Carl,
I feel like I am in the same spot as you which is humorous in a way as I have always come to you for advice. My wife and I left the LDS church and it has been a turbulent if not at times amusing spiritual journey together though at times I think we are looking for different things. On...
I think that is the amusing thing is that I crave structure in my spirituality but elsewhere in life I abhor too much structure. I have spent an awful lot of time trying to figure out my core values and while I have a good handle for the most part it still needs some work. Honestly at times I am...
Meh with all the other active Socialist boards on the web this wouldn't be my first place to go. I mostly enjoy the Right Wingers flipping their **** on The Jacobin's facebook page.
I think that is the part I have the hardest time with. I for some reason can't even grasp the concept of a DIY style of spirituality. I'm not sure why I can't grasp it. My wife and I leaving a faith like Mormonism which we were both raised in leaves a massive spiritual gap and hell at least for...
A very interesting and helpful read. Though a few of these things I have jettisoned or I am in the process of jettisoning. The looking for perfection was probably my biggest hurdle and still one that occasionally creeps up. Though at this point I will settle for anything that helps me feel...
Maybe I will be active again. Used to be an active member of the CPUSA and YCLUSA. Then realized it was utter bourgie crap and left it. I just moan and cry while slowly shifting to a more humanist Marxist. I am an odd person as my wife would attest. I dealt with my local chapter of Occupy...
I have a hard time getting into it since I watched the BBC version first. I am curious how closely they will follow the plot so far it is fairly similar. More realistic in a parliamentary system than the American one IMHO. Still enjoyable due to Spacey though.
Indeed, the rear echelon of the Red Army was notorious for its lack of discipline and it was a subject of a variety of cables back to Moscow by Zhukov and other senior commanders. Stalin had little problem with it but that really isn't a surprise.