There is not enough bitch in the day for all the whining I'm going to do

[valarltd]

They call it "minor preventable."

I call it "Angel got her 53' ass into a tight spot and didn't see the fucking dumpster until it popped her front passenger corner like a pop-top. Steel dumpster. Fiberglas truck. Who wins? Not Angel's safety bonus."

Joy.
The curse of Tractor 6506 goes on.

And I need to check the tires, because I think the bitch has another flat. Or two. Or five Or why not 18?


I think I need a vacation from my LIFE!

At times like this, I'm tempted to yell "God, you win! You've beat me into submission! I'll go back to a Christian church. I'll obey and live a moral life. But I'm doing it from fear of you doing even worse. Stalking me through your friends, attacking my children mentally and physically and damaging my own body were bad enough. I dread seeing what ELSE you have in store."

Is it really possible to fight an omnipotent abuser?

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[morgan-d.livejournal.com]

Probably not. But if you ask me, those in Christian church are not immune to "minor preventables" -- a term which btw sounds rather bizarre to my non-native speaker's ears -- and also have to go through lots and lots of misery. I'm pretty sure you'll be fine being yourself. *hugs*

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

The full term is "a minor, preventable accident," meaning something that leaves the truck driveable, but could have been avoided.

It means they are not like the deer that bounds out of nowhere and into the side of your trailer, crushing it (minor, unpreventable) or rolling the truck into a cruched clump of fiberglas (major, preventable).

Christians have their share of accidents, true, but it's everything and all piling in, like God is out to get me back, by love or fear, whichever.

The D-Man checks in

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, it really is possible to fight an Omnipotent Abuser. Most mythology is full of such tales... although, admittedly, the mortal rarely comes out on top without Divine help from an Immortal rival of the Omnipotent Abuser. The key is in believing in yourself enough to win. And what makes you think the Christian God is the One plaguing you? I understand His devilish counter-part takes much more revel & sport in such things.

Re: The D-Man checks in

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Because the Devil isn't going to be sending out the whole Jesus fanclub to tell me how wonderful God is and how I really reallly really need to go back to church.

I've been a victim of Holy Ambush a dozen times in the last three months.
The best benefit of being an ex-fundamentalist is that I can run rings around all their arguments. And I know the proper names for each argument, and that confuses them.

Re: The D-Man checks in

[(Anonymous)]

I still have Mormons knocking at my door wanting to know why my wife (a Mormon in recovery) and I (definitely NOT a Mormon, because I am too enlightened) have not been to church lately... or for the last 10+ years, for that matter, since I relocated my wife to Denver. Where the heck are you that you keep getting bushwhacked by the Jesus fan club? They are fun to put through the wringer though, and look so cute when they are flustered and don't have answers to your questions, or when their jaws drop after you show them passages in their Bibles that they didn't know about which blow holes in their dogma.

Re: The D-Man checks in

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I'm running into them EVERYWHERE!

In truckstops
In terminals
In the lot at my consignee when I'm sliding my tandems

I am quite capable of doing the mind-blowing thing because I used to be there and know ALL the arguments.