I’m always being told “be careful what you post online, someone is always reading what you say.” Well, I doubt even the US government gives much of a shit about my personal problems. Audience of one? More like audience of none!

A Difficult Choice

So i’ve been debating whether i should stop going to the SDA church i’ve been going to for about two years.

Reasons For Leaving:

The young adult/collegiate Sabbath school is less about God and the Bible and more about parroting liberal ideology without fear of “censorship” from traditionalists and conservatives (ie, people like me). While this seems like a rather petty reason to stop going, it is my belief that one should attend church to reconnect with God and receive a spiritual blessing. What i’m getting is no different than i can get on here or facebook: frustration, anger, sorrow, detachment and a further incentive to react towards these liberal attacks in a selfish, sinful way. It seems wrong to go when all it is doing is courting temptation rather than blessing and being blessed.

Reasons Against Leaving:

It is the only Seventh-Day Adventist church within a reasonable travel distance. Having no spiritual connection at all causes spiritual duress, depression, and speeds temptation. Despite these people hating everything that i am and represent, they are the only Christians i know in my area, to say nothing of the only SDAs in my area.

So it’s a choice of cutting off a source of temptation and frustration and replace with more temptation, or remain in and endure the former temptation because it is the only spiritually rejuvenating source in my area.

Before I began middle school in 2004, the only people I knew were my immediate family and bits of my extended family. All in all, that was about fourteen people, only two of whom were close to my age. But we didn’t have much time together and they went to different schools than I did. When I finally did go to middle school, I was exposed to people who grew up with each other, had experiences together of which they could talk about and I was ignorant. It seemed as though I was just a stump in everyone’s way.

The only good part, or semi-good part if you can call that even remotely “good”, was high school. There were more people there, from different walks of life, and not everyone “grew up together.” Unfortunately, I haven’t kept contact with more than a handful of people from high school.

At both of the churches I’ve regularly attended, it was the same as middle school. The people in those two separate institutions all grew up together, went to school together, and had experiences together of which I was ignorant.

What this basically means is that I’ve always been the outsider. I never really have the level of years of experience that everyone else has with all their friends, so it always feels that, no matter how close I may become, I’ll never be that close with anyone.

PSA from wickedmetalviking

I’m still here and i intend on surviving UC. Steps have been taken to get me covered, but i won’t divulge details. I just want those who may be reading this to know that i’m still alive. 2016 is not taking me without a fight! Why do i say this, you ask, if all is well? I’m glad you asked, handsome stranger! As it turns out, i’m long overdue for a break from social media. There’s a lot of negativity going around, which is not conducive to good health in my physical state. Therefore, for the next seven days, i will be out of contact on social media. Send me messages in my inbox and i’ll respond to them when i return. I’m not dying and i haven’t given up the dream of making metal; it’s just being deferred again, as it was between 2013 and 2015. So until i return, you all take care of yourselves and each other.

– Godspeed, peace, love, and heavy metal to you all. WMV

This 4th of July reminded me why i had to give up cheese: because otherwise, i have strong gas and intense pain, both in my intestines and during bowel movements. But go ahead, make your jokes at my expense because ain’t it fun to make fun of vegans, am i right?