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IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?
RE: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?
I find mindful action is sometimes useful in circumventing despair. When I'm paying rapt attention to something that I'm working on, my attention goes there instead of into a morass of emotions.
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RE: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?
(November 14, 2018 at 4:06 pm)Astreja Wrote: I find mindful action is sometimes useful in circumventing despair.  When I'm paying rapt attention to something that I'm working on, my attention goes there instead of into a morass of emotions.

I agree. When I get it together a bit more, I want to learn about mindfulness meditation. 

When I had breast cancer at 39, it was one of the most stressful times of my life. I've always been an introvert with only a few friends, and I had no local family, so there wasn't much of a support network. A local organization for young women diagnosed with breast cancer was just ramping up, and I went regularly and helped set up the office. When I was there, I didn't think of my worries so much.
I said to the sun, tell me about the Big Bang.
The sun said, 'It hurts to become.'

~Andrea Gibson
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RE: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?
(November 14, 2018 at 11:31 am)Huggy74 Wrote:
(November 14, 2018 at 8:22 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Yup and confirmed at 12. Got a problem with that?

No problem at all, just wondering how a baby knows what repentance is, or even what it has to repent for...

Ask the RCC it is their superstition. Of course, you conveniently skipped over the confirmation at 12.
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RE: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?
(November 15, 2018 at 8:39 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote:
(November 14, 2018 at 11:31 am)Huggy74 Wrote: No problem at all, just wondering how a baby knows what repentance is, or even what it has to repent for...

Ask the RCC it is their superstition. Of course, you conveniently skipped over the confirmation at 12.

Scroll down: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/ar...s2c1a1.htm
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RE: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?
(November 15, 2018 at 8:39 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote:
(November 14, 2018 at 11:31 am)Huggy74 Wrote: No problem at all, just wondering how a baby knows what repentance is, or even what it has to repent for...

Ask the RCC it is their superstition. Of course, you conveniently skipped over the confirmation at 12.

Confirmation is also Roman Catholic church doctrine...

I didn't skip over it, it just has nothing to do with scripture. Children don't need to be baptized until they reach an age where they become accountable for their actions.


For example when the Hebrews came out of Egypt and refused to take the promised land as they were instructed to do, only Joshua, Caleb (who wanted to go take the land) and everyone ages 16 and under were allowed to go into the promised land.


Quote:Matthew 18:10
Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
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RE: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?
(November 15, 2018 at 3:27 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:
(November 15, 2018 at 8:39 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Ask the RCC it is their superstition. Of course, you conveniently skipped over the confirmation at 12.

Confirmation is also Roman Catholic church doctrine...
And?

(November 15, 2018 at 3:27 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: I didn't skip over it, it just has nothing to do with scripture. Children don't need to be baptized until they reach an age where they become accountable for their actions.
Of coyurse you did. You simply trying to wriggle out of the corner you painted yourself into. Typical christian dishonesty.


(November 15, 2018 at 3:27 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: For example when the Hebrews came out of Egypt and refused to take the promised land as they were instructed to do, only Joshua, Caleb (who wanted to go take the land) and everyone ages 16 and under were allowed to go into the promised land.
That never happened.

(November 15, 2018 at 3:27 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:
Quote:Matthew 18:10
Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
The answer to life the universe and everything is 42. - Douglas Adams

Pointless quotes are pointless.
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RE: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?
(November 15, 2018 at 5:52 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote:
(November 15, 2018 at 3:27 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Confirmation is also Roman Catholic church doctrine...
And?

(November 15, 2018 at 3:27 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: I didn't skip over it, it just has nothing to do with scripture. Children don't need to be baptized until they reach an age where they become accountable for their actions.
Of coyurse you did. You simply trying to wriggle out of the corner you painted yourself into. Typical christian dishonesty.


(November 15, 2018 at 3:27 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: For example when the Hebrews came out of Egypt and refused to take the promised land as they were instructed to do, only Joshua, Caleb (who wanted to go take the land) and everyone ages 16 and under were allowed to go into the promised land.
That never happened.


The answer to life the universe and everything is 42. - Douglas Adams

Pointless quotes are pointless.

Let's see..

In trying to determine if infant baptism is a requirement, biblical scripture is pointless? Must I remind you that YOU'RE the one that brought up that you were baptized as a baby? The point is that the Catholic doctrine you were raised in (specifically concerning baptism) isn't supported by biblical scripture, regardless of your personal feelings.
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RE: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?
-the voice of common douchery speaks.....
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?
(November 15, 2018 at 7:56 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:
(November 15, 2018 at 5:52 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: And?

Of coyurse you did. You simply trying to wriggle out of the corner you painted yourself into. Typical christian dishonesty.


That never happened.


The answer to life the universe and everything is 42. - Douglas Adams

Pointless quotes are pointless.

Let's see..

In trying to determine if infant baptism is a requirement, biblical scripture is pointless? Must I remind you that YOU'RE the one that brought up that you were baptized as a baby? The point is that the Catholic doctrine you were raised in (specifically concerning baptism) isn't supported by biblical scripture, regardless of your personal feelings.

1.3 billion catholics can't be wrong.
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RE: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?
(November 16, 2018 at 6:53 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote:
(November 15, 2018 at 7:56 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Let's see..

In trying to determine if infant baptism is a requirement, biblical scripture is pointless? Must I remind you that YOU'RE the one that brought up that you were baptized as a baby? The point is that the Catholic doctrine you were raised in (specifically concerning baptism) isn't supported by biblical scripture, regardless of your personal feelings.

1.3 billion catholics can't be wrong.
Yet you're no longer Catholic...
Thinking
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