My life of gaming: A closing chapter

My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hi there, everyoneIf this belongs in off topic, I apologize. I put it here because I will be discussing games a lot, as well as other things, but please move it if necessary.Most of you know me as bladestorm360. My name is Patrick Moen. First and

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter I agree Dentin, both with the fact that I do have an addiction problem and that addictions suck. I was addicted to at least 3 things that I have put behind me so far, out of respect for God and not out of any worldly want to give them up. If it&#

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Well said, my friend. and I admire your commitment. Gaming had never been too powerful a vice for me, except for a few years in high school... and now though there are certain games that I stay away from, gaming as a whole is not something I feel I

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter congratulations, my friend. i'm really amazed, it's sad that you leave us here, but i admire you for sutch a great change, for good.Fortunately for me, i have you on my skype, so, we will talk one of these days, but let me say some

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hi,I'm very glad to see that things are looking up for you. I have my own thoughts on religion, good ones though put it this way, I think God does exist in some form, but I have some different views. In fact I seem to recall on twitter

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hello Patrick and thank you for sharing your name, your story and your beliefs. I will not say whether I agree with your decision or not, a relationship with God is a personal thing and a journey as you said, and it is certainly true that like

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hello Patrick and thank you for sharing your name, your story and your beliefs. I will not say whether I agree with your decision or not, a relationship with God is a personal thing and a journey as you said, and it is certainly true that like

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hi Dark,Thanks for the recommendation. I've actually read The Screwtape Letters, it's a pretty good book. I've read other christian fiction that says that gaming is not bad in and of itself, and I completely agree with that. Unfortuna

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hello Patrik, thank you for sharing your story. With the exchanges of emails and pm had with you I immediately had a good impression, feeling that behind that email address was something extra in terms of human and spiritual. I want to thank you

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hi Ambro,I agree with you and thank you for your post. As I said, gaming itself isn't bad. God has told me, however, that it's bad for me. It wasn't just my hobby, it was my god, my idle. Thus, I can't in good conscience,

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hello patrick. As someone who has known you for probably 8 plus years now, I'd like to commend you in your decision. While I probably won't give up games myself, everyone is different and God has shown you that it is the best decisi

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter while I cannot speak for Patrick, my personal experience has taught me if nothing else that there is a need, an urgency that I believe is god given, to see walking with Christ as more than just religion, and as Dark wisely put it, a personal

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter You are right, and that, precisely, is exactly what I'm trying to do. As I said, this is not an attempt to judge any other gamers, or to make myself look better. This is simply because games were ruling my life, and I'd rather replace the

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter hello patrick,I know you a little and i have never noticed you had these problems before. I am not believing in the lord. but that will not say i will never believe in him. I am raised with the lessons i should respect the lord in any case. and i am

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Patrick,I read your post and have a few comments.I believe in God and the Golden rule.But I also believe that you can become addicted to anything, games, drinking, eating,  and also religion.I enjoy non-violent games and so does my wife. I would

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter to Phil and several others,  I believe the point Patrick is making here is not that "all games are bad" or even "all games are against christian principles" only that for him, at this point in time, gaming has become an addicti

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter I applaud you for overcoming your addiction, I'm sorry games caused you such problems but I'm glad you have found a way out of them. As with alcohol addiction and smoking I understand that you need to avoid games in order to prevent a

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter CX2, you basically said what I was thinking.Addiction is bad. People can and do get addicted to religion, and that's still bad, God or not. But religion in and of itself is neither bad nor good. In that light it's like so many other thi

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Dark, you're absolutely right. I am not judging games, or gamers, as a whole. I'm simply sharing my experience. I'm not even shunning the world in favor of going all in to my relationship with God. That is not what he's told us

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Dark, you're absolutely right. I am not judging games, or gamers, as a whole. I'm simply sharing my experience. I'm not even shunning the world in favor of going all in to my relationship with God. That is not what he's told us

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Jayde,I did a quick google search for:Mental Stimulation Slows Alzheimer’s ProgressionFebruary 15, 2012. Can doing crossword puzzles or discussing current events help slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease? A new review of the scientific

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Exactly. Games, imagination, flexing those particular muscles if you will, are all potentially good for you, especially true if you have Alzheimer's or something. But gaming won't cure Alzheimer's, or anything else. It will improve

