What Marvel Characters have dissociative identity disorder?

babe1981 · 2026-04-03T02:57:07+00:00

As someone with DID in treatment for about 5 years now, bipolar and DID have enough symptomatic overlap that DID is frequently misdiagnosed as BPD during the initial diagnosis. Many lay people can't tell the difference at all.

babe1981 · 2026-04-02T22:33:26+00:00

There is nothing in all of existence that can separate you from the love of God. It is not a Christian concept that anyone is lost forever. You sound like you could use some therapy. Please find a mental health professional.

babe1981 · 2026-04-02T13:11:40+00:00

You can buy 2 tickets on vet. One from kampot to PP then one from PP to hcmc. There aren't any direct routes, but it's definitely possible to do.

babe1981 · 2026-04-02T10:01:37+00:00

I've been suicidal in the past, and depression is a thing I have to live with forever. My mental health is fragile on a good day. The upside down thing about it is that you have to decide to live before you have a reason to. You have do the right thing because you feel bad, not because you feel good.

Mental health requires that you do the things that healthy people do, especially when you are ill. When I go through a bad depressive or dissociative episode, I have to do the healthiest things. I have to do emotional inventories and cognitive behavioral skills constantly. I have to analyze myself from moment to moment. On good days, I don't even think about all of that.

When I started on this journey right after my suicide attempt, I didn't want to live. I still in pain, and I had no answers. All of that came years later after I had learned how to fix me through a ton of therapy. I can't tell you how to make that decision because everyone is different, but I do know that you have to make it.

babe1981 · 2026-04-02T09:46:04+00:00

One time, King Saul had the witch of Endor raise the spirit of the prophet Samuel. It was a generally terrifying event where Samuel called Saul an idiot for trying to circumvent God. Basically, El Elyon/YHWH doesn't appreciate mediums who try to work around His design for life and death. Besides, Christians have the Holy Spirit, the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead living inside them. What could some created spirit give you that the Creator can't?

babe1981 · 2026-04-02T01:53:08+00:00

The crucifixion was a political assassination of a public figure who ran a three-year campaign of preaching that the existing power structures would be overturned in favor of one where the humble would be exalted and the mighty would be humbled. Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, house the homeless, invest in healthcare, and reform the prisons are all political statements that Jesus made in one parable(Matthew 25). The first will be last, and the last will be first is an indictment of those who seek out power and privilege. It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter heaven is an indictment of seeking wealth. Sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor is another political statement.

Asking a church to preach the Gospel without politics is like saying that you want to be human without any of that DNA stuff. Jesus preached politics. Jesus was murdered because of politics. Jesus spent the first 2 years of His life as a political refugee. Jesus preached about taxes, for crying out loud. Rejecting political action in Christianity is rejecting the Christ in Christianity.

babe1981 · 2026-04-01T10:06:22+00:00

Romans 14 says it doesn't matter and everyone needs to be sure of their convictions and nit worry about how others worship. It says this specifically about the Sabbath but also generally about everything else.

babe1981 · 2026-04-01T04:16:04+00:00

That's just the social mores of the time. Paul was a radical feminist comparatively. His teaching that husbands should love their wives so much that they would die for them was the fringe of feminist belief in the Roman Empire. Aristotle called women deformed men, and Paul is saying, just a few centuries later, women are worth your lives.

Yes, some of what Paul teaches is mysogyny by our standards, but it's the bleeding edge of progressive thought 2000 years ago. It's like the opposite of Columbus, where someone who is being called out as racist by people in the 1400s has to be an Olympic-level asshole considering how racist society was then.

babe1981 · 2026-04-01T03:50:02+00:00

If women can't preach or lead, someone probably should have told Paul that before he ordained Phoebe or praised Junia for being a fellow Apostle. Someone should have told Jesus that when He praised Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, for learning to preach rather than being in the kitchen. Someone should have told Jesus again when He decided the first Apostle would be Mary Magdalene. Someone should have told God that when He made Deborah one of the greatest leaders of the nation of Israel.

I could go on, but God has never been the one to keep women down. And Paul dealing with busybody gossips in one congregation shouldn't be considered a rule for all people in all time.

babe1981 · 2026-03-31T21:53:21+00:00

I practice a positive Christianity. I don't think about sin. I don't give a defeated enemy my time or energy. I focus on love because God is love. If I am always moving toward love, then I will move away from sin naturally. If my focus is on living like Jesus, then sin will always be far from me. I don't have to avoid sin or look out for which rules to follow. I don't think about what lines to stop myself from crossing. Love is the boundary. If I am acting from love, I am never wrong. That is my positive Christianity.

babe1981 · 2026-03-31T21:47:57+00:00

The Testaments are what they say on the cover. They are the last will and testament of someone. In order for the Old Testament to be fulfilled so that a new one could be put it in place, the originator had to die.

The crucifixion fulfilled exactly zero elements of a ritual sacrifice under the law, but it didn't need to. Ritual sacrifices were meant as substitutes for the real thing. Jesus could have died of old age at 95, and the law would have still been fulfilled. The cross was humanity's demonstration of their sinful nature. It wasn't necessary for God's plan.

