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   Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 23:38:26 JST Ash Kvetchum

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   Thank you for reading, Silverwolf. A poast is kind of useless to anyone if no one reads it, no? lol
   I rolled my eyes at my own wall of text too, and shrugged my shoulders because that's the shortest I could stuff a thought of "How did God do X thing" into one poast--especially when common definitions can't be assumed.
   
   My past of breaking priests, pastors, etc. stuff isn't something I entirely enjoy bringing up, but I think I did half-way of the right thing at the time, with what I had. (Half-right is still off, still wrong.) It's a useful history to mention at times when it's necessary to assuage someone's feeling that they're being spoken to by someone that isn't grasping the ringing problems to be heard between the walls of churches, between the sentences Christians give like cues, following a logic that requires contradicting premises--many not found in the text. I bring it up so that they can know that I'm familiar. I'm seeing it from their perspective--but assuring that there's more steps on their road if they keep walking--actual answers--steps that those they removed themselves from won't see unless they too walk as far as the questioner does.
   
   I understand why people would stop looking. Look at what our tax-exempt (i.e. under consideration of whether they're State-Approved) churches say!
   Your example is a great one I used to use: the Holy Spirit.
   Churches have no idea what to do with that idea. They lean hard into either one of two usual roads:
   1) Praise a Father, a Son, and a [murmur "Holy Spirit"] and talk all the time about this Son but give prayers to that Father but assure that it's in the same of the Son, okay? And never mention the Holy Spirit in any context again.
   or
   2) Do all of 1) except always mention the Holy Spirit, claiming that you can close your eyes and, yes, feel the Force--that this feeling of confidence is how you can be assured your [insert denomination][or insert decision if it's about a personal decision] is correct.
   
   Neither of these is what the Bible promises nor says of the Holy Spirit. It's easy to show that, and it's easy to sow questions. It's laughable to walk into a confused room and push the confusion to a breaking point that everyone walks away from the question entirely.
   
   I just want questioners to have answers in their hands so that they know what to do after they've rightfully broken what's false. I want them to know what to do after they've done what's half-right.