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The church of hedonism, Wenatchee, WA (2026)

04/12/2023

Today I want to address false hero's.
And the danger of piety.

What is a false hero?
A false hero is someone who wants the pride and honor of being a pillar of virtue,
without actually being virtuous.

It's hard to tell a false hero from a real one with a glance.

But it's easy if you know what to look for.

The easiest thing to see is when they ignore small acts of heroism, and kindness.
Small acts are things that often go unnoticed.
Things like checking in on people,
Or like giving over the last of an item on the shelf to someone else.

These actions often won't harm anyone if they fail to do them, but also won't bring any gain, and may even bring a loss if they do it.

Another easy way to tell a false hero from a real hero,
is hypocrisy.

An example would be laughing at a s*xual assault victim because the victim is male, or because the victim is a police officer.

Blatantly showing you don't actually give a s**t about s*xual assault victim's, you give a s**t about the piety that comes with helping a broken person.

What actually sparked this was a video I posted on my personal account.

Where a police officer shot his boss, because his boss attempted to r**e him.
The actual video is of the 911 call in which you can hear the man wail as he tries to save his boss.

A real human being wouldn't even need to hear his wails to know he is a victim, and to try to help.
Because a real hero doesn't dehumanize their enemies.
My enemy is the badge, not the person behind it.

I say this because I have no side if my choice is between false hero's.

My word is my bond.
My bond is my soul.
My soul is my bargaining chip against my word.

Being a hero isn't about grand gestures and honor.
It's about character, about doing the right thing no matter how hard it is, no matter who's looking, no matter how small it is, no matter who is in need.

Being a hero isn't even about kindness, it isn't about peace. It's about right and wrong.
Good and evil.

If your a horrible person, that one grand gesture makes a jester of you. A fool dancing before an uncaring crowd to a Melody not born to the beat of your heart.

It won't obsolve you of your sins.
The light you shone onto the world was cold and bitter with a flicker of warmth.
And you will only leave this world colder than it had been before your act.

04/10/2023

I haven't done a sermon on here in a while, my life is still on the verge of collapse and I'm still traumatized.
Although enough time has passed I've begun to heal.

I took a break from the church for a while because I was in an unhealthy place, and I feared my anger and hate would corrupt the message I've been teaching.
And I was right, I changed in some big ways.

Let's talk about mental health today.

You are important.
You are valid.
Your identity belongs to you and you alone.
Your fear, your insecurities, your anger, your pain. It's valid.
It's gonna be ok.

Today I wanna talk about impostor syndrome.
About feeling like a monster when in reality your not.
"I'm an as***le" followed by something that's not the opinion of an as***le.

If your like me, you feel like your an as***le, or like your a monster, every time you set a hard boundary, and enforce that boundary.

Your not an as***le, your not a monster, your a human being that hasn't had access to appropriate boundaries.
Things like parents gaslighting you, lying to you.
Things like bosses playing off your kindness and getting upset when you can't do what they ask.

Upset because you can't satisfy that inner people pleaser.
Whatever the reason you may have for feeling like an as***le when your not, just know
Your anger doesn't make you a monster or an as***le.

If your like me, you've spent the better part of your life oppressed, and when you found freedom, the oppressors tried to play victim.
You grew up never wanting to make people upset, or hurt, and always did your best to help where you could.
And the oppressors took advantage of you.
You finally broke down and said no, and that makes you feel bad.

I wish I could say don't feel bad and have you heal.
But it ain't that easy.
You gotta look inward, I can't heal you,
only you can heal you.
And that takes time and effort.

But I can tell you where to start,
positive affirmations.
Every time you are about to call yourself something, and put yourself down,
don't.

Instead say what you need to say without putting yourself down.
And when your in a tight spot, say positive things.

The change won't be instant,
but it will happen.

Stick to your convictions and speak out even when your uncomfortable.
Don't put yourself down,
and don't let yourself be silent.

I recently went through a phase where I leaned into "I'm an as***le" and "I'm a bully"
And it made me realize something.
Calling out racists,
calling out homophobes,
calling out transphobes,
Doesn't make me a bad guy.
Giving them the hate they have given me and mine for years back, and speaking their language, doesn't make me like them.

Because im standing for other people and their freedom, I'm standing for myself and my freedom.
I'm not hiding behind ignorance and justifying hate.
I'm speaking the only language hateful people understand, with the intent to burn empathy into their very soul, so they will put down their hate and leave people alone.
That doesn't make me an as***le.

I had some guy call me a hero mockingly, and it made me realize something,
I'm not a hero, and I'm not a villain.
I'm just a dude that's fed up with the state of the world.

I realize this is sorta a long sermon, and it's rambling a lot (was gonna say a little but the auto correct called my ass out 😭🤣)

If you learn anything from this sermon, learn this.

Empathy doesn't make you a monster.
Standing for others doesn't make you a monster.
Boundaries don't make you a monster.
Speaking the same language as your enemies doesn't make you a monster.

It makes you a human being.

Goodnight everyone,
I love you all,
see you around

-pastor briar

11/29/2022

Today's sermon is a spontaneous one, not connected to current events within my life.

Today we are gonna be talking about being touch starved as well as the source and implications it has.

So, haven't made a sermon in a while, frankly I've been disillusioned with humanity for a few months.
Not gonna apologize for that. But I will pick up where I left off before my life fell apart.
Sorta.

What is being touch starved?
As a human being we need physical contact as well as healthy social interaction.
Most people don't realize how important regular social contact is until it's to late.
Touch starved is when you lack this important part of your life.

How can you tell if your touch starved?
Unfortunately the best way to tell happens after your already starving.
If every time someone comes in contact with you it becomes a s*xual thought, or becomes emotionally charged beyond the situation.
It can also get to a point of rejection, where touch becomes repulsive, but when you find yourself around things like pillows you find yourself hugging them.

It is important to note that not everyone who exhibits these symptoms are touch starved.
Oftentimes trauma can produce things like uncomfortable contact, rejection, and safety pillows.
Many things can exhibit these symptoms, self awareness is key, but so is having people who know you well.

What does healthy physical contact look like?
Between friends this can look like
rough housing
"Hanging" off a friend's shoulder
Hugging
High fives
Pats on the back

Are just a handful of examples

Between coworkers it may look like
Handshakes
High fives
Taps
Ect

Healthy contact is oftentimes not s*xual in nature.
It's also shockingly hard to define.

Social starvation is allot like touch starvation.
And can often share symptoms, as well as happen congruently.

The key difference between touch starvation and social starvation comes down to physical contact.

Social starvation is when a person lacks healthy social interactions.
This can be anything from a respectful debate
Or genuine conversation
To things like boundaries and work topics,
Or open discussion

Isolation can create lots of bad habits in a very short amount of time.
And allot like touch starved, the inability to practice certain health social skills may be caused by another source.

Remedying touch starvation is a difficult and lengthy process that oftentimes requires someone close.
It requires a firm set of boundaries as well as time.
Much like food, if you heal to quickly you may reject the remedy.
Slow, steady, and gently.
A s*xual partner is often the best place to look to start the process, it provides a quick and strong bond for a short amount of time, assuming healthy s*xual practice is used, the aftercare and cuddling puts a quick stop to the decline while offering a positive stimulant to encourage further interaction. From here romance can prove a more long term source of healthy contact, things like cuddling, hand holding, kissing, s*x, and general play are all healthy and can encourage healing.

Touch starvation requires a slow, steady and gentle approach.

Social starvation requires an understanding, calm, and athoritiv approach.
Oftentimes online interaction with someone of an apposing view can be the strongest source of social interaction, but not necessarily a healthy source.
Friends and family can be a good health source so long as a healthy amount of dissimilation is present. If everyone holds the same ideas, and they refuse to listen to outside sources of information reasonably, odds are good you've found the source of the social starvation, so be careful.

If your reading this sermon and your unsure, try giving memebers of your family a hug out of the blue, and see how they react, or if it makes you uncomfortable.
If they are apprehensive, uncomfortable, or generally unwilling, odds are good they are facing touch starvation.
The same applies to you if you feel these feelings.

Give it a try, give em a hug. What's the harm in hugging a family member?
Why so uncomfortable? Just do it, not gonna kill ya I promise.
Lmk how all that hugging went, and if ya noticed anything while ya did.
How did you feel after the hug, did the family members mood improve? Ask questions, they help haha

11/29/2022

Quick update, life still sucks ass.
Look forward to sermon soon.

