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elbisivni

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Confession
#7789046 - 12/22/07 01:23 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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What does one gain from going to confession?
I remember when I was young, confessing to impure thoughts and actions, feeling thrust by guilt, feeling like I was an ugly and utterly horrible creature.
I remember walking out the door with a clean conscious feeling like I was divinely pardoned of my sin.
I would repeat the pattern. Until I learned to accept responsibility for my thoughts and actions at which time confession become as meaningless to salvation as Heaven and Hell to the afterlife.
Why confession? What do you need the middle-man for? Why feel the need to answer to any Godly figure at all?
If there was a God, and It was all-knowing, then It knows when you are sorry for having made a mistake - and you are equally aware because you have accepted personal responsibility.
So what is confession?
Is it a way for the Church to keep followers underfoot? Is it an easy (but still too inconvenient) way to further ensure your entrance into Heaven? Is it a way to acknowledge your mistakes to an authority figure in order to further concrete your awareness of personal liability and to remind yourself to make steps to better yourself? ???
-------------------- From dust you are made and to dust you shall return.
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MushroomTrip
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Is it a way for the Church to keep followers underfoot?
Yes 
I remember the days when I went to "confess my sins"... as a child and how much it sucked. How the entire family was making a big deal out of it and how they all behaved like saints after the priest told them they were forgiven. So much useless stupid drama. So much pretending and delusion. I'm so glad I grew up and apart from all that.
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   All this time I've loved you And never known your face All this time I've missed you And searched this human race Here is true peace Here my heart knows calm Safe in your soul Bathed in your sighs
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Silversoul
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It was my understanding that confession once served the same social role that psychotherapy serves today.
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EternalCowabunga
Being of Great Significance



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Silversoul said: It was my understanding that confession once served the same social role that psychotherapy serves today.
that's pretty much my perspective on it
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fivepointer
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Sounds like you all need therapy due to Catholic damage.
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MushroomTrip
Dr. Teasy Thighs



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Ohh I got my therapy all right.  With the help of some wonderful psychedelic experiences I passed this bull shit!
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   All this time I've loved you And never known your face All this time I've missed you And searched this human race Here is true peace Here my heart knows calm Safe in your soul Bathed in your sighs
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Icelander
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What does one gain from going to confession?
Rear end sexual excitement. (think on these things my son)
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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2sky
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It reminds me of the old joke where a boy says he has been stealing lumber to build a tree-house and the Priest says that was very bad and for his penance he would have to make a Novena. The boy then replied: "I know what it is, but if you'll get the plans, then I'll get the lumber".
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Edited by 2sky (01/02/08 05:46 AM)
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Seuss
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> What does one gain from going to confession?
Guilt relief.
> It reminds me of the old joke
Murder is evil, Evil is sin, Sin is forgiven, So do it again!
-------------------- Just another spore in the wind.
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