I think religion is pretty important, if you believe in it. Don't say you believe something and then not practise what it requires.
I had a HUUUUGE problem with doing Confirmation, because at that time I wholly rejected religion and Catholicism in particular so the very idea of Confirmation (making the adult choice to serve the Church) seemed directly hypocritical and a lie.
My mother's argument was basically "Just do this for me, and if after, you decide something else, then fine. But have your bases covered"
mom i am pretty sure that is not how sacraments work.
But I did it anyway because I didn't want to fight with her about it.
Man, I basically got confirmed just so I couldn't ever have to go to church again, except and Christmas and Easter.
People used to be like, Why wasn't he in church? Now they're all, He's such a nice boy.
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Yeah your alias says your captain Jean-Luc Picard of the United Federation of Planets, 'cause he won't speak English anyway.
I think religion is pretty important, if you believe in it. Don't say you believe something and then not practise what it requires.
I had a HUUUUGE problem with doing Confirmation, because at that time I wholly rejected religion and Catholicism in particular so the very idea of Confirmation (making the adult choice to serve the Church) seemed directly hypocritical and a lie.
My mother's argument was basically "Just do this for me, and if after, you decide something else, then fine. But have your bases covered"
mom i am pretty sure that is not how sacraments work.
But I did it anyway because I didn't want to fight with her about it.
I did the opposite
my mom still likes to act like i've been confirmed though
although this is the same mother who hit me on the head with a dinner knife tonite for picking up a piece of bread with my teeth.
When you're an adult, you shouldn't be afraid to just come out and talk about your views if someone really confronts you about it or just asks.
I guess I'm saying this from a rather comfortable position, my family is pretty tolerant, but hell, if my conservative Christian employer asked me up front what religion I was I would tell them.
I think religion is pretty important, if you believe in it. Don't say you believe something and then not practise what it requires.
I had a HUUUUGE problem with doing Confirmation, because at that time I wholly rejected religion and Catholicism in particular so the very idea of Confirmation (making the adult choice to serve the Church) seemed directly hypocritical and a lie.
My mother's argument was basically "Just do this for me, and if after, you decide something else, then fine. But have your bases covered"
mom i am pretty sure that is not how sacraments work.
But I did it anyway because I didn't want to fight with her about it.
I did the opposite
my mom still likes to act like i've been confirmed though
although this is the same mother who hit me on the head with a dinner knife tonite for picking up a piece of bread with my teeth.
Why would you do that
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Most Christians I know are acceptant people. Just so happens that most of them(re: the older ones) are bigoted, racist, etc.
when my batshit crazy grandma found out i wasn't mormon anymore she sat there gaping like a fish, then said in a voice that sounded forced:
"Don't worry, you're still my granddaughter."
haha, as if i care.
Belruel do you still wear the sacred underpants
They will protect you from harm you know
(for serious how did you stop being a mormon, that is pretty near impossible to be able to do)
they still try and get me back, if they ever really start being obsessive again i'll just get excommunicated and shut their mouths. my parents still call it "the church" (as in "he is a member of "the church") and talk to me as though i am a member. but oh man, am i ever not.
How in the world did you get away from the Mormon brainwashing
Mormon brainwashing is some of the best because Mormonism is all about what you're feeling and if you feel like it's right it must be true
"I have a burning in my bosom that tells me Mormonism is right so don't you go showing me rational evidence that Joe Smith was a crook and that early Mormons were asshats"
Don't get me wrong I like how nice Mormons are except for the fact that they are often nice in the way Christians are: nice because they have to be, and nice in a pretentious we're better than you way
haha, i know exactly what you are talking about. i figured out it was all bullshit once and for all when i was 15, i was in 'young womens' and they blatently said to my face "women should only live in the home, and it is their duty to have as many children as their husband may want." also "women may not enter 'the highest level of heaven' (best heaven planet) unless they are 'sealed' to a male holder of the mechelzadick priesthood."
fuck that noise.
Got to have lots of babies so those spirit children in space from Kolob have bodies to inhabit
Three cheers for you belruel way to go, you are so in the minority
(I am having a great time watching this documentary where this Australian guy goes to Salt Lake City and goes door to door "athiest evangelizing" to Mormons and giving them a taste of their own medicine, it is hilarious)
I don't live in Utah but I do live right next to Mesa Arizona, which is pretty much the biggest Mormon population in one spot outside of the beehive state
It drives my mother nuts that, while religiously I am Buddhist, I still consider myself Jewish and I am proud of my Jewish heritage.
But I don't call myself Catholic.
