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RE: My story: becoming christian because of a sickness tricking me
March 10, 2014 at 9:02 am
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2014 at 9:02 am by Faith No More.)
That sucks and all, but telling people to "Feel my damn pain" is awfully presumptuous. You don't know the people here. You don't know what anyone's been through. There may be people here whose experiences were even more painful than yours.
Mental health issues are challenging, and it's going to take work to live a normal life. But one of the keys to dealing with adversity is to avoid the "why me" mindset. The pity part will get you nowhere.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: My story: becoming christian because of a sickness tricking me
March 10, 2014 at 9:06 am
(March 10, 2014 at 9:02 am)Faith No More Wrote: That sucks and all, but telling people to "Feel my damn pain" is awfully presumptuous. You don't know the people here. You don't know what anyone's been through. There may be people here whose experiences were even more painful than yours.
Mental health issues are challenging, and it's going to take work to live a normal life. But one of the keys to dealing with adversity is to avoid the "why me" mindset. The pity part will get you nowhere.
Will there be dip?
"Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken."
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RE: My story: becoming christian because of a sickness tricking me
March 10, 2014 at 9:10 am
(March 10, 2014 at 4:01 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: C'mon Aractus, that's not fair.
It
was funny, though!
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: My story: becoming christian because of a sickness tricking me
March 10, 2014 at 9:37 am
(March 10, 2014 at 9:06 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Will there be dip?
Yes, but it will taste like tears and self-commiseration.
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RE: My story: becoming christian because of a sickness tricking me
March 10, 2014 at 1:46 pm
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lol you guys are funny. I enjoy this place. I wasn't really looking for sympathy.. I was simply saying that it's the trippiest conversion story I've ever heard. Who wouldn't believe? I had to believe in christianity. Who doesn't feel some sympathy there? lol. I had no choice but to believe in CHRIST-INSANITY.
I hate the bible. I love that do as thy whilst stuff.
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RE: My story: becoming christian because of a sickness tricking me
March 10, 2014 at 5:29 pm
I didn't think you were overdoing the sympathy plea degenerate.
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RE: My story: becoming christian because of a sickness tricking me
March 19, 2014 at 3:54 pm
nice to meet you.. i still struggle a bit too. i cant remember ANYTHING.. so whenever a christian starts spouting shit about micro macro crap, i go, "oh shit, what did i forget!".. lol they screw with my mind..
I hate the bible. I love that do as thy whilst stuff.
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RE: My story: becoming christian because of a sickness tricking me
March 19, 2014 at 4:12 pm
I can relate. I, too, have schizo-affective disorder. While I don't consider my illness to be responsible for my religious beliefs, I understand how hard it can be to know what to believe and why if you have such an illness.