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So fellows it is Sunday morning and this triggered a thought.
For the first 19 years of my life before I went to college, at about this time in the morning I'd be engaged in putting on the ol' shirt and tie to go to the family's local church, usually a medium-sized Baptist church with "contemporary style." My family was quite serious about such things.
Away at college though, out of necessity, Sunday became a sleep in day. I went to Sunday night church now and then, but it was just too inconvenient- taking the bus that far to the nearest church of my "denomination" got old. Then I visited home, and looked around me at the family's church and felt like I was surrounded by some sort of cult. I had always had a hard time with many things I had seen in church and in my own family's behavior, but a light switch went off or something.
tl;dr I stopped going to church for purely time and energy reasons but don't go anymore because it seems weird to me why people would ever want to. I'm now engaged to a heathen and my family looks down on me for it. Nowadays my religious beliefs tend towards Society of Friends and Taoism. Did any of you doggies have a similar experience. Did you lose your religion.
Alternate thread topic: why does every REM song sound like Wesley Willis programmed it using his crappy Casio
Alternate alternate thread topic: CUT THE MULLET CUT THE MULLET CUT THE MULLET CUT THE MULLET
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It doesn't intrigue me enough to want to seriously figure it out though
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- Flippin' for a half an hour and continuously yellin' WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT when I went and visited my friend's Catholic mass once
- Threatening to kick me out of the house because I went to church on Sunday afternoon, not Sunday morning
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My parents both went to catholic schools at various points in their lives, and more or less gave up the ghost. The only bible we owned for a long time was a trick one with a cut-out for a whiskey flask. I was raised an agnostic, but sent to a catholic preschool just because it was overall a nice preschool.
Alternate: Most of REM's big songs were programmed on crappy casios. Has anyone heard their new album? It sucks, but it sucks less than the barrage of garbage they've been releasing nonstop since the mid 90s.
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And then for like 2 or 3 years in the 90s.
And then they were a singles band until about 2 weeks ago. Now they're kind of good again.
I ate up all the information about it I could find and it feels so right for me.
There's a Zen Temple in Ann Arbor, but I don't know if Zen is the right path for me. I'm still debating it.
I was considering full Buddhism until I read into the temples. Some sects seem dedicated to avoiding modern life as much as possible, and that just didn't sit right with me.
Go one day, just to try it out. Maybe it will be right for you, and it not you still have managed to absorb something.
Man I never understood that
I had a ton of Catholic friends and it was a huge deal to them and they said something about "new names" or something
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REM admitted to using a bunch of crappy Casios and drum machines, after their drummer quit, on NPR this week.
My sister and I were both raised with minimal religious exposure. I didn't even know who Jesus was until third grade.
I appreciated that. As I am now, I am not very religious, though I do have my own (admittedly cynical) views on spirituality and death and all that. So while I don't have a religion in the usual sense, I have my own belief system that I guess works for me. I'm okay with it, really.
Well aren't you just stickin' it to da man and woman responsible for your welfare for 18+ years of your life.
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I'm agnostic now. I like agnosticism better than atheism because really the very concept of any type of god precludes us from being able to confirm or deny it's existence.
I'm reading about the programs at this temple, and they actually sound very open and inviting. It's definitely something I'd try out. For the public: Daily meditation sessions, Sunday Yoga and Meditation classes, an all-night sit for enlightenment, a study on the buddha series, and some other stuff. Apparently they also take on residents, while allowing them to continue their job or studies.
I'd really like to head to one of their meditation classes, and possibly do an all night sit.
Yeah, it was a pretty big deal. The understanding I got was that when you're confirmed, its about you making the decision as an adult to be a part of the church (up until that point you were just a kid being forced into it via baptism). Since I didn't believe most of what the church was about, it seemed silly to go through a big ceremony proclaiming exactly the opposite.
Confirmation names are kindof a cool idea - you pick a saint and you get confirmed under their name.
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It's pretty much the tagline for their new album: "We found the guitars!"
As far as Eastern religions go, I prefer Taoism to buddhism. It has some pretty rad ideas.
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As such I can beleive in evolution and the big bang comfortably.
So you're saying the new REM album is good?
The one thing that doesn't sit well with me about this temple I've been looking at is they want you do attend a meditation class before they admit you into the temple.
On one hand I can see how the class would be useful since I've tried mediating on my own and it's hard as a bitch.
However, I think the class was somewhere around $100 and fuck that noise.
1. Sing hymns.
2. Collection plate followed by a bunch of people shaking hands.
3. Another song with people playing crappy instruments over a shitty PA system.
4. Story of David, talk of getting those punks kids off of your lawns and into the church.
5. People going up front to pray & cry.
6. (Optonal) Baptism.
So, lied to my parents?
It's a trap.
Get an ax.
Is this all the churches in your area? Different priests tend to conduct their sermons and such in different ways.
Alot of the temples I've looked into force you to undergo an application procedure to stay a week, and then charge you in the neighborhood of $300-$500. Once you're in, you're not allowed to leave for the week, you're only allowed to speak two hours a day, and only to the temple masters, and you eat two bowls of rice each day.
The rest of the time is spent in silence; meditating, or receiving various instruction from the temple masters.
That's pretty much every church I've ever been to back down south.
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It's not bad.
It's about on par with their weakest 80s material, which is still leaps and bounds ahead of almost everything they did afterwards (exception being automatic for the people).
This image sums up what weirded me out most when I went back to church
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