User blog:Satoshi2/Call This a Sabbatical

I don't know if there's a lot of people here who care, since I'm not on chat much, but I'm going to be blocked from the LMBW - at least for a time.

A few weeks ago, I attended an eye-opening Christian lecture about moral purity, and it's triggered a number of conversations between me and my parents. Something that's always been a big deal has been the places I've been on the internet, and my dad - being a computer IT guy, with the power to block domains - has regretted not doing something to protect me from the Devil's temptations sooner. Missed opportunities are not an excuse to not act at all, however, so following a discussion about a sensitive issue with my dad last night he has resolved to start blocking websites that he feels are unsafe. Wikia as a whole is one of those sites.

Funny thing is, I'm actually on board with him. I like to think of myself as someone who can see outside of his own perspective, and I've observed the damage that the internet has done to my life. That doesn't mean leaving the site that defined my social life isn't going to be hard, though.

I joined this wiki two years ago, before I truly accepted Christ as my savior - without parental consent, I may add ("It's a wiki about the LEGO Message Boards. What could be more innocent than that?"). I called this community my social circle, and that was sort of correct - I wasn't involved in a lot of things IRL, and I was barely connected to my own family. Now that I am saved, I'm finding it hard to leave, but for very different reasons.

Sad as it may be, I know some of you guys more personally than I know people IRL. But despite what my mom thinks, about internet people being malicious AI programs out to steal my data, I see you guys as real people, with real problems. And I care for you as such.

I pray for many of you. I pray for Batty. I pray for Han. I pray for World, and I pray for Luna. I pray for Vis and Guac. I pray for good Christian men like Loners and Ire. I pray for people who haven't been on chat for months, like General Han and Niara. Heck, I even pray for Ed.

And that's not even all of you. Suffice to say, I have a lengthy prayer list.

I wish I could stay here. I want to be a light, like God wants me to be, to a lost and dying community as this. Something I ought to point out, is that my removal from this site may not be permanent. My dad is taking an aggressive tactic to my internet safety initially, and then - as is my understanding - he'll loosen up some restrictions if he feels that I'm mature enough to handle it. If he knew you people like I know some of you, I like to think he'd want me to be a light.

But for the time being, I'm not going to have access to Wikia. I know it's probably not going to make much of a difference, because I haven't been on chat much anyway. But just know that I am still praying for you - some of you people probably know who they are - for their individual personal and/or spiritual needs.

I hope to come back to this community soon, not because I'm a sad recluse who has no social life outside of the internet, but so that maybe - if God so wills - I can be the light of God's Word to the people who need it most.

Until then, God bless.

~Satoshi2