and the "Catholic Church" into the western European Civilization.


Kate D

and all the sweet lead used to make water pipes for piping water into the city surely messed with their minds.

Yeah, but the people not using such water systems were dying of chorea, typhus and dysentery at substantially higher rates then the Romans were, so net gain Rome.  BTW, some of those aqueducts are still in use today.  I'm impressed by anyone who can build things that still function 2,000 years later.  We can't even seem to build stadiums (a much easier thing to build than an aqueduct system) that lasts 20 years w/o falling apart.

Quote from: M2MtF2FtM on June 29, 2011, 01:34:07 PM
and all the sweet lead used to make water pipes for piping water into the city surely messed with their minds.

Actually the lead story is just an hypothesis, and only applies to some drinking cups, and only when the drink was acidic (certain wines and juices). Most Roman pipes were copper (for hot water) or clay for drinking water ans sewage.

Kate D

Quote from: kate durcal on June 29, 2011, 05:31:03 PM
and the "Catholic Church" into the western European Civilization.

And that into the United States of America.   

Quote from: Julie Marie on July 05, 2011, 06:07:56 AM
And that into the United States of America.   

which will morph into the United States of the World

I BECAME A BELIEVER THROUGH FAITH IN ACCEPTING AND RECEIVING JESUS INTO MY HEART. It was a real and life changing experience. THROUGH THE YEARS I HAVE BEEN BLESSED AND HAVE CHANGED MYVIEWS ABOUT MANY TOPICS. My being transgender is also part of GOd's plan for my life.                    Gennee

I don't know how to explain it but ill try....

When I was going through the hardest times in life and everyone else turned their back on me; Jesus was what kept me going.
I have to believe in my faith or else i would of been dead a long time ago.

It was my junior year of high school, and I ran away and took a rope with me to the water levy near my house. I was so ready to make a noose and hang myself which I been planning for weeks. And when the moment of truth came. I sat there praying to god asking him "If you are real then give me a sign!!". And in an instant I got this image of this beautiful girl that I am guessing was suppose to be me. I knew if i gave up right there that I would not of experienced life on how I wanted to live.

My relationship with god only gotten stronger since then. It gives me a sense of comfort that I have him in my life.

jordonna,
  I'm glad to see that the Lord obviously revealed his grace to you. Seeing this is your first post welcome aboard. I hope that you can be a positive witness for the Lord on this forum. May the Lord bless your future. Take care kiddo.

Thanks Del!!! Its a pleasure to be here with you guys and share my trans experiences.

It's good when we get confirmation-just don't let others talk you into believing God doesn't work that way anymore. You will find those in almost every church in the modern times. They just don't know how to listen anymore-and more times than not they are in positions of authority.

Randi

I hear you Randi.
I think that is what pushed me away as a child.


I remember cursing at god ...and asking the devil to take my soul in exchange that he "correct" me.

My mom teach me alot of this (i know alot)

But i don't believe anything right now     ?

This may sound hypocritical of me but while I don't believe, having faith can be a positive thing.  To me, god exists in the hearts and minds of those who believe and it is there that he does the most good.  Having a rotten day?  God has your back.  Everyone walked out of your life?  God is still there.  That belief is a powerful confidence booster.  With that said, do you think someone who doesn't believe can live a full, happy, productive life?

All of my life I have quested for god. My faith is unbreakabull my love of all unmoveabull. Years of praying and fasting have led me to a deeper understanding the most. While I am christin I more conseder myself a servent of the one master are lord god. Let his name be praised and hiw will be done. Are issues and worries are ares not his. Are bigottery is not his. How can a carring and mercyfull god hate. "we can only be who we are no more and no less. To do otwer wise is to prfane aginst the cerateor."

