hey everyone.
i don’t have too much to say but i’ll start off by mentioning that this post isn’t at all for myself.
there are a lot of people who come to this site and write down their experiences/situations for others to read, but many of us here don’t really receive help.
the only way things fall away from goodness is because of a lack of God. so basically what i’m trying to say is that if you really want to make your life and yourself better, you need Him, and you need Him more than just an hour a week.
if you’d like to talk about Him or just talk to me, my email address is daniellopez2316@ymail.com but if you don’t have anything nice to say, then please don’t say anything at all.
i’m 17, from texas. i’d really love to help anyone if they would just let me, but the most i can do for you is tell you/try to convince you of what i’ll say now: seek God for help and live for Him.
if anyone would like for me to pray for him/her, please just ask.
thank you very much for reading.
take care,
-Daniel
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I wish you would stop posting here so often. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I find it very upsetting to constantly be told that I have fallen away from goodness because I lack God. It seems very condescending to me, and not very empathetic towards people who don’t believe in God or believe in a different God than you do.
aptly said americandownunder
agrees
um..i believe in God and all but some people just cant come back…
but it is a part of christianity to do this. christians are not permitted to simply keep the truth from others to just satisfy their comforts like that. if you do not want to hear what i say about falling away from goodness, then ask yourself why that is. and if you think that you are good though you lack God, then ask yourself why you have come to a site like this. neither suicide nor suicidal thoughts or tendencies are good.
daniel, you really are no help. stop trying. if we want help, we’ll find it. we all know where to go or how to find it if we want it. i mean we are all on the INTERNET!!
soo just stop posting on here. and stop trying to help.
well, would it hurt to try? and does it hurt anyone for there to be 1 more person to get help from? if it hurts you for me to try to talk about God being the solution to all problems, then that’s a symptom of a problem, and that problem is probably a lack of God. so it’s not that i am ‘no help’, you just refuse me. i am pointing out the problem and you just refuse it, though you suffer from a symptom of it as you refuse it.
as i said before, christians are not permitted to just hold our tongues while others suffer because they would rather not hear about God. what kind of a christian would i be if i did not love you? i’d be no real kind of christian at all.
you may continue to refuse me, but i post this message for those of you who do still have a hope in God in your hearts. there have been about 5 people who have emailed me and started talking to me because i’ve made these posts, and i have really helped some of them. i cannot save anyone, i am not God, but i can give of myself and love, and that is what we all should do. this is what i am doing now.
i cannot sit still and let the world’s so-called christians misrepresent God, and the world’s non-christians disbelieve in God. that’s not what Jesus would do.
As much as i agree with americandownunder, its still not right to say what you’re doing is wrong.
Dont get me wrong, im as irritated as most of you. Seeing the same damn post every few days or so, almost as if he’s forcing god unto our lives. But as much as it seems that way, it isnt. He’s just doing what he thinks is right.
Lopez, listen up. Im 17, just like you. And i used to be a christian too, until i turned atheist. So i get where you’re coming from, trying to do your part in His name. But this isnt the right way you should be doing it, if it gets on other people’s nerves. By all means, go ahead and help people who post shit on this site. But enough with the “im here to help” stuff. You are by no means, anything like jesus.
None of us are your responsibility, your obligation, your burden. Your God wont save us from our problems.
It’s unfortunate that your brand of Christianity doesn’t involve respect for other peoples’ wishes, or an understanding that some people are different from you.
I’m glad you’ve helped some people, and I know you’re posting from what feels to you like good intentions.
Just know that you are causing some of us more pain than we had in the first place – and driving us further away from any thought of God.
i’m sorry that you two feel that way. i have explained myself already. and just to you nickahol, Jesus didn’t let other people’s (not that you are one, but the pharisees) discomforts stop Him.
Just like everyone else here i cant say that you are doing sumpthin bad, but for sum of us this is certainly not helpful. Im 14 and a christain, but i stopped trying to pray to god years ago. I begged him every single night to please make this pain go away, and after years of doing so my life only got worse, so i just stopped tryin. Wut i am trying to say is that every person is different than any other person, not everyone can be helped by religion. It is nice that you are trying to help, but i dont like to see posts saying that my life is hell because i am not as devoted to religion as sum people are.
devotion to God is not religion. Jesus Himself said “give up your life for My sake and for the fake of the gospel or you will lose it.”
daniel21, did you give up your life for God? and please don’t give up with prayer – God wants you to have faith.
Look, i have just bout givin up on god religion and all of that stuff. I have a very hard time beleiving in god anymore. If you just look at sum of the things happening in the world and what this so called god has done to a lot of the people living on it you will probably understand why i feel this way. It seems like that if there is a god, he has the most fucked up sense of humor to do these things to people. Personally it it very hard to have faith in a god like that.
The world has done this to itself really. We’ve taken God out of our schools, trying to take him out of this country all together, our money, everything. People are running from God, why should he fight to save a world who curses him? People are crying out for help, and when it’s offered to them they throw it back and say it’s wrong. If you have a problem, and someone is offering you a solution, you have the right to refuse it, but i don’t think you have the right to ask for another one simply because you aren’t happy with the one given. This country is ungrateful, and selfish. Man wants only to please themselves and the desires of the flesh. If we would truly give up our body and our will to God and what he want’s we could see his plan for our lives. There wouldn’t be such pain and sorrow that we ourselves cause. Think about it from God’s point of view, i sometimes wonder to myself, “Is it hard for God to have faith in US? especially when we run around blaspheming his name and then when we’re in trouble, going through a hard time, we pray and ask for his help, and when he doesn’t help we’re bitter towards him.” We aren’t WORTHY of God’s love, but he gives it to us freely. Thoughts of suicide aren’t from God, they’re from the fallen angel himself, he wants you to fail at life and feel like nothing. He wants you to be mad at God, he wants you to go to hell and keep him company for all of eternity. And we’re so blind, and give into him… God help us… Our rage and anger is pointed in the wrong direction. Instead of being mad at God we should be mad at Satan for bringing such sin and destruction. For putting blinds over our eyes… k3tk3tk3t respects your views, he’s simply trying to be there for people who need help or are willing to accept help. If you are not, simply don’t read his posts. He’s doing what he can, which is a LOT more than most people. I’ve read a lot of replies on this site, they’re “feel good” answers… Nothing that will fix problems though. He has the guts to put out there what he’s found as a cure. He see’s this world dying from a cancer if you will, and he has found the cure, and cares enough to tell others about it and share. Be thankful for people like him, as they’re rare. Don’t discourage him; too many like him have fallen from being discouraged, and it would be a shame to see such devotion go to waste. Thank you t3kt3kt3k.
The sad thing is that seeing your posts all the time just ends up driving me away from a site where I might otherwise have been able to get some help and relief.
And I’m not saying what you’re doing is wrong – I was just asking you to do it a bit less often.
Im just saying, and by all means correct me if im wrong.. But i think a main reason why so many of us are put off by your posts are that, we used to be a christian too. But after so much pain and shit we’ve gone through, we decided to turn away from Him.. Dunno, cause we stopped believing? Or some of us woke up and thought, hey.. maybe this religion stuff is all just a bunch of bull?
The ones who turned away from christianity (like me) did it for a reason. Me, im sickened with the whole “god” concept. For example:
When a good thing happens, thank God.
And when a bad thing happens.. its part of His will.
So when is it ever god’s fault?
If you say never, that god is never at fault.. Then by right, God is never to be thanked either. Cause god. Didnt. Do. Shit.
Im open to criticism, blast away.