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hello PatrickI want to first start out by telling you how much your post means to me. I am a mormon, and have been my whole life. I was born into a great family, who are all believers in god who devote their time to him, as it should be. I too have

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter To the above commenters who said that addiction to religion is bad... I would disagree by saying addiction to religion itself isn't necessarily bad, but rather addiction to the power that we feel is granted by religion... which is not quite the

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter If addiction is the devotion to one or more activities to the detriment of others, or to one's life in general, then addiction to religion is just as bad as addiction to anything else. If it means the rest of your life suffers - and it can -

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Bryant, thank you for your post. As I said in my first post, I sort of had the door to God opened for me by mormon missionaries. I did not turn out mormon, however, because I believe the bible to be the complete and inspired word of God. I have

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter The kind of "religious addiction" you're talking about seems closer to cults than mainstream faith based practice. In general I'd say the moment you start telling other people what they should be believing you have a problem, sh

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Yet again, you hit the nail on the head, CX2. Devotion to religion, or faith, or a relationship with God, is not addiction purely because it exists. It's oonly getting there when it starts to negatively impact life in general. Since this isn&

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Actually CX2, I have found that anything and everything about God is up for questioning. I often question my faith, which helps me grow closer to God when I find adequate answers for said questions. For a non-believer, you certainly have a good

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter I Don't believe the phrase "addiction to religion" is a particularly helpful or precise one here. "addiction" using James Griffin's definition that I mentioned above (there are others but I personally rather like Griff

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter HiWell bladestorm I have read a few of this threads posts.And I understand.I am not into the god thing that much, however I totally understand the addicting nature of the net.Its why I don't use twitter much or even have a facebook.Why I refu

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter patrick, you seem to have a great belief in god, and I appreciate that. I am a mormon myself, because I felt and believed in it, and believed that that was the right religion for me. I am not trying to preach religion here, rather expressing my

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Dark, it seems we got some crossed wires. I was simply stating that as one of the few major problems I have with the way people's beliefs manifest.Bladestorm, excellent! It sounds very much like you're the kind of Christian I can respect

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Sorry Cx2, I finished that post in something of a hurry, and I would certainly agree  that there are people who's beliefs lead them into bad areas, though whether such beliefs are attributable to any sort of relationship with God is another m

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter That was amazing. That was a great post. Its very inspiring and to be honest I got a little choked up at points. I'm proud of your commitment, keep it up. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=195711#p1

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Well, I am posting twice on here in one day and I hardly do it.Firstly, life does have some down times, games help me to get away from it.Heck not just games, computers to.But like anything it can be addicting.Food is my biggest and I have had to

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Posts 23, 24 and 26 say pretty much everything I wanted to write. so I'll just say I agree completely and leave it at that. Dark also made a good point about what an addiction is. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=195718#p1

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hello all.Well, I've been without internet conection for a while. I'm not gonna read the entire topic, I've read post 1 and, honestly I'de just like to give my reply to it. My heart is so happy, and I'm rejoicing

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Andy, by all means. Please feel free to contact me. From some of the other posts I've seen, you really seem to want to do God's work and I'd love to talk to you more about him.Thanks all. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hey bladestorm, I admire your commitment to your relationship with the Lord. Good luck. I'll keep you in my prayers. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=195787#p195787 ___ Audio

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hi,@bladestorm360: I'm really glad that you have been able to find God in your life. It must be a great comfort to know that there is someone looking out for you.Unfortunately, I have not progressed so far. I used to call myself an atheist,

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hi,@bladestorm360: I'm really glad that you have been able to find God in your life. It must be a great comfort to know that there is someone looking out for you.Unfortunately, I have not progressed so far. I used to call myself an atheist,

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hi,@bladestorm360: I'm really glad that you have been able to find God in your life. It must be a great comfort to know that there is someone looking out for you.Unfortunately, I have not progressed so far. I used to call myself an atheist,

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hi,@bladestorm360: I'm really glad that you have been able to find God in your life. It must be a great comfort to know that there is someone looking out for you.Unfortunately, I have not progressed so far. I used to call myself an atheist,

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hi,@bladestorm360: I'm really glad that you have been able to find God in your life. It must be a great comfort to know that there is someone looking out for you.Unfortunately, I have not progressed so far. I used to call myself an atheist,

Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter

Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hi,@bladestorm360: I'm really glad that you have been able to find God in your life. It must be a great comfort to know that there is someone looking out for you.Unfortunately, I have not progressed so far. I used to call myself an atheist,

Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter

Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hi,@bladestorm360: I'm really glad that you have been able to find God in your life. It must be a great comfort to know that there is someone looking out for you.Unfortunately, I have not progressed so far. I used to call myself an atheist,

Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter

Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hi,@bladestorm360: I'm really glad that you have been able to find God in your life. It must be a great comfort to know that there is someone looking out for you.Unfortunately, I have not progressed so far. I used to call myself an atheist,

Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter

Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hi,@bladestorm360: I'm really glad that you have been able to find God in your life. It must be a great comfort to know that there is someone looking out for you.Unfortunately, I have not progressed so far. I used to call myself an atheist,

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter @Jason SW,Your story sounds like an echo of my own in some regards.  You are not an atheist; you are a skeptic.  I  usually tell people that the difference is that a skeptic is one who cannot believe in god, either because he feels a lack of faith

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Jason,Thanks for your post. I'm very glad you told us your story.I agree with what Nocturnis said, and would only add to it that if you ever want to talk, please feel free to chat or call me on skype. I may be able to help, that's up t

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter I kind of take issue with the approach you bring regarding atheists. I consider myself an atheist, though just barely (as in, I'd listen if proof were offered, so my mind is not shut). I don't like the implication that atheists as a rule

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter @Jayde, I'm afraid that is a very simplistic and somewhat overly categorized view both of science and religion, and the nature of faith, sinse firstly not all atheists believe as you point them to believe, secondly the process of scientific en

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Agreed 100% with Nocturnus. Let me just say that I love the way you articulate... and if I had as much ability to sit down and articulate myself the way you do without taking so much time I'd do it. I enjoy reading your posts very much as an

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Moderation! I will not move this thread sinse Bladestorm has been a well known and highly contributing  member of the forum for a  long while, and this is fundamentally about his decision regarding games thus seems to belong to general game

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter @Jayde,given Dark's suggestion to move this conversation over to another topic, I won't further this discussion much more on here except to offer my sincerest and most humble apologies.  My intent was not to lump you in with a set of cl

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hi,Dark, sorry if this is getting a bit off topic. I was a fraid it would when I posted, just by the nature of the discussion, since matters of religion tend to do that. A couple of things had me continuing to post despite the fact that things went

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hi,Dark, sorry if this is getting a bit off topic. I was a fraid it would when I posted, just by the nature of the discussion, since matters of religion tend to do that. A couple of things had me continuing to post despite the fact that things went

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Regarding the forum rules, well usually restrictions don't need to be so strict sinse generally a topic about games tends to mostly stay about games, albeit it can wander into different places, it's just that religious discussion is obviou

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hi.[[wow]], Patrick, I hope you're still following this topic. Thanks so much for sharing your personal story with us, instead just leaving the forum, the gaming community and gaming in generel without any word at all. I both totally understan

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Good morning,As always, excuse my english.I wish you the best in your life, but unfortunately, I think the dichotomy: games versus god is only on your mind. Obviously, if gaming are affecting your normal life, it's a good thing to stop doing it

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter @Alan, that seems an incredibly arrogant position, to automatically characterize someone as having a psychological condition because they do something for reasons you don't agree with, indeed you are possibly boardering on rudeness with that

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Hello,And this is the exact reason why I find religion and such rather... annoying. I support those like bladestorm though, who are going about it in a rather good way, but then there are some who say that it's all part of god's plan wh

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter I think I see what he's getting at though. It seems as if he's basically saying "if gaming is a bad habit, then get rid of it because it's bad for you, not because God apparently toold you to". While this is judgmental, I t

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Nah. There's no way I could have quit gaming, I did not want to quit gaming for myself. If it were just me and my earthly possessions and relationships involved, I never would have done this, just as I never would have quit drinking. In the ca

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter Honestly bladestorm, it sounds like you have an addiction problem, not a drinking problem or a gaming problem.  Religion can often provide people with a safe outlet for addition, but keep in mind that you're just getting addicted to the rel

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter I don't think so.You can call it an addiction or whatever you want, but the truth is that deboting your life to god is much better tan drinking, smoking, and every single addiction of this world. furthermore, Patric is doing it in the right way

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Re: My life of gaming: A closing chapter I don't think so.You can call it an addiction or whatever you want, but the truth is that deboting your life to god is much better tan drinking, smoking, and every single addiction of this world. furthermore, Patric is doing it in the right way