turtlespeed 226 #26 May 6, 2006 QuoteYes! Now get in the Comfy Chair, you heretic! What did you have in mind?I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #27 May 6, 2006 I went to Abilene, TX to work and just knew I was going to be miserable in the TX bible belt...boy was I wrong. Those girls were HUNGRY! There must have been 500 ladies and 50 men in the bottle club and they were standing in line waiting to dance with us....it was like a kid in a candy store but I screwed up. I told the pick of the litter where I was staying and she followed me there. That was cool but what was not cool was the 11 other girls following behind and showing up all at the same time...a big cat fight ensued and I never did get any that night.... But watching the big cat fight was cool...wish I had video.My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lindsey 0 #28 May 6, 2006 Oh yeah. I live smack dab in the middle of the Bible Belt myself. Publicly, one behaves in ways that are appropriate to the community, and an occasional appearance in the Methodist Church with your famly doesn't hurt. But there are plenty of folks around who are very much like yourself, and ya' choose THEM to be your running buddies. You're always being watched in a town like this....always. So you do your "runnin'" elsewhere. At least that's how I try to make it work. It's tough sometimes.-- A conservative is just a liberal who's been mugged. A liberal is just a conservative who's been to jail Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #29 May 6, 2006 how small is the town where you live? i'm thinking it must be small if a) everyone knows each other and b) it's all mostly one religion. I live in a city of about 60,000 or so (Frederick, MD) , but we got all different religions & non-religions here. Actually that's been true everywhere I've lived. It would be weird for me to live somewhere where everyone was the same religion. Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lindsey 0 #30 May 6, 2006 Fordyce, AR....population nearly 5,000. Actually there are more Baptists than Methodists, but going to the Methodist church....that's been my family's church for generations....keeps me in good favor. It does help coming back here as a physician, though. They seem to be cutting me just a little more slack than in the past. Or maybe they think I've grown up....lol. linz-- A conservative is just a liberal who's been mugged. A liberal is just a conservative who's been to jail Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #31 May 6, 2006 baptist/methodist are hardly different religions. I'm surrounded by Catholics, Protestants, atheists, agnostics, Jews, Muslims and Hindus. probably some Buddhists down the road to. Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lindsey 0 #32 May 6, 2006 Quotebaptist/methodist are hardly different religions. Here they are.... -- A conservative is just a liberal who's been mugged. A liberal is just a conservative who's been to jail Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
happythoughts 0 #33 May 6, 2006 You're in Tenn. Drive around a bit. You'll be going down a dirt road and there will be a guy sitting next to his car in a lawn chair. He's got a trunk load of mason jars. They don't talk about it because the guy is probably the Sheriffs brother-in-law. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #34 May 6, 2006 hmmm...why do i hear the soundtrack to dukes of hazzard playing. Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
happythoughts 0 #35 May 6, 2006 Quotehmmm...why do i hear the soundtrack to dukes of hazzard playing. Where my cousin lives, they think the Beverly Hillbillies is a documentary. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lindsey 0 #36 May 6, 2006 Quotehmmm...why do i hear the soundtrack to dukes of hazzard playing. lol. Yeah. You don't have to drive too far.... once you get outside the city (we're in the city) you're pretty much there. :) linz-- A conservative is just a liberal who's been mugged. A liberal is just a conservative who's been to jail Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #37 May 6, 2006 QuoteWhere my cousin lives, they think the Beverly Hillbillies is a documentary ...and Deliverance is a love story! Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adventurechick 0 #38 May 7, 2006 Quotehow small is the town where you live? i'm thinking it must be small if a) everyone knows each other and b) it's all mostly one religion. I live in a city of about 60,000 or so (Frederick, MD) , but we got all different religions & non-religions here. Actually that's been true everywhere I've lived. It would be weird for me to live somewhere where everyone was the same religion. It's still pretty small... I'm about 40 minutes from nashville... but everybody and their mom is southern baptist. PMS #449 TPM #80 Muff Brother #3860 SCR #14705 Dirty Sanchez #233 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skykittykat 0 #39 May 7, 2006 QuoteIf I spiked the punch, you think I'll go to hell? You would have a bloody good laugh!!! Hell is much more fun which is why it is called Hell coz it is a place for naughtiness Liz Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Douva 0 #40 May 7, 2006 I was raised in the Bible Belt (West Texas) and grew up attending Southern Baptist churches. I stopped attending church regularly about the time I started high school. Then, about the time I turned twenty, I started really struggling with what I believed. The pendulum probably could have swung either way at