Every now and then life delivers a blow that momentarily breaks you. Horrible experiences are like amyloid plaque, they build up on you as you pass through this nutso life.
@MidnightRider Yes. Especially since reaching mid-life I sometimes feel a brutal despair—there so little we can do about the agonizing separations, the vulnerabilities…so many incomprehensible realities and unanswered questions. I find the world of my thoughts to be more real than the world around me. I’ll think: perhaps I’m crazy? But then I’m like: nobody notices…guess they are to? Then I let all that go and try to enjoy being alive. Very strange.
@WellWellWell3 @MidnightRider Yes it does. I live in Western NC and we are still recovering from Hurricane Helene. My family came through it relatively easily. We lost power and our frozen food but nothing more. Others lost everything. The damage is surreal.
But I don't feel the despair like you describe. I give those things over to God. I don't fully understand what happened and I ask the same why questions. We volunteered at our church to give out supplies. Helping others helps us.
@danielbsmith I mean I am so glad this method of operation works for you. The problem I have with it in my brain though Daniel? How do I give over to God what God allowed to happen in the first place? Is God ever culpable for being a poor steward of the ant farm that he built Daniel? He works in mysterious ways is a copout.
@MidnightRider What about all of the good things in life? Fine food, a first date, dancing, music, art. Who is responsible for them?
@danielbsmith I don’t think it’s an invisible man in the sky. I know you do and I acknowledge that, but I’m just not there with you, my man.
@MidnightRider @danielbsmith as a Christian I also wonder about evil , don’t think we Christians don’t ask those questions, why wars ? Why diseases? Why did God create a world in which humans would go to hell knowing they would rebel against Him ? Of course we ask them , but the reasons to believe there is a God are also powerful.
@Jorro @danielbsmith If God reported to me at work, he'd get a shit performance evaluation. I treated my adopted dog better than God treats the least of his children. Also, he allows his flock to be dominated by assholes.
@MidnightRider @danielbsmith I totally understand, evangelicals mainly are idiots ( I’m as evangelical, by the way ) and their behavior is insane, they are trolls .
@Jorro @danielbsmith God isn't lining balls over the centerfield wall either or Trump would be in prison. Every civilization there ever was has been a Tierney sponsored by shit humans, so yeah how bout that God?
@MidnightRider @danielbsmith it is our responsibility to put Trump in jail , not God’s, we have to do something, God is not our servant, I understand your frustration, in The Atlantic article he called Mexicans “ Fucking Mexicans “, he insulted me and I felt so much anger that if I had him in front of me I would have kicked him in the balls but no , we are going to get rid of him in a more humiliating way , and forever, in two more weeks .
@Jorro @MidnightRider Hold on for 11 days more. Just 11 days. I believe we're going to see many evangelicals vote for Harris. Trump's hold over us has been broken.
@danielbsmith @Jorro @MidnightRider I have never understood the evangelicals love for the rumpmeister. He is the exact opposite of what Christ asked us to be. He’s more antichrist than Christ-like.
@MidnightRider I come from a family of mechanics, they’re all a bit mean and bad spirited but in their defense it’s because many of their clients are a lot like Trump.
And I’d buy that if Trump had any clue what he was doing in the first damn place but he doesn’t. Except for cheating and stealing and not paying his bills, the man is a stone cold idiot.
@cjcrew @danielbsmith @MidnightRider I’m having an argument about just that with a former facebook friend in the messenger ( because I left Facebook I just kept the messenger)
@Jorro @danielbsmith @MidnightRider I can think of only one passage that almost, sort of, not really supports that statement. “Be wise as serpent but gentle as lambs”. And I’m not even sure that’s from the Bible. I am severely lapsed.
@cjcrew Floatith like a butterfly but stingith like a bee. Muhammad
@cjcrew @danielbsmith @Jorro @MidnightRider they're generally not big on Christ. Rarely quote him and even more rarely, follow his teaching. Ask one about the beatitudes and see what happens
@killingfloorman @danielbsmith @Jorro @MidnightRider Do their heads explode? Please tell me their heads explode because I’ll start asking all of them.
@cjcrew @danielbsmith @Jorro @MidnightRider it's worth a try
@cjcrew The reason they love Trump is the same reason you don’t care if a really mean, bad spirited, mechanic fixes your car at a reasonable rate.