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 Author Thread: Found what I sought, now it's time to go!
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 1 (view)
 
Found what I sought, now it's time to go!
Posted: 12/11/2006 5:02:46 AM
Thanks to POF and all the folks here. I cruised around this pond for awhile and the perfect fish jumped right in my boat! Time to make my exit. Thanx All!
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 194 (view)
 
What is the dream message you want to see in your inbox?
Posted: 10/3/2006 11:46:04 AM
At this point almost any message showing some level of interest would be nice.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 60 (view)
 
Are some people meant to be alone forever ?
Posted: 9/23/2006 11:24:08 AM
I'm firmly convinced some people ARE meant to be alone. I don't know what the reason is, or which pantheon of gods demands it, but I think it's true. I've been trying for 12 years since my last relationship and I'm getting nowhere fast. Nobody contacts me, nobody responds to the mail I send out, nobody even puts me on their "favorites" list. My luck in r/l is the same. I'm either invisible or frighteningly repulsive, because women won't give me the time of day. I don't know why it is and I'm getting really tired of it.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 31 (view)
 
Living in a small town
Posted: 9/18/2006 2:09:35 PM

I havea an idea why don't you make looking for a good woman into some kind of radio contest. Have to woman come to you.


Unfortunately in radio, as in all other businesses, I have to get approval from the man upstairs before I do any kind of stunts. Besides my primary show is almost entirely aimed at the male, 30-55 market, and that's not exactly the kind of action I'm looking for.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 11 (view)
 
Living in a small town
Posted: 9/15/2006 7:09:58 PM
I live in a string of small towns (pop. 18,000 or less) in North Central IL, all along the I-80 corridor. I've had the worst luck trying to find someone here. It's ironic, because I'm a radio DJ here, and people recognise my voice all the time, and a whole lot of people know who I am--but for some reason, finding a nice, single girl around my age, with a job, decent personal hygiene, a few ounces of brain matter, and without 3 kids by 3 different fathers is next to impossible. I'm only about 2 hours from Chicago but that's too far, IMO, to really get some kind of relationship going--and most of the women in Chicago seem to agree, with their distance restrictions.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 43 (view)
 
Should a Person Simply Give Up Trying To Date? If So, When?
Posted: 9/10/2006 4:26:46 PM

For the sake of this conversation, being alone takes it's toll on you too. I have a great family with loving parents. Pretty much all my friends are married off with kids. I do get them out sometimes and actually manage to stay quite busy, so it's not so much boredom or loneliness. For me I think it's getting old always being secondary. I'm noone's number one priority and noone is mine. Noone really knows or cares when I'm doing not so great and noone knows or cares when I'm doing oh so great. Noone (except my parents) likes to do things with/for me that they wouldn't normally do just to make me happy (I am kind of in a poor me mode here. My apologies). It just feels like most of what I do is what others want and what makes them happy unless I want to do my thing alone, and that just ain't so much fun.....and I'm getting very irritated by it all.


This is pretty much where I'm at too, except most of my family has passed and the rest live far enough away I can't see them very often. I live with two friends who happen to be a couple, but they're ALWAYS busy with work, school, each other, and hanging out with other couples. I'm the only single person in my entire circle of acquaintances. Everyone else has a significant other, and I feel sometimes that nobody knows quite what to do with me--so usually they ignore me and go on about their lives. It's been months since I actually had a fun night out with friends. So, with no dates, and no friends who want to spend time with me, and no close family, I'm very much alone here... And this is why I have to wonder why I even bother to try anymore.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 62 (view)
 
Agressive females (when she makes the first move)
Posted: 9/10/2006 8:46:46 AM
Personally I like it when a girl searches me out and makes the first move. It really makes a guy feel wanted. Besides, I'm tired of asking and getting shot down.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 37 (view)
 
Should a Person Simply Give Up Trying To Date? If So, When?
Posted: 9/10/2006 8:42:38 AM
I'm just about there. After 12 years without a relationship, 7 months since my last brief date, and not a peep of response from anyone (I can't even get on anyone's "favorites" list) I'm starting to think there really isn't anyone for me. And spare me the crap about "finding someone when you least expect it". If that had any grain of truth something would have happened for me by now.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 88 (view)
 
40 year old virgin question?
Posted: 9/10/2006 8:36:00 AM
"I respect anyones choice to wait until marriage or some kind've committment but to be over the age of 40 and not of experienced this connection is just simply odd and does cause others to speculate quite a bit as to why???? "

Boy, I love the polite attempt at saying "You're a demented freak".

