DIFFUSION OF RESPONSIBILITY: PEER PRESSURE..?

"JIM. 

 I CAN FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU EXCEPT FOR ONE THING...YOUR FACE." 

I am hearing impair; therefore round table discussion can be difficult, even stressful, exhausting by the time it's over, for me participating within.  The more I don't hear, the less "Abel" following with my inputs into these discussions; the reason I have a tendency dominating conversations in the first place.  What I hear is 1/3 what I hear, 1/3 what I lipread, and 1/3 what I fill in by context.  Two thirds have nothing to do with hearing!  But then again...they do.   The more familiar I am with the topics, the less stress filling in the context.   And of course, what topics do we all know best other than ourselves. We simply start off the bible study lesson with one of my understandings.  And I think this is fair considering the Methodist Church had first crack at indoctrinating me.

I call it like I see it.  

Most of my opinions I already know to be conjectures to begin with.  And all that's necessary changing them...me hearing anything new making sense.   In no way am I claiming to know the answers.  But we have got to start somewhere.
  

"I CAN OF MY OWN SELF DO NOTHING: 
AS I SENSE, I JUDGE: 

 AND MY JUDGMENT IS JUST,

 NOT BECAUSE I SEEK THE WILL OF MY OWN, BUT THE WILL OF THY COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUSNESS WHICH COMETH BEFORE US." 

And nothing happens until something moves. 

But the more likely scenario,
how can I counterpoint someone or anyone for this matter,
who's refusing to be counterpointed by me?   

It's true!
It... IS POSSIBLE... to get the answer you want if you know how to word the questions; or avoid them them being asked in the first place! e.g. Why does God allows evil?   I refuse playing this game.  If they are still asking this question to this day and age, then obviously they already know roughly what the answer's going to be; even if you didn't know this.  It's possible they may just want their new Reverend to feel at home.  Unless maybe, they've never asked this question of one who also had a Doctor of Ministry Degree.  Wouldn't hurt to see if the answer's any different.  Betcha they ain't holding their breaths... waiting.  Maybe even those who rolled their eyes every time this question asked...didn't this time around. 

This is what happens when one gets pulled inside a circle from outside; then pushed and pulled, well...it felt that way... still...even while actually beginning to have fun from all the attentions suddenly new to me, all the way through to the other side of this circle.  But then one learns there is no exit, except for one, this other side of the circle.  And then, it was me trying to come back to it's center;  bringing along with me the lessons of my experiences.  Then, in the process, only now realizing, might have been there all along;  alone the same from the very start.

HOW DOES ONE GO BACK TO GOD WHEN ONE NEVER REALLY STEPS AWAY FROM 

GOD?

Here's the deal.  

I was already a veterinarian when I finally gave into peer pressure; where the drugs are concerned at least...anyway.  Neither a child.  Nor unworldly. By no means not knowing any better.

So imagine what the peer pressure must be for those unworldly; made worse by parents unworldly okay with underage drinking by their two daughters while pretending they didn't know because they wanted their daughters popular.  And they were; while entertaining friends at their home in Little Rock and well as social functions with their  ninny's permission using the lake house.  They actually had unspoken rules between them and their parents.  Like gay men do with their monogamous relationships: it's mutually okay as long as the other does not officially know.  I still have not been able cornering them into understanding how this would have been wrong to kids like me when their age!

Peer pressure..?

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