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[humble soul]

Do you ever visit the forum at odd hours like this?
I went to bed at 8pm last night so slept well until 2.30am. I rarely sleep right through the night these days. Maybe I go to bed too early.

 

[humble soul]

4.45am here.

 

[humble soul]

5.35am

 

[Christ_empowered]

Praying

 

[humble soul]

6.00am.
I wonder how much covid 19 affects traffic on internet forums.
As you can see I am a hardcore forum visitor. Makes me wonder how I coped before the Internet.
Numbers don't really bother me. I plough on regardless. There's a stubborn streak in me. I want to post in droughts and rain. In all conditions.
Self expression until the end. Yeah this doesn't quite fit the Christianity I assert to be part of. A real Christian might be praying instead of posting. Of seeking to help rather than seeking attention. I will accept your assessment. That's fair. My real character is possibly dark and despairing. I am only 10 % light hearted. And that's what people need on forums. To take their mind off their own issues

 

[humble soul]

"you think too much"..yeah that's fair...but some people don't think enough. They don't wrestle. They want the game over asap.

 

[stovebolts]

"you think too much"..yeah that's fair...but some people don't think enough. They don't wrestle. They want the game over asap.

Ha, I'm guilty of that.
I'm a developer and I'm thinking hard most days. I'm not physically tired, but I do get brain tired, like now... My mind is mush cause I thought so hard today figuring things out.
I used to think real hard about God and Theology. Now I bask in his greatness.

 

[humble soul]

Ha, I'm guilty of that.
I'm a developer and I'm thinking hard most days. I'm not physically tired, but I do get brain tired, like now... My mind is mush cause I thought so hard today figuring things out.
I used to think real hard about God and Theology. Now I bask in his greatness.

Website developer?
Actually my first guess was land developer. But such a blatant money making occupation didn't match the Stove Bolts I know. Or claim to know.

 

[Tessa]

Hi Humble
I come on the forum at weird times too.
When you Express yourself it is a form of sharing, and that is a form of genero0sity . Nothing wrong with that.
We can become addicted to forums. When it's one like this one is, I think of it as a good addiction. After all it is a group of Christians and seekers meeting together.

 

[humble soul]

I found secular forums either dull or too fond of the scientific view of life. I am not evidence obsessed. That's for people who lack imagination.

 

[for_his_glory]

I'm here from the time I get up till I go to bed most days. I'm usually in bed by 11:00 PM and up around 8:00 AM, but on a few occasions I've been known to be in here till 2:00 AM.

humble soul You do make me laugh at times with your unique weird sense of humor as you are not all dark and despairing as I know you have a heart for the Lord. I really do not know how much knowledge you have in the word as you do not share that part of you very often. I don't think that you are so much an attention seeker, but one who wants others to like you as it's possible you have issues with self-esteem and humor is your way of releasing what actually lays deep down inside of you that you suppress.

Even though you love the Lord you have yet to totally surrender all to Him. It took me many years to do that, but once I got to the place where all my darkness and despair turned to thoughts of suicide is when I truly sought God and laid all my feelings at the feet of Jesus. When I was done I just laid there in silence and it was then that the Holy Spirit did a total transformation and filled my heart with so much joy and gladness for the Lord and then I understood the love of God as He was waiting for me to come back to Him.

Just my thoughts of what I see in you, but I could be wrong.

 

[stovebolts]

Website developer?
Actually my first guess was land developer. But such a blatant money making occupation didn't match the Stove Bolts I know. Or claim to know.

Lol, I'm what you call an ETL data developer. The main project I've been working on the past 7 months is in Postgres. Second one is migrating from Microsoft SQL Server to Postgres.
my bread and butter is Oracle, although I'm getting pretty good at Postgres. I'd really like to sharpen my skills in Python because it integrates so cleanly with Postgres.
bTW, Postgres is free, whereas Oracle cost $ for each structure in the database. Corporate has a huge push to get data out of Oracle and into Postgres.

 

[humble soul]

I'm here from the time I get up till I go to bed most days. I'm usually in bed by 11:00 PM and up around 8:00 AM, but on a few occasions I've been known to be in here till 2:00 AM.

humble soul You do make me laugh at times with your unique weird sense of humor as you are not all dark and despairing as I know you have a heart for the Lord. I really do not know how much knowledge you have in the word as you do not share that part of you very often. I don't think that you are so much an attention seeker, but one who wants others to like you as it's possible you have issues with self-esteem and humor is your way of releasing what actually lays deep down inside of you that you suppress.

