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To: Utilizer
I can't say that I didn't drink or have impure thoughts in college(or engage in impure acts) BUT for the most part my drinking was fun-loving and non-sexual in its consequences. When it came to physical relationships, that stuff was private and I would be appalled to even think of my girlfriend flashing a crowd or acting like a whore at a party.

I don't mind partying, but when you've got strangers making out or worse, it becomes a different animal. While I regret a few moments, I at least feel good that I did not engage in any Spring Break-type excursions.

Few of us can lay any valid claim on innocence, least of all in the span of time before we reached over thirty years of age. We have all made mistakes, and skirted the letter if not the intent of various laws, and it is only in our later years that we truly understand the significance of those selfsame laws -or Commandments- that we previously thought so little of. Trust Me; all of us have done something at one time or another that we would much rather not have, utilizing the benefit of hindsight. Simply remember, as long as you can hold your head high and claim to have followed the Laws, you can sleep with a calm conscience. Too many other people can not, and seek to make themselves feel better at the expense of your peaceful concience. For people in general, if they are feeling bad about something, they attempt to mollify their conscience by justifying their behaviour with the excuse that 'no one seemed to mind', or 'everyone does it'. Trust Me when I say that in later years you will come to appreciate and understand the value of abiding by one's principles, and ignoring the temptations of the present in lieu of somthing more permanant. I am firmly of the opinion that you have the right to kill yourself as you see fit... but I also believe that it will be you, and you alone, that will be standing in front of your Maker stating your actions and the reasons behind them when they occurred and bearing full witness to your actions and intents when you cross over.

89 posted on 05/07/2003 10:26:24 PM PDT by Utilizer
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Ummmm... that last post should have been to Skywalk. Sorry, it's a bit late here.
90 posted on 05/07/2003 10:32:43 PM PDT by Utilizer
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