Yes, big places of worship are always going to be red flags to those that choose to do evil and continue their selfish ways.
Tell me exactly how you conclude that I choose to do evil and what evil did I commit? Pretty wicked to accuse someone you never met as being evil dont you think?
If I could free all women from their chains in these clubs and all men from their chains to alcohol, I would do it. But only they can free themselves.
Only YOU think that they are in chains---they did not ask to be freed--in other words---again---mind your own business.
The only think I am talking about here is preserving a communities right to decide what kind of businesses that will be run in their own community.
I would most certainly not want a strip club in my neighborhood. I do not live in Stone Oak, I am closer to Alamo Ranch, but the fact remains, Strip Clubs will invite an element that I don't want around my neighborhood.
I am not trying to get those that are already open closed down. I am not trying to get alcohol banned. I am not trying to control anyone. But I will stand and protect my neighborhood if and when the time comes and I have to respect these people for doing the same.
Understood. Got no problem with you looking out for yourself. Yourself.
As for your personal questions regarding me, it is very simple. There was no outside source that rained judgment on me. I had always been torn in two directions. I wanted desperately to be a good man, but I also would not relinquish my selfish desires. For many years, I would go to church, then drop off my wife at home, only to get back in the car, and smoke marijuana on the way to the bar so I could drink excessively and watch football.
Why do you believe---or who convinced you that drinking,smoking and watching football were selfish desires? At least you still had a pair of balls back then. Somehow you were emasculated and became fearful of making yourself happy--you even became judgmental of yourself by calling your own actions selfish. Your wife could have joined you and had a blast---or she could have allowed you your space and not pressured you to live by her rules. IMO the only bad thing you did that you described --was going to church...now that will REALLY up someone trying to enjoy their life.
We have a dual nature. It is up to us individually to squash our evil side.
This is nonsense. Anyone can try to convince anyone else of what is and is not evil. Our nature is ---one thing and one thing only---and that is to love. Not receive, not make a grade, not go to heaven,not to avoid , not to follow some rules,not to do anything else---except to love. And when you reach a state of love you will see and be aware of what actions need to be done---you will have a clear picture of what to do and how to respond to any situation---you will not go on spouting about good and evil and dual nature and selfish desires ad nauseum---you will just follow your true nature...to love.
However, the only way that this can be done is to embrace our good side.
Nonsense.
I died, and was reborn. I remember my sinful ways, and temptation abounds all around. I grow stronger every day and resist at every turn.
Nonsense. Forgive yourself already and stop believing that stuff that you somehow have to repent---that is just religion trying to control you. Find out about love and you can drop religion and judgement altogether.
It has freed me and I am happier than I've ever been in my life.
Wait til you get a taste of reality--at first it will terrify you---but then it will open your eyes to love and you will never be the same again.
I am at peace.
I sense dishonesty here. If you are at peace you will have no desire to punish yourself and try to regulate your desires and continually make efforts in vain to become something more than what you are now---or something better.
I do not wish to control. I wish to help liberate.
Be careful what you try to liberate---be careful in trying to help others when you are still blind yourself...because then you will not be responding to another persons call for help---but rather your own agenda...in other words---do you see the world as it is ---or do you see the world AS YOU ARE???
Find the answer to that and you will refrain from helping others until your eyes are clear and you are in touch with reality.
People have the freedom to choose their own destiny. I would never claim to have the power or the influence to change that, nor would I want to.
First real thing you have said so far.
However, if I can help be an example, by the words I speak, and more importantly, by the path I walk, then maybe some will take notice and liberate themselves as well...walk the good path...save themselves much hardship and pain and suffering.
Again---misguided. If you do your own dance because that is who you are and someone benefits---OR NOT--it should not matter so just keep dancing away...but if you harbor the illusion that by doing this dance that someone will benefit and now--you have done some good---then you lost your way again...
You say you want an honest sinner...well I'm right here. I am no where near perfect, and all of you know that already...but I strive for perfection, and I will get closer to it, each day for the rest of my life.
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