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>>694952

If your friends can't respect that you don't like something that they like, they're not nice people to be friends with.

>>694952

All my friends are atheists, one agnostic as an exception.

First off, most of my friends are, well not completely but kind of misfits.

Second, the ones who like to shagg around I just call it degenerate and when we talk about sexual matter I always give them my experiences as a former fornicator.

I noticed that when you don't give it much attention lots of these conversations will get talked away and something else comes up.

An example; when someone says "Come on guys let's be honest, eating pussy is awesome right?" I just go by my former experience and say 'yeah it's pretty amazing" and before you know it the conversation will get dull for them and they go somewhere else.

Lucky for me this stuff doesn't happen much with my friends, even though it still bothers me.

It's just something they'll never understand.

>>694952

Hey OP don't have too much advice for you except the following:

>Matthew 5:15 - Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.

Be that light for your friends, continue to be friends with them and do your best to not get phased when they talk degenerate shit. If they ask you, just tell them the honest truth that you're not interested in that sort of crap. I've been in a similar situation to you with my friends, though I used to live a pretty awful life. I never stooped as low as some of the examples you've given to get women. And I haven't actually actively pursued them in the past they just came to me. However the people around me are very similar to what you describe, mongrels/degenerates talking very objectionably about women, only caring about the sexual crap that they've done. And most conversations tend to warp into some degenerate crap like sex/drugs or modern electronic music/rap etc. However I've got used to it and just don't participate in these chats, normally just praying through them thanking God I'm not like that.

On to the point, by just living my Christian life my friends have started to notice. They're all atheistic/agnostic and on several occasions they've talked to me about how awesome it is that I'm a Christian that actually lives out the Christian life and how they admire that. (Couldn't think of the exact word they used.) But in addition they've been asking questions about Christianity, some being deeply interested in it. One more however who used to live a degenerate life and was atheistic. Who would go on to defending Christianity, defending the prolife position, who asks me constantly about Christianity. And has told me that he's starting to believe in God due to personal experiences.

Be that light anon, help your friends. Let them see the Holy Spirit through you and constantly pray that they may see the light. However if things start to get too much and cause you to stray, then distance yourself. Your faith and relationship with God is the most important thing.

God bless you anon and good luck.

>>694952

> which I know because I noticed my relationship with those people bleed to death after their noticing this previously mentioned wall.

Didn't quite get to that before I started typing my previous post. If thats the case with all your friends, then probably just ditch them all together. If they're not interested in friendship with you unless you participate in that sorta crap theres really no point to it at all. If you don't have hobbies/commonalities then it isn't really too impressive.

>Luke 6:22 King James Version (KJV)

>22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

>John 15:18-25 King James Version (KJV)

>18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

>19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

>20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

>21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

>22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.

>23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

>24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

>25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

>2 Corinthians 6:14 New King James Version (NKJV)

>14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

Can't get much clearer than the above. Jesus wasn't out to win the "Most Popular" spot in the high school year book, and neither should you. When you can, follow >>694975 's wise words, but don't sweat it if they don't want to be friends with you anymore once they find out the extent of your beliefs. Don't be afraid, as the 2 Corinthians verse implies, to cut people out of your life who are just too toxic to handle. I've cut off people over things like pathological lying, self-destructive drug abuse and delinquency, and even otherwise nice people who perpetually immersed themselves in toxic environments/sub-cultures and subsequently toxic people. Your close inner circle should consist of fellow Christians on roughly the same path as you. Jesus may have dined with the sinners, but his emotionally intimate "brother from another mother" relationships were with the disciples.

Once you start to truly understand why God's word is the truth, you really do stop caring about what your peers think is popular.

>>694975

"However I've got used to it and just don't participate in these chats, normally just praying through them thanking God I'm not like that. "

I would instead pray for the salvation of their souls brother in Christ.

Luke 18:11-14 New International Version (NIV)

11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’

13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

>>694952

>Please help me because I am rather lost…

Sell all your possessions and take up your cross.

>>694953

This, if your current friends don't respect you for how you are then get new friends that do. Find a nice Christian group that holds the same beliefs, they'll be a lot less toxic to be around.

>>695994

Also this, it reminds me of Proverbs 28:1.