(November 30, 2017 at 5:27 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Maybe it's my lack of resolve to obey you --- you can't obey something that doesn't exist
Maybe it's my ingratitude towards your favors --- imaginary friends can't grant favors
Maybe it's my apathy towards the oppressed
Maybe it's my arrogance that I keep
Maybe it's my lack of fear thinking I am entitled to safety
Maybe it's my belittling the evil of my sins --- evil against others exists, evil against a deity does not
Maybe it's that I value myself still more than you --- you are a lot more valuable than an imaginary friend. If you are speaking of other humans this is valid.
Maybe it's that I have become too at peace with the darkness of my soul and place. -- souls don't exist -- substitute psyche and this has merit
Maybe it's my pretending that hell does not surround me when I see that it does. -- take this one up with a good therapist
Maybe it's my wasting time despite all the wisdom and knowledge I have of the path I must follow -- ?? If this is "not devoting every minute to my imaginary friend" -- don't throw away the only life you have.
Maybe it's sheer lack of love towards the family of the reminder
Maybe it's something viler than all this, something even eviler.
But I am tired of what I've become and want to change.
So do help me change, and help me through family, friends, and your guidance that you appointed and brought forth to mankind.
And do not leave me to myself alone. -- Reach out to those friends and family members. They actually exist.
This sounds like a whole lot of religious hymns where the worshipper bemoans not having given enough, not being pure enough, not being worthy enough of the love of their imaginary friend. "Take my heart, take my mind, take my hands, take my feet, speak through me, use me, prove to me that you exist". If this is original though it does show an impressive level of introspection.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein