theculturewarrior Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 Have you ever felt that way? I don't know why I do the things I do or say the things I say. I'm just weird! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onathing1 Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 yes, i have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetpea316 Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 Yeah. I don't make much sense either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photosynthesis Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 it is impossible to understand ourselves. it's just one of those mysteries of life! Only God really knows what makes us tick. and God doesn't think you're weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theculturewarrior Posted November 10, 2005 Author Share Posted November 10, 2005 [quote name='photosynthesis' date='Nov 10 2005, 11:34 AM'] and God doesn't think you're weird. [right][snapback]784812[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Are you sure? : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photosynthesis Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 [quote name='theculturewarrior' date='Nov 10 2005, 11:43 AM']Are you sure? : [right][snapback]784820[/snapback][/right] [/quote] well... perhaps He made you weird to teach other people a lesson about charity? or to teach you a lesson about humility? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theculturewarrior Posted November 10, 2005 Author Share Posted November 10, 2005 I learned something about life though! Accommodation is a two-way street. I have a right to reasonable accommodation according the ADA, but I have an ethical responsibility to accommodate the people around me, who may find talking jackets and mass email requests for personal affection unsettling. So, I may never be "sane," but I can try to act sane. It's still very embarassing. I'm not quite sure it was a question of sanity, just a question of maturity. (Well, sanity too). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photosynthesis Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 well, you can't change the past... it's good that you've become aware of this now so that you can be accomodating in the future. but at least you don't have the personality of a slice of toast! and at least you only have one personality! and at leasty your jacket is nice enough to talk to you, and he isn't locking you in the closet anymore I wonder what my jacket would say to me if it talked. probably something along the lines of "you smell really bad and you need to clean out your pockets more" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theoketos Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 Romans 7 13 Did the good, then, become death for me? Of course not! Sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin, worked death in me through the good, so that sin might become sinful beyond measure through the commandment.13 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold into slavery to sin. [b]15 What I do, I do not understand. For I do not do what I want, but I do what I hate.[/b] 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I concur that the law is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh. The willing is ready at hand, but doing the good is not. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want. 20 Now if (I) do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.21 So, then, I discover the principle that when I want to do right, evil is at hand. 22 For I take delight in the law of God, in my inner self, 23 but I see in my members another principle at war with the law of my mind, taking me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Miserable one that I am! Who will deliver me from this mortal body? 25 [b] Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with my mind, serve the law of God but, with my flesh, the law of sin.[/b] I think that St. Paul understood also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theculturewarrior Posted November 10, 2005 Author Share Posted November 10, 2005 Thanks for posting that, James. I guess when I start to feel like nobody understands, I can be comforted with the fact that I don't either! : Please pray for me. I'm going to be a "chat librarian." It's a service that the UT System offers. The thing is, I'm going to want so bad to tell my patrons about mister peterson, but I REALLY can't do that with this, and believe or not, I know this is going to be a source of temptation for me. I'm serious. I have to conduct myself very professionally! Yeah, I'm pretty weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theculturewarrior Posted November 10, 2005 Author Share Posted November 10, 2005 [quote name='Theoketos' date='Nov 10 2005, 03:09 PM'] [b]15 What I do, I do not understand. For I do not do what I want, but I do what I hate.[/b] [right][snapback]784985[/snapback][/right] [/quote] I usually do what I want to do and hate it when I find out it freaks people out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photosynthesis Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 [quote name='theculturewarrior' date='Nov 10 2005, 03:15 PM']Thanks for posting that, James. I guess when I start to feel like nobody understands, I can be comforted with the fact that I don't either! : Please pray for me. I'm going to be a "chat librarian." It's a service that the UT System offers. The thing is, I'm going to want so bad to tell my patrons about mister peterson, but I REALLY can't do that with this, and believe or not, I know this is going to be a source of temptation for me. I'm serious. I have to conduct myself very professionally! Yeah, I'm pretty weird. [right][snapback]784992[/snapback][/right] [/quote] what's a chat librarian? is that a librarian who chats with garments? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theculturewarrior Posted November 10, 2005 Author Share Posted November 10, 2005 : I'll be answering reference questions through a chat interface. No chatting with garments here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totus Tuus Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 I've about driven myself crazy in the past trying to figure out who I was. It seems impossible to know because we're always changing. I guess only God can know who we are and Who He is because he is unchanging, and unchangeable, and omniscent. But something we can strive for, I think, is striving to know [i]who God created us to be[/i].... I think there's some possibility in that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totus Tuus Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 Hmmm... and something else. I think we can all strive for sanity, but [b]not[/b] normalcy (yes, that is a word, coined by a POPE actually ) What do y'all think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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