Who Wants To Go Out Together?

I know the supposed reason, I just don’t believe it to be true. Personally, I believe God ENJOYS all the suffering.

@inf1in1……I feel for you. At 9 I was building forts and climbing trees and catching bees in glass jars. Nearing 60 now I have known for a long time that things are not what they seem. I first saw that in kindergarten during the “red scare” when they had us hide under our desks to “prepare” for the possible nuclear attack the Russians might soon unleash. Now, I had seen black and white footage of what happens when a nuke hits, and even my feeble mind of 6 was wise enough to know that hiding under the desk would accomplish nothing. I couldn’t figure it out then, but know now it was done to create fear and to ensure that little johnny and jill would grow up hating Russians and buying into war propaganda. Nothing has changed since 1960, in fact it gets worse and the public is compliant and diverted, all according to plan.

@just.me.20…….I have stated what I think, and truthfully a theological discourse is not why I appear here, I was looking for something else.

@Painman…….you are fortunate to live elsewhere. The USA, in the words of singer/songwriter Iris DeMent has become “The Wasteland of the Free.” It is no wonder so many young people are so messed up, we are passing to them a nation with no soul. Plenty of Christians, but no soul.

So what if I am wrong? What if you are wrong? I think there is a much greater possibility that we are both wrong than there is that either of us is right. Doesn’t matter much either way as things stand right now. Unlike many of the depressed and hurt folks on here, my pain and suffering is perhaps not so intense. It has bubbled and fermented for a long time. It is not irrational or spur of the moment, but rather a natural extension of what has come before. I have experienced joy and success and in relative terms had a pretty good life. The fact that it heads for a conclusion need not be macabre or set those with a mandate to “save” into missionary mode. Why can the decision not be a peaceful one?

@just.me.20……….I did not mind your attempts to reach another “lost soul.” While your “success” rate is likely less than that of a hard up gambler on the crap tables in Vegas, I realize that it is such effort which is called upon by the mother church (whichever brand you might be). I do hope though that you don’t believe you get a star on your crown for each wayward person you bring into the fold. That is sort of like Jim Baker’s hallway to heaven, the more money one gave, the farther up the hallway your picture hung, supposedly the closer to the throne one became. If God is real, we humans have a lot to answer for as we have given him/her a bad name.

@hurting1………so, I take it you are not from California? The Mojave is vast and desolate, although I have only driven thru it. Please don’t take this as a bad joke, but you might consider Death Valley, it is more interesting geographically, although might take a bit more effort to find a spot away from the madding crowd. I am more of an ocean/mountain sort, but the desert can be a mystical place. I think the desert scares me a bit because there are many animals which forage at night, and I would not want to become dinner for some creature prior to my passing. I would not have the strength at some point to fend them off and that could get a bit more grisly than I might want. In the redwoods there are less predators and plentiful materials to build a shelter with. Hell, one could even do it up in a tree. These sorts of details are difficult to fathom at the front end, but from reading about helium and gases on here, it does make sense to give these details thought. Why do you want to do it? (no pressure to actually answer that).

@Letmesleep……….no problem with the assumption, and hats off to you for noticing my previous comment and storing it in the memory banks. Astute you are. Thanks for your kind words and for the hug in cyberspace. Just for the clarification of any readers who don’t know, the HIV virus can only be spread by way of semen or blood interaction. You cannot get it touching or hugging or even kissing someone who is infected. We are a bit like the modern day lepers though. I was married for 26 years, so I had lots of good lovin’ and affection, I just miss that yet don’t put any effort into changing that. Most people think it is only gay folks who get it (mostly that is true), and women are not interested in a man who has it (I don’t blame them).

@just.me.20……..this is what typically happens when God is brought into the discussion, things fizzle when others don’t wish to accept your motive or your “truth.” People such as myself want desperately for someone to simply listen or care. We have spent years talking to God, but never heard much back. With people, as foolish and frail as we are, at least we are real, there is something tangible, another will respond with thoughts and emotion. Words in a book just don’t cut it. Peace.

@Painman………..I rode my bicycle from Heidelberg, Germany to as far west as Stonehenge in 1983. It was still West Germany at that time. Spent four days in London, saw the queen on horseback as it was her birthday. Lady Di and the queen mum were both still alive then and followed the queen in a car. The USA is still just an extension of England in many ways, as the financial ties of the big central banks are one big crime syndicate, in cahoots with governments which never did represent the common folk. I have been told my ancestry is British Isles, but I feel more kinship with the oppressed darker races of the world than with my white European heritage.