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ValorRally In reply to SuperKuddlor [2020-04-14 04:55:51 +0000 UTC]

The question he asked was indeed an important one that I knew needed to be addressed as, as stated in the comic, its one I've battled with as well, and still do from time to time. Everything I've mentioned here was all based on what the Lord relieved to me as to how to address, and confront such matters according to scripture, and also to have an understanding for the matter as well.

While my initial goal with the "Ask Rice" series was for the sake of having fun and being creative, seeing it opened a door of opportunity to also minister to people as well, in accordance with the truth of the gospel as its written, for me, I saw that as an even greater blessing and purpose to use this element for, and still strongly feel as such. There may be things that admittedly, I do still stand in agreement with where both you, and Teono stand, and I've stated my reasons before, but never the less I will pray for ya'll, not only for your requests, but that the Lord could also bring further clarity and understanding as to even the matters of which we disagree on as well.

It's not a matter of opinion man, nor a matter of feelings either... its most certainly not even a matter of what I think or feel is right either, but again, according to what the Lord has said, and confirmed in his word, understanding not only whats right and wrong, acceptable or unacceptable, but also, "why". And as such honoring these facts for what they are as God intended for them to be. I don't say these things for the sake of trying to sound or to be right, or to in any way put people down or call them out... but in the same way a true friend would speak the truth to save the person they love and care for, even if that truth may sting, I'd much rather speak the truth to first honor the Lord, and witness to a friend rather than be a pacifist and go along with something, knowing its wrong, and ultimately subject them, and even myself to ruin.

Hope you understand, and once more, I'll be praying for ya, God bless.

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SuperKuddlor In reply to ValorRally [2020-04-14 13:52:08 +0000 UTC]

I see. I also see that each and every one of us has a limited body whose limits are being uplifted by the Holy Spirit who runs the body. Therefore, what you might see being revealed to you might not be compatible to say to others. This time however, what you said was perfect. Why? Because all circumstances, our wishes and God's will have been in sync.

What I see "Ask Rice" as is "Let's have fun and amazing gaming computer coolness epicness so that this entire 'Praising Jesus' which is amazing doesn't feel so boring; Jesus is not boring, He is awesome and His Kingdom will be the best thing ever! But since we don't wanna panic while 'Waiting for Heaven', let's celebrate epicness here and now without worrying about what some people claim as satanic (e.g. games are evil, computers are demonic, etc. conspiracy theories)". I believe that that goal has been reached at least in a very significant amount of milestones. One of them is your dedication to pray for me.

Now, regarding feelings and facts, I could be yelling at you "2+2=4" "2+2=4" "2+2=4" "2+2=4" "2+2=4" "2+2=4" "2+2=4" "2+2=4" "2+2=4" "2+2=4" "2+2=4" "2+2=4" "2+2=4" "2+2=4" "2+2=4" and you would be frustrated and traumatized and not wanna learn math ever again. Why? Because you'd get traumatized from how annoying this is. Furthermore, it would come out as if you are lazy, but no; you're not lazy, you just would not be able to speak up about this hypothetical trauma because you would be told "Oh you Millennials are so entitled" and other Boomeresque slanderous condescending murmurrings. This is why my generation is wrecked. So, if I wanna preach to someone, or if I wanna say something, or if I press Send button, then I make sure that what I say does not tamper with someone's emotions in a way that would cause that person to stumble.

More specific of an example: I could speak about how cute it is to cuddle and to lick paws. An actual event that happened is that one person might have that as a personal revolution which unshackles them from the impure addictions they never wanted but were forced into by the world. They'd realize that friendship love and childhood shenanigans are something that cannot and should not be impurified but instead dwelled in without the fear of "depending on something" or any other choreish burden which would tamper with emotions that are required for critical thinking.

On the other hand, such a statement would and has already and might even now as you read trigger you because that is your stumbling block. In my time, cuddling and tying up and tickling and pillowfights and all silly stuff were something that kids in my childhood did all the time with me. If someone even dared to claim that as sexual, they would go to jail because they would have inflicted sexual trauma upon a child. Today, nobody in the mainstream realizes that many silly stuff are related to childhood and friendship love and not pornography. This is the reason you have this stumbling block. I am sorry for that although I am not guilty. I am sorry for not realizing it before; I had done the best back then to do what I could, and I came back with bigger capacities to make peace about this.

Pornography has stolen these childish things and sexualized them. A slippery slope argument (but not a fallacy) that I use a lot is that one day a face, a voice, eye contact, gestures, whatever is related to the body, it will one day be deemed as something sexually sinful or sexually appealing. Nobody will know that it is all designed for a specific scope of actions. Why wait for death to go to heaven? Why wait for marriage to have love? Why cannot love be friendship? Why is all love sex? Why is all life money? Why is all friendship a service right now (Uber, Volt, Glovo)?

