I almost missed today's White Repentance Month. I had a really bad flare up of pain today.
"Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment." (Psalm 51:4)
Tonight, we have the late great R.C. Sproul on the necessity of confessing our sins to God. Please note that confession in this context does not refer to the formal sacrament or practice found in Roman, Eastern, Anglican, Lutheran, and Coptic churches.
「Repentance certainly requires confession. It is not simply a resolve to change and behave differently in the future from what I do today. I don’t believe that I need to confess every sin I’ve ever committed to everybody in the world or to all the people in my family. Ultimately, my sin is against God, and what repentance always requires is confession of our sin before God and confession accompanied by contrition—real remorse.
I know that I have never approached the full measure of remorse and contrition for my sins that I should have. I believe it was Thomas à Kempis who said that the greatest saints rarely come anywhere close to feeling the full measure of weight of their own sinfulness. I’m glad the Holy Spirit reveals the depths of my sin gradually to me. If He revealed to me right now the full measure of my guilt before God, I would be destroyed. I would be like Isaiah, during his vision of God, when he said he was coming apart (Isa. 6:5).
We have to confess, and with that confession comes a real godly sorrow, not just a fear of punishment, or what we call “attrition.” God doesn’t despise a broken and contrite heart, but rather He desires it as the reality of our repentance.」 -R. C. Sproul "Does Repentance Require Confession", February, 2016 ligonier.org/learn/qas/does-repentance-require-confession youchu.be/watch?v=_5fnWNCTABQ
@beardalaxy I agree that #5 is the best, but there are a few drawbacks I can think of:
* They are still echo-chambers, but for hobbies/ideologies/lifestyles that are considered niche, which isn't a bad thing, but if you disagree with them, even on one thing, you may be labeled as a "normie" and be told that you belong on Reddit/Facebook/Twitter. * Despite our presence on here, these places *MIGHT* not be the best places to build a brand (e.g. indie games, webcomics, etc) unless those brands in question cater to that type of culture (i.e loli/hentai games). I think it's generally fine to be on here, but you need to be careful. Don't sign up on some instance or host your code on some repository with the word "cum" or anything like that in the name because some people will take that as an excuse to cancel you. * These types of places attract three-letter agencies. Once these people get involved, expect fedposts and CP spam everywhere (we are nowhere near that level yet, but there are signs of it growing everyday).
@xianc78 #5 is unequivocally the best option out of all these. i stand by my anime avatar shitposter brethren.
the true way to go though is knowing that you won't get absolutely everything you want from just one place. nobody really had that way of thinking until the massive social media conglomerates came around. i've got newgrounds, fedi, gaming/game dev forums, and discord all for different purposes. just like hanging out with a different group of friends, or your family instead of your friends, you'll act differently and talk about different things and there are certain social rules to follow. all that jazz.
An excellent post from @TrevorGoodchild on the different types of controlled opposition/blind alleys/containment zones set up by Zog to thwart any true right wing populism in the US.
Only thing I'd add is that group #5 is heavily tied into the Thiel network (as is JD Vance, what a coincidence!).
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@Linux4Everyone #4 and #5 are ones that I've heard a lot and while #4 is generally easy enough to show that many things have a Linux counterpart with software like browsers, mail clients and office suites, #5 is trickier even as a concept (choice of desktop environments/window managers) and many people get frustrated fighting with things like muscle memory from the interfaces they are already familiar with or just feeling "lost" in general.