tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24335936.post5383396534857423763..comments2024-01-11T04:31:58.232-08:00Comments on oxymoronredundancyparadoxtrap: Healed!?Benjamin Adyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325520894212279303noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24335936.post-54228111236273477412007-02-12T20:51:00.000-08:002007-02-12T20:51:00.000-08:00Megsie, I'm thinking that Ted might not fully be ...Megsie,<BR/><BR/> I'm thinking that Ted might not fully be back into that "I'm never gonna get caught again" mode yet. I'm guessing he's still experiencing the enormous relief of having gotten caught. However, long term I guess you'll probably be right. Remember Pat Means? I'm thinking some people just have a certain drive which makes them want to be and seek to be in leadership positions where there are really high expectations placed on them, and then they inevitably can't keep them, and also can't admit that they are not keeping them. I think, unfortunately, that we'll be hearing about Mr. Haggard again, albeit on a smallerish scale. My suspicion is that the support he's gotten has been so enormously unhelpful that he's going to need to go around again at least one more time. I hope that's not true, but I suspect it is.<BR/><BR/> Helen,<BR/> You kind of nailed it. That is so sad. Having this amazingly constricted ROAA means having an amazingly constricted god and an amazingly constricted range of help and thus change is inordinately slow. I know cause I was in there, and no doubt still am in there in the sense that someday I (hopefully) shall have an even that much broader ROAA, and shall look back at my current self and think "wow, he was *so* limiting god and his possibilities". Maybe it's a kind of Jonathan Livingtstone Seagull thing.Benjamin Adyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03325520894212279303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24335936.post-51538950107332866242007-02-12T04:39:00.000-08:002007-02-12T04:39:00.000-08:00I think what it means is that, unfortunately the s...I think what it means is that, unfortunately the simple truth of "I have sometimes been attracted to another man and it's possible I might be again at some time or other" is outside his ROAA (Range of Acceptable Answers). So instead he has to choose between "I am gay" and "I am not gay". And so he is choosing "I am not gay" - I'm not sure why but obviously in the Christian circles he moves in that's the 'right answer'.Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03605999794188527973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24335936.post-86950199462781430642007-02-11T22:47:00.000-08:002007-02-11T22:47:00.000-08:00"I'm never getting caught again!"Babe, we gotta wa..."I'm never getting caught again!"<BR/>Babe, we gotta watch 'But I'm a Cheerleader' together!! It's hilarious, and marries brilliantly with your blog entry today!<BR/>LOVE MegsMegshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057559601219863112noreply@blogger.com