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Louis_Martin
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« Reply #16 on: November 19, 2009, 11:07:PM » |
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Never go with what is acceptable, only with what is greatest.
I don't pretend to know everything, but I don't pretend to not know what I know I know, so I know what I know and I like people who agree with what I know I know, and I'm indifferent to differences of opinion on what I know I don't know.
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Patron of the Universal Church, pray for us!
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« Reply #17 on: November 20, 2009, 06:38:AM » |
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Pray always!
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« Reply #18 on: November 20, 2009, 07:12:AM » |
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It seems I'm a bit late, so I have no idea what's going on here, but: |
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Heinrich
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« Reply #19 on: November 20, 2009, 08:44:AM » |
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Come to Colorado. I'll put you up. My family and I have endured so much the last few years, and, just when things look as bleak as they could be, I post a prayer request on FE, head into the mountains, go to Mass and Holy Hour, say extra Rosaries and ask for prayers from friends and family. You know what? It works! be strong, my friend. An eternity in Hell is not worth it.
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I am the one buried in the snow. Don't do it--I missed work the next day. It's not a day at the beach, fo' sho'.
I love Colorado, but I need a true Dixie fix.
Jesus, I trust in You.
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Walty
There's always a siren singing you to shipwreck.
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« Reply #20 on: November 20, 2009, 09:09:AM » |
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TTMR be smooth.
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« Reply #21 on: November 20, 2009, 03:00:PM » |
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reverence, which one cannot
withhold, is
laid on lightly, with terror--as if
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"When I depart from the city, and stretch out my hands, the sounds will cease." Exodus 9:29
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« Reply #22 on: November 20, 2009, 03:04:PM » |
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“I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.” - Flannery O'Connor
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INPEFESS
Please remember me in your rosary intentions.
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To know Him is to love Him.
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« Reply #23 on: November 20, 2009, 04:23:PM » |
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I will pray for you, yes. You are here to know, love and serve God, regardless of how self-absorbed you might be.
Heh. Thanks for giving me further incentive to take the plunge. Perhaps you can do me, you and society a favour and pull the trigger on me yourself, selfless saint that you are. Yes, you are right. I am no saint. And I am in no way selfless. In fact, I am a very selfish person. This is how I am able to identify it so quickly. The good news is, however, that understanding the problem is the hardest part. The next hardest part is acknowledging it. What I said may not be what you wanted to hear, but I do not think the alternative would really help you. It actually took me some time to respond to your post. I typed multiple "attention givers" and lines of "superficial encouragement" before writing what I wrote. But I realized after considering them all that none of those "sweet things" were what you really needed to hear. As I can say from experience, they only serve the purpose of comforting the desire for momentary attention in a world where no one seems to care. But that only fills the gap for a time before you easily slide right back to the place where you were before, and it rarely remedies the problem (see below). The victory (both morally and emotionally) is in overcoming the things that lead to that place (specifically, those thoughts). I had those thoughts once in my youth a long time ago. I most sincerely regret having them, but I didn't quite understand them at the time. After much reflection and reading, their cause is quite apparent to me now. Those people who psychologically "cuddled" me and tried to help didn't really help; they succeeded only in making myself more self-absorved. Moreover, this often prompts an ironic desire to spite everyone with the taking of your own life. What I really needed was an acknowledgement of my own selfishness. That never came until much later in life. I most sincerely apologize for offending you. I am afraid, however, that you judged my response rather superficially without giving it due consideration. I treat your situation very seriously and have definitely prayed for you to understand the moral cause of your dilemma which, ultimately, is the only understanding which can comfort you. May God be with you always, INP |
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P atris, E t F ilii, E t S piritus S ancti "But in the days of those kingdoms the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, and his kingdom shall not be delivered up to another people, and it shall break in pieces, and shall consume all these kingdoms, and itself shall stand for ever." [Daniel 2:44] http://www.wftsradio.com/
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« Reply #24 on: November 20, 2009, 04:52:PM » |
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« Reply #25 on: November 20, 2009, 05:19:PM » |
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I will pray for you, yes. You are here to know, love and serve God, regardless of how self-absorbed you might be.
Heh. Thanks for giving me further incentive to take the plunge. Perhaps you can do me, you and society a favour and pull the trigger on me yourself, selfless saint that you are. Yes, you are right. I am no saint. And I am in no way selfless. In fact, I am a very selfish person. This is how I am able to identify it so quickly. The good news is, however, that understanding the problem is the hardest part. The next hardest part is acknowledging it. What I said may not be what you wanted to hear, but I do not think the alternative would really help you. It actually took me some time to respond to your post. I typed multiple "attention givers" and lines of "superficial encouragement" before writing what I wrote. But I realized after considering them all that none of those "sweet things" were what you really needed to hear. As I can say from experience, they only serve the purpose of comforting the desire for momentary attention in a world where no one seems to care. But that only fills the gap for a time before you easily slide right back to the place where you were before, and it rarely remedies the problem (see below). The victory (both morally and emotionally) is in overcoming the things that lead to that place (specifically, those thoughts). I had those thoughts once in my youth a long time ago. I most sincerely regret having them, but I didn't quite understand them at the time. After much reflection and reading, their cause is quite apparent to me now. Those people who psychologically "cuddled" me and tried to help didn't really help; they succeeded only in making myself more self-absorved. Moreover, this often prompts an ironic desire to spite everyone with the taking of your own life. What I really needed was an acknowledgement of my own selfishness. That never came until much later in life. I most sincerely apologize for offending you. I am afraid, however, that you judged my response rather superficially without giving it due consideration. I treat your situation very seriously and have definitely prayed for you to understand the moral cause of your dilemma which, ultimately, is the only understanding which can comfort you. May God be with you always, INP INP, I apologize for responding so hastily to you earlier. Obviously I was very emotional last night. It's not that you were wrong either, since clearly a suicidal person is wrapped up in their own despair, and is by definition "self-absorbed". Unfortunately it is another flaw among many I have. You're a good man and I should have realized you meant well. Thank you for your words and your prayers, and thanks to everyone else here as well. God bless you all. |
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Of course this land is dangerous! All of the animals Are capably murderous
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« Reply #26 on: November 20, 2009, 05:51:PM » |
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Your a selfish prick. Get some balls and be a man! Buy your mam some roses and your pa a pint.
Selfish prick!
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"I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding." - French ambassador to New Zealand Jacques le Blanc, regarding press coverage of France's nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific http://www.martinjetpack.com/http://www.mugshotmuseum.com/SIP I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink. - Admiral William Halsey |
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- Lisa
While those who give scandal are guilty of the spiritual equivalent of murder, those who take scandal- who allow scandals to destroy faith- are guilty of spiritual suicide. -- St. Francis de Sales
Charity unites us to God... There is nothing mean in charity, nothing arrogant. Charity knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord. In charity all the elect of God have been made perfect. -- Pope St. Clement I
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« Reply #28 on: November 20, 2009, 07:43:PM » |
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