The Absolute Truth

[Silver]

I want to be a saint

You certainly will not achieve that by proselytizing on an internet forum.

[jstrodel]

Why not? Is not the seat of the soul in wisdom?

[The Grand Nudger]

The seat of the what? There you go again.

[jstrodel]

Isn't the will governed by wisdom? Why would the internet be different from any other kind of information, in providing direction for the soul to apprehend.

What should this be directed to? Should it be for selfish desires, or for holiness. I think it should be for holiness.

[The Grand Nudger]

Anyone up for a heaping helping of word salad?

[Silver]

What should this be directed to? Should it be for selfish desires, or for holiness. I think it should be for holiness.

Everyone knows the internet is for free porn.

[jstrodel]

What a foolish thing to think about, whether the internet should be aimed at holiness or selfish desires. How about another Star Trek meme?

Man, what a bunch of idiots those Christians are.

At least you know what side you are on, underneath all the irony and laughs, you know what you have chosen. At least you know.

[Darkstar]

What a foolish thing to think about, whether the internet should be aimed at holiness or selfish desires.

The internet is aimed at something? Mass information availablibility, maybe, but no particular topic. You can find anything on the internet...so you can get both holiness and selfish desires, and a whole lot of other stuff.

[Angrboda]

It is not repressive to demand the body to obey the soul, it is repressive to let the body command the soul.

Very true. For many years I suffered from a variety of obsessions and compulsions (including video games) that were affecting almost every part of my life in the negative way. No secular approach ever seemed to abate the problems. Once I fully understood the Victory of Christ, I stopped being a slave to them and they have all but gone away.

I would say that this is more particular of a way of being or thinking, and doesn't necessarily include Christ or even a god. This path comes in many forms, and when it includes the supposition of a god, the god being a part of that path may be purely incidental, and not in any way the cause of the nature of the change.

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He already is. He just waits until someone replies to his monologue before he continues it. Nothing we say actually gets through to the guy.

That says more about you than it does about him.

No, it does not. But your saying this likely does say something about you.

[Whateverist]

Man, what a bunch of idiots those Christians are.

Now you're just being too tough on yourself. Christians don't have to be idiots. Look at Bill Moyers, one of the wisest people on television and a Baptist too. Idiocy is entirely elective and neither being a Christian nor an atheist will guarantee who is an idiot. Generally speaking, he who yells the loudest that his own wisdom is infallible will turn out to be the bigger fool.