At Flicker--
I like your list of things to do; it resembles something I wrote a while back called "The Rules".
But as to confessing. To whom? Certainly, not the clergy ... they're just functioning as intel agents in that role.
The conclusion I have come to is that is okay to confess to one's self. Be true to yourself and make yourself speak the confession of wrong having been done as well as acknowledgment that it -was- not a good thing to do or say. That goes a long way towards self-correction of unworthy behavior and speech.
Cheers--
I like your list of things to do; it resembles something I wrote a while back called "The Rules".
But as to confessing. To whom? Certainly, not the clergy ... they're just functioning as intel agents in that role.
The conclusion I have come to is that is okay to confess to one's self. Be true to yourself and make yourself speak the confession of wrong having been done as well as acknowledgment that it -was- not a good thing to do or say. That goes a long way towards self-correction of unworthy behavior and speech.
Cheers--
Fire In The Hole