@fem_mb Agree.
(Of course, one can be a great man without a family and that's gonna look different but will involve respect that goes beyond just the intellectual sphere toward women and kids.)
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Motherhood Apologist
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Motherhood Apologist
@sparkinthdark
engaging with other people solely for a paycheck is cynical at the deepest level, and you know it
Katılım Nisan 2017
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"The definition of true manhood is: Love, protect, cherish, defend and provide for your wife and for your family."
I think that's a pretty decent definition. Most women want other things, too - a sense of humor, resilience in the bad times, comparable intellect - but who doesn't want a partner who loves them and has their back? That seems pretty basic for both men and women.
As for 'provide', I don't necessarily think that means the man should be the sole or main financial provider in a marriage. Imo, it means that a man should provide something of worth that helps ensure his family's future, and a woman should naturally do the same. Who does what work to make that happen is something every couple decides for themselves.
The Ben Shapiro Show@BenShapiroShow
THIS is what women want.
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@Mister_Argonaut <3
The Holy Spirit showed you because you wanted to know.
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@sparkinthdark Thanks. I spent so much time being anxious, even during a several years long edgy atheist phase, before noticing it. It puts everything in perspective
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@NadeaneFaye @JackOTD @homemakinghunny Isn't that proof you have a good vibe? Lol.
Even though that wasn't exactly what I was talking about. I wasn't talking about the vibe of a person. I was more talking about the vibe of this style of testimony. Vibe is admittedly, a very vague word.
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@JackOTD @sparkinthdark @homemakinghunny I actually everytime I got to a church event ..or anywhere there are beliver get invited to their church 😆
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I am tired. Tired of so called Christians acting like Christ’s redemption isn’t enough. Acting like we need to earn his forgiveness. Acting like his mercies aren’t new every morning. Acting like you’re better than someone just because you keep your sins hidden and they share how God radically saved them from their sin. Judging someone for sharing their testimony and how God saved them is so low and to say it simply - it doesn’t show the fruit of Christ in your life.
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@JackOTD @NadeaneFaye @homemakinghunny @jack My assumption is they are both believers based on their content. I question the wisdom and benefit of talking about their relationship in this way. However, if you personally found it edifying and that it turned your heart toward Jesus, that's great.
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@sparkinthdark @NadeaneFaye @homemakinghunny @jack My point: we can’t determine a person’s salvation on a feel. Feelings are good for survival, but the heart often leads us astray from God.
Proclaiming God’s redemptive power is the mission. Blue check increases reach. You can’t assume a motive with that. God will sort the liars.
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@Mister_Argonaut That's a good point. There were differing opinions, even at that time, about what hell is.
It's such an interesting inference though. Thanks for sharing it.
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Explaining how sex works in heaven is interesting and also the definition of idle curiosity. Mentions of hell get no such questioning from anyone.
Considering the severity of being tortured for eternity, I'd expect more questions and details requested. People who have never heard of Jesus, what happens to them? Every school of thought has an opinion that is based on inference because it isn't spelled out in the bible. The talk of white sepulchers would have been a prime lead in.
This implies the statements on hell were more like telling someone off because that's how his audience responded.
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@JackOTD @NadeaneFaye @homemakinghunny @jack (With a blue check no less 😂 "Here is my scintillating testimony. Come argue about it." 🤑💰🤑
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@JackOTD @NadeaneFaye @homemakinghunny @jack... not what I am saying at all. His forgiveness is instantaneous once we confess. I meant the vibe I get from their repeatedly posting about this to tge public at large.
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@JackOTD @sparkinthdark @homemakinghunny My vibe is totally off...Im probably sure if most people asked they would think Im not saved..Im a terrible sinner , I struggle often and im also autistic so..I already come across off..But I know and proclaim that Jesus died and was raised and I love Him and believe ..
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@poopsiepops @ThePOTSPostman A mom that loves them is what’s best even if she’s not at 100%. Even healthy parents are routinely letting their kids down in some way bc kids will consistently want more (naturally). Even if they don’t fully get it now, they will. Momma’s love and care is irreplaceable.
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Chronically ill parents, were you diagnosed before or after having kids?
Knowing what you know now, would you still make the same decision?
If you’re open to it, I’d really like to hear your experience.
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@ThePOTSPostman After... And I'm grateful I was naive. This is a hard life, but my kids rescue me in a thousand ways each day.
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@KimPrather1 @HistoryBoutique the problem occurs when those parents won't let other adults interact or gently scold their kids
Everything has to be so high conflict nowadays
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@HistoryBoutique This is the fault of parents who allow their children to run wild in public. When I was a kid you just didn’t see that because kids were made to behave. Now people want to “gentle parent” rather than just parent. It’s a shame.
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I was in a nice restaurant in Paris and my 9 month old baby girl started crying.
An older woman, the owner, power walked up to me with her arms stretched out, speaking French, and grabbed my baby and held her against her cheek.
So sweet, in broken english, she demanded I sit down and enjoy my meal and that she would take care of her new little princess.