that point, but about that time my parents split up, and that sent the pendulum swinging in the direction of devout evangelical Christianity. I went through a lot of books on Christianity, got very involved at a couple of churches, and tried as hard as I could to make it work, but after a couple of years I had to conclude that what I was reading, what I was hearing, and what I was seeing didn't add up. I stopped attending church again and spent the next year painfully struggling to rectify these discrepancies, before finally concluding that I don't need all the answers. Now I'm an agnostic, but I think my time as a devout Christian rounded out my personality and my values in a manner not found in most people. It's given me a respect for other people's beliefs that I honestly believe very few people have. I think most people who talk of having "respect" for other people's beliefs are confusing respect with tolerance. In November I was the best man at the wedding of two of my old church friends. I watched them kiss for the first time, when the pastor said, "You may kiss the bride." It wasn't a timid kiss--There was passion there. Waiting until marriage to kiss isn't something I'd try, but I had to respect their conviction and devotion. I told a couple of skydiving friends about this, only to have them mock it. Nothing frustrates me more than someone who mocks what he or she doesn't understand. Sometimes one of my non-Christian friends will go off on a half-baked tangent about the problems with Christianity, and I'll realize how few non-Christians really understand the true problems with Christianity. Likewise, I think very few non-Christians really appreciate the sociology of Christianity or the positive underlying values, beneath the legalism and lethargy, that can be taken away from it. So for those reasons, I'm grateful for the time I spent studying and practicing Christianity. I think anyone who comes from a Christian background, or any religious background, should embrace the positive aspects of that part of his or her past, rather than always focusing on the negatives. Like a lot of phases in my life, I'm glad it's over, but it contributed a great deal to who I am today, and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. That's the end of my rant. I didn't mean to get all Speaker's Corner on everybody.I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freefallfreak 0 #41 May 8, 2006 Egads....a greenie got me... TripleF "Upon seeing the shadow of a pigeon, one must resist the urge to look up." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Douva 0 #42 May 8, 2006 QuoteEgads....a greenie got me... TripleF Darn--I missed it. I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymama 37 #43 May 8, 2006 QuoteEgads....a greenie got me... Funny how that happens just out of the blue like that. She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freefallfreak 0 #44 May 8, 2006 Thank you, Mama...lol. TripleF "Upon seeing the shadow of a pigeon, one must resist the urge to look up." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BRYANGOESBOOM 0 #45 May 8, 2006 Quote I told a couple of skydiving friends about this, only to have them mock it. Nothing frustrates me more than someone who mocks what he or she doesn't understand. Who could that have been???? Douva i remember you talking about this like it was strange and about the party you went to being a real riot ..................i call bullshit Not only will you look better, feel better, and fuck better; you'll have significantly increased your life expectancy. --Douva Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Douva 0 #46 May 8, 2006 QuoteQuote I told a couple of skydiving friends about this, only to have them mock it. Nothing frustrates me more than someone who mocks what he or she doesn't understand. Who could that have been???? Douva i remember you talking about this like it was strange and about the party you went to being a real riot ..................i call bullshit Oh, I definitely think not kissing your girlfriend until you're married is strange. You won't find many Christians, even among the most fundamentalist sects, that follow this line of thinking. It's not so much a scriptural thing as personal choice to remain completely "pure" for that special someone. In fact, I think it's beyond strange--It's mind boggling. But I respect the hell out of them for having so much conviction in their beliefs that they were able to do it. There is a big difference between confiding in someone that you don't understand or agree with a friend's behavior and mocking the person you don't understand. Seriously, that kiss blew me away. I wish I had video of it. And the party after the wedding did rock. It's amazing how, since growing out of their fundamentalist roots, so many of my old church friends have turned into really level headed, balanced adults.I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BRYANGOESBOOM 0 #47 May 8, 2006 I was talking about the party before the wedding the one with all naked chicks and the amazing ping pong ball tricks Not only will you look better, feel better, and fuck better; you'll have significantly increased your life expectancy. --Douva Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Douva 0 #48 May 8, 2006 QuoteI was talking about the party before the wedding the one with all naked chicks and the amazing ping pong ball tricks Let's keep that on the DL, since the bride still doesn't know about that party. I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
