U
Tell me. My wife would agree with you. Basically all my hangups in life revolve around what I was brainwashed into believing as a pre-teen/teenager.Mistress Masie said:That is the part of christianity that REALLY rubs me the wrong way.
Something else my wife harps on me about -- and rightly so. I've got this whacked out idea that I should be more than human, better than humanity's flaws...an idea I doubt I came up with all by myself. In order be alive, you need to live life and in order to live life, you need to be ALIVE -- not trying to be beyond your life/means....if that doesn't make sense, I blame lack of sleep.They try to convince you to deny your humanity.
That's one of the best ways I've heard it put. Since I deal a lot with computers, my response is always, we're the illogical in the logical, but it's very true. Always searching, learning as much as we can, once you start reducing the number of ways you can ask questions, you greatly reduce the chances of finding the answers. When we remember that we're here to be here and not to be controlled, either willingly or not, life is much better.We are spiritual beings-having a human experience.
Amen...so to speak. When it's to the point where you have to buy your way into a welcoming community, then it's no longer unconditional love, is it? The fear of God is what keeps most folk from sinning, or causes them to freak out because they sinned. It's not that they know what they did is right or wrong, but it's because they're afraid they're going to get the nosebleed seats in heaven, if not a trip to hell... "To thine one self be true..."They use fear & emotional blackmail & call it love.
Oh, definitely. His mother was "SAVED" by chunking $10K into this jack-ass's pockets. That gives her the right to sacrifice an open mind, a roaming intellect, a spirit in search of a direction? Just because the mother found something that was right for HER doesn't translate to it being right for anyone else, and subjecting her own son to that kind of mental anguish...jeez.That poor 15 year old kid.........Seriously, his parents should be arrested for abuse.
Sometimes, quite the opposite. The most spiritual people I knew were "laymen" and I know quite a few pastors who have almost lost their connection because of aspects of their churches that drive them to distraction. I guess it's very hard to have a strong spiritual connection when you're trying to babysit members of your church who are arguing amongst themselves, etc... Personally, I think this is why I'm a Solitary.And just because you are a pastor does not mean that your connection to Spirit is any better or greater than anyone else's.
That's OK! Despite what some one the board think, this kind of thing is good for the person venting, the person reading (differing perspectives are what make the world go around) and the world at large. If you pent all this up, you'd explode and that would make a mess, now wouldn't it.OK, I am done ranting for the moment.
Pyrus said:Do you exist for any reason other than to stir up shit, dude? It seems like you spend all your time finding a point a lot of people agree upon and then disagreeing with it.
But I'll assume you're joking; if so, then it's pretty damn funny.
Usually, it's quite the opposite, unless it's a knee-jerk reaction. If I disagree with something it's usually because it goes against what I believe, and if you don't understand something well enough to agree/disagree, then it also means you probably don't understand what you believe well enough... or something like that...Mistress Masie said:Just because someone disagrees with something does not mean they do not understand it.
Fighting to save your soul $1 at a time. :Spin: Why these folks don't put their "spiritual warfare" strategies to work doing something useful like pointing wayword spirits to their unfinished business so they can move on, or something like that is beyond me. I guess it's because of a preoccupation with statistics or something -- "I saved 47.5 unwashed peasants this week!" "Oh, yeah? I saved 65.314362445 unwashed peasants!!"Spirtual warfare. Now THERE is a catch phrase.
Wow...man... So, if they were poor WITH kids, he'd take the kids as a down payment?Ihreil Junkenstein said:Bob larsons hell= poor people. With no kids.