The Truth (As I see it)

wayne-scales · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:31 pm **Post subject:**

Anyone else notice how it pretty much came full circle there?

TheDavisChanger · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:49 pm **Post subject:**

TimothyXL wrote:

Note: I've never been to America so I don't know what's printed on the different values of USD.

Good guess.

Kierkegaard · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 5:36 pm **Post subject:**

Hey, looks legit to me.

wayne-scales · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 5:48 pm **Post subject:**

Nice.

Grossenschwamm · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 6:28 pm **Post subject:**

Zanza wrote:

Have you tried memorising what you see in the mirror? It may help towards recognition.

It's not that, my face literally changes as I look at it. If I'm not in a well lit bathroom, my face transforms until it's no longer human. Hence, I don't recognize what my mind has done with my face.

Smuelissimo · **Joined:** Mar 21, 2011 **Posts:** 292

Sometimes I'm afraid to look in the mirror when it's very dark, in case I'm actually a monster and end up scaring myself.

But I can usually overcome that using the power of mocking myself for being irrational.

Grossenschwamm · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 6:57 pm **Post subject:**

I didn't say I was standing in a dark bathroom being afraid of my reflection. I said if it's not well lit, I don't recognize my face. This can be a simple as not turning on the lights in the bathroom when there's natural light coming in through the window.
I hallucinate more when there's not enough light, which I expect because the less visual information being received, the more one's mind fills in the blanks. However, these are situations in which I used to see fine. When my mind filled in the blanks, everything looked normal. Now it doesn't. I can't even look at other people if there's not enough light in the room, or their faces transform too. Last night my mom looked like Voldemort, and I don't even read Harry Potter.
Next thing you know I'm going to start seeing people sparkle, and I'll spend hours describing how absolutely perfect their bodies are. Then I think I'll have to kill myself.

Kierkegaard · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 7:18 pm **Post subject:**

That sounds like kind of a disturbing problem you have there.

TimothyXL · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 7:21 pm **Post subject:**

Gross being tucked in: " 'night mommy, I AAH!"

TheDavisChanger · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2011 12:11 am **Post subject:**

Grossenschwamm wrote:

Last night my mom looked like Voldemort...

That's what the brown paper bags are for.

Xyle · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2011 1:22 am **Post subject:**

Do you think that maybe yoga or other focusing techniques might help, Gross?

wayne-scales · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2011 8:23 am **Post subject:**

Pray, obviously! Ain't no witchcraft yoga gonna sort no head-demons!

TimothyXL · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2011 5:16 pm **Post subject:**

The Excorcism of Grossenschwamm, a tale in 34 pages or 837 posts.

wayne-scales · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2011 5:46 pm **Post subject:**

839 (as of now): you're not counting the first post.

Xyle · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2011 6:29 pm **Post subject:**

Kierkegaard wrote:

Do you really intend to imply, in a serious debate, that a woman refusing to submit to her husband and instead demanding to be treated as an equal and as a human is somehow immoral?

Firstly,
Since when does having authority decrease the humanity of those who are under authority?

Secondly,
It would seem that the term "half-truth" does not only apply to me and what I believe. The women that I have meet, and gone to church with, believe that the husband is to be held responsible as the head of the household and any man that refuses to take responsibility for his household is as an immature child. So on one hand you have those that believe men that assume authority over his family demeans the wife, and on the other, a man who fails to do so is still immature. The chief problem is the failure to understand that authority and responsiblity are flip sides of the same coin: You cannot have one without the one.

wayne-scales wrote:

Pray, obviously! Ain't no witchcraft yoga gonna sort no head-demons!

Prayer, like voodoo, only works if you believe.

Smuelissimo · **Joined:** Mar 21, 2011 **Posts:** 292

Xyle wrote:

Prayer, like voodoo, only works if you believe.

Ahhh... so THAT'S why those damn mountains won't budge.

wayne-scales · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2011 7:31 pm **Post subject:**

Ah, that's why Xyle can't understand that God talks to me: he doesn't believe! It only works if you're convinced it's going to, no matter what, especially if it doesn't!

