Spartan117

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    Spartan117 got a reaction from Sunday21 in Am I new?   
    I mean technically no, but it's been like 5 or 6 years so maybe? I missed Pam and PrisonChaplain and wanted to say hi and everything is all new and shiny here now. So who liked Avengers: Endgame?
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    Spartan117 got a reaction from Sunday21 in Forgetting my fiances past   
    As a newish convert who lived like an @$$hole for 30 years before converting, I can tell you that my wife got a full disclosure about my relationship history and the nature of those relationships before we ever got close to a wedding. She listened and understood and it's never been an issue. As far as I know anyway, but I have a great amount of confidence in that.
    If she struggled with the things I had done, I would have more than understood and I would have done whatever I had to and given her whatever she needed to figure things out. She is amazing and I am still baffled as to how I ended up worthy to have her. But it didn't phase her. We've been married for a few months now and life is awesome.
    But if it all of a sudden became so severe a problem in the way you are describing, I don't know if I would be able to sympathize with her like I would have 6 months ago. There was a time and a place for those things, and it came and went. If she is going through a repentance process for this or has completed one, you don't have a leg to stand on for a redress in these matters. In my limited and clearly biased view, I would struggle with that.
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    Spartan117 got a reaction from CertifiableGranny in Transgender   
    That was not my intention.
    I've actually thought a lot about this over the last few days. I don't know if you read my post from way early on in this thread or not. But in it, I talk about my friend and his son, and how earlier this year his son legally became his daughter. I've met a few people who were transgender, but I've never actually known someone who was until my friend and his daughter. I was talking with a mutual friend, he told me that our friends son was now officially his daughter. She started hormone therapy at the end of last year, and earlier this year, she did whatever the government required to be legally identified as female, and changed her name.
    When I first heard about her transition, I was mighty surprised. Then I didn't care. I don't mean that in a heartless, thoughtless way, I mean that this is obviously who she is and what makes her happy. So good for her. I found out that she had started a blog right before she started hormone therapy. She was diligent in updating it too, up until her name change. I read the whole thing. I read about her first time going out in girl mode, all the times she didn't pass and the cruelty that usually went along with that, even her first time shaving her legs.
    In the end I didn't have any better of an understanding about what transgender is, but I know that this girl knew beyond anything that she had ever known that this is what would make her happy. This wasn't some "phase" she was going through, this was who she was. And she went through hell to realize that. And that's just the last year that I read about in a blog, I can't imagine the years leading up her transition.
    So I've thought about this a lot over the last few days. Ever since you kicked in the door and accused everyone of saying transgender was a mental disorder. And that transgender people were unworthy of Heavenly Fathers love, and lots of other things that I'm fairly certain were never said but you were sure offended by. I thought you were being over-dramatic so I responded by being overly sarcastic. Whatever the case was, you were clearly upset. And I should have been sympathetic to that when I responded to you and I wasn't. I apologize. I forget that this can be a really sensitive subject for some people and I should be respectful of that.
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    Spartan117 reacted to NeuroTypical in Avatars   
    It says my member profile is disabled.