But seriously I'm just about 32 and still a virgin, largely because there's nobody I've met yet that I wanted to have sex with. No relationships, maybe dating once or twice a year, and nobody who wants to be with me. It's not that I don't want to, I just want the right person--and as slowly as my dating life goes I'm doubtful I will ever meet that person
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 4 (view)
 
There is someone on here for you!
Posted: 9/3/2006 9:35:23 PM
Suuuuuuuure there is. Just like leprechauns are real and there's a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow. I've been looking 13 years with no luck at all, ANYWHERE. Online, real life, zero, zip, nada. I'm glad things worked out for the OP but I've pretty much come to the conclusion some people are meant to be alone. I swear, sometimes the almost foolish levels of optimism are enough to turn my stomach...
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 100 (view)
 
Am I the *ONLY* one who hasnt found their fish here? lol
Posted: 8/10/2006 11:27:06 AM
I certainly have found no fish at all here. But then I dwell in the dark, cold depths where fish are few and far between (at least fish who approve of my lifestyle). But I'm not changing anything. As far as I'm concerned I don't need to be modified to fit someone else's tastes, so I'll wait here in the shadows and hope I find someone who isn't afraid of the dark.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 7 (view)
 
short and bald, will I ever date again?
Posted: 8/10/2006 11:20:49 AM
I hate to see a fellow Nighthawk in pain (most of my friends know me as such). I say, make the bald thing work for you. Get a Harley (low rider if you're that short), shave what's left of your hair, grow a beard, reinvent yourself. I don't know anyone who's ever gone wrong with that look.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 37 (view)
 
Why are you on here?
Posted: 8/9/2006 4:39:17 PM
I'm here to look for what doesn't exist, at least not where I live; that of course would be true love. Unfortunately I live too far from the most well-stocked streams and rivers around and cannot take full advantage of the good fishing until I find the necessary resources to move away.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 13 (view)
 
What is it that you atheists/agnostics like about Christianity?
Posted: 8/5/2006 5:34:36 PM
I like Jesus. He's the original liberal hippie.

Too bad so many people who claim to speak for Him are a$$bags.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 139 (view)
 
eHarmony...STAY AWAY FROM THIS SITE!!!
Posted: 8/5/2006 5:22:24 PM
I had briefly joined way back about 4 years ago when they first started getting off the ground, and you could sign up and do the questionnaire thingy without paying at all (though like all pay sites you still had to pay to send or recieve emails). I was on there about 4 months, got 1 whole match from someone about 600 miles away(?!?) who would most definitely NOT have been a good match. I quit for awhile, went back, and after filling out the profile, they told me I'm one of their Untouchables, the percentage they can't match at all. But that's okay. Yahoo and Match.com are just as bad. Actually, I think it's kinda funny how many good caring Christians there are here, both of the progressive/liberal and "conservative" variety (BTW "conservative" and "Christian" don't really go together very well; the very dictionary definition of "conservative" is decidely un-Christ-like) who can't seem to find a match. I'd think you'd at least have an easy time finding someone who shares your religious views. Imagine how tough it must be for someone of a polytheistic Pagan persuasion like myself. I've gotten kind of used to being a pariah, but it sure can be lonely when you want someone to cuddle with--especially when the rest of the world, from TV to newspapers to radio all seem to mock you for being alone.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 4 (view)
 
