What do you think you missed out on?
I was asked the question: what do you think you missed out on by not staying at home. [...]
I missed out on being as pure as I could have been. While I wasn't the most pure minded person at home, I still would not have been involved in some of the things I was involved in after moving out. I missed out on being sheltered and protected from some of the evil ways of the world. Seeing the daughters of the land is what defiled Dinah, and seeing the ways of the world can defile us. It is one thing to know that evil goes on, it is entirely another thing to watch evil going on. The Bible tells us that evil communications corrupt good manners. I missed out on having my friends screened for their appropriateness. I made some bad decisions on the friend front.
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"I missed out on being as pure as I could have been."
Yeah, like my last vacation, I really missed out on a lot of things. I missed out on staying home and lying in bed and not doing anything fun. And those are opportunities I'll never get back.
"While I wasn't the most pure minded person at home"
Oh, could you please elaborate? Hahahaha!
"and seeing the ways of the world can defile us"
Now Mike Douglas makes you moist, every time, and you can't do a thing about it but change the channel.
I missed out on being sheltered and protected from some of the evil ways of the world.
And that is why people choose religion over reality - so they can stay pampered infants and not take responsibility for their lives like mature adults.
Those bad decisions you made on the friend front? Those former friends are saying exactly the same thing.
Caustic Gnostic: Nunnery is Elizabethan slang for a whore house. I'm not sure
Mrs W would care for that. On the other hand, she might find it to her liking.
You missed out intelligence too?, autonomy?, personhood?. What do you mean by "pure"?, I only understand that your house is a kind of washing powder or what?.
So you made some bad decisions. You probably learned from them.
Oh, wait, this is a fundie. Learning is bad.
Sounds typically fundie. "I had a good time in my younger days, but it must have been evil cause I had fun doing it, so I want you not to enjoy yourself because I now realize that anything that makes life not boring must be a sin."
sounds as though you wanted to miss out on being an adult and taking responsibility for your own actions.
Let daddy or a husband make all the decisions and reamin a little girl just keeping house. And when your husband dies, let your son(s) take responsibility for you.
You fail at life, and cannot be a fit person to raise childen
I missed out on having my friends screened for their appropriateness. I made some bad decisions on the friend front
You know, making bad decisions is part of groing up and being mature...
oh wait.
I, on the other hand, had some marvelous times once I got out on my own. That includes indulging in enough of the "evil ways of the world" to give me a warm glow and delightful memories that should hold up until alzheimers or death, whichever comes first. No regets.
You must deprive yourself of any sort of fun. Enough so that you want to kill yourself, except you can't because that's evil, too. And when you finally do die in old age (but with no experience or knowledge), you might be rewarded, in the extremely long shot that you Guessed Right(tm).
"Oh no! Reality! Quick, run and hide. Someone shelter the children, they mustn't know what the world is really like until it runs over them. Then we'll blame someone else because we didn't prepare them for the real world properly like good parents do."
"I missed out on having my friends screened for their appropriateness..."
No one ever did that to me, even when I still lived at home.
So, you found out the world wasn't exactly like "Leave It To Beaver" and it scared you?
And you think this is how you're SUPPOSED to be?
Seek professional therapy, lady!
Incidentally, doesn't this person sound like one of the characters from Shyamalan's "The Village"?
I was more involved in the "evil ways of the world" when I lived at home than after I moved out. Hell, all the best parties were at our house. After I moved out I had to pay bills and couldn't afford booze, concerts, male strippers, condoms or bail anymore. I went straight purely out of economics.
Translation: "I got drunk at a bar listening to a bad cover band once, and it has obviously traumatised me for life."
Phphphphpbbbt ... stay home, chicken-shit, if you're so afraid of "the world".
The rest of us grown-ups realise that mistakes are essential to learning good decision making skills, and have a good time without worrying about our "purity".
"This is Katy-Anne, formerly of t-4-c."
Oh no, is it? Well, that explains a lot - that chick is totally bug-fuck crazy!
(And I feel so incredibly sorry for whatever poor sucker got trapped into "holy acrimony" with her holy-roller ass! OMFG ... )
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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