And: WHOA !! I’m new as you all have noticed, but prior to reading this post I thought that Kellibelli was supposed to be the ‘sweet-girl-next-door’ type, if you know what I mean. Her 2 cents in this one sure convinced me otherwise - don’t fuck with Kelli
As to the topic: errrrrm. Uh. Hrrrmmmm. Huh ?
Voices telling you stuff, wow, sounds like “really stable mental condition” to me.
‘God Schmod, I want my monkey man !’ - Bart Simpson
Was the guy really that much of a narrow mined geek, anyway ? I’ve not been around long enough to tell.
Well, ARG, all the best for what it’s worth. Have you tried actually CLOSING that jar of SuperGlue sitting on your desk, right in front of your keyboard ?
I would just love to go down **that ** road, but I just dont have the patience.
Listen vanillaice, we all know you are a big ‘adam-groupie’ but whatever! the wing-nut hears messages from GOD now???
** ANYONE WHO HEARS MESSAGES FROM ANYWHERE NEEDS TO GET PROFESSIONAL HELP!!!**
get it?
Thirdwarning…wherever the hell you came from ,go back!(Probably Adam’s Mom anyway!)
Coldfire…I am a sweetie, really! I have seen you around, and you seem like a decent sort…have no fear of me my dear.
This whole thing make me a little nuts thats all. I even stopped saying ‘for the love of God’, stuff like that so I didnt offend Adam. I think it is great he is deeply religous, now I just think he is deeply disturbed. I know priests who have never gotten a massage from God, and I bet if adam talked to a doctor, a minister, a rabbi, anyone with a brain, they would all say the same thing—get help!
kellibelli: I am neither a Christian nor a fan of ARG, but I’m confused by your hostile excitement over the expression “God told me…” You realize, of course that it is just an expression. In most cases, people do not mean that they literally heard the “voice of God” but that they simply got a strong feeling. We all experience that sort of thing, whether in the form of instinct, gut feeling, heart, conscience, intellect, rational belief, common sense, God, or whatever else you use to reach decisions that involve both emotion and logic. If I say “something told me she was a good person” or “I got weird vibes off that guy” are you ready to prescribe psychotropic drugs to me?
(slams palm on forehead)
message! I meant message!
Tennhippie, he didnt say he felt he should…he indicated he was recieving a directive from another source, other than his own instincts, I believe he also indicated a reluctant acceptance of this directive. Doesnt this sound a bit like those wackos who kill someone, and then blame it on the voices that they HAD to obey?
(going back scanning for typos)
Coldfire…What? I typed b-u-m , not burn, look closer! chucklesYou bonehead!
TW, if you’re talking to me (which I think you are), Adam “regularly” told me that I was not a Christian, that my religion was a cult, and that I “didn’t know up from down.” So while I agree that maybe I shouldn’t have taken this opportunity to “spew all over him yet again,” Adam did the same to me and my religion in general so often that I have garnered some resentment towards him. I’m sorry if I offended you. But I will defend my religion.
TennHippie, while I can’t quite get into the ecstatic cheering that some posters have voiced that Adam has left, it is true that on more than one occasion Adam has indicated that God has manifested Himself personally and physically to Adam.
Those posts were the reason that I asked Slythe about Adam’s e-mail: to see whether he was relaying Adam’s message or teasing Adam, a bit. You note correctly that
but Adam is not a “most cases” situation.
I wish Adam well; I won’t miss his frequent characterization of people who disagreed with him as corrupted or damned or cultists. :::shrug:::
cough Errrrmmmm Kelli… I dunno what to say really - except: “D’oh ! You’re right !”
Let me explain: I posted the previous messages at my work - that’s where the shitty Eizo-or-something-monitor is staring at me all day. Here, in my cosy home, my superb Panasonic 17" spelled out your “BUM” just fine. Well, it didn’t really spell out your bum, just the word, I mean, catch my drift, am I going to MacGyver my way out of this one ANYWAY ???
As a change of subject: anyone up for a thread that spells out Kellibelli’s bum for real ?
off to take his medication now
Coldfire
ps: PLEASE try not to take me seriously. This time.
I just want to re-affirm the fact that I do love Adam and wish him well, in spite of our disagreements. His testimony of Jesus touched me, and you gotta love a guy who has such a great love for God. Adam, if you’re reading this, please don’t take offense at my previous words that were less than nice to you. I’m an idiot sometimes. This is a fact. While I will defend my religion, I should not have attacked you or your religion and I do apologize.
Snarkberry, would you be that forgiving to someone who was as offensive and intolerant as Adam, but wasn’t religious? How far does this “GET OUT OF JAIL FREE” religion card extend, anyway?
Slythe, I would try to be. It doesn’t matter what religion someone is for me to try to be nice to them. “Love thy neighbor” doesn’t specify what religion your neighbor is, after all.
This is what I am talking about. The man bragged about his ignorance, insulted other people’s religions, told those that didn’t follow his sect that they were going to Hell, promised over and over again that he was changing his ways, and now claims that God told him he couldn’t talk to us, but that it was o.k. to lurk.
But because he had “a great love for God”, you feel the need to apologize to him!
This is the religious pass that allows Jimmy Swaggart to go back on the air, Chuck Colson to be revered on the 700 Club, and Pat Robertson to become a political figure.
Slythe: I’m just trying to be a peacemaker. Your quote is just my attempt to find something nice to say about Adam instead of criticizing him to death. Sure, I could dwell on his foibles and follies, but in the interests of peace, I’m willing to say something nice about him.
I’m struggling for forgiveness for my own sins. I believe that God only forgives us as much as we forgive others, so I can’t afford to be mean to Adam, or you, or anyone, at the risk of my own soul’s peril. And when you’ve sinned as much as I have, you don’t go around criticizing people for their faults and then expect God to forgive you, no questions asked. Forgive to be forgiven, in other words.
Slythe: To put it another way, I might have said, “You gotta love a guy who can play the piano so well,” or “You gotta love a guy who loves dogs so much,” or etc. Just trying to be supportive instead of destructive.
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