I gave up the message boards. After today, I will not be posting on Ksite or Divine Intervention at all until after Easter nor will I be visiting them. And even then....we'll see. I will be on livejournal now and again because I like all of you very much and I like sharing with you. But the boards were becoming toxic for me and I needed to purge them from my life. I wasted too much time defending things on the boards that frankly...I needed to just walk away from
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I feel similarly about the boards, but I've almost purged them from my life completely already. I have a similar motivation for giving up twitter, however; it's not so much that the content is toxic, but the amount of time it eats up and the dependency it has created is clearly unhealthy. It takes me away from schoolwork, it takes me away from reading, it takes me away from art, and it takes me away from worship. I need to break its hold over me so that I can redistribute my time in a better way.
And that's a wonderful quote. The duality of the Christian existence is part of what has strengthened my faith in my college years, and made it into something intellectual instead of something just innocently accepted by a child.
I completely agree. Sometimes I feel like I look at the boards not because I truly need to....but because I've gotten so used to not using my time efficiently that it's become habit. And that is not a good way to live. I'm trying very hard just like you to break that hold in my life. Livejournal is a lovely place to convene with people and frankly....I shouldn't need anything more than that in terms of fandom right now. I need to refocus my life in many ways and I need to get rid of any distractions that are taking away from my ability to do that
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Yes, that is extremely difficult and insidious. You can trick yourself into believing that in not forgiving yourself you're being humble, and mistake hopelessness for natural and healthy regret. It's so easy to fall into the sin of despair. What an insult to God that is, to believe that your sin and grief could be greater than Him! It's a strange, twisted kind of hubris.
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Look at me, I'm hashtagging an lj post. Look how pathetic I am. :P
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Please tell me you have created a version that combines that one with the Lana one.
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And that's a wonderful quote. The duality of the Christian existence is part of what has strengthened my faith in my college years, and made it into something intellectual instead of something just innocently accepted by a child.
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Yes, that is extremely difficult and insidious. You can trick yourself into believing that in not forgiving yourself you're being humble, and mistake hopelessness for natural and healthy regret. It's so easy to fall into the sin of despair. What an insult to God that is, to believe that your sin and grief could be greater than Him! It's a strange, twisted kind of hubris.
I need to go to confession quite soon.
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