Is That You In Your Avatar? Vol. 14. "Santa Claus Got Stuck In My Chimney!"- Page 45

Posted: 12/23/07 at 2:54pm

I can't remember the last time I went to church, and I refused to be confirmed.

So I guess I'm not really! I was baptized catholic, I just don't relate to any of it.

[Broadway Bound2]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 2:58pm

The way I look at it, I could be doing a lot worse things. I have never smoked or took any illegal drugs in my life. I don't sell my body. So drinking a few times per year shouldn't be something that persecutes me for life.

I probably won't even drink much or at all this year, because my grand-parents will be there and I am self conscience about them seeing there little girl drinking. I am weird.

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 2:58pm

I told my mother I didn't want to be confirmed. Despite the fact that I don't really believe in it, I would respect the religion by not being taken into it as a member if I didn't really believe in it. She didn't let me make that decision. So I am tecinically Catholic. the last time I was at Church was about a month and a half ago. I go from time to time-I'm pretty adamant about my beliefs but from time to time I do go for family things or important services. It's kind of just going through the motions.

[Beergoggles]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 2:59pm

Duck is awesome... i hope you enjoy it DGG!

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:00pm

I hope so too, Goggles! I'm not so sure...

[Broadway Bound2]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:04pm

Goggles: Never had Duck. Does it taste like chicken? They say everything exoctic and different taste like chicken.

I do believe in a higher being and try to attend mass almost every week, but sometimes it is not a priority. I went through the whole Catecism thing when I was younger, but that doesn't mean bleep to me.

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:07pm

Goggles, where are you in Britain? I'm in Dublin.

I'm off soon.

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:08pm

Ahhh, yes, CCD. Fond memories. When I was six and I attended my first year of classes before First Communion I vividly remember raising my hand and asking the Sister who was teaching us where the dinosaurs came in. She looked confused for a second and then quickly said that they never existed. It was at that moment that I started losing my faith. I knew dinosaurs existed, I had been obsessed with them when I was younger and I had studied them in-depth since I was three or four. I didn't want to be part of something that erased dinosaurs from history.

My ex has a similar story. His mother used to go to Church at the same time as The Magic Schoolbus aired on PBS on Sunday mornings. When he was seven he made the decision to stay home from Church and watch The Magic Schoolbus instead. He calls this "My Pivotal Moment of Choice Between Religion and Science." I always thought it was adorable.

Updated On: 12/23/07 at 03:08 PM

[Broadway Bound2]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:10pm

I wish I had the choice to attend or not at such a young age, but I was dragged there week after week. I would have been really upset if a Sister would have said that to me. No dinosaurs, that is so crazy.

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:12pm

NO DINOSAURS???


Let me tell you, I adore dinosaurs! Veloceraptors are scary buggers, too! I love the fossil room at the Boston Museum of Science. LOVE IT!

[Broadway Bound2]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:14pm

Yeah-And if there was no such things as Dinosaurs where did all the fossils come from. Man that Nun should have been put in her place right then and there.

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:16pm

I'd have set a veloceraptor on her.




I'm dead serious.

[Broadway Bound2]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:18pm

She would have most certainly changed her tume then. Ha Ha

[nitsua]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:18pm

I grew up in the Church of Christ. Basically, I wasn't Catholic and I wasn't Protestant and we didn't use instruments so my only "friends" were those I went to church with.

The last time I was in a church was for a funeral, and that was in '05.

I went to the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas a few times and enjoyed it, but I went there to check out guys. I wasn't there to worship.

I believe in God, but I'll never forgive him. I've lived without him for the last six years and I'm a much better, healthier person. I feel much more alive now. I'm able to live my life the way I want to. I'm responsible for my decisions. I'm able to do the things I do because I have the ability to do them. No one else. (Let's just say I won't be thanking God when I win my Oscar/Tony.)

Updated On: 12/23/07 at 03:18 PM

[Beergoggles]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:20pm

OMG I love veloceraptors... my msn tag is 'what would you do if a velocerpator....' it's a question that came from a n extremily intoxicated night that we now ask other intoxicated people... always a good conversation starter and there's been some cracking answers lol

The full question can't be posted lol

[harris007]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:21pm

no violence it's christmas, it fact im being nice to everybody, well almost everybody,



im still bring in the spiders to tease foster, hell it's their christmas too

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:22pm

Goggles, we're starting a club! Seriously, veloceraptors have always been one of my most favorite topics of any conversation! They're my favorite scary animal!

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:23pm

Christmas makes me cry.

(Don't judge me for owning Brooklyn The Musical.)

[nitsua]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:23pm

I always liked the T-Rex.

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:24pm

*hugs Jaily*


Veloceraptors pown T-Rex.

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:25pm

I can understand that, Austin. When I was born, and I was visually impaired, I think my father lost his faith in God completely. He couldn't understand why, after being a good Catholic for two decades, this would happen to him. Lots of people go through crises which make them stop believing. I just started to look at things differently. Between the dinosuars and a lot of the really vile pro-life propaganda and the fact that AT MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER'S FUNERAL the priest proclaimed that she would not go to Heaven because she had sinned and we all needed to pray for her, I realized this just wasn't me.

[Broadway Bound2]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:26pm

That is the one thing that really angers me about religions is how guilty it can make us feel about ourselves. I want to be myself and if God cannot be happy with who I am and turned out to be than so be it. I mean I am no murderer or rapist or anything horrible like that. I just try and live my life as good as I can and if that is not good enough I guess I am going straight to Hell.

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:30pm

Same here, BB. I'm me. God can get over it.


Plus, I've been with too many ultra religious people who think it's their job to convert me and pity me for not having God in my life.

I wonder if they realize that pity is a sin?

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:32pm

When we were in seventh grade, one of the two girls I talked about earlier (who was twelve and had already lost her virginity, so she had no room to talk) was Born Again and started yelling at everyone and preaching to them every time the used the Lord's name in vain around her. So many people just wanted to slap her. Looking back on it, it was really kind of funny.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:33pm

*sips mimosa* Mmm, Sunday booze. Praise the lawd.