My husband is like, "Why don't you and your SIL take the kids and go the park?" Uh, yea right! My own hometown is crawling with registered offenders, and not to mention the crime rate in my town, and surrounding towns has significantly increased just over the past 2 years. I don't know the statistics, but I can assure you that I have heard more upsetting headlines in the past two years, than in the last 4. I'd prefer to stay home, thanks. People can criticize me all they want, I'm going to stay home and make sure my Lord finds me waiting for Him to take me home.
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If the media scaremongering and sensationalism scare you that much, then why haven't you considered moving to an area with less crime and sex offenders as soon as possible? What kind of twisted God would rather you sit on your fat ass at home living in fear rather than living in peace somewhere else?
It was just normal paranoia until the last sentence.
One word: supervision. Watch over your kids, and they'll be fine.
"My husband is like, "Why don't you and your SIL take the kids and go the park?" Uh, yea right! My own hometown is crawling with registered offenders, and not to mention the crime rate in my town, and surrounding towns has significantly increased just over the past 2 years. I don't know the statistics, but I can assure you that I have heard more upsetting headlines in the past two years, than in the last 4."
So in short you don't want to be a parent and watch out for your kids while they play and have fun? Poor kids.
"I'd prefer to stay home, thanks. People can criticize me all they want, I'm going to stay home and make sure my Lord finds me waiting for Him to take me home."
You really think that the all knowing, all seeing creator of existence ain't gonna know you went to the park with your kids?
I'm growing so sick of your death cult...really, really sick of it...
People can criticize me all they want, I'm going to stay home and make sure my Lord finds me waiting for Him to take me home
Because God couldn't find you at the park?
"Hmmm I raptured all of my followers except for bride_of_christ. I wonder where she could be. Oh well..."
"She was mummified, in fetal pose. Covering the dead kids."
- Police report. 2008.6.9, Suspected murder/suicide.
"...I can assure you that I have heard more upsetting headlines in the past two years, than in the last 4."
I know you probably meant something else than what you stated, but you do realize that the last four years encompass the last two, right? So, how on earth could there have been less crimes in the longer time span when the crimes in the shorter time span are also included.
This one failed at mathematics.
I have heard more upsetting headlines in the past two years, than in the last 4.
I mean, I myself have not had any maths beyond high school, but I'm pretty sure that
If x is the number of 'upsetting headlines' in the past two years, then the number of upsetting headlines in the past four years is x + y where y is the number of upsetting headlines from before two years ago, but after four.
This means that for her statement, which is x > x + y , to be true, one would require that the number of 'upsetting headlines from three and four years ago be negative .
What the hell is a negative 'upsetting headline'?
"My husband is like, ..."
I didn't bother to read anything after that. Your husband is not "like", your husband said something to you.
Your kids are like, "Daddy, we're bored! Screw you, we're going to the park!"
Yeah my parents have gotten kinda paranoid about my going out past dark since I came home from college.
Never mind the creepers just outside the tiny campus at university.
Silly adults.
"Mom, can we go to the park?"
"Sorry kids, only pedofiles and deomons live outside. Jesus has told me to hide for my own safety and to not be a decent mother at all."
Woman, you probably have a better chance of a rapist or something coming 'into' your house and attacking your family than you do if you go 'outside' in 'public'.
So, your god can't find you if you're at the park...? Not quite the omnipotent, omniscient deity we've been told about now, is it?
Just cast the demons out of the pervs and your kids'll be safe on the swingset and the monkey bars*. Since there probably won't be pigs around, the demons you expel from the boy-craving homosexual couple (with a fresh marriage license from California, no doubt) will probably have to invade the local yuppies' dogs out on their afternoon walkies. But I'm sure little Timothy LaHaye Hezakiah is probably big enough even at his age to fend off a pedophilia-crazed chihuahua.
*Although "monkey bars" is rather problematic due to its evolutionary connotations. How 'bout we call them "praise cylinders"?
"Holiness Handles"?
So if the rapture comes, and your not at home, your screwed? You'd think that an all knowing god could find you at the park. But it's nice to see your filling your children with that dread and fear of yours. Let me know when they develop rickets.
Funny thing, they mentioned in the local paper that going by population a car is just as likely to be stolen in my town as it is in LA. Some flipped out about it, my response was, well I guess LA isn't as bad as I thought it was.
"my hometown is crawling with registered offenders" == I heard about one predator, like, five towns over, and I'm paranoid.
"But when did it become no longer possible to think of the BRITISH isles without the word PAEDOPH in front of it?"
- Chris Morris, "Brass Eye."
Here's an idea: take your kids to the park and watch them while they play to make sure questionable people do not approach them. A little fresh air an exposure to nature is actually a good thing.
Oh, and please - see a good psychiatrist. That level of paranoia must be crippling to your life. Go ahead. God will be able to find you even if you're away from the house. I promise.
If you're the bride of Christ, does that mean he told you to take them to the park?
And if so, you're disobeying your god...
Oh no wait, you mean the earthly husband you're cheating on Jesus with. Got it. And here I thought you people didn't approve of polygamy.
"A bit paranoid, but not a fundie."
Sorry what? I'm going to stay home and make sure my Lord finds me waiting for Him to take me home isn't fundie?
"if there really is that much crime where she lives then not going to the park isn't so crazy of a decision"
If there really is that much crime. The fact that she talked about her "town and surrounding towns" tells me that she doesn't live in the inner city and her fears probably do not reflect the actual danger of going outside. The fact that her husband doesn't see any problem with taking the kids to the park also tells me that her fears are unfounded.
Sex offenders don't go after kids who are under the direct supervision of an adult.
"My own hometown is crawling with registered offenders," I hate to break it to you, bride_of_christ, but there was probably JUST as high a percentage of convicted Sex Offenders in your hometown 50 years ago as there is today.
The only difference was, 50 years ago, we didn't require them to be publically registered.
Funny, my brother lives smack in the middle of Los Angeles, with all the creeps, gangs and criminals there. The riots of '92 happened only blocks from where he lived at the time. Yet he takes his kids out every chance he gets. Like any good parent he just keeps an eye on them, and teaches them about traffic safety and stranger danger. As a result, his girls are now growing up with an open mind, and memories of a happy childhood. Your kids are going to grow up scared of the world, and clueless on how to deal with these issues when they face them.
You sure do trust your Lord to take care of you, don't you?
What kind of crimes are we talking about? Shoplifting, embezzlement, smuggling?
If you are with your children at the park, and are two adults, you are probably perfectly safe. Or, ya know, the husband can take the kids to the park with his BIL, and you and your SIL can mend the car.
Actually, crime statistics across the U.S. are down significantly for 2010, except for cop killings, they're up.
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