I believe the USA still has a couple of good years out of the political cycle left in it. I…
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Ultimate Rebellion
I’ve had 10mg of THC and I’m facing down the question: Am I a Mormon primarily to rebel against my dad? He’s an amazing guy but he takes money in exchange for his witness, When I met The Missionaries they preached the gospel for free. They even paid for the privilege to preach the gospel.…
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I do not trust my instincts
Do you trust your instincts? “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?” Jer 17:9 KJV In a culture that fights between logic and rationality on the one hand and following our hearts and doing what we love on the other, I tend to lean into the former. This…
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Unity
The talks in sacrament were about unity. Unity of purpose, unity in the family, unity in the ward, and unity with heaven. The last one seems like it could take a lifetime of work and contemplation to achieve. How can I with all my doubts and weaknesses still be unified with heaven? How can I…
Latter Day Sinner 