Given certain circumstances in my life, I was about 34 or 36 I made a commitment.
I accepted Christ as my personal saviour, spoke in tongues, visited services, payed my tithes, gone through deliverance (exorcism), become an exorcist, got thrown out of church for not "following the leader", and straight out of the Sanhedrin that "fired" me, spoke my prayer to Christ, and here I am, still praying, thanking, showing gratitude --- but being somewhat aware of all too much "humanness" in "leaders" so since then I have not gone back to any services I can recall, but gone quietly in to the odd church for prayer on my own.

I have no truck with doctrine and I like to keep it simple.
My commitment was to Christ and not to St. Paul or any of the other many "helpers", Saints, and Apostles.

My believe is strictly between me and Christ as it stands at present.

I still remember the song by Crosby, Stills and Nash "Carry on" that I played when I got thrown out of Church.

"Cathedral"
Six o' clock
In the morning, I feel pretty good
So I dropped into the luxury of the Lords
Fighting dragons and crossing swords
With the people against the hordes
Who came to conquer.

Seven o'clock
In the morning, here it comes
I taste the warning and I am so amazed
I'm here today, seeing things so clear this way
In the car and on my way
To Stonehenge.

I'm flying in Winchester cathedral
Sunlight pouring through the break of day.
Stumbled through the door and into the chamber;
There's a lady setting flowers on a table covered lace
And a cleaner in the distance finds a cobweb on a face
And a feeling deep inside of me tells me
This can't be the place

I'm flying in Winchester cathedral.
All religion has to have its day
Expressions on the face of the Saviour
Made me say
I can't stay.

Open up the gates of the church and let me out of here!
Too many people have lied in the name of Christ
For anyone to heed the call.
So many people have died in the name of Christ
That I can't believe it all.

And now I'm standing on the grave of a soldier that died in 1799
And the day he died it was a birthday
And I noticed it was mine.
And my head didn't know just who I was
And I went spinning back in time.
And I am high upon the altar
High upon the altar, high.

I'm flying in Winchester cathedral,
It's hard enough to drink the wine.
The air inside just hangs in delusion,
But given time,
I'll be fine.

A strange song with most beautiful music. It helped me along on my way from there on for a LONG time.

I highlighted the refrain that seemed somehow so appropriate to me.

Bless you all,
Axelle

After I began HRT, one night I felt this huge feeling of faith, out of the blue.

Since then I have been going to church, a protestant one here in Brazil. I'm still not passing very well, but I get no weird stares there, I like the environment and it has me feel better afterwards. I can't possibly explain why I began going, I was not raised into ANY faith at all and my parents weren't church goers.

One night, simply, I felt God was touching me and it was about time I should begin going to church. This happened fairly recently, two weeks ago.

It seems a lot of reasons are based off of a feeling.  Interesting. 

Quote from: Maddie Secutura on August 01, 2011, 03:18:28 PM
It seems a lot of reasons are based off of a feeling.  Interesting.

"Feelings" are but the product of the holistic nonlinear activity of the nervous system. Despite what my analytic scientific brains tells me, experience has taught me to trust my feeling or intuition or what ever you want to call it

Kate D

As people we will tend to over intellectualize things we can't explain so we resort to breaking things apart and examining them piece by piece. You can't break down the Holy Spirit or it's effect upon us individually. If it weren't for our feelings we could not tell when the Spirit was trying to get our attention. Please bear in mind that the Holy Spirit is an entity such as ourselves and not some thing which simply does our bidding. He is the active force that we have the most interaction with in these days on Earth and I say HE only because that is the default gender assignment made for someone who is beyond our understanding.

I have always thought and still think that GOD is both male and female and that is the way we are made as well.

I was brought in church and always that there was someone greater than me. Even before I accepted Christ in my life (1972), I saw how God brought me through some tough situations. My father was drinking heavily, I lacked confidence, and observed people in the world around me. I concluded that life is more than money, job, retirement, and a house. I asked myself after people get all they want, what's after that?  Therems feelings but there's the fact that Jesus did come into my heart. Scripture does confirm this.             GENNEE