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Post by Doc on Sept 6, 2016 23:11:29 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing that with us nateball.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 23:37:22 GMT -5
nateball That post touched me. I have such a similar feeling as you. I will try and tell my story, but not now. I just finished a fantasy draft and need to wind down. I do know the ups and downs of faith and "going off the path" I call it. There have been times when my serenity was off the scale awesome. I'm happy for you and will tell some of my story soon. It started with a strict Catholic father and grand parents who abandon me at six years old, I do remember some. Then a step father who was Jewish. So six years of Hebrew school. Then an abusive step father who beat all of us. Then drugs and alcohol for me as I was a little older. Then I found my peace, and God, in rehab. The feeling when you receive it is like none other. I'll be back. Great post Nate! I envy the ability to play in the worship team. I love the music at my church. It makes me cry with joy. Years and years ago when I started to go to a church, it was very small and at the elementary school auditorium. I could walk there. The music was the first thing that got me. After a few weeks this guy named Gary Puckett entertained us. He did it now and then. He was a regular at this little gathering. He would play a few rifts of his old songs and then said "silly isn't it?" He also had the number one song in the early sixties one year. He said "the Beatles had a bad year". I can't find his gospel music on youtube, but it was great. I even played golf with him and the pastor of the non denominational church. You might remember Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. But probably not. You guys are to young. Gary is a great guy and loves his faith. Here is his number one song in the early sixties that he is kind of embarrassed of. But the money allowed him to spread joy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn0ZJHVH17I
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Post by nateball on Sept 7, 2016 2:53:52 GMT -5
nateball That post touched me. I have such a similar feeling as you. I will try and tell my story, but not now. I just finished a fantasy draft and need to wind down. I do know the ups and downs of faith and "going off the path" I call it. There have been times when my serenity was off the scale awesome. I'm happy for you and will tell some of my story soon. It started with a strict Catholic father and grand parents who abandon me at six years old, I do remember some. Then a step father who was Jewish. So six years of Hebrew school. Then an abusive step father who beat all of us. Then drugs and alcohol for me as I was a little older. Then I found my peace, and God, in rehab. The feeling when you receive it is like none other. I'll be back. Great post Nate! I envy the ability to play in the worship team. I love the music at my church. It makes me cry with joy. Years and years ago when I started to go to a church, it was very small and at the elementary school auditorium. I could walk there. The music was the first thing that got me. After a few weeks this guy named Gary Puckett entertained us. He did it now and then. He was a regular at this little gathering. He would play a few rifts of his old songs and then said "silly isn't it?" He also had the number one song in the early sixties one year. He said "the Beatles had a bad year". I can't find his gospel music on youtube, but it was great. I even played golf with him and the pastor of the non denominational church. You might remember Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. But probably not. You guys are to young. Gary is a great guy and loves his faith. Here is his number one song in the early sixties that he is kind of embarrassed of. But the money allowed him to spread joy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn0ZJHVH17I Hebrew school...that's rough. I have a Hebrew(Aramaic) tattoo on my forearm that means Heaven. I think for a lot of people, like us, when something is forced down your throat at an early age, you want to break free and "rebel", and experience everything you were told would send you straight to hell. When you get older and wiser you have the experience and wisdom to make decisions for yourself based on life experience and what lines up with what you were taught growing up and what makes sense to you personally as an adult. For me, I never lost my faith, I just suppressed it. I liked the song. You and my dad would get along. He got me into 60's music. Everybody thinks I'm a hipster and that I just wear Beatles and CCR and Doors shirts to be ironic, and then I start discussions with them about their music.
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Post by Doc on Nov 10, 2017 23:57:34 GMT -5
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Post by Doc on Nov 11, 2017 0:05:07 GMT -5
Wine is fine, but liquor is quicker... On the note of religious beliefs... don't even get me start.... I was raised LDS (explains a LOT, I know... total crock of shit, btw) If explored a large number of religious ideas and principles, and I've come to the conclusion that they're all hype and illusion designed to control gullible humans. The ideals are cool, karma, the golden rule, honesty, charity, etc....but nobody truly whole heatedly practices these, so it's a crock... Let's just all be good and kind to the extent we can, harass Eddie as often as possible, and make our little corner of the world a little better.... Now, about that liquor.. . God damn....back in the day....never thought that I'd say.... I'm personally missing you today. Shall I say, R.I.P. dstep05? You better emerge from the dead out of the fog and Tombstones! ARH-WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by catsupman on Nov 15, 2017 17:46:37 GMT -5
i love jesus and cats
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Post by incognito on Nov 15, 2017 18:08:18 GMT -5
i love jesus and cats I do too.
