In my house I do the bulk of the apologizing.
Hubby is calm cool and collected and I am not, so I end up having plenty to apologize for.
Well actually, for the most part I am calm too, there is just a couple of things that make me go off the chart and behave in a way I later regret.
years ago when everything was going pear shaped for me in my personal life and in the congregation, i saw my opportunity to leave.
i had no friends, the elders didn't like me and i was one step away from resigning.
i had nothing to lose.. this was back in '97 before i got the internet.. one of my regrets is that i didn't leave when i had the chance.
Instead I went back to the cargroup and mocked them and their dilusion, and talked about how misled THEY are...the older ones in the car tried to quickly change the subject, or steer it differently, and I recall feeling something come over me...kind of an internal "Hey, they were WRONG...weren't they? Why are you acting like that? What am I missing?" Then I squashed it down by telling myself Satan was just getting to me, and I needed to not listen or look into it, and just go on my way. I was 14. I can't be held accountable for that, nor for being baptized later that year. It's all so pathetic.
There is a few strangers in my past that had the same affect on me.
I would LOVE to see them now and tell them the impact they had on me and to thank them.
getting into the spirit of things around here.....
If it's a steak worth eating, it only needs salt and pepper.
if it's a cheap steak, then yeah, pile it on, gravy is best.
Whichever one is horniest feeling the most romantic.
One of the difficulties is that the very act of reinstatement or reproof leads many to feel that they didn't do anything wrong in the first place or lets them claim that the original decision was wrong. I've heard lots of people say that "I should never have been DFd or reproved" , which leads me to wonder just how repentant they really were.
beans and cornbread.
The cornbread needs to be made in a cast iron skillet thats been heated in a hot oven with melted hot fat, then pour the batter on top of that.
Or better yet, make corn pone.
I had a close friend tell me he lost his faith completely when he got off with a private reproof instead of a DF.
He said, "I wasn't one bit repentant, I do not regret what i did. I cried tears, so they let me off saying i was obviously repentant, but i wasn't, that's when i knew for a fact it was all BS, and there was no spirit direction".
wendy cloete louwwe lost a sister in our congregation today, had severe depression and tried to take her own life.
sad thing is if the doctors stopped being petty and insisting on bloody and just gave her alternative blood volumiser sooner she might have been fine.
it took the elders hours to get her transferred to a new hospital.
they just assume the part time gardener/cleaner/muppet with no medical qualifications can tell the doctor what to prescribe because hes read a pamphlet and watched a video released by a publishing company who misrepresents itself as an authority on medical procedures.
Pathetic, and true.
religious christendom's heavy blood guilt!.
to pair the word hate with christian, would really be foriegn to the hearer of that combination of words, wouldn't it?
that would certainly be nothing the founder of christianity would be guilty of, would it?
Mrs jones, that is the funniest, and most disturbing photo i have seen in some time.
Now it's going to be burned into my head for the rest of the day.
Thanks a bunch.
given that the god of the old testament & the new testament don't seem to match up, and our first impression of god may be based on our parents, and the many progressive christian religions that stress god's love and grace, we probably all have completely different ideas of who god is; if he/she does exist.
i always thought god was a strict, bad-tempered kill-joy..
God is a concept made up by humans for three reasons
1 to explain what they could not.
2 to control others
3 everyone loves the idea that someone bigger and more powerful then all your enemies has got your back.
