Help Sinning

[Life_and_Death]

So I just had this crazy idea. (or high idea I'm not sure). So Christians have a confession where they go and confess their sins and are forgiven. (I'm basing this off tv so if I'm wrong I'm sorry Christians) what if I had my own thing like that. A way that I can forgive myself. Anyway I was hoping that you guys could help me come up with some ideas. Like there's this one where you write it on a piece of paper and burn it.

 

[MrBlue]

That sounds like a pretty good idea if you're struggling with specific things you've done in the past. I've seen people talk about the burning paper one before, and also one where you discard into a box and bury it. I guess you could also shout it somewhere isolated, or write it on an object and lob it off a cliff. I guess it's very similar to talking about it to an objective party without having to be vulnerable to other people.

I wish I'd done something specifically wrong instead of feeling guilty about being me lol, it would have been really helpful!

I hope it helps you OP, no one deserves to be stuck ruminating on past mistakes, it makes progressing from them that much harder.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

So I just had this crazy idea. (or high idea I'm not sure). So Christians have a confession where they go and confess their sins and are forgiven. (I'm basing this off tv so if I'm wrong I'm sorry Christians) what if I had my own thing like that. A way that I can forgive myself. Anyway I was hoping that you guys could help me come up with some ideas. Like there's this one where you write it on a piece of paper and burn it.

There are any number of ways you can do such a thing if you want to take that approach. Burning your sins could be seen as a form of magick. Any ritualised approach that symbolises destroying or letting go that which ails you, or cleansing your environment would do, whatever personally resonates with you.
Burning something is certainly a very powerful way to signify something's 'destruction.'
I think that in the Christian mythos though, your sins can only be forgiven by God, hence the confession to a priest. Discussing such things with a counsellor or friend can also lead to catharsis. It depends if you go for the religious, ritualised or humanistic approach.

 

[Life_and_Death]

There are any number of ways you can do such a thing if you want to take that approach. Burning your sins could be seen as a form of magick. Any ritualised approach that symbolises destroying or letting go that which ails you, or cleansing your environment would do, whatever personally resonates with you.
I think that in the Christian mythos though, your sins can only be forgiven by God, hence the confession to a priest. Discussing such things with a counsellor or friend can also lead to catharsis. It depends if you go for the religious, ritualised or humanistic approach.

more religious/ritualised. im wiccan but i see myself as my own god in the sense that i have strength within myself. if that makes sense lol

 

[Deleted member 1465]

It's a very flexible way of looking at things. Definitely, a ritual approach will suit you then. Cleansing with fire, I'd suggest would be more transformative maybe than burying something? Hard to come back from complete oxidation. Just make sure the ritual resonates and is personal to you.

Edit: a lot of people clean as a ritual. I do that sometimes, clean the house etc. It's practical and it also orders and 'cleans' your mind at the same time.

 

[timf]

Forgiveness is essentially a process of restoring relationship, either us and God or with each other. The idea of extending the concept of forgiveness to be either unilateral or applied to self begins to confuse what forgiveness entails. For Christians the trust that Jesus died to pay for all sin is a key component and relief may be difficult to obtain without this faith.

It may be more helpful to consider applying truth and logic to ourselves more than "forgiveness". For example, if we have done something wrong, we should own up to what we have done and try to make correction or restitution. After we have done everything we can, we need to move on. If we have extracted everything needful or useful from a mistake, it serves no useful purpose to continue to berate ourselves.