Re: One quick point...
Submitted by mvanhouten on December 15 2000 19:33:09
In reply to One quick point... submitted by Sprite on December 13 2000 00:30:26
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"I, personally, am looking for true love... In whatever form I find it... Perhaps... Indeed, in all likelihood, my search is in vain... But I must continue... I hope... And, eventually, I may pray that my search is concluded soon... The loneliness grows, each time I allow myself to dwell on it... I have to wonder... How many years do I have, before it becomes despair? And how many more, after that, before I can bear it no more?" That's a very sad, hopeless statement. So why do you put all kinds of artificial restrictions on your search for "true love"? I can assure you that the most loyal and prostylizing christians do NOT wait until marriage for sex, do NOT wait for that one true love. When they fall off the wagon, a quick prayer and its forgotten. (Some may look back and say they lived their lives that way, but that was only because they had a lack of opprotunities.) Is that statement a summation of what you and your philosophy offer to our community? You are so quick to tell us stories of abused children. We never hear the stories of young people who longed for something in their lives, something they really couldn't explain or understand themselves because they have no models or examples in their lives to put words to their longings. You can make all these same arguments with women's rights: point out stories of rape and physical abuse. Insist that women have less physical strength than men, and so women should always be under the control and protection of a husband, or father or brother or uncle. That is the basic idea justifying oppression in conservative moslem cultures, and these ideas still have many proponents in christian cultures. You won't allow yourself to think beyond the bullshit that you've been feed. If you want to break out of that loneliness you describe, you have to break away from the people who are always describing our lives in terms like "suspected sex offender." Many people HAVE left that life of loneliness and guilt behind. Including myself. |
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