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Recent content by AgonyApathy

  1. AgonyApathy

    Mental illness and Christianity/religion

    Thanks for your kindness! I very much appreciate it! I'm going through the most painful, terrifying experience of my life, and this is a nice distraction from the despair. I like arguing with teh intarwebz.
  2. AgonyApathy

    Mental illness and Christianity/religion

    Maybe God gets what He wants too often? We're made in his image. What does too much power do to us? You would, though. Wish-thinking just means thinking in ways that make the things you want SEEM to be true so that you can go about your business without accepting counter-arguments or...
  3. AgonyApathy

    Mental illness and Christianity/religion

    This seems like wish thinking. "If I don't get what I want from God, it just means he did something different that might be just as good. When I do, I'm grateful to God." It's circular reasoning. You find a way to see God no matter what happens. I don't expect God to be like a vending...
  4. AgonyApathy

    Mental illness and Christianity/religion

    I don't have that in my view of his profile page. Maybe I don't have that functionality yet. I would like to, but I think I don't have access to PM functionality because I just signed up today. Can you try to send me a PM? Thanks!
  5. AgonyApathy

    Mental illness and Christianity/religion

    I would like to send you a PM, but I can't figure out how, lol.
  6. AgonyApathy

    Mental illness and Christianity/religion

    How do you know that? It feels good to think about things like "Jesus is Love," but I feel totally disconnected from that right now.
  7. AgonyApathy

    Mental illness and Christianity/religion

    I called myself an Atheist for a long time. I might still be one. I tend to do think it's all junk, and I might think God sucks if he's real. But sometimes I feel like it would be a form of faith if I said I'm sure there is no God. That's more like Agnosticism. Edit: You have a great...
  8. AgonyApathy

    Mental illness and Christianity/religion

    That's a great line. I googled it and found out it's from a musical. I'll have to listen to the music sometime.
  9. AgonyApathy

    Mental illness and Christianity/religion

    Mental illness has taken pretty much everything in my life I ever loved. I'm infuriated with God for planning me to have first years of depression, and then, just as the depression was going away and I was turning my life around, I had the onset of my schizophrenia. Everything ruined. Everything.
  10. AgonyApathy

    Mental illness and Christianity/religion

    To be honest, that sounds more like schizophrenia and the kinds of problems I'm having, minus the demons. Mental illness SUCKS. Sorry that happened to someone in your family! I grew up Catholic and even attended Catholic schools. I've gone on a long and complex spiritual journey since then...
  11. AgonyApathy

    Mental illness and Christianity/religion

    How can you tell a delusion from real demonic possession? Maybe he needed Catholic Priest to take care of business. Was he able to repair his relationship with God after that? I want to punch the Big G right in the face.
  12. AgonyApathy

    Mental illness and Christianity/religion

    So sorry to hear about what happened to your mother. I wish I had something like her faith in my life but I can't find it. It doesn't seem right or real. Church feels very empty and dead to me.
  13. AgonyApathy

    Mental illness and Christianity/religion

    Thanks, but I have the advice I need. I need to execute and it's a miserable, sad and frustrating experience. I agree with you there, but I don't necessarily need Jesus in my life to run on the treadmill and not smoke cigarettes. I also lived in Taiwan, part of China where people are usually...
  14. AgonyApathy

    Mental illness and Christianity/religion

    There isn't a direct link between mental illness and violence, crime, etc. The vast majority of mentally ill people are just confused, scared or drowning in their own emotions. The most severely mentally ill can be reduced to jibberish or catatonic states. Most crimes, most corruption, most...
  15. AgonyApathy

    Mental illness and Christianity/religion

    I don't know what I'm looking for to be honest. I'm in a terrible situation and this is something to do besides mope. I think this is what religion actually is. Something is bothering me and religion gives me metaphors, examples and stories that I can use to understand the situation, and a...