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I am a 23 year old female and I was raised Christian in a very religious family. As I grew up and started to form my own opinion I decided to not refer to myself as a Christian. I have not been to church since I turned 18 and moved out. I believe in God 100% but I do not believe in Christianity. I feel as if apart of me doesn't believe in religion. I'm trying to decide if maybe I just haven't been exposed to the right religion. Or maybe I shouldn't classify myself as one religion. Maybe I should just love God, live right, and treat people good and not study one religion. What should I do? (link)
It is not about what you're named, it's not about how "good" you are.

the church has become so corrupted, not all of course, but many are being mislead. esp with this whole entertain me movement and i'll go to church.

it's about your relationship with Jesus, not with the preacher, not with other christians (not that unity is bad, unity is good) but Jesus is the key answer.

His mission was accomplished at the cross, His resurrection-- and us to believe to take our sins

putting one foot over the fence isn't going to save you, you need to be on one side or the other.
hot or cold, not lukewarm.


it is not us that saves us, but the grace of God that saves us,(He) putting it in our heart.
and He being God knows his, so to know if you're his, give your whole heart to Jesus, believe

call yourself Magarieistismboary
but make sure the word of the bible isn't changed
that your relationship with Jesus remains
Jesus is God

the church is here to have unity in those that also believe, if you want nothing to do with those that also believe, question who you are..

I myself don't partake in church activities, but that doesn't make me an unbeliever, however I do attend church Sundays.. not because I force myself, but out of desire. Most importantly Read the Word



16/f
I have a gay friend which claims it's not against the laws of nature while I think it is.He said animals can be homosexual.Has he lost his mind?! (link)
you'll find all different kinds of opinions
esp in this "anything goes" world of ours.


I go by the Book, as the bible is the word.

laying with another man if you're a man or another women if you're a women is an abomination

marriage between man and women is a gift.

Satan twists this around as he does everything
he perverts it

the saying goes: Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve.


how much does an abortion cost? i live in pittsburgh pa if that makes a difference. (link)
I see the answers are quick to this one.
not only quick, but lots of text as well.


as for your answer, some are free.


oay ibroke up with my bf two weeeks ago, well it wasa mistake. I want him back and he said he wants me back and i told him all he had to to was ask and im his. He told me that he was going to wait. If he loved me and wanted me back why would he make me wait. I only broke up with him for four hours before i was apologizing. (link)
Boys are hard to understand !!!! Nu huhs.. Girls are hard to understand! you and your overly complex situations and desires!


best put: simply confusing.



Why did you break up your with your boyfriend?
Maybe your boyfriend doesn't like to be unsure about his girlfriend's quality of faith


okay so i dated a guy for 2 years. he was the love of my life, the only guy i ever had a real connection with and the only guy i ever loved. about 5 months after we broke up i started talking to this new guy, i really liked him but definetly not even half as much as my first. i broke it off with him after like 2 months because i know what love feels like and unfortunetly i just didn't feel it with him. and now there's this new guy that i'm talking to and he's really sweet but recently i just can't stop wanting to be with my first. i'm not afraid to say that i'm completely head over heals in love with him but i don't know what to do like i'm still talking to this guy but i don't wanna just like stop...how do i gradually end it? i don't want to be a jerk. and my first wanted to hang out too but i don't like he'd wanna get back together but idk:/ what should i doo? i'm so confused.. (link)
I agree, hang out with your first boyfriend

as for this other guy, why lead it on? let him know you just want to be friends, say your sorries


WOmen it uP!


my cousin tried to overdose herself last week and yesterday i was telling her about when i was depressed and tried it myself- and I told her that if she ever needed someone to talk to that wouldn't judge her that she could talk to me...and then she rung her sister and told her what i had said...and Gemma told her that i had said that i wanted to hang myself, and I didn't, I did tell her that i think about it sometimes but i would never do it again. Now my most of my family is pretty annoyed at me for talking about suicide to her so soon after she had attempted it. I was meant to be staying at her house that night but my sister rang my dad and had him pick me up as soon as Gemma told her what i was saying. All I was trying to do was tell her that i was there for her if she needed to talk. And now it's been blown out of proportion and I am getting those feelings back because i just want to escape from all this.
i actually have no idea what to do..
(link)
Gemma is the sister?


