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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Something struck me in the latest fb post about Ireland. Jen says that her friends are "family"- the best kind, the kind you "choose". That, my dear lady, defeats the lesson of family. You don't get to choose. You learn to get along, to compromise, to sacrifice. You don't have "admirers", fans or followers. You have people that knew you "when"-, who changed your diapers, who
bought you acne medicin, who played in the mud with you. Yes, there are toxic families that must be left behind, but in general,  you don't get to pick family. You are not the boss and they are not your "tribe".[/quote]

Yes, but the lie that Jen is selling, which is also the lie that our culture is broadly embracing and selling is exactly the belief that life should only be what you choose and nothing else. We've taken this idea so far that we now reject the givenness of anything,  including sex and gender. Reality is what I/we say it is and nothing else. Any claim to the contrary is seen as oppression.

Of course, all that is an illusory lie and the way of death. Jen is literally just one more voice among the many whispering, "Did God really say..? You won't die! God knows your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God..!" [/quote]

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