Damnation @ MindSay 
christianity
Two sins that will definately land you a hot seat in hell: Unbelief and Believing/teaching heresy.
A co-worker of mine commented today "Man, I hate Jehovah's Witnesses. Their so annoying" and in the same conversation "I'm not really a religious person. I don't really believe in all that."
So, I mused, if the JW's are going to hell for believing and teaching hersery and you are going to hell for unbelief, then it looks like your next door hell-neighbor and torture-mate could be a JW.
I don't know what's worse: spending an eternity in hell, period(!) or spending an eternity in hell with JWs?
I know it's mean and I'll probably get hazed for this one but, I thought it was funny, in a sad and pathetic way. How far has this world strayed from truth, and lo, we are condemned already.
NDosch
To live is Christ, to die is gain!
Phillipians 1:21
Prayers - Bekah, witnessing to JW's, Alicia, Wayne, Jack, Jenn
In this farewell
There’s no blood
There’s no Alibi
‘Cause I’ve Drawn Regret
From the truth
Of a Thousand Lies
So let Mercy Come
And Wash Away
What I’ve Done
I'll face myself
To Cross out what I’ve Become
Erase Myself
And let Go of What I’ve done
Put to rest
What you Thought of Me
While I clean this Slate
With the Hands of Uncertainty
So let Mercy Come
And Wash Away
What I’ve Done
I'll face myself
To Cross out what I’ve Become
Erase Myself
And let Go of What I’ve done
For What I’ve Done
I start again
And whatever pain may come
Today this ends
I’m Forgiving What I’ve Done!!!
I'll face myself
To Cross out what I’ve Become
Erase Myself
And let Go of What I’ve done
What I’ve Done
Forgiving What I’ve Done
****
Here we go for the hundredth time,
Hand grenade pins in every line,
Throw 'em up and let something shine.
Going out of my f**king mind.
Filthy mouth, no excuse.
Find a new place to hang this noose.
String me up from atop these roofs.
Knot it tight so I won't get loose.
Truth is you can stop and stare,
Bled myself out and no one cares.
Dug a trench out, laid down there
With a shovel up out to reach somewhere.
Yeah someone pour it in,
Make it a dirt dance floor again.
Say your prayers and stomp it out,
When they bring that chorus in.
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away.
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away.
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away,
Just to throw it away,
Just to throw it away.
I bleed it out.
Go, stop the show.
Choppy words and a sloppy flow.
Shotgun opera, lock and load,
Cock it back and then watch it go.
Mama help me, I've been cursed,
Death is rolling in every verse.
Candy paint on his brand new hearse.
Can't contain him, he knows he works.
F**k this hurts, I won't lie.
Doesn't matter how hard I try.
Half the words don't mean a thing,
And I know that I won't be satisfied.
So why, try ignoring him.
Make it a dirt dance floor again.
Say your prayers and stomp it out,
When they bring that chorus in.
****
AND HERE IN THE NIGHT
AS I FEEL THE INFERNO
I STARE IN THE DARK
THINKING WHAT IS ETERNAL
THE MAN OR THE MOMENT
THE ACT OR THE REASON
THESE THOUGHTS FILL MY HEAD
AS I CONTEMPLATE TREASON
OF DREAMS I HAVE HAD
AND DREAMS I HAVE PONDERED
WHEN LATE IN THE NIGHT
MY MIND IT WOULD WANDER
TO THINGS I HAVE DONE
AND THEN QUICKLY REGRETTED
WHILE DENYING VICES
MY LIFE HAD SELECTED
AND I THINK WHAT I'VE DONE
OR HAVE YET TO BEGIN
AND THE MAN I'VE BECOME
AND THE MAN THAT I'VE BEEN
NOW CAUGHT IN A WALTZ
WITH THE ETERNAL DANCER
I'M COURTED BY DEATH
BUT DEATH ISN'T THE ANSWER
I SAY
ALL I WAS
MEANT TO BE
COULD I
SUDDENLY
JUST DECIDE
NOT A THOUGHT
WOULD SURVIVE
COULD IT BE
MY LIFE'S WORTH
ENDED THERE
WITH MY BIRTH
IF I COULD SEE SOMEONE
WHO'S BEEN THERE BEFORE ME
AND TRADED HIS SOUL
FOR A MOMENT OF GLORY
HIS PENANCE OR MERCY
BY SPIRITS DEBATED
WHILE JUDGED ON A SCALE
THAT'S BEEN HEAVILY WEIGHTED
AND WHAT HAVE I DONE
COULD THERE BE SUCH A SIN
IN THIS MAN I'VE BECOME
IN THIS MAN THAT I'VE BEEN
NOW CALLING TO GOD
FROM THE PIT'S VERY BOTTOM
I PRAY HE FORGIVES
EVERY SIN I'VE FORGOTTEN
THIS DAY
AND WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT
THAT MY FATE IT WOULD CONJURE
THIS TWIST IN THE ROAD
ON WHICH I HAVE WANDERED
EACH VISION AND DREAM NOW
COMPLETELY DISMEMBERED
TO GIVE ONE'S WHOLE LIFE
AND FIND NOTHING'S
REMEMBERED
AND WHAT GOOD IS A LIFE
THAT LEAVES NOTHING BEHIND
NOT A THOUGHT OR A DREAM
THAT MIGHT ECHO IN TIME
THE YEARS AND THE HOURS
THE SECONDS AND MINUTES
AND EVERYTHING THAT
MY LIFE HAS PLACED IN IT
BETRAYED
BETRAYED
BETRAYED
THE THINGS I HAVE DONE
THE PLACES I'VE BEEN
THE COST OF MY DREAMS
THE WEIGHT OF MY SINS
AND EVERYTHING THAT
I'VE GATHERED IN LIFE
COULD IT BE LOST
COULD IT BE LOST IN THIS
COULD IT BE LOST IN THIS
NIGHT
although I would still like them back >.<
This is for everyone Christian and Non Christian alike. Sometimes don't you just feel like taking the Bible and bashing it over someone's head. The someone being anyone who preaches about it constantly?
