Posted on 09/22/2005 5:48:16 PM PDT by wagglebee
I gotta tell you -- I hope to be ninety and still appreciate a pretty girl. It is one of the great pleasures in life to sit around a table with a bunch of people, one of whom is a smart, witty pretty girl dressed to the nines, and have a good meal, tell some off color jokes, gossip, and debate the state of the world.
I know. It's just not 'home' anymore!
Impossible standards and some people buy into them...I think it has to do with not being comfortable in their own skin.
St Augustine is a hero to lowlifes like me. He shows us that it's possible (and indeed, desireable) to strive to be better than what we are. He is aok in my book!
It's a good start but sorry -- it would be naive of you to think that there isn't zillions of people all over the planet that have somehow ended up in adultery who said exactly the same thing. What's different? Or what does your marriage have that their's didn't have that will allow you to succeed where their's didn't?
"I think it has to do with not being comfortable in their own skin."
How can you trust God if you can't trust yourself?
We aren't talking about zillions of other people... we are talking about me.
You are so depressing.
How do you get through your day? It sounds like an impossible struggle.
The older I get, the less I understand people. But I suppose I should cross Asfarastheeastisfromthewest off my list for the FR strip club tour of NYC I was planning.
While I am what Granny on Beverly Hillbillies would call a 'Birdwatcher,' when you connect with someone romantically and emotionally and love them, it's not abnormal to not be notably lustful for others.
A Big Mac can sometimes look real good, but when you have filet mignon at home, it's no big deal! That's what my galpal tells me to keep telling myself, anyway! ;-)
No doubt earlier ages had plenty of hypocrites in this regard, but someone said well that "hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue." Now we don't even pretend to be embarrassed at these practices.
LOL. I'm okay at strip clubs, as long as they don't serve alcohol.
No, that's not what will put him hell. Leading a perfect life isn't the criterion that would keep him out - 'believing in him' is what does it. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Been cuckolded, eh Abdul?
Please cut back on the stupid pills.
I'm easy to understand! Flashdancers? Scores? A shame they shut down 'Billy's Topless.' :-)
aaagh, what's the use. they don't even have good strip clubs anymore...
They're all pits now. I drink every once in awhile with some of the dancers after hours at a non-strip club and the stories raise the hair on the back of my neck. Also, remember that kid got killed at Scores.
You dodged the question. What makes you think that you are different so that you can avoid it?
Now you don't really believe that, do you?
People avoid adultery the same way they avoid all dangerous activity, by understanding the consequences.
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