For one night, will you just go outside, when it is pitch black, and will you look into the sky.. and see the moon, and see the stars... and can you wonder how such was created, can you wonder why such was created.

for if they're too many stars, earth would not be, and if we had fewer stars.. earth couldn't be

fewer stars too much gases
too many stars no oxygen

Don't feed your desire to end yourself, and don't let others feed it as well.


Can I have sex with a guy at work?
(link)
you don't give enough information.


my answer is: No, it is wrong.


i'm 18/f

i had sex for the first time recently so my knowledge of everything isnt quite clear yet. my question is, even if i'm not on birth control, if the condom was used correctly (which i'm pretty confident it was) does that mean i'm safe from being pregnant? (link)
You ask a question that you already know.


Ok so this might be a little long but please read and help me =]

So I just got out of a 15 month relationship in May. My ex told me that it was going to be hard to find a good guy that will treat me right like he did. About 2 or 3 weeks I went to open houses and such and then went to a bonfire with my friends. There was this really cute guy there who talked to me and stuff. I got his number the next day and we started talking. He told me that he was having people over later and wanted to know if I would come. I told him yes that I could probably do that. Well he texts me later and said that he is no longer going to have people over and wanted to go to a movie. So me him and my cousin and her boyfriend went to the movies. After the movie a bunch of people were going to go to his house. He asked me to ride with him home and I said sure. So we are talking and in the middle of no where he tells me that he wanted to hold my hand during the movie. So im secretly like freaking out! Well we all hangout at his house and that was that. Then the next day he came and got me after work and we went back to his place and watched a movie alone. We cuddled and held hands for like a second till he told me I had big hands! hah.. Well anyways we flirted and talked and just had a good time. Then the next day me, him and my cousin and her boyfriend go to the drive in. He didnt take his truck so we were all laying down squooshed in the back of a Dinali (SP?) So we are cuddling and he is tickleing my arm and all that stuff. Break time comes and then the second movie is going to start. We let my cousin and her boyfriend get situated. As they are, he totally pulls me towards him and makes out with me! Man I was freaking outtt. It was so weird cause he was the first guy I had kissed since my ex. Well then we lay down and he starts kissing me again..and then again. As we are kissing he like grabbed my face and was rubbing it and just looking into my eyes. I was thinking man my ex was totally wrong. This guy is amazing. He even texted me when he got home and told me that he had a good time. Well my open house was that Saturday. We hve this place where you can line dance and stuff right. We were all planning on going after my open house. I text him to make sure plans were still good and he was like yeah and asking if I was going. I told him I wasnt sure because I had alot to do and he said "please =]". So im thinking ok he wants me to go. So i go and he ignores me the WHOLE night. I was crushed. like WTF!? So i find out later that he was mad at me cause he didnt get any when we hung out alone? But yet the next day he went with me to the drive in? That does not make any sense. So im acting like a crazy person because I want answers. The only thing I got out of him was that he doesnt want a relationship and he didnt mean to lead me on. If you didnt want a reltionship then you should have told me! Right?! Well a few days went by and I texted him and told him I was sorry for acting crazy. He said "its chill." So we are on better terms. I was in town with my mom and he is right in front of us at the light. So I texted him and was like hey you were in front of me. We talked just as friends and I let him get the last word in. Then about 45 minutes later, he texts me! WTF!? What am I supposed to do? What does this mean? Should I have known fro the beginnning I was getting led on? What are signs of that? Im just so pissed and hurt. Im so stupid! (link)
your ex is wrong, they're many other men out there for you, but finding the right one is almost impossible esp with the divorce rate in America.

just saying let alone that he is the 'only' best guy for you is proving he's not the guy for you, for the right guy who loves you for you wouldn't say something as selfish as that, but would rather tell you he hopes the best for you

being in a relationship is about giving not receiving, keep that in mind.

as for the other guy, the guy that you so quickly gave into... that is a reaction to finding someone new so quick and also just being stupid

you're a big girl, you can handle yourself?
don't be so quick to get into a relationship
and if you must, then find one that isn't sexual from the start, or that isn't about sex.