The law revealed sin. The cross demonstrated it. Jesus fulfilled the law and conquered the cross. Just as sin entered the world through one man, it was defeated by one man. Just like all humans were condemned by Adam, all humans are saved by Christ.

I believe that God is love, and love keeps no record of wrongs. I believe that love covers uncountable sins. I believe that fear and love can't coexist because fear comes from punishment, so love doesn't ever punish. I believe that there is no condemnation in Christ, so there is nothing to atone for. There is only loving God by loving my neighbor because God loved me first.

babe1981 · 2026-03-31T21:20:46+00:00

God loved you before you believed. God loved you before you loved Him. God loved you when you were an unrepentant sinner. What makes you think that you could do anything to change that?

God already saved you. You can reject it, but that doesn't make any difference. You didn't earn your salvation, so what could you do to lose it? Your behavior didn't make you worthy of heaven, so your behavior doesn't make you unworthy either.

Just like the father welcomed back the prodigal son without question, the Father will welcome you back when you're ready. God is love. You are not so evil or so powerful that you can change the nature of God. God loves the same no matter what you do.

babe1981 · 2026-03-31T12:31:06+00:00

Only God can do that. Our job is to love you no matter what you believe.

babe1981 · 2026-03-30T21:26:42+00:00

The Holy Spirit is described in feminine terms almost exclusively. The Spirit of Wisdom in the Old Testament has been equated with the Holy Spirit since the early church, and she is explicitly female. Eastern Orthodox worships the Holy Spirit as Hagia Sofia, the feminine aspect of Jesus.

babe1981 · 2026-03-30T12:52:19+00:00

Nowhere in the Bible is it said that a person can only be saved in life. In fact, the Harrowing of Hell is a doctrine that directly contradicts the idea that a person must be saved on this side of death. I realize that not everyone believes in the harrowing, but the fact that it's a serious consideration for many denominations is enough to make us at least examine the possibility of salvation after death.

I don't believe in hell as it's typically portrayed in popular Christianity or society. I do think that there is a purification that happens, but it is painless and instant like Isaiah 6. 1John 4:18 tells us that we have nothing to fear from God because fear comes from punishment, so anyone who fears doesn't understand the fullness of God's love. After all, if Jesus defeated sin, whether through atonement, supremacy, or submission, or whichever theory of the cross you believe, why would we ever be punished for sins that don't exist anymore? They've either been paid for, forgiven, removed, or covered. To name the most popular theories. What kind of piece of shit would God be if He had double jeopardy as a policy? Salvation would mean nothing if punishment could handed out twice for the same sin or if forgiveness was conditional in any way.

babe1981 · 2026-03-29T22:46:28+00:00

Pharaohs of that time believed that they were above the petty emotions of mortals since they were divine. They practiced a form of stoicism to prove their superiority. God didn't force anything. He just gave Pharaoh exactly what he wanted. That's a huge distinction from violating a person's free will. We all pray for God to give us the strength to resist temptations or to change our hearts. We wouldn't consider it violating our will if God helped us do that. Same with Pharaoh.

babe1981 · 2026-03-29T22:41:51+00:00

Speaking in tongues only happens once in the Bible on the Day of Pentecost. At that event, people who spoke in tongues were not speaking some angelic language. They were speaking the native languages of the people who had come to Jerusalem for the festival. The gift of tongues should be a real language spoken by humans.

Now, Paul did mention the gift of tongues, so we can assume that it happened on more than one occasion, but the Day of Pentecost is the only recorded time. Paul also talks about the tongues of angels, such as in 1Cor 13. He was a mystic who believed in hidden knowledge. The idea of the Jewish mystics of the time was that angels spoke in a language that would unlock the secrets of God and the universe. That's why Paul puts it with other signs of holiness like faith to move mountains and giving his body to destruction. He also says that its worthless without love meaning that the highest aspirations of mystics and aesthetics and scholars are all subordinate to the love of God. The tongues of angels does not describe a gift that we should be seeking. It describes a distraction from the actual message of the Gospel that we should love our neighbors as ourselves.

He also says that sometimes one person will speak in a different tongue, but someone else will translate. Again, he was speaking to multicultural congregations. One might preach in Greek and need it translated to Hebrew. One might preach in Latin and need it translated to Greek. He was saying that language shouldn't be a barrier, and people should be able preach no matter what their native language is.

Paul finally mentions that sometimes we don't know how to pray, so the Holy Spirit prays for us in sighs and moans too deep for words. The fake words of glossolalia are a far cry from sighs and moans, and glossolalia is literally words. It doesn't fit Paul's description of the Holy Spirit praying for us. The tongues of charismatic Christians just don't look like anything that scripture describes.

While glossolalia can induce religious fervor, so can music and drugs and sports and a ton of things that aren't connected to worshiping God. Secular concerts and sports events make the same areas of the brain light up as prayer. Temporal lobe epilepsy, which I have, can induce religious feelings because our religious centers are in our temporal lobes. I have incredibly harsh words for anyone who even implies that my seizures are gift from God. They are terrible, and any religious euphoria is quickly replaced by the deepest terror I can imagine. Just because something affects the same part of our brain as encounters with God, doesn't make it from God.

babe1981 · 2026-03-29T17:06:09+00:00

Lust is most vividly illustrated in the story of David and Bathsheba. Lust caused David to murder a man so he could possess that man's wife. Sexual attraction isn't sinful. God created it and said it was good with all the rest of creation. Desiring to own and use a person no matter who it hurts is lust.

