{"id":585,"date":"2002-09-14T19:51:33","date_gmt":"2002-09-14T23:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=585"},"modified":"2002-09-14T19:51:33","modified_gmt":"2002-09-14T23:51:33","slug":"585","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><CENTER>Huh.&nbsp; Go figure \ud83d\ude09<\/CENTER><br \/>\n<CENTER>&nbsp;<\/CENTER><br \/>\n<CENTER><A href=\"http:\/\/boredesign.reallybites.com\/quiz\/alicequiz.html\" target=new><IMG src=\"http:\/\/boredesign.reallybites.com\/quiz\/cat.jpg\" border=0><\/A><BR><I>i tend to speak in riddles, and getting a straight answer out of me is indeed a notable moment. while i may act a little crazy, i am actually quite lucid and tend to be the voice of reason. my sanity is in a good balance with my insanity.<\/I> <BR><A title=\"we're all mad here\" href=\"http:\/\/boredesign.reallybites.com\/quiz\/alicequiz.html\" target=new>how mad are you?<\/A> <BR>this quiz was made by <A title=\"cracked but sweet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/piksy\" target=new>piksy<\/A><\/CENTER><\/p>\n<p><P>All right&#8230; no post yesterday.&nbsp; Sorry to all of those of you who came here desperately wanting to hear from me&#8230;.&nbsp; I hope you made it through.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I don&#8217;t know if this just happens to me, or if it happens to other people, but it is a strange thing that I notice from time to time.&nbsp; People, seemingly at random, seem to decide they don&#8217;t want to talk to me anymore for awhile.&nbsp; Generally they eventually seem to come back out of this state, but I don&#8217;t really understand it.&nbsp; There are a couple people right now that seem to be doing this.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I certainly don&#8217;t feel as though I have done anything to warrant it or anything&#8230; I the cases of one of them&#8230;.&nbsp; I hardly EVER see her&#8230;&nbsp; and her not talking to me has been, you know, on Instant Messenger&#8230; I see her on a lot&#8230; send her IMs a lot, but&#8230; she never responds&#8230;&nbsp; I don&#8217;t get it.&nbsp; But this is not nearly the first time it has happened.&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Anyway, in Systematic Theology I have been finding out that I largely disagree with portions of like all denominations.&nbsp; Anyway, my major disagreement with A\/G is this: the fact that anyone who has been divorced since conversion cannot become a licensed or ordained minister.&nbsp; And I&#8217;ll tell you why that bugs me.&nbsp; The basis of Christianity is forgiveness and the idea that God can change people.&nbsp; By saying that a person who has been divorced cannot be ordained, you are, either intentionally or unintentionally, exhibiting to people incomplete forgiveness.&nbsp; Because to me that communicates that the A\/G does not believe that God can use that person.&nbsp; In a sense, I can understand why they might make that policy, but I still do not agree with it.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Ummm.. all for now.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sick of writing \ud83d\ude09<\/P><br \/>\n<P>&#8220;<FONT face=Arial>Old friend, your horse&nbsp;is&nbsp;ready to ride when morning comes. From this church town where damning rumors drip from holy tongues.<BR><BR>And it won&#8217;t go away, <BR><\/FONT><FONT face=Arial>it won&#8217;t go away, <BR>it won&#8217;t go away.<BR><BR>The fever to find the scapegoat fast and fix the blame. <BR>I know you never meant to leave the way you came.<BR><BR>And it won&#8217;t go away, <BR>it won&#8217;t go away, <BR>it won&#8217;t go away.<BR><BR>Looking down from their stain glass steeples <BR>they&#8217;ll never know why you had to run. <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=Arial>Ride as fast as you can, they&#8217;re shooting to kill. <BR>Ride as fast as you can, they&#8217;re shooting to kill.&#8221;<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=Arial>-&#8220;Suspect Fled the Scene,&#8221; by Pedro the Lion<\/FONT><BR><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huh.&nbsp; Go figure \ud83d\ude09 &nbsp; i tend to speak in riddles, and getting a straight answer out of me is indeed a notable moment. while i may act a little crazy, i am actually quite lucid and tend to be the voice of reason. my sanity is in a good balance with my insanity. how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=585\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}