his parents are both ministers, so i've known he was always a bit religious. but before a month ago he was yr average guy. prolly went to church on sundays.
he also, within the past year i've known him gone from having one tattoo to having both sleeves, both his legs and his entire back done (all very beautiful japanese inspired art). so this says that a) he's an extremist and b) he must be feeling a lot of pain and have masochistic tendencies.
i'm sort of worried, but i'm also supporting him because it seems to be what he needs.
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)
― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)
(what was yr joke)
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)
― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)
Because of the whole Brides of Christ thing, it would be like Christ had totally stolen your friend from another relationship.
See? Feeble.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)
Tell him you understand but you don't want to lose him, or words to that effect.
i know there's nothing else i can do. if i were to discourage him from what he's doing, he'd just turn from me completely
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)
― Ed (dali), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)
I won't lose a friends by heeding God's callFor what is a friend who'd want me to fallOtheres find pleasure in things I despiseI like the christian life
My buddies shun me since I turned to JesusBut I am happy though it burdens my soulAnd I'll try to lead them to walk in the nightI like the christian life
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)
The delusional, masochistic path?
he's now explaining it to us that the lord talks to him and he hears him so clearly
How literally does he mean this? Or is it hard to tell?
It would be nice to find him a therapist that would explain to him that his newfound religion is just a method of avoiding deeper issues, but sadly I fear that it would be very difficult to find such a person.
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)
(hooray for the Louvin Bros)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 6 June 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)
completely literally
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)
― reich marx sandwich, Monday, 6 June 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)
it's not at a "normal" church. it's in some building on market downtown.
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)
See, amst? Not condescending. Practical. Dude's cracking up.
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)
― From Zero To Drunk In Twenty Dollars (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)
http://deniro.jvlnet.com/musclecapefear.jpg
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)
yeah that could be troubling. what kind of ministers are his parents?
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)
― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)
http://www.thewinds.org/images/jesus_gun.jpg
had you titled the thread "so, i've lost my friend to a weird church", it would have been more apt, i think.
Alex and M. White, of course, OTM in all ways.
― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)
(sorry)
― From Zero To Drunk In Twenty Dollars (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)
― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)
― From Zero To Drunk In Twenty Dollars (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)
I've read somewhere that there's something of a mild correlation between *really* extreme bodymod stuff and abuse experienced as a child. Something to keep in mind.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)
You sound like you are 50 and in 1985!
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)
― From Zero To Drunk In Twenty Dollars (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)
yeah, i forgot for a sec that people here are gothy and know music
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)
In my experience of humanity, almost anything can become an ideology.
― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 6 June 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)
No, but if you turned INTO Christ anything would be possible.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 6 June 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)
HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE TO DIE BEFORE WE TURN AWAY FROM THIS HORROR?!!?
― From Zero To Drunk In Twenty Dollars (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 June 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)
http://www.religiousproductsrus.com/t/jewlry/N000260029.jpg
― latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Monday, 6 June 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)
Possibly.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 6 June 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)
― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 6 June 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)
i mean, theres a reason families try to free their loved ones from cults?
― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 6 June 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)
― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 6 June 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 6 June 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 6 June 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)
If he was doing it because he was really into HalfLife2 instead of church, I dont think we'd have this thread.
I'm not religious but some of the replies on here, no offence dudes, are really misguided.
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 6 June 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)
also that the sensually-defined and conceptualized notion of what is "reality" has been hegemonically pushed and unconsciously accepted by all the thinking classes without respite yadda yadda blah blah blah this a is boring topic even 4 me by now. also of course that there are no - or perhaps very few - true poets on ILE (but we knew that already).
Jaxon, I think Hemogoblin / Eisbar's advice is prolly the best anyway. Just be there.
christians always thinks god talks to them
-- anthony easton (anthonyeasto...), June 7th, 2005.
Yeah, well hindus/buddhists think that they're talkin' to (the 'real' version of) Themselves when they talk to Gawd - what's the difference there?
--whats the difference b/w a madman and a prophet
None.:
Because of your love
I have lost my sobriety
I am intoxicated
by the madness of love.
You dance inside my chest,
Where no one sees you
but sometimes I do, and that
sight becomes this art.
I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside!
From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it.
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, sometime in that 13th century, yo
― Vichitravirya XI, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)
Yeah, well hindus/buddhists think that they're talkin' to (the 'real' version of) Themselves when they talk to Gawd - what's the difference there? You read my mind!: Would anyone ever say that about the Dali Lama? Or a Rabbi? I hope not.
― django (django), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:02 (twenty years ago)
― django (django), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)
It does suck when you don't get to spend as much time with your friend as before but as long as they don't try to push their religion on to you, I think it's all good.
― Roz (Roz), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:33 (twenty years ago)
― Roz (Roz), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)
I can’t believe the whole looking up to a “god” still manages to interest people.
That’s what I think anyway. Let a god tell me differently if they wish.
― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)
outside of the past 250 years of American history you mean?
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)
Um has anyone HERE not had bad experiences with devout Christians is probably the better question.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)
1. Religion
― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)
― Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)
Then we can move on to Arabs and gay people!
― The Ghost of Get Them Up Against The Wall (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)
― Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)
― Leonard Thompson (Grodd), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)
― Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)
Next we can do the Republicans and the whiggers!
― The Ghost of Part 385439498294 Of Infinity (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)
Have you been to Pottery Barn?
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)
this is just crazy now. a place of dubious legitimacy is being held as comparable to sexuality and race? leaving aside whether religion is comparable to sexuality and race (another discussion), we havent established that this particular place is even bona fide.
also, i wonder how many people would be as forgiving if we were talking about scientologists here. it seems people are quite happy for their people to start disappearing into something potentially shady because they 'seem happy'. is the concern here really so invalid?
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)
No, is it nice?
xp - What about ILX? Some people risk real-life friendships, full time employment and the comforts of basic hygiene just in the name of talking every day about what cake is the most delicious and lusting after Yousendits of the Spork mix of Satan Bug on the DFA.
― Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)
In regards to Christianity, read your Bible. It's ALL ABOUT CHOICE.
― Leonard Thompson (Grodd), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)
... which is why i suggested a separate thread to discuss people's problems w/ religious people.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)
Justify Your Bigotry!
Have fun!
― The Ghost of When Did You Stop Beating Your Wife? (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)
― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)
"So, I'm so lonesome I could cry"
― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)
― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)