have you had sex already? maybe staying single for now or years to come is the best idea.


stay away from sexual immorality. All other sins committed are outside the body, but those that sin sexually sins against their own body.
1 Corinthians 6:18


I'm a 20 year old female. I hate my life, I got Herpse from somewhere unknown I have alway been honest with my boyfriend. I also have erythema muliforme, which is an overreaction to the Herpse, every 3 weeks i break out i have black spots, painfull boils, itchy painfull blisters, and cold sores all over my body and face that dont go away, I used to be pretty now i cant even look at myself without crying.... I have thought to just end this pain and this hummilation. I'am a coward and i don't want to live as a monster... I thought about cutting my wrist,I think that would be a easy way, however i heard that advil od was also painless. (link)
Don't be tricked into this, if you kill yourself, I don't believe you'll see a happy ending on the other side.

I really encourage you to ask jesus into your heart, though you might hate me or dislike my answer it is the only truth and way to life.

Focus on the important things, and important things isn't what is in this life, but what is in the unseen.

at 20, you're very young, I am 19 myself and also young, you do still have a worldly life to live by. but I again suggest asking Jesus.

It is not an easy thing following Jesus
as the gate to life is very narrow compared to the wide gate that leads to obvious destruction

Hate me, but if I don't tell you this I am a fool.



Whenever I go out, people stare at me. I have no idea why, I mean I dress normal and that sort of thing. And then I get self conscious and have to check and make sure I don't have something on my face or whatever, but I never do, is this normal? Does everyone get stared at? Like sometimes people don't take there eyes off me. They aren't glaring but they just keep glancing at me. It just makes me really self conscious when they do this. (link)
maybe you're just really really cute? ever thought of that?


17/m
just so everyone understands, i am deeply spiritual in an occoultic or light-worker manner.
There are two main people i am torn between as leaders of two different groups, one from out the other. One in my original group is my teacher, Becca, and the other one has been a second mom and a confidant in the past, Summer.
These groups arent neccessarilly the same as cliques but psychic circles. Becca and summer have been at eachothers throats lately. Its for the same reasons as it has been Becca vs. whoever in the group. I left beccas group thinking it was time to do so, and joined Summers group. A sin against Beccas group. But then i started to feel closer to becca, i started praying for her and the group. I even started drawing wolves (symbolic to her as it part of her nickname. I felt a mix of emotions, thinking i have headed in the wrong direction. I have saved a chat log of summer, myself and a guy named Daniel talking and planing on the new group. Days later when i returned to the old group I had discovered Daniel had leaked some sort of information to Becca, and another person of leadership had enquired information from me so I had to show him the chat logs. I had intended to hide it but figured if Becca knew, it might bring eople closer together and know the true nature of those who left.
Some people in Beccas group are untrusting of the intentions of others. While I tried to leave with a whisper instead of a bang, a bang was percieved.
So i have lost a "mther" and one of my better friends, Daniel, is paranoid of me.
Im really not sure whats up with me because my heads been in a haze and my heart as well.
Along with my normal levels of impulsive insanity this is the worst display. Which impulsivenss is not my ownly insanity. Ive been contemplating suicide.

please do not condemn me as a sinner, i do that enough to myself. (link)
Doktor Tammy, I got a very weird vib from that video. was it a joke that I missed?

not only that but

The poster of that video wrote:

"Jews control the legal systems of every major government. If you're too f*cking lazy to learn these techniques, don't blame us that you're a bitch for the Jews.
Buy your licenses, pay your taxes, surrender your freedom, Jew bitch!"

as for you Occultic, you sound so deep into in that cult that any reasoning with you is with doubt

Find Jesus -- no one else can save you.
Ignore the spirit and it will harden the heart.


