Do you believe you can change? Why or why not?

@joshuapsteele What @JohnBrady said. (But in the back of my mind, this caveat aphorism: Christ didn’t come to make bad men good but to make dead men live.)

@joshuapsteele Change is difficult but staying the same has proved impossible.

@joshuapsteele I do believe that I can. Honestly, I have evolved in a lot of ways, but the issue is that most of the changes that I have been through took on an unpredictable shape. Based on my own mentality and internal landscape, a lot of changes manifested strangely.

@joshuapsteele Everyone can change. We actually charge every day! The question is: Are we changing in the right direction? Do we want to change for the better?

@joshuapsteele I was listening to a chat today and a related (if not more important?) question/phrasing came up: Do I/you/we allow people to change?

@joaopinheiro hear, hear!

@tinyroofnail Related: I think belief in the Resurrection should effectively prohibit us from despairing that so-and-so could never change. I do find this difficult to apply to, say, the current President, lol.

@Brainbox Definitely interesting to compare/contrast intentional vs unintentional/unanticipated change

@joshuapsteele @JohnBrady Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them. (Ecclesiastes 12:1). I suspect that the President’s evil days have come, the years drawn nigh.

@joshuapsteele What I was going to say when you initially posed the question was that of course people can change, but it’s a fool that expects them to.

@joshuapsteele Especially when you look back on an intentional vs unintentional/unanticipated change. You can see the inciting incident that lead to the change and why it manifested as it did. As it takes awhile for a change to settle and take on a proper shape (at least in my experience).