Anyone else hoping to experience love at first sight?
Posted: 7/26/2006 4:43:33 PM
I just want love. I don't care if it's 1st, 2nd or 1,354,679th sight. I just want it to hurry its ass up and find me.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 85 (view)
 
Has POF been useful for you??
Posted: 7/21/2006 7:02:33 PM
Thanks cap'n, glad to know I'm not the only one kicked out of that port! May your scales never rot and may the seagulls leave you alone!
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 83 (view)
 
Has POF been useful for you??
Posted: 7/21/2006 6:48:38 PM
Hasn't really been useful, no. I've had 1 date since I started here in October. But I'm actually pretty used to this kind of thing nowadays. I used to pay for dating sites, to no avail, getting no responses to my emails and getting no mail from others. Then I'd get ready to kill my profile and cancel my subscription and suddenly get mail, as if by magic, from people who didn't really exist. Pure BS. I even tried that one, you know, where they do the personality test and match you according to that. They couldn't even find me a match AT ALL. Apparently I fall into the "20% of applicants that cannot be matched to anyone in their system" (although why they can't just match the others in that 20% with each other I don't know) and they won't even let me set up a profile because I'll "bring their success rate down" (their words, not mine). On the plus side, I'm a unique individual not quite like anyone else, which is a good thing, unfortunately unique=lonely. So no. No success for this one. Mostly I peruse the forums but even that has lost its luster in recent months and I don't visit as much as I used to. If I can't get what I want, why bother?
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 18 (view)
 
Non-Religious Person dating a Jehovah's Witness
Posted: 7/3/2006 11:46:33 AM
I'd simply say don't do it. Two people of incompatible religions are destined not to be happy together. Been there, tried that--which is part of why I have such trouble finding a girlfriend
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 12 (view)
 
Illinois?!
Posted: 6/30/2006 2:52:38 PM
I guess "decent" means "built like Tyson Beckford, rich like Trump, and generally as perfect as can be". In that case, I'm not only INdecent, I'm stepping on the edge of profane...
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 55 (view)
 
Would you go back to 16 again?
Posted: 6/25/2006 7:10:12 PM
killerdogsmooch(d2097087) on 6/25/2006 657 AM

Dude, real or not, that's awesome. Definitely thinking outside the box. I'm told there are meditiative ways to "edit" one's life history but I've never figured them out.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 31 (view)
 
Would you go back to 16 again?
Posted: 6/22/2006 6:48:48 PM
Hell, I'd go back all the way ot 6 if I could. Maybe even 4. Far as I'm concerned my life has been one mistake after another, and nothing good is coming of it. So yeah, the chance to re-boot my life would be something I would go for, hands-down.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 239 (view)
 
Men posing with cars
Posted: 6/17/2006 7:25:47 PM
Well if I had a car worth posing with, or an airplane, or maybe even a nice boat, I'd have no problem posting it. Some folks are simply proud of their cars, and proud of themselves that they can have the car they want. There's nothing wrong with that. It's not all about "compensating for your shortcomings"; sometimes a nice car is just a nice car. And some of us, well, like our cars. Why over-analyze?
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 50 (view)
 
She dresses to the hilt
Posted: 6/17/2006 7:19:41 PM
What are these "clubs" you speak of? I live in BFE; there are no such places. Is it some kind of zoo for humans? A place where trained people go to perform for each other, and then in the end remain separated by virtual bars and enclosures? Sounds like a lousy kind of place to find a mate.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 11 (view)
 
is this weird?
Posted: 6/15/2006 5:57:15 PM
That was in rsponse to 6&7...
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 9 (view)
 
is this weird?
Posted: 6/15/2006 5:56:39 PM
^^^Wow. I've had the opposite experience. I dated a girl (very briefly) some years ago who got really upset with me that I hadn't immediately yanked my profile off a site after our first meeting. As far as she was concerned, it was a form of cheating, whether or not I was actually talking to anyone else (I wasn't).
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 3 (view)
 
plz tell me why there r no serious men out here
Posted: 6/14/2006 11:04:44 AM
There are. A lot of us are in the U.S., browsing this site, sending out unanswered emails and wondering why there are no serious women out there--and when we do happen to meet one, we wonder why she'll have nothing to do with us.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 149 (view)
 
