Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Adult psychopathology and 2 related things

Listened to a lecture on sexual disorders. It's actually not as interesting as I thought it would be. Gave up halfway through the lecture yesterday and continued this morning.

Shocked at what the lecturer said at one point in the lecture. I can't remember what it was exactly, but it was to the effect of everyone should understand what (certain term) means and the predisposing, precipitating and maintaining factors of (certain term) because everyone has done it. Sex is common and yada.

Like whuuud.

Sex is common among young, single, unmarried, uni students?

Yes there's a significant proportion of mature-aged students in my class, but most of the uni students are in fact still younger than me!

Made me wonder if this student population actually does it, regularly, and without bothering about what it is supposed to be for, degrading its sanctity.

I knew it was happening but not to this extent.

I've been reading Colossians and Thessalonians recently and sexual immorality has been something popping up quite often as Paul encourages the people in his letters to live lives that are holy and worthy in the presence and coming of the Lord.

"Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming." Colossians 3: 5-6.

Then Claire was telling me this morning about a friend who might have possibly lied about her ex-boyfriend cheating on her, how he was physically abusive and all that, so that she could be with a new guy she might be physically attracted to. After Claire's examination of what's been told to her, her not-so-definite-as-yet conclusion is that her friend's been lying, getting sympathy and attention to mask up her true intentions and more shady plans to shag another guy.

The pace and rate of this new relationship is so fast that I'm quite puzzled and after hearing what Claire said, disgusted.

I mean, of course, unless we know and have all the details of exchanges or am omniscient and omnipresent like God is, we can't say what really happened. We're not even supposed to judge.

Besides that that is not very related to me, I'm worried about the society my children will live in, assuming Christ hasn't come back yet.