After an incredibly fucked up awful 2016 & 2017, battling depression, an awful job, and having one steady good thing in my life, my boyfriend, got murdered. I was ready to give up. I found comfort in another man, thinking he made me feel better and cared about me. He was mentally abusive and I felt stuck even if he wasn’t around me. I truly wanted to give up. There couldn’t be an out.
Incidentally, a couple months after, struggling, clubbing, drinking as much as I could, I invited people to get drunk with me. I met my current partner. He changed everything. It took hard work, it wasn’t easy to get to where I am now nor where we are as a couple, but almost a year down the track, we are in a house we own together, with a child on the way.
It gets better. If you give up, you’ll miss finding out the amazing things that you can do and the strength you have
I thought you were a good person but you messed up and you used me and you still don’t remember when my birthday is and you never even knew my middle name. And you tricked me into thinking you wanted the same things as me and you acted like you cared about what I was doing on the weekends and how my sister’s classes were but I don’t think you really cared about anything at all. And there’s a lot I should have said to you but the only thing I want you to know now is that none of that was okay but I am.
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Religious and philosophical views of Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein’s religious views have been widely studied and often misunderstood. Einstein stated that he believed in the pantheistic God of Baruch Spinoza. He did not believe in a personal God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings, a view which he described as naïve. He clarified however that, “I am not an atheist”, preferring to call himself an agnostic, or a “religious nonbeliever.“ When asked if he believed in an afterlife, Einstein replied, “No. And one life is enough for me.”
Einstein responded to a question about whether or not he defined himself as a pantheist. He explained:
Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I’m not an atheist, and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza’s pantheism, but admire even more his contribution to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and body as one, and not two separate things
He also stated
I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.
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I woke up one night to a frightening sound. A door opening when I’m home alone. Instinctively, I hid under the bed and prayed that whoever had entered wouldn’t find me. “Jenna, Mommy’s home!”
It’s hard to believe that this happened just two weeks ago. I was happy
and didn’t have to worry about what’s to come. I’ll get to that later
on, but I need to start from the beginning.
