Just because people live in denial, doesn’t mean they don’t know the truth.
I work around alot of addicts (drugs alcohol) and the ones who are clean when you ask them what made it work?
“I just finally REALLY wanted to”
They all admit prior to clean some part of them didn’t care to quit. Because personal choice is shifted to “uncontrollable” whenever it is convenient.
I might gove a half a nod that SOMEONE can be in a true dire straight… but it is like the gluten free craze. There is like less than 1% of people actually in anyway affected by gluten, yet there are probably 10+% of people crying out GLUTEN FREE!!!
I’d wager for every person who finds sonething uncontrollable, at least the same numbers as gluten apply ie: 9/10 “uncontrolled” can totally control.
I don’t appreciate the implications here. I’m not gluten free, I’m modern-wheat free. Gluten free happens to guarantee that by accident, so I often buy ‘gluten-free.’ That by default leaves out oats, which I do not avoid.
There’s gluten, such as that found in oats, and then there is the mutated, layer upon layer, out-of-control, unrecognizable as food gluten that exists in chemically mutated, hyper-hybridized, modern wheat. This destroys the intestinal lining, induces allergies, disrupts hormones, and sickens all our vital digestive bacteria. The longer the abuse, the worse the results. Some succumb sooner than others due to individual proclivity, history, or sensitivity.
Few few people cannot eat oats.
However… Modern wheat is objectively bad for everybody, whether they ‘notice’ symptoms or not. It isn’t food. It isn’t nourishing. Go back to the original wheat… What Jesus ate…(if it wasn’t barley, which was far more common back then), and you’ll rediscover real food.
This company almost single handedly resurrected this all but extinct treasure:
jovialfoods.com/einkorn/
This is the problem with our modern ‘food’ supply. We have substituted every real thing for fakes… Fakes that do not satisfy any part of our bodies. So we keep eating… We eat too much because of the chemicals designed to keep us coming back for more… We eat too much because our bodies cry and scream and beg for nutrients, hoping that hunger will eventually lead to us eating something it can use.
It is partially a weak will, partially ignorance, but mostly, weak-willed, willful ignorance, because knowing means doing something about it.
Eating what you know is good only for the tongue, and not the stomach, and not good for the body, and to keep eating merely because it tastes good, and not because your body needs it… That is when eating becomes gluttony.
Enjoying your very good, nutritious, garden-fresh or home-grown meal, and taking such joy in it that you eat technically more than you need… Is not gluttony. In this case, an excess of the true good is far less ‘damaging’ (if in any sense it is at all) than an excess of purely pleasuring junk food.
And to keep doing what you know is wrong because you’re more attached to pleasure than taking care of yourself… That’s when it becomes a serious sin.
If anyone wanted to know how I see it.
