Today's Mass readings (God's people cry out to Him / Re-marriage = adultery / Celibacy is God's preference?)

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Marriage is a vow, like that one Japheth made. (oops!) Why do we promise to love someone forever when it is clearly out of our power?
Hi Cheetoh!

Did you perhaps mean Jephthah? Eg: Judges 11:30, or did you really mean Noah’s ??eldest?? son?

eg: Judges 11:37
… that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, …
–Andrew.
 
you really need help…

you see evil where it does not exist and you claim to know motives that only God knows…

and you refuse to apologize - to admit you were wrong… but just seem to be making excuses… as you claim i am making them…

In any case, like i said, i don’t deal w/ hostile people - esp those who accuse me of motives without even knowing me. You seem to have some kind of anger that you choose to take it out on me…

well, you can find a better way…
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you really need help…
you see evil where it does not exist and you claim to know motives that only God knows…
Distracted, you see that little girl in my arms?
About two years ago I was out with some friends who were trying to support Gretchen and I in our difficulties. Two wonderful people; and Dianna, one of the two, took me out to a sit down meal to spend some time talking. I had been sleeping in the car on occasion because I couldn’t stand to be around my wife – and depression was really starting to set in. I hadn’t touched my wife in months (mostly her doing) – and while sitting there, Dianna told me she had a vision while praying.
She said, in a year God showed me Gretchen will be pregnant with a little girl.
I have all boys – 5 of them; And I shook my head in disbelief – for Fr. Anthony at my parish, Holy Rosary, had just suggested I (consider) separating from her – the present was going in the opposite direction from her prophecy. But I didn’t laugh, I just listened.

Only God knows the motives, but you can’t tell me – Dianna – wasn’t informed.

As to my understanding of you; this says it best:
Matth 16:2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
Matth 16:3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

I am sure you can imaging a natural way I might have figured out what was going on – and I recognize in your reactions sensitivity to things which normally would not be there (in my experience). I was NOT wrong about you hearing the call, as your own words witness against you.
and you refuse to apologize - to admit you were wrong… but just seem to be making excuses… as you claim i am making them…
OK! I quote myself:
🤷
Distracted,
If I have said something wrong – I’m sorry; but if not, “why do you strike me”?

I have OCD, you have PTSD, and I know what it is to really hurt inside. I am not trying to hurt you
–Peace.
In any case, like i said, i don’t deal w/ hostile people - esp those who accuse me of motives without even knowing me. You seem to have some kind of anger that you choose to take it out on me…
Your back quotes prove I was right – not only that, you evaded the direct questions I asked and I have found out how you dealt with the call – as I suspected, you attributed them to the devil. What is this “anger” you keep talking about? Show me where I am clearly angry at you – as opposed to hurt, offended, antagonized, etc. I have cried for the last two days, but not one fist was shaken in rage.
well, you can find a better way…
My first post to you regarding my not wanting to pick on you was:
Huiou_Theou said:
It is impossible for me to be any different if you won’t let me. 🤷

Even you pick on yourself… because you hurt ?

Perhaps, when you read Cheetoh’s other scripture of the day reading; some of my story will explain it; I the married man.

Do you recall the woman at the well … Here was the groom, Jesus, talking to a woman living in a fantasy world; a woman who had to go to the well in the heat of the day; rather than in the morning as most city dwellers would because she was an outcast even among the outcasts of Samaria.


I think you and I perhaps have a bit we can talk about; though perhaps this thread isn’t the place. I have an anxiety disorder (OCD based), much like PTSD – I don’t know exactly what the difference is. But I do know that I see in your comments enough similarities that I am not totally foreign to you. Military, Police, Rapes, etc. are all things which bring on PTSD – … For me it was the violation of promises and the threat (apparent/illusonary/real matters not) to my children. …

It is sort of easy, though, to be a ventriloquist – or to use these things as a crutch.
Jesus can become something of a puppet to those who aren’t careful
– and even piety can be come an empty sort of defense or weapon with which to deny the Truth himself. Clinging to religion (which is holy and Good and necessary) but merely for comfort, like sucking a smashed thumb. Perhaps I am speaking too much in riddles? I am simply taking a chance that you will understand at least some of it… and my apologies if it is over the top (so to speak).



Peace be with you, and may the Spirit fill your lungs. 🙂
It is up to you whether you want to really know me, as a brother and a friend.
You have my prayers, none the less.
Amen.
I hope you take some time to think about your response, and don’t just spew out the first inflammatory words that come to mind. There was an order of commentary which occurred – I went back and re-read it all – and to the best of my knowledge I was NOT acidic to you first, but rather the other way around.
I have been trying to be a friend.

We both heard the call – LITERALLY – but we each chose to interpret it differently. Will you tear me down for my faith beyond provability? does “You need help” as you put it – mean that you see a weakness in me, where I can be discredited as “mad” or “insane” or humiliated on the forums?
Believe me, my wife has humiliated me beyond your wildest imaginations.

I am still open to being a friend; and I am not interested in condemning you – but only in sharing mutual respect. I hope I can understand how I upset you so that I can phrase things better in the future – speaking your mind is fine; so long as you respect others ability to do the same.

P.S. Sexuality –
n.

  1. *] The condition of being characterized and distinguished by sex.
    *] Concern with or interest in sexual activity.
    *] Sexual character or potency.

    You “rub” your sexuality in my face any time you make statements relating to sexuality and your VIEWS on it colored by PTSD. Eg: Celibacy is best is exactly one such statement. contrary: St. Paul says it is better to marry than to burn.
    I disagree with it as I am a married man – it would be a sin for me to deny my wife should she ask again.

    Go back through, and level your strongest complaints against me. I have already paid for this emotionally – and would like to dissect it. eg: it’s called Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

    And if you can find it in your heart, post a photo – so I know to whom I am apologizing to, rather than a mere “distraction.”

    –Peace.
 
Go back through, and level your strongest complaints against me. I have already paid for this emotionally – and would like to dissect it. eg: it’s called Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

And if you can find it in your heart, post a photo – so I know to whom I am apologizing to, rather than a mere “distraction.”

–Peace.
i have nothing to say…

don’t exactly appreciate being misunderstood every other sentence i write…

have a good life… God bless.🙂
 
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