Where else can you get so many WTF moments in one weekend? Once you get past the point of accepting what these clowns say as having any truth, it becomes hilarious to see the stuff they spit out and the TBM reaction to it.
Sigh, I suppose they could be. If played excessively I can see how games could possibly be addictive.
Frankly, I think Mormonism is more addictive. It cosumes more time and money. It's destructive. It has ruined more than one family. And for a lot of us, it was damned hard to quit.
I also am addicted to having sex with my wife, listening to music, and opening my eyes and seeing- if you use the Mormon uptight definition of addiction. Mormon addiction = doing normal things in moderation.
One drink will make you an addict (alcoholic). He had a friend who told him that he became an addict when he took that first drink. There ya have it. Most people on the face of the Earth are Alcoholics. Well, now that I know it (I mean, I have a drink at least once a month), I'd better call LDSSS and get treatment.
Yeah that kind of mentality always made me laugh. My first drink didn't make me an alcoholic. Actually, I hated my first drink. It took me a while before I liked beer. Still can't stand harder drinks especially wiskey.
playing them 4 hours a day within a week. It'll get worse until I stop being very functional.
I've done that several times. I'm an old woman. I have no trouble seeing how much worse it would be for a young guy with testosterone and better games.
I agree with Ballard? Now I have to go take a shower, ick.
I happen to believe that God may have lost a card game with Satan, and in so doing, Satan forced God to restore the only true and living church through a sex addict/narcissist.
Does this theory help to explain why the pure religion of Jesus Christ was midwifed through a jerk?
Works for me.
Another game was lost by God (through Satan's trickery) and so, Brigham Young was destined to be the second sex maniac of the Lord's Kingdom.
God has apparently improved His wagering, and so, we now have flawless towers of intellectual leadership, men so righteous that the Lord has delayed His coming, due to feelings of insecurity.
These are truths I've discovered after much thought, and I hope you will share your feelings about their possibility.
For me, it helps to make the slippery morphing puzzle pieces fit with very little swearing, as I seek to create the Big Picture for my sincere and curious soul.
The things he was saying could have been said by a speaker at the exmo conference, talking about Mormonism as the drug. Especially when he said that anything that took away your free agency over your life was an addiction.
It's all about patternicity and why people believe or do what they do. Since people want remember the false positives (I prayed a God helped me find my car keys) and don't remember the true negatives (I prayed and God still let my loved one die), this type of belief is reinforced in an addicting manner.
Ballard said that addiction is not only a physical and mental problem, but a SPIRITUAL disease. He promised that PRAYER can cure an addiction. God, I hope addicts don't believe him! They need REAL help!
Ballard didn't get that deep, Shummy.
Addicts = the new "golden contacts" for the Morg. The cult loves to prey on the weak.
AA is horrible also and has the worst "cure" rate of almost any program designed to help addicts ever studied. It is only ubiquitous because of tradition. Alcoholism is not a spiritual disease and is not cured through use of a "higher power" or prayer. Real help is available from qualified counselors, community members, doctors and hospitals.
Lemme guess, to borrow a phrase you used elsewhere, you're trying to bait someone into a response...
I would generally keep quiet, but in this case it's a matter of life-and-death, and your nonsense--which is utterly at odds with the views of the American Medical Association, the two APA's, and the Veterans' Administration--reveals the sort of gullibility usually associated with unrecovered Mormonism.
Incidentally, there are at least half-a-dozen here with long-term, continuous abstinence, acquired in AA, a reality that is at odds with that denial you're manifesting.
One definition of an addiction is that a person continues to do it in spite of it having a negative impact on his/her life, and it becomes a threat to their mental or physical health. You have no idea how many people I see on the freeway staring down at their cellphones in stop and go rush hour traffic, thus putting themselves and others in danger. And all because they don't have enough common sense to pull over at the next exit if a communication is really that important and can't wait 20 minutes. One time I passed a truck driver at night who was holding up traffic. As I passed him, I could see him staring at the glow of his cell phone. I would say, if a person can't stay away from their phone while driving, he/she may not be addicted to texting, but they do have some issues with impulsivity to work on.
Actually, I just remembered--she was watching conference Saturday morning and I could hear her phone getting text after text. I said something to her about it--"I didn't know it was okay to text while watching conference." I know--I'm a bitch. I have to get my jabs in. She laughed . . .
When I was the ward chorister, I saw a lot of the teens were texting. I know my teen (our family's only church attender) brings his iPod to church and plays games or something, just like some of the other teens.