Even though you love the Lord you have yet to totally surrender all to Him. It took me many years to do that, but once I got to the place where all my darkness and despair turned to thoughts of suicide is when I truly sought God and laid all my feelings at the feet of Jesus. When I was done I just laid there in silence and it was then that the Holy Spirit did a total transformation and filled my heart with so much joy and gladness for the Lord and then I understood the love of God as He was waiting for me to come back to Him.

Just my thoughts of what I see in you, but I could be wrong.

So if I stop these attention seeking posts, you will know I have found the Lord fully? Maybe if I found the Lord completely, I wouldn't come on here.
I appreciate your posts glory. You are the real McCoy Christian. Walking the talk.
my wife did say to me she liked the part of me that second guesses myself. She didn't want someone too sure of themselves. Or too Christian either. As she is agnostic. She had a bad experience with a previous relationship of a Christian guy forcing their faith on her. I too am cautious of zealous Christians. Because they sound fake to me. Delusional. I don't like dogmatic. The key for me is if it makes you happy good. Just don't expect me to be like you.
Sorry ..by 'you" I don't mean you...

 

[humble soul]

Lol, I'm what you call an ETL data developer. The main project I've been working on the past 7 months is in Postgres. Second one is migrating from Microsoft SQL Server to Postgres.
my bread and butter is Oracle, although I'm getting pretty good at Postgres. I'd really like to sharpen my skills in Python because it integrates so cleanly with Postgres.
bTW, Postgres is free, whereas Oracle cost $ for each structure in the database. Corporate has a huge push to get data out of Oracle and into Postgres.

You are a superstar stove. I'm out of my league as I don't speak that language.

 

[stovebolts]

You are a superstar stove. I'm out of my league as I don't speak that language.

Lol! Nice play on words!

Select "hello grumpy" from dual;. Aka Oracle.
Select "hello frumpy";. Aka Postgres
It's about the only thing you can do easier in Postgres than Oracle... In SQL Server, what takes a line of code takes 3 in Postgres most of the time.
See, look what you've just learned. Another bit of useless information that captivated 20 seconds of your day lol

 

[for_his_glory]

So if I stop these attention seeking posts, you will know I have found the Lord fully? Maybe if I found the Lord completely, I wouldn't come on here.
I appreciate your posts glory. You are the real McCoy Christian. Walking the talk.
my wife did say to me she liked the part of me that second guesses myself. She didn't want someone too sure of themselves. Or too Christian either. As she is agnostic. She had a bad experience with a previous relationship of a Christian guy forcing their faith on her. I too am cautious of zealous Christians. Because they sound fake to me. Delusional. I don't like dogmatic. The key for me is if it makes you happy good. Just don't expect me to be like you.
Sorry ..by 'you" I don't mean you...

I will know you found the Lord by that of what you speak when you let the light of Christ shine in you and through you. Right now I don't see this light in you, but it will come if you accept it.

I know you didn't mean me, because you love me like a well loved sister, LOL.

I do know what you mean by others trying to force something on you that you know nothing about as it makes one want to just run away from them, especially when they appear to be self righteous. It's all about having a personal relationship with Christ as He will meet you where you are as you let yourself just talk to Him.

I think second guessing ourselves is not always a bad thing as at times it brings us to a reality about our self that can be a good thing or a bad thing.

 

[humble soul]

glory and stove Bolts
I will occasionally say something stupid or disrespectful or both. for example if I doubt the authenticity of every Bible verse. but let me make it clear...I am more impressed by a person's character than what they believe in.
How we say something is more important the content. That's my current view.
God Bless you both

 

[for_his_glory]

glory and stove Bolts
I will occasionally say something stupid or disrespectful or both. for example if I doubt the authenticity of every Bible verse. but let me make it clear...I am more impressed by a person's character than what they believe in.
How we say something is more important the content. That's my current view.
God Bless you both

Fair enough as you have to be true to yourself and your own standards and principles and I will think nothing less of you for this. You challenge me to want to get into your mind to know you better and I like that.

 

[Prycejosh1987]

Do you ever visit the forum at odd hours like this?
I went to bed at 8pm last night so slept well until 2.30am. I rarely sleep right through the night these days. Maybe I go to bed too early.

I go bed early myself, at 9pm to 10pm sometimes its hard to sleep, and with this toothache i barely slept.