Kierkegaard · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2011 11:31 pm **Post subject:**

Xyle wrote:

Secondly,
It would seem that the term "half-truth" does not only apply to me and what I believe. The women that I have meet, and gone to church with, believe that the husband is to be held responsible as the head of the household and any man that refuses to take responsibility for his household is as an immature child. So on one hand you have those that believe men that assume authority over his family demeans the wife, and on the other, a man who fails to do so is still immature. The chief problem is the failure to understand that authority and responsiblity are flip sides of the same coin: You cannot have one without the one.

What you fail to do is give me any conclusive evidence that the husband has some right to that authority. Why, in a relationship, do the two parties not have equal command?

Zanza · **Joined:** Apr 20, 2009 **Posts:** 2768

Because he is a man duh!

wayne-scales · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:12 am **Post subject:**

Think about it: God says it in the Bible; and would God lie?

Jazintha Piper · **Joined:** Jun 12, 2007 **Posts:** 564

Kirkgaard wrote:

Why, in a relationship, do the two parties not have equal command?

In every relationship, one must assume a dominant role, and the other the submissive. These roles don't have to stick 100% of the time; it's well known that the one who appears submissive in public tends to be dominant in private.

It is rare for two parties to come to the same conclusion from the same means at the same time. One must be the submissive to hear to the dominant's suggestion; one must be dominant to propose the suggestion to the submissive. The roles are then reversed (or not) almost immediately in agreeing to implement the suggestion.

Most of the time they say that the man has the final say - with both power and responsibility - because he assumes the dominant role in his children's eyes. He'd always be the one to come up with suggestions, and thus it would be his woman's role to agree or disagree. *edit* It is also part of a woman's nature to have her doubts erased or her beliefs confirmed by someone she trusts in order to implement her own suggestions.

One must choose to lead, and the other must choose to follow; in this way, a relationship will move in any direction. Choosing to stay stagnant is also a choice, but one must first choose to be stagnant, and the other to agree to do so.

If anything is to be equal, the roles must constantly switch at an equal length of time for equally significant choices. If you can name me a personal relationship (business and structured relationships don't count, especially when outlined) that does this successfully, I will happily eat my words.

Xyle · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 6:37 pm **Post subject:**

Kierkegaard wrote:

Xyle wrote:

Secondly,
It would seem that the term "half-truth" does not only apply to me and what I believe. The women that I have meet, and gone to church with, believe that the husband is to be held responsible as the head of the household and any man that refuses to take responsibility for his household is as an immature child. So on one hand you have those that believe men that assume authority over his family demeans the wife, and on the other, a man who fails to do so is still immature. The chief problem is the failure to understand that authority and responsiblity are flip sides of the same coin: You cannot have one without the one.

What you fail to do is give me any conclusive evidence that the husband has some right to that authority. Why, in a relationship, do the two parties not have equal command?

Right? You make it sound as if it came as a blessing upon Adam. It is part of Eve's Curse. Men do not have the "right", they have the responsiblity.

"Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." Genesis 3:16

Note the location of the semicolons in the verse. There is no semicolon between the part about desire and rule. It is one concept, one dynamic. A woman's desire for her husband is tied into the nature of his so-called rule. This ...

Jazintha Piper wrote:

It is also part of a woman's nature to have her doubts erased or her beliefs confirmed by someone she trusts in order to implement her own suggestions.

is a part of that dynamic.

EDIT: Responsiblity for another... I sense a tie-in to love. If you love someone, you tend to their needs...

wayne-scales · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 7:49 pm **Post subject:**

That is all.

Grakelin · **Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 10:28 am **Post subject:**

I think Xyle screwed the pooch on pretending not to be a troll when he posted a webcomic from a site called purrsia.

Zanza · **Joined:** Apr 20, 2009 **Posts:** 2768

Well I don't know about you guys but he makes sense to me.

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