I give in. To sin.

[Que Va]

Because I like to practice what I preach.

 

[Que Va]

I was reading the plot summary for "Nymphomanic: Volume 1" and a line struck me. I don't know if it is a paraphrase or a direct quote from the movie:

"Why would you take the most unsympathetic aspect of religion, the concept of sin, and let it survive beyond religion?"

 

[Que Va]

I grew up shame and fear based. I tend to not think in those terms day to day, but it likely does still impact behavior.

I was sure there were lines I was not going to cross while married. I am not proud of the lines I did cross. After I found myself a liberated, single man, I had to re-evaluate and decide what was on the table and what was not. I was surprised at the lack of guilt and the life-affirming feeling I got the first time I had an opportunity to "sin" egregiously.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Mencken wrote a wonderful essay on the topic of layman sin. Sin should be left to politicians and Elk and Moose and Baptists.

 

[Que]

I need to read Mencken. He is quoted so often I feel as if have, but I actually have not.