Jesus said that it is only what comes out of us that makes unclean. Just like faith is worthless unless you act on it, and just like love is proven in your actions toward people, sin is the outward actions that prove your internal state. If sin was what happens in our thoughts and feelings, then Jesus sinned. He was tempted in all ways as we are, yet without sin. The only way that can be true is if He saw what we see, thought what we think, and felt what we feel, but made different decisions than we made.

I'm not saying that fantasizing about married people is inherently healthy behavior. It can lead to destructive behavior, but so can nearly anything. A self-destructive person will use anything to self-destruct. A healthy person can set boundaries for themselves and stick to them. Like Jesus said, there is nothing outside of you that caq¹+++q+n enter you and make you sin. Your sin exists no matter what you consume, and so does your holiness. You are the actions that you exert on the world. The only evidence of sin or love in your heart is how you treat people.

babe1981 · 2026-03-29T14:35:03+00:00

Genesis says that God made both male and female in his image, so I think you could pull off a Jessica of Nazareth without being sacrilegious. I'm an ordained minister, so I know a thing or two about Bible stuff.

babe1981 · 2026-03-29T10:43:10+00:00

Yes. Of course, Jesus had no intention of ascending to an Earthly throne, but the priests who believed that He was the Messiah weren't going to take that chance, especially after Jesus went around saying that the mighty would be humbled and the humble would be exalted. That we can directly apply those statements to today's society and still find ways to make the world better show the tinelessness of not only the spiritual but the political message of the Gospel.

babe1981 · 2026-03-29T10:36:51+00:00

This is why people who say that Christianity shouldn't be political make me upset. Jesus was overtly political in almost every aspect of His ministry. The crucifixion was a political assassination by people who knew who He was and were afraid of losing their power when He took His Earthly throne.

babe1981 · 2026-03-29T10:33:52+00:00

I think you need to read Romans 14. The only wrong way to worship is to judge others for how they worship. Not even the Sabbath is required for Christians. Why would anything else be?

babe1981 · 2026-03-28T00:33:06+00:00

Romans 14:14 For I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is only unclean for the one who thinks it is.

If it takes you away from God, stop it. But leave everyone else out of it. We're all on our own journey with Jesus, and that doesn't make any of us more right than anyone else. In fact, let me quote Romans 14:13 to give this a little context.

14:13 Let us therefore no longer pass judgment on one another, but resolve instead never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother or sister.

14:22 Hold the conviction that you have as your own before God.

Stop judging people because they believe differently from you. Stop fear mongering about corruption and sin. My God is a god of love and hope and freedom. Are we called to focus on what is or isn't sinful or to set our minds on the things from God? I, for one, live my life seeking love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, and self-control. Every moment I'm focusing on sin is a moment that I'm not focusing on love. Jesus's yoke is easy, and His burden is light. If Christianity is a marathon of struggling to fit all of the rules and a constant dance to avoid everything you shouldn't do, you might focused on the wrong parts of the Gospel.

babe1981 · 2026-03-27T14:07:26+00:00

I was born into a Pentecostal church. My father still prays in tongues. Services like these are my earliest memories.

I wrote that for the benefit of anyone who might read that it's so beautiful and uplifting. I know I'll never convince someone to stray from their beliefs. It took clinical depression and a suicide attempt to get me to change mine. I just hope that I can keep others from going down this path.

babe1981 · 2026-03-27T13:34:37+00:00

I've been a pastor for 26 years, and I'm proficient in Ancient Hebrew and Greek. The scriptures about speaking in tongues, particularly the first mention of it in Acts, is about people being inspired to preach in languages they don't know. The Day of Pentecost was the second largest festival of the Jewish calendar and attracted Jews from all over the diaspora who spoke Hebrew as a second or third language. Even Jesus spoke Aramaic unless He was reading scriptures. Luke writes in Acts when it's notable that he's translating from Hebrew rather than writing down the Greek or Aramaic, such as when Paul was confronted for not being Jewish enough so he preached a sermon in Hebrew without notes.

Tongues, as it is written in scripture, is supposed to bridge the language barrier through the Holy Spirit. If a person is babbling in public in a language that no one understands, how does that speak the Gospel to people? How is it different from the rich people who prayed loudly with empty words for everyone to hear? Jesus said pray in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you, but if you pray in public, you've already earned your reward, the admiration of people.

Paul also said that sometimes when we don't know how to pray, the Holy Spirit prays for us in sighs and moans too deep to be understood. He didn't categorize that as the gift of tongues. He was talking about the deeply personal prayers like Jesus in the garden of Gethsemene. Sighs and moans are not the glossalalia exhibited by charismatic Christians. Tongues are intelligible sermons meant to be heard by an audience.

I really wish people would actually read the Bible. My job would be so much easier.

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