Tators, your name is familiar in the grand blur of ML people I recognize. You are obviously normal and don't post much that is appalling/shocking/adversarial; those are the people that tend to stick in my brain as individuals.
I'll try to post more, though! I used the exodus as a chance to limit my Nest time, but I end up dicking around on other sites instead. Oops.
That's good to hear. On Saturday I visited a winery in Grapevine and apparently they have a weekly girls' night event. I figure my best bet is to start socializing with other functioning alcoholics.
LTP, WTF did you do to yourself?? Why do you need crutches?
I've been busy at work, but I just got back from a four day weekend and don't want to work today.
A four day weekend visiting my *cringes* boyfriend. So that's happening. And I might be moving to Dallas to live with him by the end of the year if things continue on this way, hence this post. I am not a huge fan of Texas, but he's from here and agrees we can move back in like five years, so I think I can soldier through it. But EW TEXAS! I'll be drowning in Christian conservatives.
[quote author=fenton board=ml thread=9485 post=137051 time=1337882256He quite possibly mindfucked Abraham into almost killing his own kid.
By chance did you see Guilt: A Love Story by John Fugelsang? He brought up that story in the bible in his play. [/quote] No, but I am glad other people read that and aren't impressed by how much Abraham loved God and instead think, "What a piece of shit, you almost murdered your child! Isaac, GTFO of there, bro!"
I never understand the "find the right church for you" thing, and the idea of going based on your gut to find your beliefs is part of why I gave up. If God exists, it/she/he isn't defined by what I want it to be, which is how I defined God before. There is probably going to be some element or rule or reality that I think is bullshit or that I don't like. Who knows what it might be. Maybe God does hate gay people. If that's true, I'm OK being atheist and telling him to fuck off anyway.
But "I don't believe in a God who would...." is the most self-centered thing you can say. God does not give a fuck what you want him to be. He quite possibly mindfucked Abraham into almost killing his own kid. Maybe God is real and maybe he sucks. How would you know?
I don't believe in God. At least, I don't believe in a God that gives a shit about baptisms and stuff like that. I'm pretty sure if there is something larger out there a) we couldn't possibly comprehend it with our feeble brains.
This is where I'm at, and I guess this is agnostic, but I call myself atheist a lot. Because while I'm open to the possibility of a higher power, I think it's unlikely.
It was scary to admit that at first, and to acknowledge everything that came with that. Now, I'm so far removed from believing those things, I can't imagine trying to convince myself to accept the idea of it again, outside of a personal experience that proves otherwise.
I'm not scared, I'm happy, I'm still a good person (I think). I'm not missing anything I used to have in my life by not believing. Maybe I never really believed it in the first place? But I don't even necessarily want any kids I have to be raised with faith, since it never did anything for me. I don't think they'd be missing out.
I feel like I've read other posts from you in the past that made me think he was not stellar 100% of the time. This all doesn't sound like a temporary glitch, and you don't have any kids to worry about. Sex once a year?
I was just saying that it looks like they picked that name so they could be at the top.
OK, well this is not true.
Our identity has changed so much, it's nice to get back to our roots without having to refer to ourselves as AFBNEYSBCNRE, which is what happens fairly often.
Hey dummies, we used to be Advice from Brides. Well, half of us did. Then they changed our board name to Snarky Brides, which was disgusting. We requested Advice from Groomz at that time, but were denied. It's been our collective dream ever since.
No one gives a shit about being on top! I will bookmark my home board (whatever it's called) and navigate away from there when I feel like it anyway.