Ty
Moderator
BTW, my 'get a beer' line was totally said without thinking. Just the sort of random thing I'd say to someone I just met.
Having had time for my two functioning neurons to process your deconversion post in which you mention AA, I now feel like a gigantic asshole.
Sorry about that. It was completely not intentional.
Blue
Member
Heh, no worries. Drinking is "my" problem. Not anyone else. I've discovered that a lot of my drinking and drug use came from not dealing with bipolar and other issues. I'm comfortable being around alcohol and what not. Just don't use it myself. No harm, no foul. ^_^
Best,
Blue
phrankygee
Member
Root beer is good. I like root beer.
I'm really jealous that I can't meet someone from my city on this forum, because I don't really live in a city.
But if I did meet someone on here, I would totally go have a root beer with them.
Linux nerd joke:
You can pour a beer, but you have to sudo pour a root beer.
/Linux nerd joke
bondgrrl
Member
This was my favourite church camp song. Still is. It's often in my head, and I don't mind it being in there. We would sit around the campfire and yell "Jesus!" as loud as we could. I was 12 and had no Christian leanings whatsoever, but it was a good chance to just scream really loudly without getting into trouble. My mom went to the same camp and I think she sent us there out of nostalgia, and not out of any desire to indoctrinate us.
Haha, I rode a JOY Bus as well - from North East Texas, too, so there ya go.
CoffeeJedi
Member
My dad told me a pretty creepy story about a ceremony for my cousin (his nephew) becoming a pastor at a church (I live 500 miles away, so didn't attend). He's not a believer either though his side of my family is pretty fundamentalist, and I've introduced him to skepticism.
He said that the hymns were displayed on large lcd screens in a "follow the bouncing ball" or karaoke style. But they weren't whole hymns, it would be a couplet from one hymn, repeated 5 or 10 times, followed by another line or chorus from another, repeated again. Lather, rinse, repeat.
He described it as rather cult-like. It sounds like hypnosis through repetition to me, or similar to a mantra one would repeat to induce a trance or meditative state. Anyone have experience with anything like that?
Sounds like the management doesn't have much faith in the congregation...
There are some hymns I think are absolutely gorgeous, some that are nostalgic enough that I don't wince, and some I can't stand.
(Be Thou My Vision, Old Rugged Cross, Bringing in the Sheaves, respectively.)
Molly
Member
Hymns are strangely the thing I miss the most about Christianity. Not so much their content, although some of it is lovely (I'm thinking of "He's Ever Over Me" at the moment)- but, some of it is the group sing mentality that several of you mentioned above, and the other part is just the music itself. I mean, granted, I was a music theory minor, so that might help explain my nerdy draw to hymns, but even as a relatively "liberal" and "progressive" Christian, I hated the "contemporary" sounding stuff. Community music is usually so painfully limited. Even now, I would jump at the chance to join a church choir just to be able to be around music (really small town :)
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