Dixie Chicks and freedom of speech
Posted: 6/12/2006 2:10:35 PM
I wouldn't worry about them. Their records are selling like hotcakes and their tour, while not doing the best it could in some of the more conservative venues, is doing quite well in other places like Chicago and Toronto (sold out in 8 minutes and a second show added). And I can say with some authority, as someone who works in country music radio, we ARE playing the Chicks (although not the newest single yet) and we aren't getting any complaints. In fact it seems more country stars are joining in their disillusionment with this administration--Tim Mcgraw and Faith Hill (mainly due to the mishandling of Katrina), Merle Haggard (over the illegal wiretaps among other things), even their "arch-enemy" Toby Keith admitted last year the Iraq war, and his initial support for it, were wrong. So the times, they are a-changin'. We'll see how things play out.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 20 (view)
 
i need some advice peeps
Posted: 6/12/2006 1:37:01 PM
Sue him for child support.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 141 (view)
 
WHY WOMEN DON'T RESPOND: A REBUTTAL
Posted: 6/9/2006 8:34:29 PM
I'm with Rabbitman. There's only so much unrewarded effort a man, or any human being for that matter, can put into something before he seriously questions whether or not there's even a point to trying. I'm only at 77 on this site but I've been at this internet thing now for six years on different sites with the same lack of success; twelve years overall on the dating scene. I'm seriously wondering if I'll ever find what I'm looking for, or if I'll end up living alone in a run-down apartment somewhere never leaving my home except for work and food, surrounded by cats as I sit up at night listening to Coast to Coast AM...

I dunno. I think my friend and radio colleague Cowboy says it best:

"If you don't pet the dog once in awhile, he won't stay on the porch."

Hell I don';t know what's going on. It's been a long and disappointing day and I'm rambling.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 33 (view)
 
Honesty and Kinks in Profiles
Posted: 6/6/2006 11:11:47 AM
There's nothing wrong with a little kink. But there's also something called decorum, and openly broadcasting your every little desire to the world at large not only can turn people off, it could also get you in a bit of trouble. Personally I have to know someone REALLY well and have a good idea of how things are going in a relationship before I'm ready to talk about my odd sexual quirks. It almost goes without saying that very few people (maybe 2 in the whole world) know about them... And unless I find that great person I really want to have a relationship with, maybe even spend the rest of my life with, nobody else is going to know. And frankly, I like it that way.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 32 (view)
 
He Loves Everything About You, Except Your Cat
Posted: 6/2/2006 11:08:05 PM
Cats are great. I've always been more of a cat person than a dog person. Dogs are sycophantic and codependent. Cats don't mind telling you where to go. Unfortunately with cats those of us who collect various things for display must find creative ways to keep the cats away from said things...
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 58 (view)
 
Loners - what gives ?
Posted: 6/2/2006 11:26:00 AM
I'm moving toward loner-hood, but as some have said, not really by choice. Fact is I try and try and just don't get anywhere. After your tenth or your twentieth or fiftieth attempt to even get someone to talk to you you start to expect failure. Soon after that you stop wanting to even play the silly game, and at a certain point giving up on love and being alone is just a hell of a lot easier than going out looking for more punishment. There's an old saying: "When you're already in a deep hole, stop digging". I'm very close to throwing my shovel away.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 20 (view)
 
Eight Times
Posted: 6/2/2006 11:12:01 AM
I say dump the bum, concentrate on your education and career for awhile, and play the field in the process. I think you'll learn a lot more about yourself and what you really want.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 38 (view)
 
