Secrets

How Narcissists Use Language to Make You Feel Crazy
There's a moment in every manipulative relationship that doesn't look like abuse. It looks like a Wednesday. You're loading the dishwasher, replaying a conversation from an hour ago, and you realize you can't remember what you were originally upset about. Not because it wasn't important. Because somewhere between the first sentence and the fourth, the whole conversation got rerouted, and now you're the one apologizing.
By Nora M.7 months ago in Confessions
Faith is not loud - it's quiet and it's detailed- Part 4
If someone else doesn't understand that, it's because they don't experience it the way you do. They see a series. You see a doorway. A reminder. A companion. A spark. A quiet place where your faith feels alive. So no - it's not "normal" in the statistical sense. But it's deeply human in the spiritual sense. And it fits you. It fits your story, your hunger for meaning, your sensitivity, your way of connecting with God. You're doing something that keeps your inner world alive, in a world that constantly tries to flatten it
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.7 months ago in Confessions
Faith is not loud - it's quiet and it's detailed- Part 1
I love to look at 'The Chosen' series! Again and again and again! You are right. It feels almost like my every day prayer! It makes perfect sense that The Chosen feels like a kind of daily prayer for you. When a series speaks to the heart, not just the mind, it becomes more than entertainment. It becomes a place where you breathe differently, where your thoughts slow down, where something inside you feels understood. And The Chosen has that quality - it's warm, intimate, human. It shows faith not as a theory but as a lived experience, full of doubt, tenderness, mistakes, forgiveness, and unexpected grace.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.7 months ago in Confessions
He Hit Me First. Content Warning.
I had a C-PTSD episode in the middle of the night. Writing it down is one of many things that helps me process sometimes, and it occurred to me that it may or may not be helpful for some to read. I’m hoping it might.
By Dana Mary Colleen Campbell7 months ago in Confessions
Wheat and weeds, Part 7
We’ve just sat for hours with someone ‘confidently’ dismantling a story that, for a lot of people, is tied to childhood, family, morality, meaning. Even if you’re not a believer, there’s a weight to watching someone rip through it with “hidden history” and “they never told you this.” It’s very normal to feel a mix of fascination, anger, relief, or even a kind of vertigo after that. You’re not overreacting if it shook you.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.7 months ago in Confessions
Wheat and weeds, Part 6
The Prometheus material is similar. There are indeed fascinating thematic parallels between Prometheus and later ideas of Satan or Lucifer: a figure who defies the high god, brings knowledge or fire to humans, suffers for it, is bound and tormented. Ancient authors themselves sometimes played with these resonances. But those are literary and philosophical parallels, not genealogical ones. There is no historical chain that runs “Enki → Prometheus → Satan → Jesus,” as if these were successive masks of the same being. The video treats them that way, because it is always looking for a single hidden pattern, but that is a choice of interpretation, not something the sources force on you.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.7 months ago in Confessions
Wheat and weeds, Part 5
The conversation felt weak and unbalanced; The interlocutor in that video often doesn’t know basic historical facts. And that’s not my imagination. When someone with weak historical grounding interviews someone who is very confident but not academically trained, the result is exactly what I sensed: a conversation that sounds bold and revolutionary but collapses the moment one check it against real scholarship.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.7 months ago in Confessions
Wheat and weeds, Part 4
To be even more explicit: 1.About Epiphanius, the Panarion, and heresiology When scholars study Epiphanius, they do not rely on Wikipedia. They use the critical editions and commentaries published by Brill, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and similar academic houses. The standard English translation of the Panarion is by Frank Williams, published by Brill. Williams’ introduction explains in detail that Epiphanius is a polemical writer whose descriptions of heretical groups must be read with caution.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.7 months ago in Confessions
Wheat and weeds, Part 3
Extra points i thought to bring to your attention: When I said modern scholarship on heresiology and the Panarion is clear that Epiphanius is polemical, I’m thinking of people like Frank Williams, who produced the standard English translation of the Panarion for Brill, with a long introduction explaining Epiphanius’ methods and biases; of Averil Cameron, who has written extensively on late antique Christian polemic; and of David Brakke, whose work on Gnosticism and heresiology (for example “The Gnostics” and his studies on Athanasius and Egyptian monasticism) shows how heresiologists constructed enemies rhetorically. These are the kinds of names you’d see in university syllabi, not just on Wikipedia.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.7 months ago in Confessions
Wheat and weeds, Part 2
Why Epiphanius looks “clean” online but sounds extreme in the video Epiphanius lived in the 4th century, long after Jesus, long after Paul, and long after the earliest Christian communities. By his time, Christianity had become institutionalized, and the Church was trying to define orthodoxy and eliminate competing interpretations.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.7 months ago in Confessions
Wheat and weeds
The conversation from a podcast, i saw last week, explores how some of the earliest Christian writings and alternative traditions paint a very different picture of God and Jesus than what later mainstream Christianity adopted. The host and guest discuss how certain ancient groups, especially Gnostic thinkers, believed the creator figure in the Old Testament was not the ultimate divine source but a flawed or even harmful being. In their view, Jesus appears not as the obedient son of this creator but as a messenger from a higher, hidden reality who comes to free humanity from ignorance.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.7 months ago in Confessions
One ingredient that we all need . All humans: patience! Part 7
This pattern also teaches us something about how He works in our lives. He rarely transforms us by overwhelming force or by replacing our weaknesses with something entirely new. Instead, He takes the little patience we have, the little faith, the little love, the little willingness, and He multiplies it. He takes the small beginnings of virtue and turns them into something far greater than we could ever produce alone. He does not ask for perfection; He asks for what we have. And once it is in His hands, it becomes more than enough.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.7 months ago in Confessions