I’m treated really well by the church, althought there are occasional individuals who are rude, but that’s to be expected in any group.
The closet thing is kind of funny. I’m a senior in college and living in a house owned by my campus’s Catholic group. The room I’m in has two rather large closets, both slightly wider than a twin bed mattress. Being without a proper bed, I decided to drag the futon mattress that I’m sleeping on inside one of the closets. I love it; it’s like a little hidey-hole! My friends like to joke that living in the Catholic house forced me back into the closet.
I’m glad you like my dreams. It’s happened to me since I was… fifteen, on and off, so it’s been about seven years. The output is getting better as time goes by, but I don’t know if the dreams themselves are improving or if I’m just better at recording.
Yeah, this thread wouldn’t be as much fun without the constant back-and-forth.
I am glad you let me know about the positive attitude. I have a client who I became pretty close with who was diagnosed with breast cancer about 6 months ago. I told her to have a positive attitude and now wonder if that was wrong. But thinking back, I have told many people that a positive attitude is key to anything. Perhaps I am not saying it is a cure for anything, but it is nice to try to keep a positive outlook, perhaps. I have no idea what it is like to be in your position, and really don’t want to, of course. BUT…it does seem like you are as positive as possible in all of this. As far as prayer, it is just hope, in my opinion.
Thank you for the commendation. I started this thread as an education for me. We all have something to share, and since everyone is telling things about themselves, they deserve a response back, and it makes me that much more knowledgable.
Being that you only spank the thighs, it does make you different.
I’m a girl, but I can kick ass at a lot of video games.
I’ve never tried marijuana.
When I eat pineapple, my face gets hot and bright stripes of red appear on my cheeks.
I’m afraid of seafood.
I graduated from university with honours.
I won an award for playwrighting.
I used to be a waitress, but I was scouted by a law firm to be their receptionist, and to this day I have no idea why they want me to work here so badly.
I can wiggle my ears.
I find it extremely comfortable to sit in the yoga cross-legged position, but I’ve never tried yoga.
I used to be the lead singer of a rock band, and made pretty good money at it.
I occasionally do stand-up comedy.
That’s pretty much all there is exciting about me!
I’ve always considered it normal that I have never used any drugs besides coffee and alcohol (and these in moderation as well). Is it normal where you life to try drugs? Or perhaps I have been living in a shoebox and everyone around me already tried, hmmm difficult to answer that one…
Well, here in Southeastern Ontario, and at my age (twenty-eight) I am definitely the exception to the rule. When people find out that I’ve never tried pot in any way, they generally react with surprise, and then try to convince me to smoke with them sometime.
Of course, my being an actor and working in theatres and such may have something to do with that, but even the professionals I know have all at least tried it, if not smoke pretty regularly.
I grew up when everyone smoked pot, but I never could because pot gives me horrible hallucinations and body effects. This was way back when pot was $10/ounce from Mexico, and it was waaaay weaker than it is now. Even now, I can’t be in the same room with pot smoke.
You’re “allergic”, which means you’re hyper-hyper-sensitive to the THC. I have a friend like you, and have heard of others. Simple second-hand contact sends him into incredible paranoid fits, including aural hallucinations and physical discomfort.
I don’t think it’s weird if someone has never smoked pot, but almost everyone I personally know has or does, including my parents, their siblings, and some of their own parents. This naturally resulted in me being a little anti-drug nazi for a while as a teenager, but I got over it, so I can’t recommend it as a permanent aversion technique.
I consider myself religious, but I almost never go to religious services except on holidays. I’m also in a completely different faith than the one I grew up in.
I have some sense of smell, but not much.
Not only have I never tried any drugs other than caffeine and alcohol, I was never offered any other drugs (except for cigarettes) and would have had no idea, in high school or college, how to get any other drugs had I been interested in trying them.
I’m allergic to pot smoke (had a major allergy attack in Haight-Asbury once, and that’s what I think did it), and I’m not at all interested in trying marijuana, but I think it should be legalized.
People managed for thousands of years to breed without drivers licenses…
We weren’t kids, either- I was 27, he was 29. I had had a male apartment-mate before that, but never lived with an SO.
Yep! I even gasp serve the Eucharist to others. I’m really involved in my parish. I’m a Lector a Eucharistic Minister, an altar server, and on the leadership commitee, although not all at once! After helping out with the choir a few weeks ago, I realized that I had done just about everything a lay person could do at an average Mass.
Yes, I think you are right. Those initial “converts” to what eventually became Heaven’s Gate were a fascinating set of people, and they did some amazing, irregular things to be allowed to be part of the cult, such as literally “disappearing” from jobs, families (including children!), & obligations in an abrupt way; while still laying their hands on as much of their own (or their family’s own) money as they could to facilitate the group’s travel expenses, never looking back. I cannot imagine the power of the two leaders to have swayed people in such a manner. My HG guy was at great pains to get me to understand how it could have happened. I’m not sure he even knew exactly what went on. Some interesting stuff.