🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 elephant stomp ...lets add musso...and Brandon.

[TerryP]

Here's my question. Do you talk to Jesus? Included for a Sunday. @Bamabww @It Takes Eleven What's Greg's tag?

 

[TerryP]

Brandon. Do you talk to Jesus with your daughter? Tim, with your boys?

 

[TerryP]

@Bamabww that was the anwer to my text message

 

[musso]

I'll bite.

In a literal sense, no I don't. But then again, of course, I would say believers don't either. Instead what I think is actually happening, is believers interface psychologically and emotionally with the character of Jesus as a stand-in avatar, or the personification of their idealized self. Now, if we go with my theory, then I could answer this question with a "yes" because I regularly appeal to, have internal dialogue with, and strive to mimic that part of "myself" which is the strongest, kindest, most compassionate, most patient, most responsible, most honest, most loyal, most principled, most fearless, etc. As good Christians would say, I often "fall short of the glory," and I don't always know which virtue I ought to display in every situation (e.g. should I comfort this person or should I deliver an uncomfortable truth?).

But I do talk about Jesus often because both (1) who I think he may have been and (2) how Rome decided to use him, are timeless lessons for humanity.

 

[alabama mike]

Good question. As an education and theology major, I like to debate certain subjects. As a Christian, I talk to Jesus on a regular basis. My drive to work is where I pray specifically for people, certain things and about me trying to be a blessing and good example to people I come in contact with. Do I fall short? Absolutely yes. Thankful for grace and mercy.

 

[Krimson]

Don't talk to Him near as much as I should

 

[TerryP]

Good question. As an education and theology major, I like to debate certain subjects. As a Christian, I talk to Jesus on a regular basis. My drive to work is where I pray specifically for people, certain things and about me trying to be a blessing and good example to people I come in contact with. Do I fall short? Absolutely yes. Thankful for grace and mercy.

I've been thinking about this while trying to empathize, or adapt, the agnostic view I see in this thread. One might say, talking to yourself. I don't, because there's an intended target when I'm talking...

Don't talk to Him near as much as I should

...a quandary. But, it's one of those things that I can look back upon and say, "Yeah, I knew that ... didn't do it...just didn't listen."

It ain't my gut.

 

[ElephantStomp]

No sir, I don’t talk/pray, but as a non believer I wouldn't. As for talking to myself? No, I don’t do that either except for cussing at times

 

[bamaledge]

no matter what you believe, you can decide to be a good person or not.
I choose to be a good person and try to be devout.

 

[TerryP]

No sir, I don’t talk/pray, but as a non believer I wouldn't. As for talking to myself? No, I don’t do that either except for cussing at times

If you process things through your mind, arguing the bad and good, you are talking to yourself.

 

[Krimson]

If you process things through your mind, arguing the bad and good, you are talking to yourself.

Yeah I do it out loud pretty regularly

 

[TerryP]

Yeah I do it out loud pretty regularly

As do I. "Did you hear what you just said?" It fits.

 

[Krimson]

As do I. "Did you hear what you just said?" It fits.

Wth are you doing dumbass occurs pretty regularly but at times it's followed by Who you calling dumbass...

 

[ElephantStomp]

If you process things through your mind, arguing the bad and good, you are talking to yourself.

I was meaning in a “praying” sort of way, I don’t do that

 

[TerryP]

Wth are you doing dumbass occurs pretty regularly but at times it's followed by Who you calling dumbass...

Oh, said the same thing to myself within the last 24 hours.

Monday morning I was walking into the 7-11 and listening to what I thought was the sound of a Chryler van's engine. I'm commenting to myself, "damn, that sounds like a sewing machine. Gas is the last thing you need..."

Only to realize he was pumping up one of his tires with one of those small, portable air pumps. Yes, out loud, I was calling myself a dumbass as I was walking in...