Has everyone braced themselves for the rapture today?!?

[mowens]

My wife and I were talking last night about my brother in law. He's about my age but he quit working when he was 50 and hasn't had a job since. My sister in law is a veterinarian with a very successful practice, so he hasn't had to. They have a nice place out in the country.
For the last year or so, he's been convinced he's dying. He's had full body scans looking for cancer, had all kinds of tests for his heart and, so far, everything is fine. He's taken to laying in bed now, not getting up for much anything.

He's obviously very depressed. I can understand why. He has no purpose. He does nothing. He has a nice fishing pond on his property; he has a fully equipped wood working shop that my father in law had when he passed. Yet, he does nothing.

Honestly, he's not very intellectually gifted. My SIL is. That my be part of it.

He's just laying around now and, IMO, hoping to die. I asked my wife about having him involuntarily hospitalized but I'm not sure if they can do that. He hasn't actively tried to kill himself.

The old unkind part of me is pissed at him for doing this to his family. In some ways, I have little sympathy for him. If I were him and looking back on my life, I would be depressed too. Hell, I get depressed looking back at my own life.

The other part of me is trying to be kind and generous. I have clinical depression, and it sucks big green giant puss filled donkey dicks. I have considered suicide many times, but, I couldn't do that to my children. One of my stepdaughter's favorite grandmothers killed herself after her son died in a car wreck. I couldn't pile that on her.

I think that's why he pisses me off so much.

[beej]

The other part of me is trying to be kind and generous. I have clinical depression, and it sucks big green giant puss filled donkey dicks. I have considered suicide many times, but, I couldn't do that to my children. One of my stepdaughter's favorite grandmothers killed herself after her son died in a car wreck. I couldn't pile that on her.

My friend called my crying on Saturday. The first responders still hadn't showed up yet, and he just kept saying, "why did he hate me, why did he hate me?

I tried to reassure him this wasn't hate, this was a sickness, a disease. I'm not sure if I was any comfort. But I know that when he killed himself in this fashion, he left his family to clean up both, a physical mess and an emotional one, and the latter may never be clean again.

[Smit]

Does David Grusch have anything to say about this?  Sounds like alien abduction to me.  Hope they don't end up with 20ft satellite dish deploying out their a$$.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394893/mediaviewer/rm3385927680/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

[CNCAppsJames]

Does David Grusch...

I don't even know who that is so if he had a take on it, it's pretty much irrelevant to me. Pretty much everyone's take on it is irrelevant because that fact of the matter is nobody knows with any real.dwgree of certainty beyond what is stated in the Bible.

I don't look at what an individual says then decide because I like/dislike that person's opinions that they are correct. I will look for myself if I decide a subject is something I wish further clarification on.

[beej]

I don't even know who that is so if he had a take on it, it's pretty much irrelevant to me. Pretty much everyone's take on it is irrelevant because that fact of the matter is nobody knows with any real.dwgree of certainty beyond what is stated in the Bible.

I don't look at what an individual says then decide because I like/dislike that person's opinions that they are correct. I will look for myself if I decide a subject is something I wish further clarification on.

I think that was just a joke based on the UFO hearings in congress and alien abductions and such 

[Leehound]

About 18 months ago. I went thru a family tragedy of someone close that nearly broke me to my core. It wasn't something physical but mental. The events that happened really turned my world upside down and made me question my life choices. I was in a really dark place. Although never suicidal, the thought of keeling over with a heart attack was appealing, just to end the pain my wife and I were going through.
With mental illness, there is a tendency to try and keep it quiet.  But our friends and family were exposed to what was happening, which I didn't want. But in retrospect, I am thankful that it happened. The result was we had an army of people praying for our situation.

As someone that had been away from church for 20 plus years and had started to question my faith from growing up Mennonite, the praying people were doing was a nice thought but I just felt that our situation was permanent. I knew what was happening around me was out of my control. So, what do you do? You look inward. My wife and I decided we were going to make changes in our life. Praying with purpose, reading the Bible and eventually finding a Church to attend and trying to live what I was reading. Reading the Bible with fresh eyes has been great. For me it has confirmed just how true it is.

So, what is the result of all the praying that was directed toward us? For the unbeliever, they will say that those empty words to a non-existing entity mean nothing. And that whatever the outcome, would have been the same. All I can say is that I felt those prayers and my situation has had a near 180 degree turn around. There  are still challenges ahead, but I have a "lightness" and optimism that was gone for a while.

I hope this doesn't sound too preachy. My takeaway from what I went through, is that sometimes pain is necessary to effect change in our lives.

Just one guys experience.

[Del.]

About 18 months ago. I went thru a family tragedy of someone close that nearly broke me to my core. It wasn't something physical but mental. The events that happened really turned my world upside down and made me question my life choices. I was in a really dark place. Although never suicidal, the thought of keeling over with a heart attack was appealing, just to end the pain my wife and I were going through.
With mental illness, there is a tendency to try and keep it quiet.  But our friends and family were exposed to what was happening, which I didn't want. But in retrospect, I am thankful that it happened. The result was we had an army of people praying for our situation.

As someone that had been away from church for 20 plus years and had started to question my faith from growing up Mennonite, the praying people were doing was a nice thought but I just felt that our situation was permanent. I knew what was happening around me was out of my control. So, what do you do? You look inward. My wife and I decided we were going to make changes in our life. Praying with purpose, reading the Bible and eventually finding a Church to attend and trying to live what I was reading. Reading the Bible with fresh eyes has been great. For me it has confirmed just how true it is.

So, what is the result of all the praying that was directed toward us? For the unbeliever, they will say that those empty words to a non-existing entity mean nothing. And that whatever the outcome, would have been the same. All I can say is that I felt those prayers and my situation has had a near 180 degree turn around. There  are still challenges ahead, but I have a "lightness" and optimism that was gone for a while.

I hope this doesn't sound too preachy. My takeaway from what I went through, is that sometimes pain is necessary to effect change in our lives.

Just one guys experience.

Leehound, That is a powerful testimony as to the Love God has for us and for prayers from believers who call out our names to the Lord. Thank you for sharing this.

" I have come that you might have life, and that you have it to the full"