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  1. Zeo

    Major faith struggles

    This describes my spiritual passage very well. When I was a teen, I started feeling a disconnect between the Christianity I was taught would save me and what I actually believed. For years I thought "wait...that doesn't make sense...but oh no now I'll go to hell if I think that!" I came to...
  2. Zeo

    How do you and wife/hubby sleep?

    Hmm...we have a full sized bed, so we sleep pretty close together. I prefer a bit of space while sleeping, but other than that we cuddle up together every night, with tons of blankets. He's warm, but pleasantly so, so it doesn't get too hot sleeping close to him. I suspect the same is true of...
  3. Zeo

    Now that you are married...

    I wish that I had trusted that God would bring me my ideal mate. I wish I had believed in myself and my values, and I wish I would have held out for them just a bit longer before becoming a hardened cynic. Now I'm married to the man I prayed for, and I wish I could have saved myself the years...
  4. Zeo

    Flashing the ring

    Wow. I am not alone! :D Don't care much for people, but I know EVERY cat in the neighborhood. I have friends who accuse me of only visiting to see their cats. It's only partially true...
  5. Zeo

    Flashing the ring

    I'm not much of a flirter and never have been, so when someone starts flirting with me I get really uncomfortable. There was this really creepy middle aged guy getting all over me at a bar where I went to watch my dad play (he was in the band playing that night). I was sitting like 4 feet from...
  6. Zeo

    Bickering married couples

    My best friend in high school and I were like that. We fought like brother and sister and he loved bugging me to death. But we had the best friendship I'd ever had with anyone before my husband.
  7. Zeo

    Different points of view

    Well, honestly, my husband and I are so similar we could be twins. The one thing I can really think of that might count as a "different point of view" is my OCD: I have serious problems with shoes in my house or anything but our clean bodies touching our bed. My husband has really bent over...
  8. Zeo

    Why do men cheat?

    ^ This really needed to be said, and I'm glad someone said it. First of all, men are not the only ones capable of adultery. When looking at this issue, it doesn't make sense to divide it by lines of gender. It's everyone's problem. Second, adultery is a choice. We have this tendency to make...
  9. Zeo

    A Marriage Manifesto... Of Sorts

    Which scientists? Last time I checked, this was an issue that was up in the air. If it's been suddenly settled, that's news to me. [Objective] source? Ok...So it's up to my human reason to decide good vs evil? And this isn't moral relativity...how? Ah, good old Godwin. Nothing is complete...
  10. Zeo

    Should obesity be legal?

    I feel the same way about this issue that I do about the issue it's really trying to demonstrate: we have no RIGHT to tell people what to do with their lives. The problem with this whole "it's UNHEALTHY, we're doing this for the fat (gay, wherein gay=sinner) person's benefit!" business is that...
  11. Zeo

    Killing in the name of GOD: Awesome! (Numbers 25)

    Man, Shield, those icons are ridiculous. Cutesy girly anime icons =/= serious position. Although I do dearly hope this thread isn't serious. Praise God that Jesus actually came to put an end to such hatred amongst humanity, even if some like to twist his coming as an excuse for MORE hatred...
  12. Zeo

    Children?

    Oh man. This is my problem too. My husband and I know we want kids. But I'm a hypochondriac and grew up with a lifelong fear of hospitals, doctors, and anything medical. I've always been terrified of childbirth, and I'm afraid this is going to be a problem. We're not considering kids until my...
  13. Zeo

    Advice on cooking for a husband who doesn't eat!

    This person is very similar to me, and instead of me pulling my hair out it's my husband. (We both do the cooking in our family, but I like very few foods that are "normal." The foods I like generally come out of the ocean or other bodies of water, are raw, and are quite expensive.) I've...
  14. Zeo

    A Marriage Manifesto... Of Sorts

    Funny, because we just saw, in California and other states, a "popular consensus" contest on the ballots. More to the point, there was a measure in Colorado where people could vote whether or not they thought personhood started at conception. If you don't think we should be able to determine...
  15. Zeo

    Paxi

    I'm with Tropical Winds on the matter. Basically, starting a thread like this gives us a chance to really think about and discuss a disturbing image, which was very much the intent. It isn't about insulting someone, especially someone well liked and respected around here. You might disagree...
  16. Zeo

    Paxi

    Yeah, I really think that's my feeling on it. My grandmother, very much against abortion, sat me down when I was ten and made me watch a program showing an abortion procedure, telling me over and over "never support this! See how sick it is?" Still, my mind is set and no amount of gruesome...
  17. Zeo

    A Marriage Manifesto... Of Sorts

    I agree with the assertion that the idea of someone telling you whether what you are is valid is laughable. And yes, what difference does it make to me if someone comes up and says "I don't recognize your heterosexuality/right to be heterosexual." That doesn't change the fact that I am. (But it...
  18. Zeo

    The End of Racism

    I really want to agree with you, OP, but unfortunately I think we'll just keep replacing one group with another. Blacks, women, immigrants, now gays....you get what I'm saying. When it's ok to be homosexual in this country, we'll find a new group to limit the rights of and keep out of the white...
  19. Zeo

    A Marriage Manifesto... Of Sorts

    Kelli: <3. I couldn't agree more. See, not really. It'd be in the same spirit as someone saying "I don't recognize your heterosexuality." That has nothing to do with the point she is making, and nothing to do with marriage. Your example is not a fair equivalent. And even if it were, the point...
  20. Zeo

    Pacifism is Morally Irresponsible

    Ok, and there's your problem. Who is determining which wars are just and which ones aren't? I don't need to tell you that every single instance of war we've ever heard of has had both its supporters and its opponents. So, when you make the argument "Christians are wrong to deny fighting in a...