Dude, THANK YOU. Really and truly, I thank you. You are doing more than my own family does.
Birdie
joined 1 year ago
I taught Sunday school and Missionettes, my husband taught Sunday school and Royal Rangers; we both taught puppet ministry. (All over the tri state area) And I am so freaking ashamed.
The purpose of the personality tests was to determine how you 'received' a teaching and how you would teach others. At least as far as I remember.
I've had every Covid vaccine offered. They aren't perfect, but I'm trying to balance risk/benefit. I'm a 70 year old, autoimmune person with lungs that formed scar tissue from my first go-round with Covid, before vaccines were available.
My lung function was great before Covid, it was normal for my age. But post Covid,.my lung function test shows that my lungs function at the level of a 5 year old...and I'm taller and bigger than a 5 year old, so that's a problem.
Scar tissue doesn't "participate" in oxygen/CO2 exchange. So I need to preserve every little alveoli I have. I'd rather die in my sleep with a smile on my face than for gasping for air, so I'll do whatever is offered to preserve the lung function I've kept.
Well, they call them 'personality types' which is a step up in their medieval mindsets.
So, before I 'saw the light' and realized all religions were based on an ambiguous, contradictory, flat out made-up-by-mankind fairy tales, I spent years in different sects of christianity. Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, Assemblies of God, Non-dom Evangelical, Messianic Jews (and ain't that an oxymoron!) These "teachings" were widely accepted in Pentecostal, AOG, and Evangelical churches. I scored roughly 33% sanguine, melancholic, and phlegmatic, lol. Nobody knew what to do with me!
As odd and crazy and backwards this seems to those of us who have beaten our way out of the wet-paper-bag-that-is-Christianity (or have never been in the wet paper bag, you lucky ducks), this makes total and complete sense to those who are still in the echo chamber of Christianity.
Total and complete sense, PERFECT sense.
They believe in this shit, like really believe in it.
She and her husband have been lied to and fooled, and I wouldn't give a damn, except that he is in a position of leadership in this country...and he's a true believer, one who will change our country into a theocracy if given the chance.
We'd better all hope Biden and Kamala survive the next few years, because this man taking on the presidency would set us back centuries. He'd take us to Gilead if he could.
Did you happen to write the ad? You seem to be very invested in painting it in a positive light.
It's going to be when Hilary called Trump supporters a basket of deplorables. They embraced that, it energized them, and it got them to turn out to vote for a POS.
I think this has the potential to do the same.
Calling names is a grade school level, low intelligence thing to do and it seems to me that they'd be stooping down to Trump's level to do that.
Not to mention that millions of Americans love the MAGA movement, and they'd see this as an endorsement.
It would be a stupid move.
This is a surprisingly good breakfast. I add a little dab of butter and a tiny sprinkle of brown sugar.
Well, I'm 70, and my childhood was spent in a French speaking area of Louisiana, and Louisiana isn't known for being very forward thinking. It's possible my experience was limited to my location. 😜
Not sure it was a quirk. More likely a carefully thought out practice to insure the hold Catholicism had on people. Priests spoke and read Latin while most laypeople did not. Having to address demons in Latin ensured that the average person needed the priest to help them out, for a fee/donation of course.
I was a very poor excuse of a Catholic when I was a kid. But I still remember Latin being spoken in Mass, and I remember the priest discouraging his congregation from reading the bible for themselves, cuz no way would we understand it without his expertise to explain it to us.
Religion is some weird crap, man.
You've so perfectly summed up my beliefs. The garden is beautiful without needing to believe there's fairies at the bottom of it.
Pure beauty, my friend.