Tag: addiction
From Dr. Melfi: What Your Pandemic/Election
Year TV-Binge-Diary Reveals About You
Dear Dr. Melfi, MARCH With intelligent Americans sheltering-in-place despite Presidential lies, I honestly admit I was powerless not to binge on Sex Education, The Affair, Outlander and the subtly simmering Derry Girls and Normal People around St. Patty’s Day. What…
When TRUE Love Waits? Addicts Need Care, Not Reckless Eroticism
True love always desires the blessedness of the other, and does not carelessly harm oneself and the one one loves in order to somehow avert harm. Someone who lacks the patience to be a friend to someone they care about in their darkest hour will never have the commitment to show an even deeper love.
1st Century Jesus, 21st Century America: Does the Following Story Sound Familiar?
In order to get perspective on the religious dilemmas of 21st America (and to some degree elsewhere), let’s rewind a couple of millennia to a period that in some ways, looks surprisingly (or unsurprisingly?) familiar. In the first century, an…