Yes, I am experiencing these same things. I feel so detached, I'm having a harder and harder time focusing on earthly things.
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On Sat. I went to a dollar store for something. After there I thought I'd buy a bookmark for a friend, not one thing with a cross or Jesus or a verse on anything, I left feeling surreal and detached....what am I doing here on this earth? I don't belong. Recently someone talked of camping....I don't want to go....talked of a concert...don't want to go...I'm not wanting to do anything but get closer to Jesus.
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I think this has been posted before.
DO SOMETHING with your life, rather than wasting it waiting for the end.
It isn't enough they can go to a christian bookstore for a jebus bookmark, or just make one (I think I know which book he has in mind), probably pick up all sorts of cross and jebus paraphernalia around the church, but the shit must be everywhere and in everybody's face or they're being persecuted.
*Runs in from out of frame, panting and grasping a piece of paper*
It took me like half an hour to find this, but it was so fucking worth it!
http://www.explosm.net/comics/1003/
And someone tell that guy to index his damn comics. Finding one is like traversing a linked list - It takes an average O(n) time, and it sucks.
I think I finally figured out what's wrong with these people (well one of certainly many things)! I think I can relate because i can become obsessive of various things as well. For instance I started watching the Sopranos in teh final season and subsequently I watched the entire series in about 2 weeks (haven't a clue how I found the time, but that's probably a contributing reason to that class I failed). In any case, they feel completely empty because Christianity is far too shallow to satisfy their needs. They obsess about their religion and want to know it all and be connected to it, but there's just not much there to appease such a desire. Inevitably this leads to the depressing and suicidal behaviors we see in the RR crowd. They've invented this Jesus party that could take place ANY MINUTE NOW!!!111 and that's really the only thing they have to look forward to because they've experienced everything else their religion has to offer. I almost feel sorry that their delusion is doomed to never come to fruition, It seems all these people really need is to just find a more interesting hobby(ies).
Hmmm, now I feel weird for using any sort of critical thought or reasoning to try to explain just what the Hell is wrong with these people.
As someone who has suffered from depression for many, many years, I recognise the signs, and losing interest in everything that makes a person happy and isolating one's self from friends and family (both of which seem to be present here), are definitely among them.
In all seriousness, please go see your doctor and get help. By all means, pray and develop yourself spiritually, but do something positive and take the initiative to help yourself as well.
Given the fact that A) none of this rapture shit is actually in the Bible, and B) the religious just love twisting things to suit what they want anyway, this post makes it obvious that we're not too far away from one of the RR inmates starting a thread with: "Hey you guys, i've been praying and I think what God really intends for us to do is show our devotion by going to see him first. Suicide party at my place!"
This is just sad. Wake up twinkle, you have a life, and I assume your health, and friends. Don't become an hero.
Jesus wouldn't waste his time writing messages like that. He'd be out feeding the homeless, helping out at a halfway house, etc.
If the people in the RR Death Cult would get over themselves and try to *be like Jesus*, then they'd be a lot happier (and productive).
So you suffer from depression, and the fact that stores aren't full of Christian crap you get more depressed?
There are many medications that help depressed people, seek help.
I know exactly how this person feels. I experience the same detached, unenthusiastic, lethargic thing as well. The difference between 'twinkle' and I though, is that I realised that I was clinically depressed and went about trying to do something to fix it, not just mope around pretending to be deeply religious.
If it's anyone else that you feel this way with, say Superman, you'd be in the asylum. But if it's Jesus, oh no, that's normal and healthy...
I'm going to start sounding like a broken record, but don't these people read their stupid book?
Revelations CLEARLY states that the rapture will come... (wait for it)...
WHEN NO ONE EXPECTS IT!!!!!!!
Keep expecting it and it'll never come... which is good for the rest of us who are trying to DO something with our lives. (In the meantime, please stay out of the workforce, jobs are hard enough to find in this economy.)
In short, keep up the good work.
Here’s a world just bursting with variety with wonderful, strange, terrifying, awful, beautiful things; things subtle and gross and you don’t want any part of it. You don’t want any part of being alive, of enjoying the nature that God ostensibly created, of drawing closer to family and friends.
No you WANT to die. You, who are healthy and presumably sound of mind, want to die to pass up additional chances at learning and doing new things.
It’s a slap in the face of a Holy God.
1. You expect to find a decent range of bookmarks in a dollar store? Are you nuts? Maybe it's different in the USA (where twinkle most likely lives), but here in Australia our equivalent of dollar stores are useless for getting such specific things as Jesus bookmarks. Go to a Christian bookstore, for crying out loud.
2. Even when Jesus knew He was going to get tortured and brutally killed the next day, He was still able to have a wild party with His mates. Do what He would do.
At least the last response in the thread is of another person saying "It sounds like you have serious depression. You can have a relationship Jesus and be healthy. Please talk to a doctor. *hugging icon*"
So I suppose there is help for this person. :)
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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