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MatthewG

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Someone get called an idiot on here or a liar, typically people start flipping their lid....


I just want some honest responses and integty eventually imma lose all respect and imma just ignore them.

You shouldnt let everyone in your life anyway... There is a list i should make "NO LONGER IN MATTHEWS LIFE LIST" cause I am okay with that... God deals with all people on an individualistic manner and whole anyway...

I been online forums for a long time but I been on webcam chats WAY longer, Ive also got 5 years worth of experience taking care of mental retards....


I dont really need help with anything other just encouraging people telling me imma be fine and imma make it if they so are obliged.

Keep looking to God... and seeking for him in faith.


Oh and on the note of respect, I typically give everyone a certain amount of respect right out the get go... I might not trust them but imma respect them enough to allow them be themselves. ...

They say respect is earned not given. I think that is backwards thinking here in america.

Respect is given until all respect is lossed.


You can forgive people, you can forgive the person who murdered your wife.

But you aint gonna forget that stuff... and you arent gonna have respect for what they did... now are you?

Its the same when it comes to people and their emotions and when manipulations start to seep in....

this why i mention the whole 5 years working with mental retards....


Its not a field for eeveryone and you gotta know how to deal with people...
 

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Someone get called an idiot on here or a liar, typically people start flipping their lid....


I just want some honest responses and integty eventually imma lose all respect and imma just ignore them.

You shouldnt let everyone in your life anyway... There is a list i should make "NO LONGER IN MATTHEWS LIFE LIST" cause I am okay with that... God deals with all people on an individualistic manner and whole anyway...

I been online forums for a long time but I been on webcam chats WAY longer, Ive also got 5 years worth of experience taking care of mental retards....


I dont really need help with anything other just encouraging people telling me imma be fine and imma make it if they so are obliged.

Keep looking to God... and seeking for him in faith.

There was a time when I even only wanted to be alone, wanting to be cut off from everyone in the world. I even thought about existing in a world with no one else at all. Then God, for this reason, tried a fleeting moment to see if I truly thought this way about the matter.

It was a night, but there were still people around—you know how many people there are in China. Yet in the instant a gust of wind blew, time seemed to twist and stand still. The surroundings became extremely quiet, with not a single person around. I suddenly felt uneasy, so I realized that my own feelings usually shouldn't be trusted. Now I repeatedly ask myself if I truly feel that way.

Keep looking to God... and seeking for him in faith.
 

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If you had lived during the time Jesus walked the earth—
and heard him say he was coming back—
would you have truly believed him?

I like this one to ponder about it.

If I were born in Israel in Jesus time, raised with a Jewish upbringing according to the Law of Moses, I seriously doubt Jesus was the promised Messiah.

Like so many Jews in Jesus time I would be in serious need for divine revelation -

John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
John 6:65 And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”

What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires - desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.
-- Bertrand Russell, philosopher


This is how it usually works in the human brain, certainly in mine. You don't give up things (so easily) you believed your whole life.

It's an obstacle that only can be removed by divine revelation.
 
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