10/03/2022

So, I want to explain my absence, and tell y'all the realizations I came to.
I'm not gonna get into the nitty gritty of what happened, maybe one day when this is all over I will share my story.
To say I'm traumatized would be an understatement.
My trust and faith in humanity tanked pretty hard.
However until the situation is resolved I'm not gonna be able to vent about this.

So let's start with what's changed.
My faith in humanity is gone, my s*xuality has changed from pan to gay, and I'd sooner trust a cactus not to be prickly than people.

This is a personal vent, all I have said is my opinions, Hedonism is a religion about love, compassion, and respect of one's self and others. My trauma is not reflective of hedonism, but of myself.

09/20/2022

Been a while but here's a post for ya

08/05/2022

Todays sermon is about religion.

So if your someone who has been traumatized by religion, here's your trigger warning ⚠️.
Growing up, I was a pastors kid, grew up with pentecostals, both my step mom and my dad were pastors. Both my grandparents on my step mom's side were pastors, and they lived with us.

And over the years I've went my rounds with the trauma that caused.
But it left me with some of the nuggets of gold I'm gonna share with y'all today.

One of the first things I learned was that Christianity is a religion of judgment.
"Your going to hell if you do" x, y, z.
But this judgment runs way deeper than this.
They do this s**t, where they will look down their nose at you, judge you, then say it's not judgment.
Fast food workers are "lazy and unskilled"
Trans people "are just pretending" or "sick"
People on the spectrum "are sick" or "stupid"

And this list goes on and on.

But they refuse to admit that it's judgment, and if they do admit it, they act like it's their holy crusade.

The next big thing I learned as a kid was how not to judge.
That for everything we see there is something we probably aren't seeing.
Things aren't black and white. And usually they are some shade of grey.
I learned this by not doing what my parents would do.
If my meal was messed up, I'd still ask to have it fixed, but I wouldn't berate or belittle anyone for it.
When someone made a mistake, I learned to forgive, and to relax, its just a mistake.
I learned to respect people, even if I didn't understand them.

And I learned all that by being the opposite of what my family was.

Judge not, least ye be judged.
Why is that important?
I'll tell ya why, and Christianity is figuring this out reeeeal hard rn.
Because the judgment isn't from God. It's from the judged.
Yeah, people attack Christianity, and it's no secret why.
Because nobody wants to be told they are going to hell for love.
By someone who doesn't even read the book they are cramming down your throat.

It gets better tho, people are realizing that Christianity is toxic. And more and more kids leave their parents to become adults, and they check Christianity at the door.

The freedom of religion, is the freedom to follow or not follow any religion you choose.
You can't have that when religion is the one making the laws.
Our morals don't come from a book, they come from common empathy and understanding.
That's why I started this church, because where Christianity wants to make it illegal to be anything but like them, I wanna make it legal to be you, regardless of my own identity.

This is the part of the sermon where I look for votes, should I start making video sermons or keep it to txt?

08/05/2022

He is absolutely right

08/04/2022

I'm back 😜 the pastor returns ❤️

07/05/2022

Bout to be on post ban.
Be back in 30 days

07/04/2022

So, as some of you know, its the 4th of July here in the states.
A day that is supposed to celebrate freedom.

I cant celebrate the state of our nation.
We are not free.
Our bodies are not our own.

Your not supposed to be slaves.
But you are.
Forced into poverty to keep you working hard.

You cant marry who you want.
You cant even have s*x without someone trying to take that from you.

You cant choose your identity here.
Not without someone trying to use the law to get in your way.

You cant be black in our nation without someone telling you you dont belong.

There are more. So many more issues.

But the worst part of it all,
its not just random americans.
Its people with power.
People who were never even elected.
We are a democracy's worst nightmare.
An oligarchy.

We could rise right now, take our government apart stone by stone, brick by brick, bone by bone.
And the oligarchy would just keep chugging along like nothing happened.
Because they run the show. Not us, and not democracy.

Welcome to paradise, just not your paradise.

07/04/2022

We have some new followers, and I wanna make sure the church welcomes yall :)

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