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Two of my best friends (the girl I mentioned is one) are 10-15 years younger than me, and yeah it's kinda weird. For the most part I don't notice, but then I'll say something or they will that really makes it obvious and then I feel my soul wither.
But then I work at a job where some of my coworkers have worked there for as long as I've been alive (40 years), and now we're getting new people where I've been working there for almost as long as they've been alive (this is my 18th year here, and the minimum age we hire is 21). It's weird feeling like the old man at work and yet still only being in the middle of the age/experience range
And I’ve never seen anyone there “younger” than me, other than the kids of the other parents at roughly the same life stage as me. And we are like 3% of the congregation (who is a bunch of old, white socialists).
I definitely go out of my way to avoid American Christians though, which isn’t “Americans who are Christian” I mean the actual sect (you know what I mean)
I’m just vamping until the new mod
Thankfully their church did not agree that "deodorant is vanity" like some of the churches they organized with, but all of them were "men wear long pants, women wear long skirts" churches, because calves are lust ig
I mean I have a bunch of Christian friends so I'm not judging I've just never really gotten it. Even when I was trying to be Christian to make my family happy.
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And then the toxic shithead men saw opportunity and welp,
But enough about Paul *rimshot*
It's kind of annoying having gotten out of it but I don't really find it weird. I've got a lot of scatterbrained thoughts on religion that I'd assume nobody really wants to hear. I just know that it's a thing and a part of me, reflexively, still gets a little angry when it's looked at as a way to kind of other people or punch down on those wacky religious folk. Boy they sure are dumb and mean, ain't they?
Have they earned a lot of that scorn? Absolutely. They can and have been real bastards, I have enough separation from it to be able to step back and acknowledge that and kinda temper my kneejerk reaction. But also, like. It's complicated, man. This stuff runs deep deep and it's hard to shake it if you can even recognize you're in the middle of it at all.
PSA if the nearest object is tall and metal don’t lift that thing any higher.
The other day I was at work and a hell of a thunderstorm rolled in, with hail and lots of lightning and really high winds and everything. I was on a rooftop post, the highest one we have, directly between the two containment buildings. You betcha I went out and stood in the center of the roof and yelled at the sky and shook my rifle at it
My ape brain desires nothing more than to paint myself and dress in animal bones and chant and hoot to make a vague and ominous spirit chill for a bit or give me a good hunt.
I don't know why. I think I'm kind of desparate for some sort of deep rooted cultural identity maybe? Being a white American sometimes leaves you feeling a little... bland? Looking back even when I was a kid, modern Christianity never felt quite right to me. Like, it was too sanitized. It claimed to lay bare the fundamental mysteries of the universe but also required you to "have faith" if there was something that didn't make sense or you couldn't understand or it couldn't cleanly explain. To me, those things are contradictory. Diametric.
Obviously, I'm a modern man of Science who believes in Tesla Coils and gunpowder but you know. I can recognize the desire.
That’s exactly who that was about lol
Not exclusively
But he was the prototype
That said, I think I also saw an article recently that stated more young people are turning to the Catholic church in search of rigidity and hierarchy in this tipsy topsy world. So who the fuck knows.
They're like my dad who moved to Canada from England when he was 12 and now adays only thinks about it when he occasionally watches some football match.
But I'll bet Jesus is like the guy who visited Japan once ten years ago and will not stop talking about it when you get him started.
That's about the best we can hope for, I think.
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This is my last flippant reply because I think this could actually be a good topic, but it’s so annoying the crucifixion has become the main symbol of Christianity.
Just imagine an alternate world that really honed in on the turning water into wine bit. Absolutely smashed priests in togas handing out bottles of wine to the locals, wearing string necklaces covered in corks, as the sacrament dictates.
Or maybe go all in on the water walking thing, and nuns become renowned for their jet skiing. The symbol of Christianity becomes those bugs that don’t break water tension and the pope gives his decrees from atop a floatie in the holy pool.
Love a monolith
I guess this mostly pertains to Christians/Catholics, as I think I'm more tolerant of other faiths because, of course, I am a whiny leftist who thinks the white man is the source of all the world's ills
The number of common neo-pagan or new age spiritual beliefs, in some circles, that are essentially just Protestantism with the Jesus filed off and a new figure (or set of figures) stamped in to replace him is pretty uncanny
I mean our entire country is built on/around puritan work ideals. A lot of this is just INVISIBLE to folks, it's wild.
More of a crossover