Alone too long??
Posted: 5/13/2006 1:21:02 PM
Sounds about the same as me. Been what, 13 years now without any serious relationship, and really nothing that's gone beyond a few, very boring, dates. I send out messages and get nothing back. Only 2 people have ever contacted me here since I started six months ago... One met me once and stopped talking to me for reasons unknown, and the other is much too far away, and not really looking for someone like me. So far I'm not even on anyone's "favorites list". If one believes in destiny one could say mine appears to be a life alone... And yet for some reason I keep trying. Isn't that one of the definitions of insanity? Trying the same thing over and over expecting different results?
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 88 (view)
 
Do nerds actually have girlfriends?
Posted: 5/9/2006 5:57:55 PM
^^^"Maturity" is a subjective term, and what you might call "maturity" I might call "dead inside".
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 83 (view)
 
Do nerds actually have girlfriends?
Posted: 5/6/2006 10:17:53 PM
I'm a nerd. Maybe more of a geek. Dork? Perhaps. I get paid to be a fool, it's my profession. So far I get zero. Zip. Nada. No dates, no emails except from people who are too far away even if they were really interested. Do nerds actually have girlfriends? Maybe some do, but for me it seems there ain't none to be had.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 35 (view)
 
Don't you hate it? Or am I the only one!
Posted: 5/6/2006 7:12:13 AM

quit looking and then love will find you. ;)

Posted By: SugarPlum11 on 5/5/2006 805 AM



Boy, that's a load-and-a-half of horse manure.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 92 (view)
 
How does a tubby man get a girl?
Posted: 5/6/2006 7:03:50 AM
In my experience the tubby man NEVER gets the girl. Just the short end of the stick.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 22 (view)
 
Does this qualitfy as not interested ?
Posted: 4/28/2006 8:48:02 PM
Eh. What's the point in getting riled up? Sure it's BS. But there's nothing you can do about it. You can't MAKE people love you, and if someone wants to be a sh*thead they're gonna be a sh*thead regardless of what you do. They probably don't even realize they're being sh*theads. Better off moving on. You'll either find someone, or you'll go through enough hell that you just give up trying altogether. Either is better than being arrested because people think you're a psycho.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 705 (view)
 
Why are you single?
Posted: 4/28/2006 3:21:20 AM
If I knew the answer to this question, chances are I wouldn't be single! But seriously, I think it's because I'm kind of an odd person who's looking for someone close to my own level of oddness.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 16 (view)
 
why do people post dark mystery pic's
Posted: 4/28/2006 3:14:30 AM
Because I'm dark and mysterious?
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 13 (view)
 
Does this qualitfy as not interested ?
Posted: 4/26/2006 12:58:18 PM
Leafchick, I agree, this does seem to be rather common... Earlier this year I went through a similar situation. We were taking things VERY slowly, only met in person once, and we were set to meet again when she suddenly disappeared. But I think it's not just POF, but the Web in general. I've had a lot of lousy experiences web dating thus far. Hell, maybe it's just something wrong with people...
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 2 (view)
 
WYHT user depressed
Posted: 4/14/2006 11:04:07 PM
I'm not even sure what WYHT is.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 7 (view)
 
Where to meet people?
Posted: 4/13/2006 1:22:56 PM
If I knew that I wouldn't be here
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 24 (view)
 
3 wishes............
Posted: 4/13/2006 12:56:49 PM
1. To make enough money to retire young, travel the world, and maybe get into the burgeoning private space travel industry.

2. To find that special someone who might join me in said adventures, and perhaps the adventure of starting a family.

3. Fast cars, faster airplanes, and endless, wide-open, star-filled night skies.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 18 (view)
 
Doesn't anybody DATE anymore?
Posted: 4/13/2006 12:34:03 PM
I'm surprised people actually meet people. So far I've only ever met one person from this place, and I've had exactly three "dates" in the last year. Not exactly what I'd call a resounding success... Actually I'm getting pretty sick of the whole thing...
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 36 (view)
 
If You could be with ANYONE in the world FOREVER who would it be ?
Posted: 4/12/2006 5:40:59 PM
I can't think of anyone. Is that bad??
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 167 (view)
 
