(May 12, 2016 at 12:46 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: First: Are you actually making an excuse for why I was beaten and molested by family members?No, I thought I was clear. I am saying if those things happened and you thought God was meant to 'protect you' because you thought "God loves you" means God will always look out for you, and because He did not you lost faith because of it. You Are the exact type of Zeus/Genie worshiper I was speaking about.
You had a very narrow minded view of God and when God did not come through you abandoned God.
Quote:Second of all - it was my mother's third husband that beat me. My father was too upstanding of a man to ever dare put me through that. Thirdly - the man that beat me stood 6 foot 2 inches tall, was a large, heavy man and the belt he used put welts the size of half dollars on my ass because the holes had to be reinforced with metal grommets to hold up the pants on his fat ass. He didn't beat my sister. He didn't beat his two daughters. He beat ME. On a daily basis. I was a small child compared to his size. What right does a man that size have beating a child of 10 who weighed less than 70 pounds? He was at least 350 pounds.Maybe this is the reason you all think I am a sociopath, because your 'story' elicites no emotional response from me. Rather I see it as a weak attempt to curry favor from your peers and to turn the tide of the conversation in your favor. The reason I feel nothing for you is because it does not change the truth of what I said. This discussion is not about tugging at heart strings or baiting a conversation to make someone else look cold or heartless. It is about a failed understanding of God. And whether you were beaten like a mixed race korean 'sicky/disappointing bastard' red headed child of a fat man, it does not change the facts of the matter. The facts are immutable, the rest is just dressing. You had a broken understanding of who god is and it carried over to your adult life.
You can't fix what happened. However you can do something about your broken perception of God.
Quote:I was a child when these things happened. My beliefs then were nothing like what they are now. Obviously. Do not insult my intelligence by attempting to question my thoughts as a child and comparing them to my thoughts as an adult."When I was a child I acted and thought like a child, but when I grew up I put away childish things."
Whether you are, or did think like that makes no difference to what I have said. as What I said, is speaking to the reason you currently do not believe in God per your own words.
Quote:You have a lot of nerve Dripshit. I mostly tolerate your bullshit, but you have crossed a line and that is unacceptable.Then perhaps you shouldn't draw lines you don't want crossed.
This thread is about why people don't believe. If your story takes you to a place you can not openly discuss then why share it? Is it your opinion that I personally do a psych evaluation on everyone, and tailor everything I say to make sure I do not cross any of you?
Here's a news flash: The things I do not want discussed... I do not share. The things I do share are completely open for discussion, dissection, mutilation by you 'good people.' For instance I shared my wife's drug addiction, and in that thread and some of you 'good people' used that instance to try and sow doubt and distrust between us, as a way to try and manipulate the topic or distract me from my objectives. which again is fine as that was my choice to share.
I say that to say, if you are going to share something then you need to be ready to have it 'examined' harshly. If your not there, and you share anyway then may I suggest it is you who has 'crossed a line.'
