STAY OUT of this thread!
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago
0Hi Brenda!!! Just me. You are terrific, BTW. You are always gentle, even when people disagree. What a lovely soul....
- Denno66posted 15 years ago0
Just walking through.....
- Poppa Bluesposted 15 years ago0
- lyricsingrayposted 15 years ago0
bump
- Denno66posted 15 years ago0
I'm back. I always go where I'm not wanted
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Love your sense of humour, Brenda ! I will
- lyricsingrayposted 15 years ago0
I say drinks all around, I'll buy
appears you have had quite enough already!
and why is this thread in the religion forums?
- Denno66posted 15 years ago0
- Denno66posted 15 years ago0
now it's a party!
- Denno66posted 15 years ago0
- Crazdwriterposted 15 years ago0
What? I can't come in...but...but...
Fine I'll go now - lyricsingrayposted 15 years ago0
hi
- lyricsingrayposted 15 years ago0
What can I say.........Just couldn't help myself.
Now you know we are curious! So what up?
Good one!- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
I come from a catholic family, so when I was a child we put up the tree and were told that it was Jesus birthday and all that stuff.
Of course we paid more attention to the gifts. LOL
Now I don't put up any tree. It would be ridiculous, as I don't believe. Not even in Santa !
Just popping in because I don't do what I'm told.
I'll leave the same way I came in though, since, as a rule, I don't hang out in the religion forum.
As you were...Now, if you had said "Everybody is welcome to join in" I would have passed right by.
I know where the cool people hang out
No XMas tree for me. No XMas cards either. I'm not a scrooge - knock yourself out and have a good time if you want to. But, it's not for me- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
What do you mean Brenda?
You started a thread that says STAY OUT. This automatically attracts the cool people, so you are cool for starting it
Of course, I mean that folks who are curious will be the ones that wander in. Since this is in the dastardly Religion forum, let me add a disclaimer: people who don't post here are cool, too.
I googled for you: you were very close.
Daiquiri- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
Drat!
I'll be saying that all weekend. I also like "rats!"
I don't think this thread will get moved. It will just take a little time for us to zero in on it.
So, I'm not christian but I'll answer your question.
My mom is Catholic, my dad was Episcopalian. We went to Catholic church. My dad stayed home and watched football. When we asked, we were told he didn't go with us because he wasn't Catholic.
He passed away before I figured this out though: I was moving some stuff around, and when I was putting my books back on the shelf, I realized that a few of my books were the same ones I recognized from his bookshelf when I was a kid. So, maybe there was a different reason he stayed home... Too bad I never got the chance to talk to him about this.
He wasn't reading "Guide To Atheism", but the subject matter tilted the way mine does...
But, I feel a little bit less rogue since I put 2 and 2 together. I think about it a lot. I never remember him talking about religion...I didn't mean to bail on ya Brenda, something came up.
Do I think? I really don't have any way to know. I don't talk to my mom too much about it. We have NO hard feelings about religion in my family, but we do get pretty emotional talking about my dad in general. It's been awhile now since he passed but we've been through some real hard times.
Anyway, he would not have gone and undermined my mom's religion to us as children regardless. If we have non-belief in common that's great but I know for sure that we both have respect for everybody's opinions.
Oh- and he loved fighting with people as much as I do. I'm always in good fun with it.
Funny! lolololo I popped in.
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
- lyricsingrayposted 15 years ago0
THIS THREAD ROCKS BRENDA - THANKS
Woo hoo, I'm cool. First religion thread I don't mind posting in
Tree - yes - for the kids. Does it represent Christ, no, its a tree with 19 years of my daughters ornaments, 14 of my sons & speckled with a few I've had forever. So the tree on one side looks like a Barbie Doll/Dance/girlie tree, other side, soccer/snowboards, boys stuff & mixed in are all the cute ornaments they've made over the years and of course all the ornaments that say "1st Christmas, 2nd Christmas" blah blah blah. I do enjoy just sitting in the living room with the lights of the tree on and total darkness in the house, its peaceful.Nice thread Brenda. I like how you caught everyone's attention.
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
Yup, I'm a little late with it (sorry I missed you again) but here is my answer:
I believed in Jesus the Savior briefly in the 2nd grade. I had nightmares about him chasing people. This was the same year we as kids decided Santa must be Jesus in order to have all that magic power. LOL. So yes, some folks think it is silly but it is very true. When kids find out there is no Santa, lots of other stuff goes out the window with him.
God? I just never did believe. Why - I can't answer for sure. Maybe its because I was in public school, attending catechism after school. That is a wild guess. Maybe because the religion story-books were right on the shelf next to Aesop's fables & Dr. Suess. Who can say.
I don't have a defining moment for you, but I can say there have been three specific times - very personal, I won't go into them - that I tried to reach out to the church or the bible or god. I put a lot of effort into it thinking that I was the only person who didn't believe, so there must be something wrong with me. I had a knot in my stomach whenever I had to recite the Apostle's Creed. If you knew me very well, you would realize that I never lie no matter how much the truth hurts. I don't like that feeling.
So that's my tale. The reason I'm open and I talk about it goes back to the last paragraph. I really did feel like a horrible child for not believing. I kept it quiet even into adulthood. I had the guilt part of Catholic right, anyway. Now I'm completely open.
I think you are a nice person too, Brenda. The direct personal insults are nothing but garbage, I try not to get involved. That is not what I call fighting, that is what I call abuse.
Thanks for asking, I took advantage of your question to explain things I don't normally go into. That is the point of why we are here though, isn't it
OK - your turn to write a novel-length post...
I'll check for you later.
- Brenda Durhamposted 15 years ago0
Hard to keep it short, isn't it
So, you and I seem to have experienced similar conflicts at some point, but we came out the other side with very different beliefs.
I had a friend out for lunch today and this exact subject came up. I promise I did not start it, she she did. LOL
We went around for an hour or so about faith, religion, god, etc. etc. I finally told her to go be a Unitarian. She asked me what a Unitarian is. I said, "It's what you are!"
When she explores it she will understand that I sent her where she belongs. I'm not interested in changing others' personal beliefs or opinions.
It's not faith itself I have an issue with, is my point.
- ralwusposted 15 years ago0
- Denno66posted 15 years ago0
I hate it when people tell me to stay out!
snakes, and also the chosen ones who take over whenever you're not looking!
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