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Yeah, it's irrelevant. As one of my Psychology professors reminded us, "The worst criminal on the planet does not see a monster when they look in the mirror."
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
(October 10, 2017 at 9:20 am)MysticKnight Wrote: Why:
I prefer everything over God. I mean it. It is like God is the least important witness, that I don't care how he sees me, but care so much about how people who are too ignorant to judge me think of me.
I am a polytheist through and though, which is an injustice that cannot be forgiven.
I must free myself from other than him.
And of my evils, is how I am God's friend in the outward but his enemy in the inward.[...]
And of my evils, is how I talk the talk but don't walk the walk.
And of my evils, is how I see the oppressed but my heart hardly moves.
And of my evils, is how I belittle humans who are more honorable than I am and honor humans that are eviler than I am.
And of my evils, is how I have little resolve to save my soul and have little compassion for myself in that regard.
And of my evils, is how I hardly move to please and see God's beauty, though he is more beautiful and more worthy of being pleased than anything.
And of my evils, is how I turn away from the help of the Guide of time, every time I am helped.
And of my evils, is how I change favors to that of destructive condemnation.
And of my evils, is how I don't implement my wisdom.
And my evils, is having listen to a dark sinister sword that lead me to insanity and despair after that, and how no one despairs of God's spirit but a disbelieving people.
And of my evils is how much evils I have, but am still ignorant to.
And of my evils, is how little I truly regret in my heart my evil path.
And don't forget to add, that you're a dreadful bore, to boot. Or did you mention that? I drifted off after -like- three lines...
Also - while I'm picking on you - who did your hair for your avatar picture? Your little sister? Were you supposed to be a princess, or som'n'?
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
(October 10, 2017 at 1:55 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I don't yet, but I aspire to be one. I'm a work in progress.
I think you are. Why don't you think so?
I think I'm becoming one. It's all TL;DR really, but I have not always been going the right direction. Some of it may be attributable to mental illness, but not all. I did a lot of introspection and I didn't like what I saw.
I'm moving in the right direction now, I think. I don't want to think of myself as a "good person" until I'm closer to where I think that mark actually lies. I don't think of myself as a bad person - most of the time - just not quite there yet.
(October 9, 2017 at 6:51 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: By your own standards, do you consider yourself to be overall a good person?
Why or why not?
I consider myself a good person. But then Hitler thought what he was doing was hard but needed and by his own standards was a good person. So I think all anyone can really do is use the old, do as you would be done by, trope.
This doesn't work if you are a masochist.
(October 10, 2017 at 10:26 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(October 10, 2017 at 5:41 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I think you are. Why don't you think so?
I think I'm becoming one. It's all TL;DR really, but I have not always been going the right direction. Some of it may be attributable to mental illness, but not all. I did a lot of introspection and I didn't like what I saw.
I'm moving in the right direction now, I think. I don't want to think of myself as a "good person" until I'm closer to where I think that mark actually lies. I don't think of myself as a bad person - most of the time - just not quite there yet.
That's very respectable.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
October 10, 2017 at 12:31 pm (This post was last modified: October 10, 2017 at 12:42 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
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"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
I think I too am becoming a good person. It's hard because it's opposite of what my family and friends think. They say I've changed; I'm too liberal now, too opinionated, too self righteous, too condemning...
The way I look at it though is I've learned to let go of the bad parts of me. I don't accept racism anymore nor tolerate hearing it from others (I've changed). I stand up for gays/other races and against Trump/his followers (too liberal/opinionated). I don't let the religious walk all over me and I call out the bad stuff they believe in instead of sitting quietly trying to 'let others have their religion' (too self righteous/condemning)
Hell I used to judge people for their skin color, I cheated on my husband, and I was close minded but somehow NOW I'm the bad guy...
“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.”
Also if your signature makes my scrolling mess up "you're tacky and I hate you."
Am I better than most of the people on this miserable planet we call earth? Sure. We have a lot of miserable people on this planet who suck donkey balls. I'd say I'm above average in terms of not being a miserable prick.
Am i a truly good person? Not really. I'd say my youngest daughter is. Though a lot of Christians would disagree because she's a lesbian. But I'm not. I hate pretty much everybody except for a few people. They mostly deserve my hatred because they really fucking suck. I'm jaded as fuck because I've seen how much people on this planet suck. So no, I wouldn't say I'm a good person by that metric.
"Tradition" is just a word people use to make themselves feel better about being an asshole.
(October 10, 2017 at 9:58 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote:
(October 10, 2017 at 9:20 am)MysticKnight Wrote: Why:
I prefer everything over God. I mean it. It is like God is the least important witness, that I don't care how he sees me, but care so much about how people who are too ignorant to judge me think of me.
I am a polytheist through and though, which is an injustice that cannot be forgiven.
I must free myself from other than him.
And of my evils, is how I am God's friend in the outward but his enemy in the inward.[...]
And of my evils, is how I talk the talk but don't walk the walk.
And of my evils, is how I see the oppressed but my heart hardly moves.
And of my evils, is how I belittle humans who are more honorable than I am and honor humans that are eviler than I am.
And of my evils, is how I have little resolve to save my soul and have little compassion for myself in that regard.
And of my evils, is how I hardly move to please and see God's beauty, though he is more beautiful and more worthy of being pleased than anything.
And of my evils, is how I turn away from the help of the Guide of time, every time I am helped.
And of my evils, is how I change favors to that of destructive condemnation.
And of my evils, is how I don't implement my wisdom.
And my evils, is having listen to a dark sinister sword that lead me to insanity and despair after that, and how no one despairs of God's spirit but a disbelieving people.
And of my evils is how much evils I have, but am still ignorant to.
And of my evils, is how little I truly regret in my heart my evil path.
And don't forget to add, that you're a dreadful bore, to boot. Or did you mention that? I drifted off after -like- three lines...
Also - while I'm picking on you - who did your hair for your avatar picture? Your little sister? Were you supposed to be a princess, or som'n'?
Wow, what a bully. Picking on people's appearance when they are vulnerable enough and open enough to share a real picture of themselves. Let's see yours.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
(October 10, 2017 at 10:26 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(October 10, 2017 at 5:41 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I think you are. Why don't you think so?
I think I'm becoming one. It's all TL;DR really, but I have not always been going the right direction. Some of it may be attributable to mental illness, but not all. I did a lot of introspection and I didn't like what I saw.
I'm moving in the right direction now, I think. I don't want to think of myself as a "good person" until I'm closer to where I think that mark actually lies. I don't think of myself as a bad person - most of the time - just not quite there yet.
Only a truly reprehensible person would be so slow to grab the good-person mantle!