by Crumpet 29 Replies latest jw experiences
No offense taken, here. Just offering a reality check to a few voiced opinions.
You're a special young lady. I'd hate to see some of your more extreme reactions, to the difficulties life has thrown at you, solidify into a bitterness that impacts your ability to interact with others in a civil and tolerant manner
I don't mean to insult anyone, who does like to indulge in this escape route from real life, but I regard it as effective and purposeful as spending evenings playing computer games - it can be a harmless pasttime as long as it does not become obsession. I certainly wouldn't advocate turning to Elder Scrolls Oblivion or Second Life or Gears of War as entire strategies for overcoming a relationship breakdown anymore than I would Christianity or Islam.
Oblivion rocks! I must be the slowest gamer everrrr...I just beat that game a week or two ago--and I got that game a month after it launched!
I think I spent like 178 hours playing that game....!
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I continue to appreciate your expressing your thoughts and feelings so openly and genuinely, and then to discuss them with others whose responses all vary wildly according to their own thoughts and feelings, without compromising your integrity.
I think whoever's outreach triggered this thread had every right to do so and I appreciate their caring enough to share with you what has benefited them. And I likewise think you had every right to respond as you have, and I am glad we can all talk about it according to our own perspectives.
I humbly submit that God is the Real, the only ultimate reality, and we are all each other's imaginary friends
~Merry
p.s. love ya tij
If I turned to God every time something in my life didn't work out I'd never get anything done. I'd be praying all the time instead of getting off my ass and resolving things. I'd likely be living in an underpass or ditch. I don't see how a belief or disbelief in God has anything to do with it. Praying never made money materialize on anyone's kitchen table. It never resulted in job offers or new relationships. It doesn't remove physical or emotional pain. Whether God exists or not, praying never solved my problems. Getting off my ass did.
Whether someone wants a relationship or a one night stand, staying home and praying isn't going to make it happen. Bars, parks, or supermarkets are much better. If all else fails, a fast internet connection and a good right hand can help.
W
If I turned to God every time something in my life didn't work out I'd never get anything done. I'd be praying all the time instead of getting off my ass and resolving things. I'd likely be living in an underpass or ditch. I don't see how a belief or disbelief in God has anything to do with it. Praying never made money materialize on anyone's kitchen table. It never resulted in job offers or new relationships. It doesn't remove physical or emotional pain. Whether God exists or not, praying never solved my problems. Getting off my ass did.
Whether someone wants a relationship or a one night stand, staying home and praying isn't going to make it happen. Bars, parks, or supermarkets are much better. If all else fails, a fast internet connection and a good right hand can help.
W
Oh honey you crack me up so so much I cant say. You deprive the rest of humanity by not sharing your humour more regularly!
LT - valid point - I am most certainly getting a bit bitter, but I figure if I hang out with the sweet and light crew a bit more then I may sweeten up and some of your super qualities will rub off on me. R Crusoe - thank you for defending my right to expression without adhering to anyone else's rules, but there's no harm in tact and I need to sprinkle some on my knees when they get a jerk reaction! MerryMags - you are sweet and gentle and I have already approached the individual who sparked my intolerant-rant and thanked them for their kindness and apologised if I have offended them too. Sirnose - but did you do all the side mission - they are the most fun! I've only done one Gate in oblivion and have played maybe 200 hours. Unfortunately the console isnt mine and I had to leave it with ex Mr C. YOU CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW BITTER THAT MAKES ME! (I'm consoling my lack of appropriate console by regressing to Morrowind - which is crap by comparison.) Incidentally it may not have seemed much of a compliment to liken religion to these games, but I actually really really like these games.
Crumpet, you seem to serve as a lightning rod on this forum - I notice that people often respond to your posts with vehemence. If I understand you correctly, you are saying you don't care what other people believe, you just don't want to listen to it. That's how I feel, too. This forum focuses pretty narrowly on JWs, but I believe that all religions are dangerous, especially the three that arose in the middle east.
I enjoy reading your posts about your break-up with your former partner. I am going through a pretty yucky time myself, and getting a divorce because of it, so reading your frank expressions of your feelings has been very helpful to me.
well, maybe "enjoy" isn't the right word - I look forward to reading your posts because it helps me get through my own problems at the moment.
New guy says, God or no God, seems like Morals went right out the window. Drop God, is one thing, but that doesn't mean give up decency and respect for yourself. ( the way I see it)
sure I'm gonna get "female dogged" at for this one.
Don't hate me!
oh well, you know honey, it takes all kinds. You get to run your life, I get to run mine and that's the way it should be. No hate from this quarter.
Crumpet, you seem to serve as a lightning rod on this forum - I notice that people often respond to your posts with vehemence. If I understand you correctly, you are saying you don't care what other people believe, you just don't want to listen to it. That's how I feel, too. This forum focuses pretty narrowly on JWs, but I believe that all religions are dangerous, especially the three that arose in the middle east.I enjoy reading your posts about your break-up with your former partner. I am going through a pretty yucky time myself, and getting a divorce because of it, so reading your frank expressions of your feelings has been very helpful to me.
well, maybe "enjoy" isn't the right word - I look forward to reading your posts because it helps me get through my own problems at the moment
Hortensia - i really really appreciate that. I do post very frankly and wear my heart on my sleeve which does make me a bit vulnerable, but its good for everyone to see that I am not perfect - nearly but not quite! LOL! I'm sorry to hear you are having a yucky time of it. I do hope we get to exchange experiences at an apostafest one day.
Notaness - I agree I certainly wouldn't want to lose respect for myself - its taken a while to build it, having be thoroughly destroyed by my religious experience from birth until late twenties. I take it you feel that the biblical view of one partner for life is the only moral way? or maybe you think 5 is okay? It would be better for me to lie about my true desires and repress them until I die, rather than share the abundance of my own form of love with those I bond with and be honest and true to all? I don't hate you for your opinion - if it works for you then lovely, but right now that isn't what I want to do. I am a single person with no children and no responsibilities except to support myself and do no harm to others.
Was Jesus main command not "do unto others as you would have done to yourself"? Well that's what I plan on doing. Buckets of it, until I get tired and want to settle down for a bit.
I doubt that the imaginary friend idea has come from a professional; I can't believe that somebody could take it seriously. How can it be healthy? How about a battery-operated buddy...
* penny drops *
Ohhhh.... GOD the imaginary friend. Mmmm.
Like I said, there's nothing like a battery-operated buddy.
