Lonely Cactus
A life of punk, code and apathy
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Chastity
I was reading Micah Fries's blog, and came across his commentary on a recent study by the Guttenmacher institute that most everyone has premarital sex, and that it has been that way for many decades.
Micah, who believes in pre-marital abstinence, was chagrined. That blog's commentary was as to be expected, but, there was one comment by Lee Saunders that caught my eye.
It’s not a matter of whether or how we teach abstinence. It is a matter of spiritual formation. People practice principles and convictions that are their own. The problem is that what we see as "faith" in a lot of kids and young adults isn’t their faith, it’s their parents’ faith and as the influence and authority of their parents begins to fade and they become more independent, if they don’t "catch" it on their own, they lose sight of it.
Exactly. After 18 years in my mother's church, I learned their doctrines and beliefs, and I learned to pretend I believed them all. But in truth, I came away from it with "my faith" and "the faith I was supposed to have". I knew they were different, so I kept quiet about "my faith." As an adult, I stopped pretending to believe "the faith I was supposed to have."
The interesting question would then be this... Why did the church fail to successfully impart the whole of its doctrine into my heart?
Another interesting question would be this... If church taught me how to pretend I had no doubts, didn't it teach me to be a hyporcrite?
While I never had sex until I my mid-twenties, since then, I've had sex less often that I'd like, and with more people than I'd like to admit.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Last Post
Okay. Since you asked. I didn't write the last post. I got it off a random blog generator script.
So, for the record... I've never had a heroin problem, nor called anyone a bitch, as far as I can recall.
That is all.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Afterwards
I know nothing of how to be accepted yet I try my best to be sometimes.
But sometimes I just get totally awesome searches that make my day. Sometimes I cry when I got poo poo. I'm tired of feeling frustrated and just crying when im alone in my room.
Sometimes life is so hard. Oh no... not you to..... when I.... lived on the streets for a year and a half I had a herion prob to... geez, this is getting freaky, we have to much in fuckin common!
This is because I was tired/had too much Vodka and tried to rely on the boyfriend for directions. Okay, so why am I putting this on the Internet for God and everyone to read? Why or why not?
I am drifting away from everyone.
Is your faith now different from the one you were raised with? At the time I was pleased with what happened between us, but ever since I got home things got weird.
In lunch he asked me to walk him to class and since I usually walk up and down all over the school I did but Blue over here was cracking up saying he was my bitch, um, no.
