When a friend finds God ...

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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    ClimberInOz wrote:
    Dammit Cate. I was working my way through this entire thread just to deliver that joke! And you had to give it in the last post...

    i just kept thinking, what would jesus do? and then i beat him to it too. :p:D
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  • meowingmaryjane
    meowingmaryjane Posts: 91
    iluvcats wrote:
    Am I the only pearl jam fan who believes in God?
    I believe in God and I am a Christian who is also a Pearl Jam fan. I am non-denominational in my religion though. I pray, but I don't attend Church regularly. I do get the motherly push to attend Church from my Mom.

    I don't have a conflict with my spirituality and my love for Pearl Jam music.
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  • kh65
    kh65 Posts: 946
    Everyone can have their own opinion and I can discuss any subject without getting upset by someone else's ideas. The key for each party is to not convert the other. Express you opinions, if both parties are intelligent they will take the ideas of the other away to think about. People need to lighten the FUCK up.
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  • PJamGrunge10
    PJamGrunge10 California Posts: 596
    long red wrote:
    apology accepted.


    Ok.. I don't agree with your thread here but that was funny.
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  • Snake
    Snake Posts: 2,605
    addressing the original post: I think with somebody like that, you just need to bare with them. They just found something new that makes them feel good, they want to share it. Eventually its not as new and exciting, and they'll settle down a bit.

    If not, they'll probably become a televangelist :D


    People just react differently to that kinda thing.
    Pirates had democracy too.

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  • orig_long red
    orig_long red Posts: 2,029
    Snake wrote:
    addressing the original post: I think with somebody like that, you just need to bare with them. They just found something new that makes them feel good, they want to share it. Eventually its not as new and exciting, and they'll settle down a bit.

    If not, they'll probably become a televangelist :D


    People just react differently to that kinda thing.

    ok ... like lately, I've been extolling the virtues of the new Smokey Chipotle Chicken from KFC, but I'm sure in a week I'll be over it.
    Jam out with your clam out.
  • kh65
    kh65 Posts: 946
    Snake wrote:
    addressing the original post: I think with somebody like that, you just need to bare with them. They just found something new that makes them feel good, they want to share it. Eventually its not as new and exciting, and they'll settle down a bit.

    If not, they'll probably become a televangelist :D


    People just react differently to that kinda thing.
    This is my brother. He was the leat religous person you ever met now he has gone crazy. He spends a lot of time trying to convert the converted in our family. I think he just wants to tell other people what to do. At Christmas he was telling everyone he hopes they give more money to charity this year. (I know I probably give away more money than he makes). So, now when he says that I'm going to say "well I gave $10,000 to the Church of Satan, I heard they could use the money". That might shut him up a bit. At least get him to stop preaching at us.
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  • Snake
    Snake Posts: 2,605
    long red wrote:
    ok ... like lately, I've been extolling the virtues of the new Smokey Chipotle Chicken from KFC, but I'm sure in a week I'll be over it.
    Yea just like that.
    Pirates had democracy too.

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  • silent t
    silent t Posts: 50
    long red wrote:
    Don't you just want to punch him in the fucking throat? Brainwashing is alive and well.

    I'm pretty sure Jesus is about peace, tolerance, and love. Lets hope your friend shares some with you.
  • Swan
    Swan Posts: 350
    long red wrote:
    Don't you just want to punch him in the fucking throat? Brainwashing is alive and well.

    no, not really....
    Ridiculous statements like that on the other hand do make me want to, at the very least, give a stern look.
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  • orig_long red
    orig_long red Posts: 2,029
    silent t wrote:
    I'm pretty sure Jesus is about peace, tolerance, and love. Lets hope your friend shares some with you.

    Jesus is about stylish facial hair and rock-hard abs.
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  • orig_long red
    orig_long red Posts: 2,029
    Swan wrote:
    no, not really....
    Ridiculous statements like that on the other hand do make me want to, at the very least, give a stern look.

    I received plenty of those in Catholic school.
    Jam out with your clam out.
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    sponger wrote:
    It's more than likely that he didn't actually find god, but instead found the need to find him. That's generally the case with most people who "find" god. They just become so desperate for everything to make sense with a simple answer that they just give up on truth and instead embrace fantasy.

    One might say live and let live, but if you truly are his friend and sincerely care for his well-being, you have an obligation to do everything in your power to ensure that he reliquinshes his desire for spirituality before it's too late -before he loses any hope of understanding life on life's terms rather than through the twisted lens of religion's terms.

    Whatever you think about religion personally it's pretty fucking rude and ignorant to impose the idea that this guy needs 'protecting' from it. Get over yourself.
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  • SomethingCreative
    SomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,412
    iluvcats wrote:
    Am I the only pearl jam fan who believes in God?

    if you don't want to hear it, just change the subject. If they persist, tell them politely you are not interested (I read this in a magazine.)

    you act like they robbed a bank or something.


    i believe in god...It seems like life would sort of miserable without belief in something bigger. The church may have its problems but god seems to be a pretty cool dude
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  • Snake
    Snake Posts: 2,605
    SomethingCreative wrote:
    i believe in god...It seems like life would sort of miserable without belief in something bigger. The church may have its problems but god seems to be a pretty cool dude
    Man, for a while I thought I was the only one here who believed in God.
    Pirates had democracy too.

    "Its a secret to everybody."
  • SomethingCreative
    SomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,412
    Snake wrote:
    Man, for a while I thought I was the only one here who believed in God.


    yeah I guess there's a few of us haha...I'm not exactly "IN YOUR FACE" about it but I feel very strongly about my beliefs
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  • Snake
    Snake Posts: 2,605
    SomethingCreative wrote:
    yeah I guess there's a few of us haha...I'm not exactly "IN YOUR FACE" about it but I feel very strongly about my beliefs
    Yea man, I think thats the way to be. When people force it on others it makes it REALLY unappealing. Like all the catholic school stories ive heard on here. :D
    Pirates had democracy too.

    "Its a secret to everybody."
  • silent t
    silent t Posts: 50
    never mind.
  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    long red wrote:
    I received plenty of those in Catholic school.

    oh Catholic school/Catholics.. how well you have managed to ruin religion!
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  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    eMMI wrote:
    oh Catholic school/Catholics.. how well you have managed to ruin religion!
    i have a feeling that the new wave of catholicism ive seen with my generation is gonna be different... all the catholics i know are sick of the dogma and the hypocracy and are very casual about mass and everything... especially the ones that went to catholic school... as much as i have problems with the church ill probably still raise my kids catholic just because its a nice moral foundation... when approached the right way (i just wont let them be alterboys :D)
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