AG - I've heard you out by reading extensively on your own forum. Its not all that much to be honest - you say the same stuff as here and my reading skills are fine.
Uh, wait... why are you reading extensively on MY forum, Q?? Especially since you say I'm saying the same things here? Man, I have asked you before, many times, and I'll ask you again: what are you LOOKING for? He isn't ON an Internet forum, luv! I mean, c'mon... you must KNOW this!
And why are you reading incognito? No one cares if you come visit... except maybe you. And now that you repeated that you DO that... why all the hide-and-go-seek? What are YOU afraid of? Your friends seeing you the other forum? Everyone knows you're an atheist, Q. At least, you say you are...
You aren't special.
BOO-YOW! I've been saying THAT for years... and years... and years... now, too. Because I don't think I am. But apparently YOU do. WHY??
You aren't a new unanswerable force.
This is true. I ain't no mystery or enigma. I ain't no better or more special than you. Yet, you still have questions re me that aren't answered... for you... or by you. Which is why you secretly visit our site. C'mon, Q - at least be honest with yourself... even if you can't be honest with the rest of us.
Your a bunch of devout individuals having a bit of shared bliss and all power to you.
You do know what you sound like there, don't you? The high-schooler who didn't get invited to the after party?
Its been done for thousands of years and it will be done in the future.
Yet, you are having difficulty living with that truth... and so believe you alone are going to be the "one" who changes it.
You're a Joseph Smith, a Bhudda, a Thiota , the local street preacher , a Paul etc.
Sticks and stones (although, if I were someone else, I might actually be flattered that you think that highly of me - I mean, some of these went down in history. Me? Nahhhh... I will either be alive with my Lord returns and pass from one glory to the next... or die before he returns and no one will ever know or think of me again... until New Jerusalem reigns. I look forward to either...).
I understand that its painful to be contradicted and to be told you could be causing harm.
Why? Have you experienced that? I don't like being told I could cause harm, no, because it's not based on truth... but that folks DO tell me doesn't cause me pain. Well, not me directly. I feel the pain of the one saying it, though... because fear IS painful. THAT I do know...
I see the pain in the LDS missionaries eyes as I disabuse them of false ideas and premises and point out the cost of being wrong in wasted hope, faith and behavioural changes.
Well, that's understandable but very sad, IMHO, because you SHOULD see JOY. As least to the extent such ones realize that may have been set free. That you DON'T see joy is telling, though. I would wager the "pain" you see, then, is just as much related to their fear... of not knowing "where" to go next (and, unfortunately, you don't yet possess the knowledge to tell that there IS no "where"... but only a "whom" to go away to)... as it is their anger at having been lied to.
Anyhow - night all:)
Night... and peace to you, Q. Truly.
A slave of Christ,
SA