Godless Liberal + Christian Conservative = ?
Posted: 3/31/2006 2:34:56 AM
Designingwoman,

I'm of the opinion, based on experiences I've had, that Heaven and Hell are what we as individuals make of them. I believe animals have souls, the Earth and the Universe around us are alive, and that there's a good case for reincarnation. (It's been suggested I might come back as a bear. I can live with that.) I also believe in the existence of Jesus, and perhaps even His divinity, and certainly His philosophy. What pains me so is not the teachings of Christ, but that so few "Christians" seem to truly follow them. The whole concept of a "Christian Conservative" is to me, an oxymoron--Jesus was the very model of the radical Socialist liberal. When one reads the Gospels one finds He cared very little about sex and "morality", at least not the "morality" of the current times. He cared very much about the poor, the sick, the corruption of His people by moneyed interests and aristocracy. He drove the money changers from the temple. He told the rich to give up their wealth and take care of the impoverished. He came not to control us, but to enlighten us--with the simple truth that we all have to share this little rock floating in the stars, and there's a better way to do it than exploiting and killing each other for bits of land and pieces of gold. There are plenty of Christians who will agree on this--but turn around and give power to conservatives who undermine these basic, and truly Christian values, because those conservatives espouse a philosophy of "morality" that controls women, discriminates against gays and people of other faiths, and makes it all okay to do so. They give up their power of individual thought and action, which is one of the greatest gifts given to us by the Source of all things, whether you call It God, Jesus, etc. To me this is a grave betrayal of Jesus and His teachings, and why I have rejected the larger whole of Christianity.
 BlackbirdXIII
Joined: 11/20/2005
Msg: 159 (view)
 
Godless Liberal + Christian Conservative = ?
Posted: 3/30/2006 5:52:50 PM

Why hate Christians so much when you have the whole world to love and be with.


1. Because Christians did their best to twist my mind when I was a kid. Initially raised Catholic I spent some time with a Protestant youth group, where I was treated like dirt for not being "Christian Enough", and where I witnessed the outright brainwashing of children too young and impressionable to know better and make their own informed choices. Luckily for me I kept my head, but I also learned how not to trust.

2. Because Christians want to control what I see and hear and say, in the name of "decency".

3. Because Christians think I need to be "re-educated" for believing in evolution and psychology and science in general. Not that I believe science has every answer, but at least there's evidence to back it up besides "Sky-God told me so in his Bible". Whichever Bible that is; it's already been demonstrated there really is no one "true" Bible. Written by men, manipulated by men, marketed by men. Men have agendas. Real spirituality and true faith doesn't need an ad agency.

4. Because Christians tell me, upon learning I am pagan, pro-choice, pro-gay rights and pro-separation of church and state, that I am going to burn in Hell for eternity. Some particularly crazy individuals have threatened to send me there. Not that I really care what they think, but I'd sure like them to shut the hell up and leave me alone.

5. Because despite over 80% of Americans calling themselves Christian, and having solid conservative Christian control of all three branches of the federal government (which is rotting with corruption--how Christ-like!) AND gleefully and un-apologetically chipping constantly away at the separation of church and state Christians somehow find the unmitigated gall to declare that THEY are the ones being persecuted in this country. Look up Sen. Sam Brownback some time, and read about his stated vision for destroying the United States as a "nation" and turning it into an entirely Christian community under strict Biblical law. Seriously. I'm not kidding about this. He wants to be President. Look it up.

The whole thing comes down to hypocrisy and control of the teeming masses. Politically, intellectually, economically there's a race to the bottom of the barrel in this country and the Rabid Right uses "Christian" moral wedge issues to keep people stupid and get them to vote against their own best interests-- "I ain't got no job, no education, no money, no health care, no future--but it's okay 'cuz queers can't get married! Guffaw!" If it keeps up like this we'll be a third-world theocracy in no time. And since Christians are firmly in control (despite their howls to the contrary), as far as I'm concerned they can take most of the blame.
 
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