well im a sixteen year old girl. i have a problem. i'm dating someone for about 3 months. but i;m interested in someone else..okay so my story starts out as this. I met this kid shuan at a friend's sweet sixteen. I saw him and I knew who he was already (several years ago me and my friend had a crush on him but I never talked to him) usually I'm not shy, I used to be but I've outgrown that. so I go up to him and I introduce myself. we immediately have chemistry. we were already talking about what we want to do as a occupation when were older. I admired his wittiness. (he's very smart and I love the way he see's things). we talked and danced. but later I found out that my friend was trying to hook him up with my other friend. (fortunately their just friends) and so you know the party ended we said our goodbyes. (I didn't ask for his number and neith er did he) several months pass and we seen each other at school. talk sometimes. then I saw him again at another party. he asks me to dance and we dance great together. we both are very different from the way our friends dance and it's always fun. that's when we exchange numbers. (I have a boyfriend during this time when we first exchange numbers. when we first met i was single) I couldn't help but feel great chemistry with him. and when we now text message and my feelings is growing. we admitted to each other that talking with each other always puts us in a good mood. I asked him if it's wrong that I have tiny crush on him and he told me "well, no, I think your amazing. I just think we'd be in a awkward situation if we did anything about it" (I still have my boyfriend when we had this conversation) I like the way he remembers things and listens to me, he is just my friend but he listens to me more than anybody else. I told him I had a leaf collection and I'm looking for new leaves. the next day he brings me a leaf! and then now whenever he travels he brings me leaves from historical places which is awesome. the problem is I have this boyfriend. I kinda realize I should be with shuan. it's sad to do things like this. but I think it might be worth it...and another good thing about this kid is that whenever I'm down he does this cute thing and tells me a joke. it makes me feel better. my boyfriend. he is always there for me. and i have some problems at home and all but he makes me feel worse. i feel stressed because he wants to have all these serious talks about feelings and i understand he cares but i didn't get a boyfriend to be my therapist. i got one because i want to have fun with someone and converse about things other than the way we feel and how we wish we were happy. ugh. but anyways back to shuan. when i tell him about my problems he is always open to listen and the advice he gives me is "s**t man, sorry to hear that. in situations like this there is nothing you can do but just hang in there. things like this will only make you stronger :]. i'm always here when you need to unload something feel free to hit me up, no worries" and boom. that makes me feel better i don't want to hear "i'm so sorry. i wish i can do more. i want to help you. you deserve so much more" (this is what my boyfriend tells me) i do appreciate that he cares. but i just don't feel well when we have talks like this. and we have talks like this every day!!!!!!! but umm, yeah the other day i told shaun i want to practice tennis because i want to join the school team. he tells me that we should practice together. so we do and he says we can get better together and once i make the team he'll come see a couple of home games for support. i dont know. i remember telling my sister about him a long time ago when me and my boyfriend just started dating and my sister told me "wow, now that guy sounds like a gentleman. he listens to you and he remembers. just remember that for the future." and now i'm thinking about it. idk what to do :/ pleease help me. (link)
That is so very very hurtful to your boyfriend
do you not care for his feeling? or is that you want both when you're not sure?
sounds selfish to me.
the way you slam him(your boyfriend) to try to make this other guy look better.

if he is so much better than :

call your boyfriend tell him you cannot be in a relationship!!, say your sorry
and tell him it's not going to work.
3 months? he'll get over it quick.

now it depends on how fast you want to move into a relationship with this other guy I suggest waiting few months? but what is this other guy going to think "Wow, she ditched her boyfriend for me, is she going to ditch me for some other guy?"
tough love! I suggest waiting a while, but let this other guy know you're interested! you just need a little time.

of course this other guy could think "Damn, I am special.. she ditched him for me" and like it right away lol :(

depends on his personality


17/f
So, me and this guy have been talking for quite awhile now. We hang out and act just like couples do. The problem is, he never texts me. Sometimes we go all day without texting and it urks me so bad! I text him and he will write back maybe once or twice and thats it, unless he askes me to hang out.I just hate how he dosent text me that much. I know we don't have to talk 24/7 but i dont wanna go all day without talking to him. Ive mentioned it to him 3 times and all he says is "im sorry." I really really like him but i dont know what to do. :/ Help! Should i text him first, not text until he texts me or what? (link)
I.. I really REALLY hate texting...

