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"Statistics don't lie but liars love statistics." .

https://www.psychologytools.com/resource/magnification-and-minimization/ If you go to search for it, you won't have long to wait for an auto-completion of the term. Try that with "Bibliolatry" - lol. .

I concede the point. The original intent was to drop the word there as an (obviously failed) attempt at humor. I just figured someone who couldn't muster up an ounce or two of pathos for someone else caught in a web of despair might just be a surface-reader. But it's fer sher not a hill I'm...

Lol - fair enough. .

Aw, come on, SS. "Absolutely nothing?" That's a magnification cognitive distortion. It's still making an idol of the Bible instead of "receiving the Word with all readiness of mind," per Matthew 13, John 17, etc. No need to give way to mismanaged emotions (i.e., flabbergastritis) - lol. .

Emotional intelligence is the ability to accurately identify emotions in ourselves and others and to manage and relate to those emotions in a way that is most beneficial to all involved. :) .

A "multitude of counselors" is a double-edged sword, isn't it, Sis? Only you know how much you've affected individual members for good. I suspect from conversations I've had with you that there's no lack of fruit there. It's plain for all to see that your influence on the community as a...

That's because sex, for the vast majority of folks, is just one more quick-and-dirty (no pun intended) way of getting their dopamine levels back up to the lower-than-ideal average that they've established by their overall lifestyle habits. That's a little harsh, I know, but the problem can't be...

I tend to relate everything to everything else. To me, bibliolatry is just another symptom of the fallen human condition we're all warring either for or against. Sorry if this seems like over-simplification. I guess I'm just in that kinda mood? Everything overlaps to me. .

I remember about 5 years ago reading a post on Facebook by a cousin I was very close to as a child. She had just watched a documentary on PBS, I think about gender-dysphoric kids and she came away moved with such overwhelming compassion that she professed an instant paradigm shift in her...

You're definitely preaching to the choir here, my friend. The problem is definitely in disarming the understandable hostility toward a beneficial resolution that's incessantly sandbagged by the compassionateless bibliolaters(?). .

I guess I just wouldn't consider a dotgov website to be above scrutiny and would have to see its designation as an authoritative reference to be less than absolute. I haven't bothered to check out the claims that it's merely a search engine, though. If true, that would definitely mitigate its...

So, IOW, you're saying that it's prevalent—an at least somewhat relative term with which I would certainly have no disagreement. I just wanted to make sure I understood you properly. No big deal, though. I can't nor would I care to deny that gender confusion is quite troubling to me and I'm...

It looks like a literal answer to me, W. What am I missing? .

@St. SteVen, My kids are approaching middle age and it was hard watching them grow up and trying to protect them from peer dependence, Hollywood philosophy, etc. I can't imagine what young parents have to face today. Anyone who claims it's easy for them is not working hard enough at it. I had...

I'm assuming you're speaking kind of tongue-in-cheek here. I know there's a trend, but I don't think it's universally unacceptable to conform to biologically assigned sex roles, do you? I've personally talked to young and middle-aged ladies who have turned to functional (as opposed to...

I'm having Hollywood Squares flashbacks. .

. I have to say, both sides of this issue are being supported with research that seems to be roughly the modern equivalent of "health" research from the tobacco industry in the 1940s and '50s. .

Yet 2 other "natural speakers" had no trouble at all understanding the intentions of the writer. Maybe you're just not good at giving people the benefit of the doubt. Yeah, what kind of God would want people to be patient? Except, oh, maybe the God whose Spirit produces the fruit of patience...

It was just a reference. I'm pretty sure he was addressing BP. :) .