I am an ordianed minister. I got ordained to help out a friend who was wanting a wedding blessed but didn't want a Christian minister. She was Pagan and I was Pagan.....so why not. I have been ordained now for a few years. I will perform: Baby Blessings/Namings, Coming of Age Rites, Weddings, Funerals, and Memorials. If you ask me nicely and I am in the mood for it I might even lead a Sabbat Ritual. Which this last one is very much not going to happen because I dont' like doing them. I don't care if your Christian, Pagan, or Worship the Pimpmunk ! If you need someone and your disconnected from your faith and dont' have a church, temple what ever I will help you out. If your Gay or Lesbian and can't find a ministor to bless your marriage or child or perform your funeral.......I'll help you out.
In otherwords, I dont' just cater to Pagans. Yes, the majority of the rituals I have done have been Pagan based but there a lot of folks out there that dont' feel the need to go to Church to Pray to God. They have the same theory as my Father and a good friend of mine who are Christian. If God made everything then everything is God's temple and I dont' have to go to one specific building to pray or worship him.
Anyway why the specific title? Well it is irritating not just here on Mindsay but all over the internet that you find this very nice ppl and they seem normal.......and then they open up their fingers (typing) and start spewing on a daily baises the Words of the Lord. It wouldnt' be so bad if it was done occasionally. But when you see it and have to read it every fucking day it is down right irritating! I understand that some of these ppl are doing it because they are very much into their spirituality and they aren't preaching at anyone particular and are more about writting about their lives. But come on if you were that Spiritual you would also understand it is irritating to others to have to constantly read about how this passage worked for you or that passage worked for this person. Then there are those who preach because they are fundies. Everything anyone does even others of their own Faith are devil incarnates simply because they dont' follow the exact same journey as the preachers are. They tell everyone they are sinners. My Gods we even had one jackass on mindsay tell someone that they were child abusers simply because they smoked! How insulting was that?!
What I am getting at here ppl is that internet preaching is getting very old. Many of us on the internet aren't Christian and don't follow the same path as others. We dont' mind learning or reading about the Bible passages or the history. It gives some of us great joy in taking the passage you use and going to OUR bibles and finding another passage that tears your passage to peices with how hypicritcal the "Good Book" really is. It also gives those of us another learning tool to use. But it irritates the Hell out of us when we have to constantly read the passages. Especially by those "spiritually blessed ministers" who use a blog to try and convert, dam, or blast those who are not of their faith! Or the ones that go into a religious specific chat room.......which states Islamic, Pagan, NA Indian, Buddist or the like.......and do the same things! Or the ones that go to search sites specifically set up to get others of non main stream religions in touch with others of their like........those ppl are the worst! They go to these sites and start nabbing names and sending out emails trying to convert or dam ppl from that site! Do you see any others really doing this besides the Christians? Not really. I am sure they are out there but the Christians are the worst when it comes to Internet preaching.
I live in a town on the Western Edge of the Bible Belt. There are more churchs in this town then schools! And I have not been preached too, accosted, or told that I am sinning in this town. But the more I am on the internet the more times I have been told I am sinning, I am going to hell or I am outside of "God's" order and therefore am dirty. What these Internet Preaches dont' seem to understand is that they don't have to outright preach to anyone, their constant blogging about anything and referring it to their Faith is equivalant to them preaching! Giving a good message that relates to any faith .....now those I don't mind They are helpful to everyone.
Internet Preaching is getting old and down right hateful towards anyone who doesn't believe in the same things as the preachers do........when are ppl going to realize that you can be a minister and that you dont' have to preach? It is much easier finding a "flock" and "sheperding" them if they actually want to "hear" the words you are spewing from your fingers instead of overloading those who may not be sure on what journey of spiritual life they want to be on! You're setting yourself up for those who aren't sure to turn on you and you becoming hateful towards everyone that is not what you preach. You're setting yourself up to be hated by other spiritual folks because they are the ones that are trying to be good ppl and actually trying to find those that are truely looking for a spiriutal journey and not those who are doing it to be the "in" thing to do.
Stop preaching over the internet and use your spiriutal words for helping those who want the assistance of your widsom!
God modelled a mate
From Adam's ribs
While he slept one day
And Eve was born
Into Paradise
As Adam's playmate
Queen of her kingdom
She ruled her world
And the whole of creation
You can have it all, said God
But don't taste the apple
From the tree of life
The snake came
Slithering around
Tempting Eve
With the fruit
And she ate it
As Adam slept
He awoke
To a lot of trouble
And a kingdom lost
He inhereted
A painful world
Full of sins and death
As Paradise dissolved
Eve liked to rest
When he went to work
To earn the bread with his sweat
While she reigned at home
As a queen of Sheva
Until she invented modernism
In the sixties
Becoming her own boss
In her life and all
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