That doesn't make texting bad.. nor does it make every guy hate it... But he might be like me

I think as long as he is spending quality time with you in person, or in general calls then it's fine.

I only text to respond if even that.

then again if he's the kind of person who texts all the time and then he's not -sexting you, then you might have a problem...

speak to him about it.
demand it!


There are so many flaws in the logic of my parents. They've let me travel halfway around the world and live with complete strangers for a week in a different country. However, upon asking them if I could go get ice cream down the street they told me it was too dangerous for a young girl to go along.

...what?

I'm seventeen years old. I have a driver's license. In a year, I will be going to college. However, I cannot go buy a milkshake. I just tried explaining to my mom why this is madness, but she freaked out and went on a tangent about how hard she works in life. Completely off topic, but whatever baby. I don't believe I'm asking too much. Some of my friends parents allow them to gallivant at concerts in big cities until the wee hours of the morning. I am not asking this. They told me it would be safe to get ice cream with a friend, but not on my own. Obviously, this is not about the ice cream. How can I ever gain independence if I can't drive two minutes from my house on my own? Why is it my parents have let me gone to Europe twice and will allow me to go to Africa next year, but won't let me go to the local Dairy Queen? (link)
"tried explaining to my mom why this is madness"

This.. Is!!!.. MADNESS!!!!!!

it sounds very strange that they would let you live with strangers... but I am sure they... know these strangers? right? called them.. talked to them?, and know the program well hopefully

Maybe they want to protect your weight? but at the same time not actually tell you.

It sounds very hypocritical, but then again I am only getting your point of view.

the only best thing to do is wait until you're 18 and in college, Thus: no more parents.
if you tried reasoning with them and they believe whole heartedly that they're doing it for your best, then you're just going to have to accept it.

Respect your parents
it is one of the 10 commandments.
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I think you want me to tell you that you're the correct one and your parents are the overbearing evil monsters who hold back your dreams of getting ice-cream.

but frankly there's nothing you can do about it, you live under their roof, either way you're their child.

Try talking to them one more time
or simply call a friend and go

Byes!

-answers-
hire a body guard
move out to your uncles
wait until you're 18 and in a dorm
call a friend


Ok guys I'm 18 & female. Do yall happen to have any tips for me to make my man crazy over me? What do yall guys love for yalls girlfriend/wife to do that drives yall crazy. I mean I make him happy but, I want to make him even more happy. I've been doing the same routine for about 6 years, & I want to make him surpised & feeling so good, if yall know what I mean =) so do yall men have any tips for me? (link)
Just saying "yall" is good enough.

maybe a wink or two?

I suggest a ballroom dance too.


I recently self blessed a crucifix necklace and promised that i would not have sex until i was married. i am 15 years old and I have so much tension and horniness so this is incredibly hard. I want to masterbate so bad, but i feel like if i don't masterbate, i'll only get hornier and want to do bad stuff before i am married. I don't want to have sex though i think it's awkward and disgusting kinda, considering that my labia is huge. But is masterbation considered stroking your vagina? cause i don't finger myself. what i do is i watch stuff and stroke my.... ya know. I don't know if thats considered masterbation, but i am catholic. I don't know what to do. I can't wait about 11 years to have pleasure, i have to take it out someway..... i dunno what to do! (link)
masturbation: it temporarily relieves you, but like most sins it requires more of the same thing in order to achieve more self gratification.


No, it's not okay to masturbate, who has the right to lead you astray? who has the right to tell you it is okay? your answers should be the Bible. your conscience tells you it is wrong, yet you cannot stop right?

When you masturbate, do you not fantasize?
what is the soul goal of it? To please yourself
quit saying "how far can I go before It's a sin"

The focus should be Lord Jesus, your body is a temple under God, and when you find a marriage partner you become one with them. All other sins are outside the body, sexual is inside the body

Though the bible doesn't say specifically that masturbation is wrong, it does say that being sexually immoral is, and that anything that leads to explicit fantasy, pictures etc is wrong.

Because you say you're Catholic
The one you should be asking is Jesus or Godly people. Not false idol, mother Mary or secular people
I wish it could be defenestrated.
Remember no one is perfect, but where is your heart with Jesus




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