Comments for the most heartless man to ever own a pulse…

Comment on oneward and upward by themagicmouse - Kate

themagicmouse - Kate — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:21:29 +0000

I’ve been thinking for some time about how to respond to your thoughts on religion. This is mostly because I wanted to respond immediately to things I felt were incorrect, but I wanted to understand why I felt they were incorrect before I responded to you.

My thought, then, that I would like to propose to you is that it ISN’T the religious structures that are the necessary features of your faith. In fact, some structures inhibit your ability to grow in your faith at all. Rather, it is the UNDERSTANDING that is important.

For example: You have the understanding already that it is your responsibility for what you do and do not do, and that no bearded, bleeding crowned man wearing white robes can change that. And in fact, that is what the Christian faith does teach.

However, here’s the thing: the Christian faith also teaches that we are no longer bound by those flaws. Now, the symbols here are not what are important. The structure that came to be to facilitate spreading this message are not what is important. It is the UNDERSTANDING that is the real conversion… because by each shift in your understanding you are converted and become someone entirely new. You are reborn — baptized, even.

I am not messaging you to ask you to come to the light and be saved. But what I will ask you is to consider the idea that there is a God. And that by that recognition and subsequent action you are “saved”. That is, you move in such a way that you continually remember God — love — and in all of your experiences come to know what love is more and more until you are united with it — that is, you die.

It is just a thought. But, as I finally have a clear enough idea of what it is I wanted to say, I felt that it was worth it to share.

Comment on ignore this post, it is the same as the others by Miss Spin

Miss Spin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:29:49 +0000

This post has really affected me. Comparing depression to the rise and fall of the sea; finding yourself in a swell. It’s just so well put.

I was also in that room. Sometimes I go back there. It isn’t always easy to find a convincing mask.

I’m thinking I should invest in a pedal-boat!

Comment on intent measured. by Jensen

Jensen — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:40:26 +0000

Distractions are right! I’m working on reading as a form of growth toward the light. I’m writing a follow up to this feeling.

I’m both glad and sad that you feel the same way.

Comment on intent measured. by Patty

Patty — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:36:31 +0000

Glad to have found your blog.
Shit. I know how you feel. I dunno what to say. The same stuff has been going through my head for the past years, in tiring, tedious intervals. The worst is that it comes in bouts – never long enough to give you that last push to finish it, but too long to just ride that dark tidal wave (cliché!!) out… it’s always a war that you go out and fight, over and over again, and always you return, broken from fighting, barely any time or energy left to lick your wounds before the next battle starts, but just long enough to make you think it might have had stopped for good. It’s draining.
I dunno what to do either. My pills are working, but not perfectly. I am in this indifferent, dead inbetween stage, only open to expand downwards, not upwards. I am just seeking distractions. Keep your chin up. x

Comment on coast. by Jensen

Jensen — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:24:38 +0000

thank you so much.
it really was a place I felt free. few places make me feel free.
joy. write about your favorite film!

Comment on coast. by squarebrackets

squarebrackets — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:24:35 +0000

[yeah it actually sounds amazing,
the way you describe it, it sounds
like the kinda place your mind
just slows down]

Comment on kissing? really? by squarebrackets

squarebrackets — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:20:45 +0000

[yeah I believe it can definitely work,
me and a friend of mine have been
down that road and we're still pretty
cool]

Comment on new page by toytose

toytose — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:45:36 +0000

Richie, I was wondering.. do you use Badoo.. or have you heard of it? Is it a dating site?… I signed up because I wanted to meet people in Paris.. but I get a feeling its a creepy dating site. ick.

Comment on men – royalist pig-bastard dick-swinging slug-heads that we are… by Chloë

Chloë — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:09:44 +0000

SDB is amazing. you need to read the female eunuch too.

Comment on Wide Sargasso Sadness by S

Fri, 08 May 2009 12:12:29 +0000

Very perceptive…
There really is nowhere to run from yourself- much better to make friends with it, become familiar with it, adapt to it.
I wish you continued insight, focus, clarity… and some serious, good old-fashioned fun!
Missed chatting with you last night- I owe you coffee too! When I’m well…