You think that's bad, my best friend was raised Jewish, then started studying every religion under the sun(including Satanism for a time, and that religion creeps me out), and now he's atheist(I think).
I think religion is pretty important, if you believe in it. Don't say you believe something and then not practise what it requires.
I had a HUUUUGE problem with doing Confirmation, because at that time I wholly rejected religion and Catholicism in particular so the very idea of Confirmation (making the adult choice to serve the Church) seemed directly hypocritical and a lie.
My mother's argument was basically "Just do this for me, and if after, you decide something else, then fine. But have your bases covered"
mom i am pretty sure that is not how sacraments work.
But I did it anyway because I didn't want to fight with her about it.
I did the opposite
my mom still likes to act like i've been confirmed though
although this is the same mother who hit me on the head with a dinner knife tonite for picking up a piece of bread with my teeth.
I'm late, but I just saw them for my second time. All they need to play is "Memphis Will Be Laid to Waste" and it's a good set, but other then that, their music isn't that great.
When you're an adult, you shouldn't be afraid to just come out and talk about your views if someone really confronts you about it or just asks.
I guess I'm saying this from a rather comfortable position, my family is pretty tolerant, but hell, if my conservative Christian employer asked me up front what religion I was I would tell them.
Ahahaha.
Oh boy.
Phew.
I had to explain to my coworkers what agnosticism is.
I think religion is pretty important, if you believe in it. Don't say you believe something and then not practise what it requires.
I had a HUUUUGE problem with doing Confirmation, because at that time I wholly rejected religion and Catholicism in particular so the very idea of Confirmation (making the adult choice to serve the Church) seemed directly hypocritical and a lie.
My mother's argument was basically "Just do this for me, and if after, you decide something else, then fine. But have your bases covered"
mom i am pretty sure that is not how sacraments work.
But I did it anyway because I didn't want to fight with her about it.
I did the opposite
my mom still likes to act like i've been confirmed though
although this is the same mother who hit me on the head with a dinner knife tonite for picking up a piece of bread with my teeth.
Why would you do that
I honestly couldn't say
I just felt like doing it
if i did that at my mothers table she would hit me too
Has anyone here had one of those stereotypical Christian girlfriends that is all NO NO CANNOT HAVE PENIS ENTER VAGINA but who is a total raunch machine once drinking anything
i had like 8 inches and about forty pounds on her dad to be fair
and she was a cunt
in what way was she one tuggers
the one who didnt realize that i had a full time job that paid not so very much and i dont have the money to be buying you steak dinners 3 times a week
and she tried to get me to go to mass and i was all 'WHOOOOAAAAAAA been nice.'
when my batshit crazy grandma found out i wasn't mormon anymore she sat there gaping like a fish, then said in a voice that sounded forced:
"Don't worry, you're still my granddaughter."
haha, as if i care.
Belruel do you still wear the sacred underpants
They will protect you from harm you know
(for serious how did you stop being a mormon, that is pretty near impossible to be able to do)
they still try and get me back, if they ever really start being obsessive again i'll just get excommunicated and shut their mouths. my parents still call it "the church" (as in "he is a member of "the church") and talk to me as though i am a member. but oh man, am i ever not.
How in the world did you get away from the Mormon brainwashing
Mormon brainwashing is some of the best because Mormonism is all about what you're feeling and if you feel like it's right it must be true
"I have a burning in my bosom that tells me Mormonism is right so don't you go showing me rational evidence that Joe Smith was a crook and that early Mormons were asshats"
Don't get me wrong I like how nice Mormons are except for the fact that they are often nice in the way Christians are: nice because they have to be, and nice in a pretentious we're better than you way
haha, i know exactly what you are talking about. i figured out it was all bullshit once and for all when i was 15, i was in 'young womens' and they blatently said to my face "women should only live in the home, and it is their duty to have as many children as their husband may want." also "women may not enter 'the highest level of heaven' (best heaven planet) unless they are 'sealed' to a male holder of the mechelzadick priesthood."
fuck that noise.
Got to have lots of babies so those spirit children in space from Kolob have bodies to inhabit
Three cheers for you belruel way to go, you are so in the minority
(I am having a great time watching this documentary where this Australian guy goes to Salt Lake City and goes door to door "athiest evangelizing" to Mormons and giving them a taste of their own medicine, it is hilarious)
I don't live in Utah but I do live right next to Mesa Arizona, which is pretty much the biggest Mormon population in one spot outside of the beehive state
haha, we used to go to utah every summer for a week to visit my mom's family, it was pretty bad. i told her last year that i wouldn't ever go up there again after all of the crazy shit that happened. she freaked out and the family went nuts.
my 'ward' (group of church people in my area) still try and get me to go to church again because i am 'inactive' (seriously, there's a list, and i am on it) and it gets really annoying. i remember being in church, and they cycle through the inactives list and chose one to bug for a month, then go to the next. if i thought they actually cared i might be nice, but i know its just a list to them so i've gotten rather harsh.
