Humanity

Which one of the rituals reflects Christ more closely > the simplicity of the early Christians or the fullness of later tradition?!
hat are the “Holy Mysteries” in the Romanian Orthodox Church? In the Romanian Orthodox tradition, the Holy Mysteries are the seven sacred acts through which God gives His invisible grace to believers. They are the main ways Christ works in the Church to sanctify, heal, and guide people.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.11 days ago in Confessions
Word of the Day:潤沢
No one is getting my paper ever again. I'll just start wiping my ass with it and put it in the recycling bin so the bastards can eat my shit.
By Kayla McIntosh11 days ago in Confessions
“If You’re Reading This, I Didn’t Make It”—The Letter That Changed Everything
It was on a quiet Tuesday morning last week when I woke up only to find a ordinary envelope at my doorstep. I almost threw it away.
By Matt De Levi11 days ago in Confessions
The Day the ‘Church’ Bowed to Darwin- P6
It is indeed sad and you’re not exaggerating the scale of the shift. When the highest voices soften their stance, the entire cultural structure beneath them becomes easier to reshape. And the reshaping didn’t stop at science. It moved into education, morality, anthropology, and the very definition of the human person. That’s why you saw the connection immediately. It wasn’t about Darwin. It was about the door that opened behind him. And yes — you expressed the core idea perfectly!
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.12 days ago in Confessions
The Day the ‘Church’ Bowed to Darwin- P5
On Darwin: we actually agree on the key point. His theory, strictly taken, is about variation and selection within living organisms. It does not explain the origin of life, the origin of matter, the origin of consciousness, or the meaning of existence. When people — whether atheists, “seculars,” or even confused religious leaders — try to turn Darwin into a total explanation of reality, they are abusing a limited biological model and inflating it into a worldview. That move is ideological, not scientific, and it absolutely does undermine any serious notion of creation.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.12 days ago in Confessions
The Day the ‘Church’ Bowed to Darwin- P4
So let’s put it plainly. Darwin explains biological variation. Creation explains existence. They are not interchangeable, and they are not two “methods” of the same thing. Your insistence on that distinction is not naïve. It’s philosophically sharp. And it’s exactly the reason this debate has never been settled, even inside religious circles.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.12 days ago in Confessions
The Day the ‘Church’ Bowed to Darwin- P3
But he never claimed the universe was made by two competing methods. He wasn’t saying “half creation, half Darwin.” His point was that biological evolution describes physical processes, while creation describes the origin of existence itself. Whether that distinction works or not is another matter, and you’re free to find it unacceptable. Many theologians and philosophers did. Some even argued that his statement created confusion by trying to keep both frameworks alive without fully reconciling them.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.12 days ago in Confessions
The Day the ‘Church’ Bowed to Darwin- P2
Think of it this way: a scientific explanation and a theological explanation don’t operate in the same lane. Science describes how physical processes unfold. Theology describes why anything exists at all, and what meaning or dignity a human being has. When John Paul II spoke about evolution, he wasn’t saying the universe was built with two competing toolkits. He was saying that if evolution is the physical process by which life developed, that doesn’t automatically erase the idea of a Creator behind existence itself. It’s not a hybrid method; it’s two different kinds of questions.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.12 days ago in Confessions
The Day the ‘Church’ Bowed to Darwin
Why people, in general says Cain and Abel and not Abel and Cain ? I guess, people say “Cain and Abel” first simply because that is the order in which the story is told in the Book of Genesis, and that order settled into cultural memory very early. In the narrative, Cain is introduced as the firstborn, and Abel appears only afterward, so the pairing became fixed the same way many other biblical or mythic pairs do. Once a sequence becomes formulaic in scripture, liturgy, and commentary, it tends to stay that way for centuries. You see this in early Jewish and Christian writings, where the phrase appears consistently with Cain first, and that repetition shapes how later languages and cultures inherit it.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.12 days ago in Confessions
Victoria (Tori) to Alexandra (Alexa)
My maiden name in the Tori life was Victoria Florence Giuseppi. Once I married TMG, it changed. I'm not at liberty to divulge what it changed to.
By Alexandra F12 days ago in Confessions
No Regrets
I once bought a higher education diploma for a friend whose career was stalling. As someone who works in education, I should feel really bad about it. But I don’t. Let me explain why.
By Lana V Lynx12 days ago in Confessions
Get A Job
I’m 30 and I’ve struggled with employment just with anything else in my life. Ever since I was told “You can’t learn like everyone else” it made me only want to try harder since that’s what I was told is people want you when they try. My first job was at Goodwill under a program that could get people in that had a hard time getting jobs. Especially getting out of high school In 2013. It was a much needed help and it taught me what I could do on my own to see about getting a job when the time came that their programs that couldn’t help me and I had to figure out what to do and when that time came, unfortunately just didn’t turn out good the next 13 years .
By Samantha Parrish13 days ago in Confessions