Comments on: The Post to end all Posts http://frozensummers.com/blog/2006/12/the-post-to-end-all-posts/ The blog of Frozen Summers Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:17:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anonymous http://frozensummers.com/blog/2006/12/the-post-to-end-all-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Anonymous Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:28:00 +0000 http://frozensummers.com/blog/?p=169#comment-82 "All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever." - C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain “All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.” – C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

]]> By: Anonymous http://frozensummers.com/blog/2006/12/the-post-to-end-all-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Anonymous Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:12:00 +0000 http://frozensummers.com/blog/?p=169#comment-81 yeah... i'm sorry too.<br /><br />don't want to say anything cliched or frustrating like 'i'm praying for you' even though i might, or i know how you feel - because i dont.<br /><br />hope things get better :) yeah… i’m sorry too.

don’t want to say anything cliched or frustrating like ‘i’m praying for you’ even though i might, or i know how you feel – because i dont.

hope things get better :)

]]> By: Nicholas Manning http://frozensummers.com/blog/2006/12/the-post-to-end-all-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Nicholas Manning Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:49:00 +0000 http://frozensummers.com/blog/?p=169#comment-80 I know you far less than the others Dan so I have less I can say and even less that I can in good conscience comment about. In short all I am commenting for is to acknowledge that I have read what you've said, I feel for you and am praying for some sort of improvement to what is happening. I know you far less than the others Dan so I have less I can say and even less that I can in good conscience comment about. In short all I am commenting for is to acknowledge that I have read what you’ve said, I feel for you and am praying for some sort of improvement to what is happening.

]]> By: Geoff Folland http://frozensummers.com/blog/2006/12/the-post-to-end-all-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Geoff Folland Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:17:00 +0000 http://frozensummers.com/blog/?p=169#comment-79 Dan,<br /><br />Please forgive me for having failed to keep in contact with you as a friend. I had hoped you would reconnect back into your Coast networks - but that obviously didn't happen and I wasn't careful enough to help you do that.<br /><br />My personal take: Emo is not unusual. I can relate to being ruled by emotions. I've been there and done that - for long periods of time. And I don't think it is bad, not just sustainable (either way).<br /><br />I have quoted for many years the idea that people (in general) cannot live with conflict between what they say they believe and how they live. They will change one to conform to the other - one way or the other. Your account is a perfect example of someone changing their belief to match their life. Authenticity (something I have always admired in you) is much better than hypocrisy - even if I am convinced your current position is untenable long-term.<br /><br />I haven't given up hope for you, Dan. You may feel the hope fading, but I am still holding on. God hasn't finished with you yet (and that's not a threat!) I used to say to you that I would support you whatever decision you made (about working with Student Life) and no one was more disappointed than me that it didn't work out. It's still true. I will support you in whatever you do. I am here for you - even if I don't go chasing you. Feel free to call me if you want - or if you think it would be helpful.<br /><br />Geoff Dan,

Please forgive me for having failed to keep in contact with you as a friend. I had hoped you would reconnect back into your Coast networks – but that obviously didn’t happen and I wasn’t careful enough to help you do that.

My personal take: Emo is not unusual. I can relate to being ruled by emotions. I’ve been there and done that – for long periods of time. And I don’t think it is bad, not just sustainable (either way).

I have quoted for many years the idea that people (in general) cannot live with conflict between what they say they believe and how they live. They will change one to conform to the other – one way or the other. Your account is a perfect example of someone changing their belief to match their life. Authenticity (something I have always admired in you) is much better than hypocrisy – even if I am convinced your current position is untenable long-term.

I haven’t given up hope for you, Dan. You may feel the hope fading, but I am still holding on. God hasn’t finished with you yet (and that’s not a threat!) I used to say to you that I would support you whatever decision you made (about working with Student Life) and no one was more disappointed than me that it didn’t work out. It’s still true. I will support you in whatever you do. I am here for you – even if I don’t go chasing you. Feel free to call me if you want – or if you think it would be helpful.

Geoff

]]> By: Steve West http://frozensummers.com/blog/2006/12/the-post-to-end-all-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-78 Steve West Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:05:00 +0000 http://frozensummers.com/blog/?p=169#comment-78 Ahh shoot, that's rough.<br /><br />I had a frikkin awful year too. I failed three subjects in one semester - faced deep questions to evangelicalism that shifted my position and other stuff that I won't divulge but suffice to say that even tho I am a natural optimist I experienced my first strong bout of depression in my life.<br /><br />So it's been a crap year all round. Cheers. Let's pull out the beer.<br /><br />Ps. Sorry if I wasn't there for you either mate. I had no real idea...but i shoulda guessed it woulda been hard. I pretty much told no one when I was going through my crap, so that seems to be the way when you're experiencing it. Ahh shoot, that’s rough.

I had a frikkin awful year too. I failed three subjects in one semester – faced deep questions to evangelicalism that shifted my position and other stuff that I won’t divulge but suffice to say that even tho I am a natural optimist I experienced my first strong bout of depression in my life.

So it’s been a crap year all round. Cheers. Let’s pull out the beer.

Ps. Sorry if I wasn’t there for you either mate. I had no real idea…but i shoulda guessed it woulda been hard. I pretty much told no one when I was going through my crap, so that seems to be the way when you’re experiencing it.

]]> By: Bauldur http://frozensummers.com/blog/2006/12/the-post-to-end-all-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Bauldur Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:34:00 +0000 http://frozensummers.com/blog/?p=169#comment-77 Dan, I'm sorry. I had no idea you were going through this sort of emotional distress. I have failed you as a friend. Dan, I’m sorry. I had no idea you were going through this sort of emotional distress. I have failed you as a friend.

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