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matt1982	Backsliding...	Lead	[-]
Posts: 38 (01/27/09 05:22:17) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None I've been accused of being a 'backslider' - due of course to my other post up at the moment. I actually quite like it lol. And I'm feeling a new spark as I dust off my atheistic books again, Sam Harris, Dawkins, Hitchens et al. Not because I'm an atheist all of a sudden, but it just feels good to be free to read and think how I want to again, instead of feeling suffocated inside a bubble, worrying about what music, movies, programmes, books, radio stations and concerts I should listen to, in fear of 'the enemy' working through them to 'get to me'.
tandc90		#1	[-]
Posts: 859 (01/27/09 09:57:47) exPc Fan Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I recognize that freedom-inspired joy. Good to hear your progress. It takes a lot of anxiety and pressure out of your life, doesn't it?
matt1982		#2	[-]
Posts: 39 (01/27/09 11:55:07) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Yes, I feel great and so free! It's only them who are anxious now...
geoffreylaw313		#3	[-]
Posts: 380 (01/28/09 14:48:17) exPc Fan Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	They call it backsliding.......I call it moving forward. "Atheism is a non-prophet organization." - George Carlin "I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam." - George Carlin "I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose" - George Carlin
walkawayarchie		#4	[-]
Posts: 25 (02/01/09 09:24:37) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I recently commented that when I walked, I may have ESCAPED Hell rather than moved towards it.
matt1982		#5	[-]
Posts: 40 (02/02/09 10:16:12) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Lol walkaway.... I have been thinking just how crazy the beliefs are - As a friend put it to me, a God that's willing to punish your friends and family forever for not believing in him, you'd think he was bigger than that...it just all seems so wrong. I am better off without that crap clogging up my mind. Yipeee!
stubborn envelope		#6	[-]
Posts: 1396 (02/02/09 10:35:12) exPc Fan Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I can't fathom any being so wicked that it would punish anyone forever, especially when it enabled the wickedness in the first place and then punishes us for giving us so called "free" will? And we're not just talking about Stalin or Hitler...the Pentes had me believing even the most kind, giving, generous people I have known, despite all their service to others, would be in hell over an "incorrect" baptismal formula or getting a haircut....Crazy. "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." -- Albert Einstein
walkawayarchie		#7	[-]
Posts: 38 (02/02/09 14:04:14) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Getting a haircut??? (SNORT!) In recent years, a couple of Pentecostals were after me for NOT cutting my hair! I guess they want it both ways, huh??? (GRIN!)
blackdog		#8	[-]
Posts: 554 (02/02/09 14:43:16) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	walkawayarchie wrote: Getting a haircut??? (SNORT!) In recent years, a couple of Pentecostals were after me for NOT cutting my hair! I guess they want it both ways, huh??? (GRIN!) I actually had some Pente try to tell me once that Jesus did not have long hair and a beard. I literally laughed out loud at that one. In the first century almost ANY Jewish man...and most non-Roman men, period, had long hair and beards.
stubborn envelope		#9	[-]
Posts: 1401 (02/02/09 18:11:45) exPc Fan Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	In the case of men, long hair could get you sent to hell; for a woman, even trimming her split ends would send her to hell. Facial hair was also prohibited for men. "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." -- Albert Einstein
blackdog		#10	[-]
Posts: 555 (02/03/09 08:45:11) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	stubborn envelope wrote: In the case of men, long hair could get you sent to hell; for a woman, even trimming her split ends would send her to hell. Facial hair was also prohibited for men. None of that makes any sense...women's hair must look terrible? To what purpose exactly? I know a lot of women with long hair and it looks good...as long as they maintain it. As for the men...why no facial hair? Jesus had facial hair. What is it that so many Pentes have against women with short hair anyway? Does short hair automatically mean loose morals or something? (Nevermind that most of the Pentes I know have what I'd consider to be loose morals.) Or do they automatically think a woman with short hair is a lesbian or something? BTW my ex, as Pente as she is/was ALWAYS had short hair, usually very short...but that's the difference I guess between AoG and some of the others. I have long hair and a goatee, and I'm growing a beard at the moment...must mean I'm goin' to hell lol. Oh well...it's warmer there then it is here right now so I don't mind.
matt1982		#11	[-]
Posts: 41 (02/03/09 11:23:52) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	It's just all a bunch of crap to be honest, the whole charade. The more I think of the craziness I once believed in, the more I am amazed at what I was doing.
tandc90		#12	[-]
Posts: 870 (02/03/09 17:04:57) exPc Fan Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I think it's funny that women can't cut their hair but men must cut their facial hair. What if a woman has a severe endocrine disorder and has facial hair?? What then?? Oh, that's right....a deliverance session. And what about a woman's armpit and leg hair? Cut or not?
walkawayarchie		#13	[-]
Posts: 41 (02/03/09 17:39:24) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ah, but they're supposed to be all covered up, so how would you know????
Conservatarian		#14	[-]
Posts: 861 (02/03/09 20:08:19) exPc Fan Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	tandc90 wrote: I think it's funny that women can't cut their hair but men must cut their facial hair. What if a woman has a severe endocrine disorder and has facial hair?? What then?? Oh, that's right....a deliverance session. And what about a woman's armpit and leg hair? Cut or not? My sister, who attends a Bible Methodist church, grows some hair on her face. She shaves it. I've heard that obese women have an abundance of male hormone, and vice versa. So maybe that has something to do with it.
mfreeman73		#15	[-]
Posts: 227 (02/04/09 14:17:13) exPc Fan Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	People were always accusing each other of backsliding at the church I attended. I was always accused of it, even though, technically I wasn't. Anytime someone did something the majority didn't agree with they were labeled backsliden. Over time, I got over it and started worrying about myself rather than what people thought about me.
stubborn envelope		#16	[-]
Posts: 1416 (02/04/09 15:35:25) exPc Fan Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	It's just all a bunch of crap to be honest, the whole charade. The more I think of the craziness I once believed in, the more I am amazed at what I was doing. You might be interested in reading some literature in psychology about the way the behavior and thinking of a group of people influences us, even when it isn't intentional. It's human nature. That's how these crazy groups create crazy people. James "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." -- Albert Einstein
Ruby Stratacaster		#17	[-]
Posts: 110 (02/05/09 15:50:14) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Backsliding? I entered into the Pentecostal...thing too early to have anything to slide back into. Like a lot of people said here, I'm moving forward, not back.

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