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Thanks for checking it out.Irvine511 said:
thank you for the link. i am aware of many of these views, and simply don't agree with them, because they are rooted in religion and not in science or human experience. also, there are certain assumptions it makes about human behavior, about what should and shouldn't be, that i simply cannot accept.
Yes, "One" is my favorite U2 song of all time, maybe even my favorite song of all time. I'm sure you went through a living hell when you had to come out, and as a human being, I feel sorry for you that you had to blind yourself from your peers.Irvine511 said:
and, on a side note, in relation to the gay-teens-and-suicide thing, U2 had a lot to do with me surviving my adolescence as a deeply closeted gay teen. it may sound melodramatic, but for professed Christians to write a song like "one" ... you can't imagine how much it meant to me. and millions others.
I can relate to you in a way. I'm a hearing impaired college student, a hard worker doing 2 jobs over the weekend, working 12-13 hours every saturday. The work is not what I'm complaining about, but it's never been easy getting over the way I believe that God created me. I think a lot of people don't know what it's like to be me either. I get tired of pretending to hear things I don't hear, getting made fun of, and feeling like the world is breaking me in pieces. I will probably get that treatment all my life. You probably felt the same way. Maybe you still do.
I felt very suicidal in my adolescent years as well. I was a wreck. I owe my survival to God, because my life was in darkness. I had few friends - most of them did witchcraft, drugs, and other stuff like that. But for me to punish my own family like that by taking my own life would break their hearts. That's why I believe so strongly in family and spirituality. I firmly believe that God guided me out of the darkness, and that I owe my life back to him.