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Post by Doc on Dec 1, 2017 0:19:58 GMT -5
I'm sorry that I strayed. Please do forgive, as it's in you that I am saved. - EddieJ
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Post by Blue Meanie on Feb 14, 2018 15:11:47 GMT -5
Which Jesus are we talking about? The non-white guy that preached forgiveness, caring for the poor, turning the other cheek and love? Or the modern guy, who hates gays, minorities, the poor and women who want control of their own bodies? He appears to love Murica and guns. I'm confused.
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Post by Doc on Nov 21, 2018 22:00:11 GMT -5
There IS life after death. The spirit NEVER dies.
As a young child, I used to pray almost every night, in very personal detail; sometimes for an hour or more.
I had a very close and personal relationship with Jesus. As time went on, and as I got older, I drifted far away.
One special night, everything was brought back to me, after I had well fallen off the righteous path.
Myself, and three of my friends rented a place for the summer in Wildwood, NJ; just one block from the boardwalk.
My best friend decided it was a good idea to start selling PCP/Angel Dust. He had our entire freezer filled with enough of it to put us all away for MANY years.
There was a noise complaint one night from some old folks, even though we weren't even really loud at all.
We had a shitty little radio with no thump to it playing at a moderate volume, in the kitchen area with the window open.
Police were called.
Instead of knocking first at the front door, they walked to the side of the house where the kitchen window was open. They sat there and listened to our conversation before interjecting, or knocking at the front door.
It was at this VERY point, that my atheist friend selling that shit brought up religion, at which point I stated out loud my belief in Jesus, and how he presides in my heart at all times.
Shortly after, we received a knock on the front door from two police officers, asking permission to enter.
We accepted, and they walked right into the kitchen, just inches away from the freezer containing enough drugs to put us away for a VERY long time.
First question asked was, "Who said that Jesus resides in his heart at all times"?
I quickly responded that I was the one to say so. The officer told me she was "touched" by that moment, and they left without incident.
NOT coincidence.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2018 16:41:41 GMT -5
Which Jesus are we talking about? The non-white guy I'm talking about the one I feed in my soul. And how do you know he wasn't white? Do you know the race of his father? If so please share. haha got you on that one huh.
Edit cuz I'm on a roll. Blue, if you consider Obama is black then you have to admit Jesus could be white. Not that it matters.
Boom haha
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Post by Blue Meanie on Nov 26, 2018 20:57:47 GMT -5
Which Jesus are we talking about? The non-white guy I'm talking about the one I feed in my soul. And how do you know he wasn't white? Do you know the race of his father? If so please share. haha got you on that one huh.
Edit cuz I'm on a roll. Blue, if you consider Obama is black then you have to admit Jesus could be white. Not that it matters.
Boom haha
Let’s put it this way. If Jesus was white, he was the first and only one until several centuries later during The Crusades.
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Post by Doc on Nov 26, 2018 21:01:09 GMT -5
Which Jesus are we talking about? The non-white guy I'm talking about the one I feed in my soul. And how do you know he wasn't white? Do you know the race of his father? If so please share. haha got you on that one huh.
Edit cuz I'm on a roll. Blue, if you consider Obama is black then you have to admit Jesus could be white. Not that it matters.
Boom haha
Nothing like bringing in identity politics to a religious discussion that had zero racial inclinations previously mentioned. Kudos to Blue.
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Post by Blue Meanie on Nov 26, 2018 21:08:35 GMT -5
I'm talking about the one I feed in my soul. And how do you know he wasn't white? Do you know the race of his father? If so please share. haha got you on that one huh.
Edit cuz I'm on a roll. Blue, if you consider Obama is black then you have to admit Jesus could be white. Not that it matters.
Boom haha
Nothing like bringing in identity politics to a religious discussion that had zero racial inclinations previously mentioned. Kudos to Blue. Your fatass friend claims to be a Christian as do several of his supporters. I believe they are all really Satan worshipers. Their words would tend to convict them.
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Post by danb6177 on Nov 27, 2018 4:46:12 GMT -5
Jesus was a Jew. Depends On if you consider Jews to be white. I would say no. But it’s a debate
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