I Tried Online Dating

A couple of days ago, I created an account on Tinder. I've never done the online dating stuff. I'm tired of being lonely. I know my wife wouldn't want me to sit around and be like this. I just want someone to call up and talk to, someone to watch a movie with, to go out to eat with. I don't know if anything will evolve beyond that, and that's fine. That's not what I'm looking for right now.

Has anyone here used Tinder? If so, how did it go?

*edit* My wife passed away a couple years ago. I'm not currently married and looking to date.

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th3r0n · 41-45, M

If you're married, fix things with your wife instead

Online dating sucks to start with, but a man who is married and doesn't see the value does not understand the pain or those who want nothing more upon the earth than a loving wife, nor the pain they would cause their wife doing such things

ChickenNugget · 31-35, M

@th3r0n My wife died a couple years ago.

ChickenNugget · 31-35, M

@th3r0n I wrote about her death here yesterday. I should've clarified that. I apologise.

th3r0n · 41-45, M

@ChickenNugget my apologies for misunderstanding, I didn't know.

Tinder I've been told is more for getting sex than company, wouldn't know, I don't want to go out to have sex and never worked out on there for me to find company either

Facebook seems a better place actually.

Here would be, if people weren't so skittish about it, since people lay bare near all that they do here

th3r0n · 41-45, M

@ChickenNugget no not at all, I was the one ignorant, forgive me

ChickenNugget · 31-35, M

@th3r0n Anonymity brings out the behind-closed-doors behavior. This site gives them a place to be open about it. I guess I'll try Facebook. I never even thought of that. Many of the people on Tinder are almost naked in their photos. It does seem like a hookup place.

th3r0n · 41-45, M

@ChickenNugget it's not a place that favors a follower of the Christ, that much I have seen.

Facebook may do well for you.

Personally, I'm more open in real life and on Facebook than most people are here (and slightly more here)

ChickenNugget · 31-35, M

@th3r0n It's going to be tough. I'm a liberal atheist in Alabama. 😆

th3r0n · 41-45, M

@ChickenNugget then what you need, before you are ready to lead a woman, is to come to the knowledge of the truth

You have been kind to me, so I do not see it that you would reject the word if you knew it to be true

The events written in the Revelation are currently underway, reading enough to understand would show proof because of the number of specific signs that were fulfilled so recently

ChickenNugget · 31-35, M

@th3r0n I was in church for 20 years before leaving. I appreciate what you're telling me, but I doubt my mind will change, although I'm open to anything someone wants to share with me. I don't mind when people want to pray with me, as long as it's a display of genuine concern. Compassion is something we always need more of.

th3r0n · 41-45, M

@ChickenNugget brother, the saddest thing is that you do not find the word of God in churches most times anymore, you find empty words with no power

If this were all that there is to find, I would have left also, but despite all the empty there was a youth minister full of fire that spoke to me in my youth, and I became baptized and filled with fire, I felt that fire which surrounded us all at that Christian work camp go inside of me and never leave

I have since cast out demons in his name and prayed for thousands of things if not millions, and he has shown his power over and over

I pray you do not let a watered down weak gospel ruin you for the gospel of truth that holds all power