Posted on 07/28/2006 5:00:29 PM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness
OK, I'm not familiar with avg.
However, did you try reinstalling Ad-Aware?
not yet... I am up to my wazoos in a power point project. Right now I have spy sweeper & avg going so don't feel a lot of pressure but will take care of it after my trip if not before. Thanks for all the info/help
Not a problem...
It doesn't seem to us that urging 'caution' in dating to a college student is encouraging 'passivity.' We encouraged our own four kids not to date at all in H.S., but that wasn't urging passivity.
We wanted them to be pro-active in developing real relationships.....FRIENDSHIPS........with members of the opposite sex, because that's what makes a marriage work. Dating isn't required at all. But not dating is not necessarily being passive........only if you choose to make it so.
Our second thought.......both of us reacted the same way..........is that you don't seem to want to be encouraged, so there's probably not much point in continuing to try to do so. If you think you're too old, and that it's all over for you, it probably is.
Lastly, who God is does not depend on how we feel about him, nor our personal experiences. He is who He is regardless of our faith or lack of it. But don't presume that people of faith are only those who have 'had it good.' Since you've had experience in Evangelical churches, I 'm sure you've heard of Corrie Ten Boom. Her life pretty much was as bad as it gets.......yet her faith grew. (And incidentally, she never married).
We wish you the best, Bill. You are young, you are bright, and you are kind. We wish you wouldn't give up, but no one else can help you if that's what you've chosen to do. That's part of the free will that God has given us.
Thanks for the good conversation.
It's a long story and in the end, if a greater good can come of it, then it is worth the suffering I have been through.
You have FReepmail
If unconfessed on earth, they will be dealt with in eternity. You can count on that.
I'm sorry for the pain you've been through.
There is someone that had a total of seven pregnancies, wanted a daughter and chose to terminate three pregnancies. Of the seven, the very first was terminated because a civil lawsuit was pending and she was concerned that if it went to trial, she would not get as much money if the jurors saw her as a single and pregnant woman.
There was no trial and what's a few hundred thousand when it is a multi-million dollar settlement, right?
Well, her second pregnancy went to term and she was happy with a boy and figured she would eventually have a girl. Her second live birth was a sad affair. I watched as she looked completely disgusted when she was told it was a boy. That child was the most neglected (as were all of hers) and she went through her money like it was water and in the end...
As she sits in jail for drug offenses, that second son is the one that managed to produce the GRANDDAUGHTER that this woman has yet to hold.
I am so glad that this young man learned the value of life and loves his daughter and his daughter's mother and it is in the end that his own mother sees that the gift of life is not something to be taken away. She screamed for an abortion and I am so glad that her son chose to ignore her.
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