They both looked so happy after a few minutes of pacing, and I swear the chef prepared a comically large, full chicken and mashed potatoes for my bay girl of which she had half of all over her face within minutes.
This was not the only time on my trip that an older woman stopped what she was doing to help us.
I walked into a bar, midday, asking to use their bathroom changing table. They laughed and said that was not a thing in Paris. They moved everything off of the bar and insisted I change her diaper right there. Gross right? Nobody in the bar was phased!! They looked happy to be helpful!
It was embarrassing to accept help at first until I realized that it was truly their pleasure and their culture. (Now that a couple of my kids are looking more like adults than babies, I get it. You miss having those babies around.)
I LOVE helping women with their babies. I do not claim to know any more than them, but sometimes it just takes someone who is “not mama” to distract them.
And for the parents, this empathy means the absolute world.
I rarely experience family friendly moments like this, even in the South.
Asheville restaurants have turned away my very well dressed family, and even said comments like “we’re not that family friendly. You should try the pizza place down the street.”
We went to Kiawah Island every summer for years, but after multiple experiences of being turned away after them seeing we have a toddler with us, I am done.
It’s really sad because it’s not just the restaurants fault, it’s our culture that is allowing this to happen. If people were excited to see children in public, their restaurants would follow their lead.
I would love to get back to traditional southern culture, where children and babies are welcomed members of society.
Where it is not just OK to bring them out of the home, it is encouraged.
I would love to get back to a culture of community.
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@DeanAbbott Evangelicals should revisit 1 Corinthians 10:23 & think about it. Publicly speaking about one’s spouse’s sexual history before a wide audience is clearly not something “edifying.” It is not supportive of moral or spiritual development; rather, it degrades everyone involved.
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Most people think evangelicalism is conservative but, in fact, large swathes of it are radically anti-traditionalist and, in their way, liberal.
Many evangelicals see traditional social virtues like modesty, propriety and prudence as hindrances to the practice and proclamation of the gospel and therefore congratulate themselves on violating these norms if, in their minds, doing so "brings glory to God".
That's exactly what's happening here. A man and his wife throw sensitive personal information into the social media gutter without thinking for a moment about dignity or social appropriateness and then, when people object, claim that people who value the social virtues they've discarded care less about God.
Trevor Sheatz@TrevorSheatz
My wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin. She was then radically born-again. Committed to church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin, etc. We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day (reaction pic attached!). We've been married for over five years now, and she's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and homemaker you could imagine. She's more pure than most virgins, as biblical purity has less to with past sins (though they certainly matter) and more to do with one's current posture of the heart and daily decisions to honor the Lord (Matt. 5:8). We're far too quick to forget the story of the woman labeled as a known "sinner" (likely a prostitute) in Luke 7:36-50 who was washing Jesus' feet with her tears while kissing them too. The Pharisees were shocked that Jesus let a public sinner do this. Jesus responded with a parable about debts being forgiven and ended with this powerful conclusion: "Her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little" (Luke 7:47). Everyone seems to highlight the benefits of virginity, and it certainly is a blessing. But we forget to highlight the benefits of being forgiven much as well. My wife knows the depths of Jesus' forgiveness more than most people, enabling her to more easily live out a life of passionate love for her Savior. A woman or man's past sexual sin matters. But what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands. "God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world — what is viewed as nothing — to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us — our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, — in order that, as it is written: 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.'" (1 Cor. 1:27-31) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17)
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@DeanAbbott I think you nailed it.
I certainly don't think every Christian with a blue check (ahem) is up to no good. But there is a threshold of behavior at which it seems to turn into a grift.
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@NadeaneFaye @homemakinghunny Assuming the video is even real, she's going on and on about how she doesn't even know how many men she slept with.
There's a time and a place for that stuff, imo, but it's not passing the vibe check.
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@NadeaneFaye @homemakinghunny Sorry!! I did, and I do agree with you. But somewhere in a comment stream, I saw a video of her talking about her own past, influencer style. And that's when I realized the whole thing is being done for clicks and $$. I don't think it's much of a witness to be honest.
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@homemakinghunny @NadeaneFaye Honestly, it comes off as a giant grift.
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@sparkinthdark @NadeaneFaye You are adding that implication herself. She wasn’t proving her worthiness, her life showed the fruit of true repentance and desire to grow in holiness.
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@TrevorSheatz Trevor, why does your faith require so much dopamine? Serious question.
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@MannySoEasy @jess_ann_pin Great lyrics, appreciate that.
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@sparkinthdark @jess_ann_pin Yes lean into your insanity. Really go down with the sickness
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Sweet baby cakes. I’m almost 40.
I think my slutty days kept me young and that I’ve only started aging since I started taking men seriously because emotional investment in men causes stress.
Consider how much older most 40 year old married women look.
Messenger of God Mary Mary'sCircle Mahsennin@kdZemvnAMK94471
💖🌹💖Women and men are different creatures. Women should reduce the number of men they have sex with. For women, repeated sexual encounters build up immunity and cause aging. And of course, men should also reduce the number of people they come into contact with. Even kissing is a risky cumulative process.
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