This is something we must debunk together and restore back into its original form, but we cannot do that if we keep saying the truth in an incompatible way. You could say the truth the way you understand, but not how I can understand. What's the point of carrying an argument across if it cannot be parsed properly by its recepient? If I say "Furries do sexual stuff, but not all furries are like that", it won't tell the truth; I should say "Furries are people who use fursonas to hide the social weirdness that prevents them from saying stuff with a 'wrong' gesticulation, 'too loud'/'too quiet' voice, or anything else that the mainstream 'different-o-phobic' society does not comply with (glasses, being a nerd, being fat, etc.)", and that is how I say the truth. For further clarification, I would say "Every burned-out person will go for alcohol, drugs, sex, or whatever else, but those people need God, family, friendship, community, and whoever is ready to supply that as a primary option before addictions, they should do so". All of these statements are true, but the arguments are not all valid, and not for everyone valid. It's a parsing issue.

This is why I always claim that feelings are facts. If I say the most true thing ever in the most disgusting way possible, how dare I expect someone to believe that, and how dare I even blame that person for not believing? That will just make the evil people's sweet lies more "trustable" and dangerous. See? It's a vicious cycle! It will be my fault for spreading a lie via a logical fallacy. In order to make sure that good stuff is considered good by a person who wants to be good, it must be explained in a waythat gives a good feeling in order to engage the said person into good actions. It's all about making sure that the recepient can receive the message, lest it's all just being clanging cymballs that make the entire subject of faith so boring and dull and scary. But that is not what faith is. Faith is relieving, peaceful, encouraging, uplifting, it makes us all endure the worst pains while knowing which pain is because of sin and which pain is because of sacrifice which we must do every day. Denying oneself is one thing, but destroying one's own feelings is something else.

Therefore, an argument that hurts feelings will create a logical fallacy and an entire sociocognitive bias chainreaction, and there's way too much of such in this world. This is what I try to eliminate and eradicate. I believe you could do that as well. I've been praying for everyone to have sufficient physical needs satisfied both in a pure way and in a way that doesn't tamper with critical thinking (e.g. hunger makes you not concentrate properly, anger makes you quick to jump to conclusions, etc.; feelings are facts). Feeling bad makes all decisionmaking bad. Feeling good makes it easier to see what is good and what is bad. By knowing this, every person believes only to what God has said to that person, and that person then has sufficient pleasure of obedience to God in order to have dopamine in order to commit into good actions which might hurt. You and me and every faithful could thereby perform each our own missions without becoming each other's stumbling block.

I am sorry for this huge amount of text, but I think that this will say more than enough about the torment we three have been having together. In case of meltdown, let us go back to here to see what this picture and this comment chain has witnessed about the previous such meltdowns so we can recover faster without reinventing the wheel every single time.

Thank you for being there for me and for reading this and for reaching out, and God be thanked above us all.

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ValorRally In reply to SuperKuddlor [2020-04-14 16:17:12 +0000 UTC]

Well man, all I can really tell ya to pack this whole thing up in a nutshell is this; It's not my place to tell people what I think is right or wrong, nor is it my place to question it; as a common saying I tell both my friends, and even co-workers; "I don't get paid to make the rules, I'm just paid to follow them."

I don't stand by what I do for the mere fact that they are just rules that need to be followed, or logic or common sense at that, I stand by and encourage it because I wish to honor the Lord and what he asks of us and requests that we respect. Just as Yeshua/Jesus himself said when he said; "If you love me, follow my commands" John 14:15Therefore, its not a matter of me standing by it, not just cuz I "got" to, but because I want to, because I love the Lord and because he loved me first.

I wont disregard the value of feelings and on the contrary, I "do" believe they have great value and importance as not only is it part of what makes us human, but also what allows us to understand and appreciate what God has done and blessed us with, and also is what allows us to relate to one another as well. But the point is, and the point I've been trying to make from the get-go is this; "feelings can be manipulated" they can be subject to change in an instant... if we are lead by what we feel and depend on that to define what we do, how we act, and so on, how does that at all separate us from the rest of the world? There where many moments in my life where I found myself feeling down and out, lifting up prayers to heaven, yet not feeling anything, and a times I wondered if my prayers where even being heard at all... meanwhile, they where... things dont always happen the way we like or we hope it would, as even for example, I had high hopes of sharing a future with this one girl I planned to marry, yet, it didn't work out that way. Many days I feel lonely, and yeh, in my heart I still have the desire to wanna find a wife and marry some day, but even if I did, that's not where my joy, nor hope comes from... I've learned and received that regardless of what we think, or what we feel, we don't have to act upon it and "sin" for the sake of filling a void.... because this much I do know... you give the desires of the flesh an inch, it takes a mile... and it never stops until suddenly, there are no restraints anymore... no limits... it subjects a person to complete lawlessness until it brings them to ruin... "or" like with many, it subjects them to "selectivity"... where right and wrong is subject to everyone personal opinion by which, even with that... everything goes...