Moreso after my aunt threw a fit and told me that all my problems were because my parents never had me baptised and forced me to turn from the lord, so this was my punishment for their sins.
I was 6 or 7 and near death.
I told her to leave my room and not to come back.
My father clapped his hands like I did a backflip through a flaming hoop.
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Man, I basically got confirmed just so I couldn't ever have to go to church again, except and Christmas and Easter.
People used to be like, Why wasn't he in church? Now they're all, He's such a nice boy.
my mom still likes to act like i've been confirmed though
although this is the same mother who hit me on the head with a dinner knife tonite for picking up a piece of bread with my teeth.
most notably she told him, after his dog was ran over and killed right in front of him, that God was punishing him for being bad
i think he was 8 at the time
that is pretty much why we ignore religion at my house, there are better things i could do with my time
STEAM!
How many varities do there need to be? Can't you either just believe or don't?
When you're an adult, you shouldn't be afraid to just come out and talk about your views if someone really confronts you about it or just asks.
I guess I'm saying this from a rather comfortable position, my family is pretty tolerant, but hell, if my conservative Christian employer asked me up front what religion I was I would tell them.
Secret Satan
Aha! Well, the more you know and all that.
Why would you do that
Got to have lots of babies so those spirit children in space from Kolob have bodies to inhabit
Three cheers for you belruel way to go, you are so in the minority
(I am having a great time watching this documentary where this Australian guy goes to Salt Lake City and goes door to door "athiest evangelizing" to Mormons and giving them a taste of their own medicine, it is hilarious)
I don't live in Utah but I do live right next to Mesa Arizona, which is pretty much the biggest Mormon population in one spot outside of the beehive state
But I don't call myself Catholic.
You think that's bad, my best friend was raised Jewish, then started studying every religion under the sun(including Satanism for a time, and that religion creeps me out), and now he's atheist(I think).
However, I know this girl who has like this ultraconservative fundie family. Man, I feel so sorry for her. Totally brainwashed, immune to facts.
I just felt like doing it
My all time favorite quote from my dad is when it was my thirteenth birthday and I was having a party with family and some good friends
And my dad says
CONGRATULATIONS, SON
THIS IS GOING TO BE THE WORST YEAR OF YOUR LIFE
Wow, happy birthday, thanks dad
I'm late, but I just saw them for my second time. All they need to play is "Memphis Will Be Laid to Waste" and it's a good set, but other then that, their music isn't that great.
Ahahaha.
Oh boy.
Phew.
I had to explain to my coworkers what agnosticism is.
About ten times.
He probably knew about the masturbating
13 was a rough year for everyone
all that chafing
if i did that at my mothers table she would hit me too
and my mother despises religion
STEAM!
Oh yes, I know all about that
They're amazing.
I've never seen any Christian hardcore bands live per se, but ska; plenty.
Hahahahahahahaha was he right or what?
I phrased that badly.
The ones I'm friends with are cool people; most of the ones I see elsewhere, generally older ones, tend to be less acceptant.
haha, we used to go to utah every summer for a week to visit my mom's family, it was pretty bad. i told her last year that i wouldn't ever go up there again after all of the crazy shit that happened. she freaked out and the family went nuts.
my 'ward' (group of church people in my area) still try and get me to go to church again because i am 'inactive' (seriously, there's a list, and i am on it) and it gets really annoying. i remember being in church, and they cycle through the inactives list and chose one to bug for a month, then go to the next. if i thought they actually cared i might be nice, but i know its just a list to them so i've gotten rather harsh.
man i don't know if your dad was off
Told ya
The thread has reached its peak, I'm going to sleep
was this when you broke up with the thirty year old woman who was touching your peepee on a regular basis
Moreso after my aunt threw a fit and told me that all my problems were because my parents never had me baptised and forced me to turn from the lord, so this was my punishment for their sins.
I was 6 or 7 and near death.
I told her to leave my room and not to come back.
My father clapped his hands like I did a backflip through a flaming hoop.
We didn't speak again for 18 years.
as I was scrolling down to see this image my computer ws being slow because my antivirus is updating
And I saw the top of the dudes' hair
And I said to myself PLEASE LET THIS BE STRYPER
And then I continued scrolling down
AND
:O
Shoot, even Outkast do that.
Sort of.
That's a summary of what 13 is like.
I love you like a man could never love a woman