"Is there anything so sad as unrequited love"?
>From: "Snow Leopard" <juliet784@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
>To: virus@lucifer.com
>Subject: virus: Personally?
>Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 06:16:07 PST
>
>Hi, everyone!
>This is Joy. I’m the one who composes most of the “Snow Leopard”
>comments, in case you haven’t noticed. It was my idea to jion the
list.
>My primary co-cospirator is Nathan Russell, who visited this list over
>the summer, frussell@frontiernet.net, he’s on my side now.
>
>In case you’re interested, I scored INTP on your test, though usually I
>register as ENTP.
>Nathan registers as ISTP.
>
>So long as web-sites and personality types have entereed the
>discussion, I might add that I am a 15 year old student, female, who
>writes science fiction. If I ever get published, I’ll send everyone a
>copy- and don’t worry, it’s not the sappy sci-fi that CS Lewis put out.
>
>Anyone who’d like to drop in a personal bio, I’d like to know who I’m
>talking to.
>
>Also, I’d like to apologize for my spurting responses. Since I’m
shring
>the account, I need some approval from my friends here, and that means
>that based on oue scheldule, I usually can mail every other day,
>weekends excluded. I’m not trying to ignore anyone, and often I find
>myself wanting to respond, only to realize that the mail is three days
>old, and someone else has already resolved matters.
>
>In response to the question I began to answer Thursday, “What does
>Christianity mean to me”, I have to say:
>
>While the way people react does influence me to make generalized
>statements, personally, I’m very happy as a Christian. My best friend,
>imagiary or not, know everything, and everything about me, but loves me
>just the same.
>
>I feel like for everything that hurts another, I must make restitution.
>In any given situation, I usually have guilt (self- damage), another
>human who has been the victim of whatever I’ve done wrong this time,
and
>God, who loves the other person, and me and is deeply offended that I’m
>messing up his creation. It’s easy enough for me to forget or
>rationalize what I’ve done to myself. I can usually make up for what
>I’ve done to others, but God has to keep the gears of cosmic justice
>running smoothly, and must have a reason to forgive. I can’t provide
>that, but I have a Friend who can, (and did 2000 or so years ago.)
>
>To be perfectly honest, if I had to die for someone, I’d probably want
>something in return, and I’d want to get the most for my pains. All
>Jesus wants out of Christians is for us to be good people, as best as
>our fallible personalities can be, and for us to tell others, that they
>may find the same comfort.
>Life for life, I die for you, I want you to live for me.
>
>That is, by the way, the very same thing that Paul, Jesus, James and
>everyone else said about Christianity. Jesus said, “Blessed are you
>when you are persecuted for my sake.”
>
>That says:
>a) you’re going to do something for me
>b) people are going to give you a hard time
>c) I’ll make it worth your effort
>
>James says, “If you convert a sinner, you’re saving him from hell and
>covering a multitude of sins.”
>Appliying that to me, when I was Born Again, I was spared from Hell,
and
>God could no longer see a gret many shortcomings.
>_____________________________________________
>|“Following Jesus, making him the center of your life, trying to do the
>right |thing (as He would have you do).” -Nathan
>___________________________________________________
>I might add, my enlightened friends, the source of the word ‘sin’, at
>which many shutter, and a few laugh.
>It was an English archery turn for anything other than a bull’s eye.
>Sin simply means “To miss thee mark”
>Any of you who thinks you’re perfect, please let us know!
>
>
>
>PHAITH?
>Just because you have a different word, you’re never really going to be
>able to devide these things. Believe me, I’ve tried. There are few
>people who will ever admit to phaith(i), especially because it makes
>perfect sense to them. I’d also note that I haven’t seen the
definition
>of belieph, and if it’s meant true belief, I can’t see an oppposite.
>“Yeah, hi, I kind believe this, dude.” ???
>
>A pleasure communicating with such a vast intelligence as this
>Meme-fixated collective, to be sure.
>Thank you for taking the time to read my ramblings,
>Joy
>
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