Viva--I assure you that if this used-god-salesman Loser posts allegations about what you had or hadn't gotten into as a teen that the rest of us are *not* going to think badly of you. We're not going to even allow that they might be true without a *large* grain of salt because so many of these kids in so many of these teen RTCs have been coerced, if they didn't have enough bad behaviors, to make up a few in order to "comply" and get the hell out.
Unlike our religious-fanatic non-friend, we have heard the smaller, more expressive words of the English language before, and aren't inclined to hold those against you, either.
As for what that Loser Goomba who oh-so-lovingly tells you he thinks God ought to torture you with fire and brimstone says about what his god has in store for you, take a brief moment to imagine what the muslims think *their* god has in store for *him*.
You, like anyone and everyone else in this world, should get your head together and not do overtly secularly self-destructive things, and should treat other people nicely, but you should do it for yourself because it will make you a person *you* like. Not to say you aren't already, mind you, that's just my general ongoing life advice for *everybody*--including me.
But you should also strive to ignore the Loser Goomba. His way lies not happiness and peace, but self-righteous obsession and perpetual preachiness as a *substitute* for happiness and peace. True happiness and peace comes from breaking secularly self-destructive habits and thought patterns, and from making yourself into, every day, a person you like by doing nice things and *remembering that you've done them* (and by avoiding being gratuitously mean to others).
Some would say I'm being gratuitously mean by calling Craig (or his net personality clone) a Loser Goomba, and it *is* mean, but not gratuitous. I think anyone who pushes belief in a punitive god that tortures people and claims to know who that god's intended future victims are *deserves* a little pointed criticism.
Live your life. Learn to do something each and every day that makes you a little bit more into a person you like and admire. Keep track of the gratuitously nice things you do each day, whether it's holding the door for someone, a friendly smile at a cashier or other someone who needs one, a genuine compliment, or some other nice act, big or small. Write them down in a journal. When you get low, read over them.
And make a special point of ignoring Loser Goomba Used God Salesmen.
That doesn't mean you should ignore your spirituality. It just means that genuinely spiritual counselors and leaders will be the people who do and say nice things and kind things, and avoid doing and saying bad or cruel things. When you meet a minister like that, in the faith of your choice, listen to him/her--that's a wise person. Follow his/her example and seek out his/her advice.
The Anonymous Loser Goomba is clearly spiritually bankrupt, and doesn't know it. "He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a Fool, avoid him."---Mr. Griffin, history teacher, veteran, and very wise old man (probably quoting someone else).
Best wishes in your life for you to grow to become, more and more each day for all your life, a nice person you like and admire.
Timoclea
