u/PepperFun7383

There are many holy texts and many versions of them and I’m not sure which one is the best to begin with and to continue with and which translations are most accurate.

Also obviously there are differences in catholic, protestant and orthodox christianity books but I’m not exactly sure about what those differences are in the storytelling itself and I’d like to understand and study all of them.

I come from a background of orthodox christianity, but I am not currently an active christian, however I am very interested in these texts. I’m just not quite sure where to begin and google has not been helping me out much. It’d be very helpful if a person that follows christianity or studies religion could tell me how they went about it.

My screen time has been through the roof lately and my attention span quality is only getting worse and worse. I’ve tried setting screen times, deleting certain apps but nothing works and I’m beginning to think it’s cause nothing outside of my phone entertains me anymore cause I’ve got such poor attention span. so any suggestions on how to improve it?

I have astigmatism but I haven’t worn glasses since I was a preteen so my eyes hurt a lot, especially when reading.

I went to a doctor a few months ago and got prescribed reading glasses. But every time I try to use it my eyesight turns blurry and my eyes hurt much more. I asked what could’ve caused this effect and I’ve been told you need some time to get used to glasses, since your eyes are adjusting. I wore the glasses for three days while reading when I first got them but I just can’t get used to it.

Do I need to spend more money to get a different prescription and new lenses..?

I’m studying social sciences so I have to read about 200-300 pages of raw material every week.

I have astigmatism, which makes me nearly cross-eyed and gives me a horrible headache if I stare at a screen too long and also very poor attention span which makes reading even more difficult.

I don’t hate reading at all, on the contrary, I love writing and want to digest even more than the required reading I do for university. But the discomfort and restlessness that comes with it rather dwindle my love for reading.

Any advice? I’m open to all types of suggestions

I look at people and their actions like no one I’ve met as of yet

I love people, in a general, all-inclusive way. I think humans are so rich with emotion, with complexity, with culture and everything about them is extremely appealing to me.

I find myself indifferent (this was the best word I could think of, but it does not depict my thought perfectly) to actions committed by humans other humans might consider unacceptable. Actions such as cheating on one’s significant other, betraying loyal friends, oversharing to a stranger, etc. Actions oftentimes ranging in the grey/black area. Of course I don’t find them acceptable, I understand that they are socially considered as negative actions which are punished and should be punished to maintain social balance, but I myself cannot find it in me to get upset at these things, even if they’re happening in my personal life. These actions happen, they are often punished/or not by members of society in this way or another and that’s that. And I just consider the entire ordeal so interesting, I love seeing how it plays out, I love observing. Sometimes I wish I was a non-human being who could just observe things from a completely indifferent, nonbiased perspective. But in a way I already do that. I observe all actions that pique my interest in an (not objective?) let’s just say from a perspective that stems from an entirely blank surface, and then I also fit the action into the standard social rule and decide where it lands in white/grey/black area with those rules and react (mostly) accordingly.

I conclude that I must think of those actions as an indispensable part of being a human or perhaps I like the idea of living vicariously through the humans who commit such acts while abiding by the social rules myself. Though it’s not like social rules are the only thing keeping me at bay. I do have my own inner conceptual ideas of what’s good and bad/or paradoxical depending on context which guides my own actions and the advice I give to other people.

The most adequate allegory for the way I view these actions is to imagine how people usually view the actions of fictional characters. I find myself analysing and entertaining myself with real people as others would with these made up characters whose actions don’t truly affect anyone.

I sometimes also think it’s because I have a lot of empathy for everyone so I’m capable of putting myself in anyone’s shoes therefore I don’t view most people as good or bad they’re just people to me.

so anybody else?