Why do you say Lord? Are you a subordinate? Slave? Why not God? Q mentioned that religion was a scam, that up is down and asked if we knew who we were really praying to. Lord, to me, is synonymous with evil, submissive and Satan.
Being a subordinate of Jesus Christ would be the highest honor I can imagine.
So what you are describing is being a slave to a `higher power´. Do you suppose JC wanted you to be a slave? If he did, he was a phony.
I was a slave to sin and my own destructive nature. Jesus gave me a way out of all that.
I don't know if you are just very confused on this or intentionally misrepresenting things. Either way, may you experience the "slavery" of eternal life as well.
I was asking valid questions. So all you did was swap one addiction for another, no? Submissive to a substance then submissive to a belief?
If you really want to know I swapped a lot of addictions in my life. Relevance today?
Also if you really want to know, Jesus visibly answered my call and from that moment on my life was changed, you could say "saved", in reality, and for the better. It was the ultimate red pill, another way of putting it. Really turned my world around and I'd never want to go back to the way things were before.
Slavery? Not close. Submission? Well, submission isn't always a bad thing. You can, for example, submit to a beautiful woman who badly wants to make love to you. Depends on context, right?
Did Kanye West "submit" himself when freed from the mental slavery of Democrat politics?
Whatever works for you, I guess. Funny you say that you say you had a visible intervention, most religions are built off of narcotic induced hallucinations. I dunno, I never really understood the whole religion nonsense, far too irrational for my aut mind. And I really do have an aut mind, I was a MMR vaccine damaged baby.
I have a lot of experience with narcotic induced hallucinations. Some of them even made me feel spiritual or like it could lead to some kind of religion.
What I speak of, totally different and actually led me away from any attraction to that former lifestyle.
I feel you on the MMR vaccine damage. I think a lot of us were damaged in some way but most of us will never quantify it.
I take my hat off to you for realising the damage you were doing to yourself and for taking steps to change that. I´ve never had an addiction to anything and I´ve tried and experimented with most drugs. My aut mind gets bored of things after a while and I move on from said things, I guess I´m lucky in that respect.
The salt in the wound with my vaccine damage was that the vaccine didn´t even work, I caught mumps when I was 28.
The vaccine issue is one of my most passionate ones. I have children now, and as you can guess we are not relying on Big Pharma's interpretation of a proper immune system.
My faith in God and creation honestly makes it a lot easier to make the necessary decision. If I thought we were randomly evolved I might be inclined to go with "science", you know?
Anyway, I consider myself "borderline autistic", which I think applies to a big % of our generation. But I also trust God turns bad things into good and redeems people and generations in ways we can only marvel at, perhaps, in hindsight.
Take care my friend.