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Recent content by Progressing Pilgrim

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    Blasphemous Thoughts -- do you ever feel like you choose to think them?

    I have been struggling with this lately. I had a particularly ugly thought today and it felt like part of my brain was intentionally saying it. Either because of that impulsive rebellion, or because there is a morbid desire to look at something you don't want to see (like "don't look down"). Or...
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    Unpardonable Sin

    The other day, I was feeling so worried with fear over the "unpardonable" sin that I took the day off of work. I worked through some things and went back to work the next day. Someone asked me if I was feeling "better". I had been afraid I might be asked something like this, because if I said I...
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    Intrusive thoughts?

    I wanted to wait a little to reply, to try avoiding obsessive reassurance-seeking as much as possible. I gave myself until today before posting about this again. In answer to your question Mari17, no, I don't think it is. I had this thought that it might become worshipping the beast if I...
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    Intrusive thoughts?

    Thanks. Surprising how painful it can be to work on this. Tonight I have been feeling really low though. I was reading through a book, and had a feeling that if I went to the index without looking at a certain page, it might be worshipping the beast. I thought I should resist it, but the urge...
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    Intrusive thoughts?

    Thanks again. But the thoughts are still a struggle. Today on the way to work I saw a sign for a brand that I fear might be the beast, about the same time that I needed to move over into another lane. I don't remember the exact thoughts I had at the time, but my fear is that I saw this, and in...
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    Intrusive thoughts?

    Lately I have been really worried about worshipping the beast and/or taking the mark of the beast. I feel like I have been working through some of this, but a time or two I have found myself thinking that I was impulsively "accepting" the mark, or in some way deciding that something was or might...
  7. Progress with OCD

    First Post - Possible trigger warnings about the mark of the beast

    So, first, the thoughts that are clamoring for my attention. I went to visit someone today. On my way, I was turning a corner and thought of Spongebob. This led me to worry that I might have taken the mark of the beast. Here are the steps of reasoning for those who wonder how I could have...
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    Progress with OCD

    I thought I would start a blog here, rather than keep posting things in the forum as I feel like I want to keep doing. I have learned enough about OCD to realize that continual reassurance-seeking won't help much. But it does help to get my thoughts out and maybe to get some input from others...
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    Antichrist fears

    Thanks. I have been listening to Mark DeJesus' videos now and then. I went ahead and started his course, hopefully that will help some. I don't know, maybe it's time to start looking into therapy. I don't understand why after all these years the medication would no longer be getting the OCD...
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    Being made a Godfather

    I met a girl from the Philippines online a while back. We have been talking for about a month and a half, and have been getting along well. But we aren't engaged, and have never even talked about getting married. We haven't even met in person. But the other day she told me that her niece is...
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    Antichrist fears

    Trying to think of how to explain this. I have been struggling a lot with a fear of worshipping the antichrist and taking the mark of the beast. The thing is, we don't really know who the antichrist is. So I keep thinking of ways that various things might be the antichrist, and feel the need to...
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    Prayer for wisdom and courage

    I would like to ask for prayer for discernment about what God wants me to do, and also the courage to do whatever it is that He does want me to do. There is something I wonder if I'm supposed to do, but I'm rather afraid to do it and I don't know if it's something I'm supposed to do anyway.
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    I constantly regret not saving myself for the marriage

    That's debatable, depending on what you mean here. If we are to be like Christ then we should forgive and avoid looking down on others for their past sins. I don't know if any Christian is really entitled to reject anyone else for their past unless they are unrepentant. But we aren't perfect...
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    Male Accountability Thread

    Hello brothers! I struggled with inappropriate content, fetishes (one in particular), and masturbation along with fantasies since I was 12 or 13. When I was 25 I surrendered my life to Christ, and other than once or twice in the early days I have been mostly free of this addiction for over a...
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    Anyone else struggle with being lonely but also wanting to be single?

    It's an ongoing struggle for me anymore. I don't like dating. Marriage doesn't sound particularly attractive to me. But I get lonely anyway. Part of me really wants female companionship, and part of me just wants to be free. At 36, I feel like if I'm not proactively pursuing a relationship, I'm...