History all through out scripture has proven this... and the modern times prove to be no different either. Hence why, my trust isnt placed in the opinions of man, but rather scripture alone, the words of the living God which define the origins of right and wrong and have proven to stand and never fail.

"What about the ones who have strayed from it?"

A simple answer to that... they're hope wasn't truly placed where they "said" it was.... they, like many, say they place they're hope in the Lord, say they trust him, yet the moment the Lord doesn't give them what they desire, they question the sovereignty of God... mean while... who's will was it they said they trusted in, Gods, or they're own? If they truly trusted the Lord, then would they not have been willing to accept when God says yes or no to something, and further more, respect or conciser the reasons why? But they dont... all they see is that they didn't get what they wanted, or felt they "needed" because of how important it "felt" to them.... and then suddenly those same people regress from faith of fire for God, to watered down, to lawlessness, and then to ruin...

I've seen it happen with my own two eyes enough to realize this fact; to be lead by ones feelings, or to cling to anything of this world more dearly than your hope to the Lord... sorry to say brother, but that person is leaving themselves "wide" open for the enemy to attack and bring them down if they aren't mindful of this.... this is why the Lord says in his word;

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. - Matthew 6:25-34

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I know you have your reasons as to why you cling to feelings and emotions so tightly... and I even get the fact that yeh, having the warmth and comfort of someone close to you can indeed be meaningful and pleasant, admiring the beauty of one's figure and body as God designed it to be... yet this begs the question... what does the bible say about these things?

18 May your fountain be blessed,
    and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19 A loving doe, a graceful deer—
    may her breasts satisfy you always,
    may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
    Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

(actually, the entire chapter of Proverbs 5 touches up on this subject very well)

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now I'll give ya the benefit of the doubt, maybe in your own mind you don't see it or intend for it to be viewed in such a way of a sexual or immoral manner, keep it simple and childish like as you said in a harmless way... yet... when you went down the list before to describe all the things you see as acceptable, I'm sorry but...  feet licks, fetishes, two of the same gender cuddling together and acting all touchy feely while naked... I'll be real with ya man... that neither sounds appropriate for neither adults... OR children to that respect. Of course with the mind of a child they wouldn't know better nor even thing of anything in a "sexual" manner, but the thing is... if they continue to act in such ways without being given the proper instruction to not only grow out of such habits because of how things change as they grow, but also understand "why" its something they shouldn't do, then yeh... they'll live they're whole lives seeing that as acceptable doing things they really shouldn't yet not knowing any better? Or... perhaps... maybe that's the case with you then and why you see things in the light that you do if not for any other reason?

If that is the case, then I do beg your pardon for coming out as heavy on this subject as I do, but again... as mature adults here, and especially as believers, its important that we see things in the proper light they are to be seen in, not only for our own sake, but others as well.

But to one degree.... you are right about one thing; being told common sense repeatedly when someones just not getting it or doesn't understand "can" indeed push people away or much further because of ones inability, or... even unwillingness to understand to which hey... I get it... even I tend to feel that way sometimes as well.... however... that's where sometimes we need to be willing to humble ourselves and ask the Lord to help us look upon the matter through "his" eyes so that we could understand. Sometimes the words of one, or even many people aren't enough to break the ice, and only the Lord can humble and help a person understand as only he can heal the heart in ways in which we as humans never could.... which is why I pray. I accept already the likely hood that you may read this and still not agree or take my word for it.... but I pray that at least you'd be willing to give some thought to it and ask the Lord to help you understand and see things through "his" eyes. And that my friend, is where I'll leave it.


phew.... by golly... I really wasn't expecting to write nearly this much in response to this honestly, but... when the Lord gets me going, I just go with it haha...

anyways, hope this helps in some way, or in time down the line. till then, God bless and take care.

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ValorRally In reply to ItsaboutChrist [2020-03-06 21:34:54 +0000 UTC]

Haha, well hey, all glory and honor goes to the Lord my friend, couldn't have done it without him! Further more... it actually brings me much joy knowing that I can use my talents this way as a means of ministry, and pray that I can continue to do so! To me, it truly makes me feel like I'm using my works they way they are meant to be used for God's glory~ :'3

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