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[rockyi]

Originally Posted by LMich

To be very clear, I'm personally offended by very little in the way of the discussion and content around here, though I'll admit to being incredibly grossed out by the frankness of vid, at times. lol That said, if I moderated this thing with any lighter a touch I wouldn't be moderating it, at all, and I've already gotten criticism from higher up for being too hands-off, here. I really, really, really hope that a simple request to refrain from nude content doesn't sound unreasonable. It's basically the only thing I've ever asked of any of you in terms of my moderating this sub-forum. Hell, I could be dragged over the coals for some of the content of discussion that takes place, here, like the overtly sexual stories, let alone the nudity. So, if you could cut me some slack, that'd be great.

BTW, I don't visit the Check This Out threads in Skybar, but it is my understanding from up top that things are freerer on Skybar because it's only accessible to members of the site, while subforums like this are completely public.

I know, I just figured it was a side shot and didn't show anymore than what I see at the local swimming pool it would probably be OK, but I understand your position and I'll make sure I behave in the future.
Maybe I'm still just a bit peeved because just a day or two ago I posted seemingly innocuous old photos on facebook and several which included my friend, Chuck, who's now a born again Christian (so I'm usually careful about what I post) In a few photos he was holding a beer, in most others a cigarette and one he was holding up a ridiculous Weekly World News headline. Several of us, including Chuck, were having a great time posting about the past and in 15 minutes there were up to 40 posts from old friends from around the country regarding these pics and it didn't even occur to me they would be a problem....Then they were all deleated. Later I find out that members of his church were seriously OFFENDED by displays of such immoral behavior and reported them so they were taken down....Really? Cigarettes and beer being consumed by 20 something year olds back in the early 80's, immoral? I guess I thought that was just being normal.
I guess I need to just put up photos of frolicking puppies (but I'm sure the God Squad would find those offensive also)
Personally, I'm offended that some folks that I've never met decided to remove the photos, not that I lost them forever, but it was the dicussion from old friends that went with them that were also removed.

[Strange Meat]

Had another great convo with the parents. Lots of scolding. Apparently I should never try to have fun, or make that a goal. I'm like, look, I'm probably never going to get married or start a family (intentionally), and I'm not gonna just freak out and settle down, so chill the fuck out and accept that I'm gonna pretty much lead a life like this till I die. FFS.

[vid]

Originally Posted by Strange Meat

Had another great convo with the parents. Lots of scolding. Apparently I should never try to have fun, or make that a goal. I'm like, look, I'm probably never going to get married or start a family (intentionally), and I'm not gonna just freak out and settle down, so chill the fuck out and accept that I'm gonna pretty much lead a life like this till I die. FFS.

Aren't they not even your biological parents? I don't understand why you can't just shut them out of your life entirely.

Severely religious people really piss me off.

[Strange Meat]

Originally Posted by vid

Aren't they not even your biological parents? I don't understand why you can't just shut them out of your life entirely.

Severely religious people really piss me off.

Does saying "money when they die" make me a bad person?

[wong21fr]

Originally Posted by Strange Meat

Does saying "money when they die" make me a bad person?

Depends, do you plan on hastening their departure from this world? Then, yes, you're probably a bad person, but a splendid capitalist. If not, than no, you're a good person.

[Strange Meat]

Originally Posted by wong21fr

Depends, do you plan on hastening their departure from this world? Then, yes, you're probably a bad person, but a splendid capitalist. If not, than no, you're a good person.

Haha dude I don't hasten anything. If I'm a splendid anything, it's as a procrastinator. Anyway, seeing as how small my family is, and how unreliable everyone else in my life has proven to be, I see no good in completely cutting things off with them. They just helped me out tremendously in fact getting back in class this semester. I do love them, they're family, even of they say fucked up shit from time to time.

[rockyi]

^My parents are Catholic and mom still brings up the subject of church once in a while...Like last Sunday, I visited them at their home and of course mom had to ask..... "So, did you go to church this morning?"

Me(obviously lying): "Uh, sure I did."

Mom: "What was the sermon about?"

Me: "God and junk."

Mom: *SIGH*...."So, would you like something to eat? I could make you an omelette."

I haven't gone to a regular Sunday mass since I was 20 years old and she knows it's futile to ask me about God but she still feels it's her duty.

[Cleveland Brown]

Originally Posted by rockyi

^My parents are Catholic and mom still brings up the subject of church once in a while...Like last Sunday, I visited them at their home and of course mom had to ask..... "So, did you go to church this morning?"

Me(obviously lying): "Uh, sure I did."

Mom: "What was the sermon about?"

Me: "God and junk."

Mom: *SIGH*...."So, would you like something to eat? I could make you an omelette."

I haven't gone to a regular Sunday mass since I was 20 years old and she knows it's futile to ask me about God but she still feels it's her duty.

I go to church with my mother two or three times per year and we usually have brunch afterward. I wish my mother were Catholic, but no, she is evangelical protestant so I not only get called a heathen for not going to church, but I'm going to allegedly "burn in hell" for (drinking alcohol, having sex outside of marriage, believing in evolution, supporting gay marriage and ending discrimination against gays, not praying about ALL of my problems, allegedly not respecting my parents, not reading the Bible, calling the pastor a crook because he has hired most of his family and makes a HUGE salary, for not ALWAYS agreeing with Israel in the mideast conflict, for calling out so-called religious people on the bullshit, for not treating people of other religons as damned/inferior/et al, for not seeing a religious issue in every political issue....). And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[mobyhead]

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I am so buying one! sorry for the spam

[rockyi]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

At least you got an omlette, right?

Yep, mom always makes sure her little heathens are properly fed.

Originally Posted by Cleveland Brown

I go to church with my mother two or three times per year and we usually have brunch afterward. I wish my mother were Catholic, but no, she is evangelical protestant so I not only get called a heathen for not going to church, but I'm going to allegedly "burn in hell" for (drinking alcohol, having sex outside of marriage, believing in evolution, supporting gay marriage and ending discrimination against gays, not praying about ALL of my problems, allegedly not respecting my parents, not reading the Bible, calling the pastor a crook because he has hired most of his family and makes a HUGE salary, for not ALWAYS agreeing with Israel in the mideast conflict, for calling out so-called religious people on the bullshit, for not treating people of other religons as damned/inferior/et al, for not seeing a religious issue in every political issue....). And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

While us Catholics spent EVERY Sunday in church we also had all of those pesky "holy days of obligation" plus catechism on Wednsday night, confession plus I was an alterboy but when we were away from church, we were AWAY from church. We never talked about it (the above conversation with mom is about the extent of it), and, like most Catholics, didn't have a bible in the house. My parents, like most Catholics, love to party with their friends and the both to this day they both can let out a string of swear words that would make a sailor blush.......Hell, mom even went on the pill in 1966 after having 5 children in just over 7 years. "No Goddamn sexless priest is going to tell me how to run my Goddamn sexlife life!"

[LMich]

Originally Posted by rockyi

While us Catholics spent EVERY Sunday in church we also had all of those pesky "holy days of obligation" plus catechism on Wednsday night, confession plus I was an alterboy but when we were away from church, we were AWAY from church. We never talked about it (the above conversation with mom is about the extent of it), and, like most Catholics, didn't have a bible in the house. My parents, like most Catholics, love to party with their friends and the both to this day they both can let out a string of swear words that would make a sailor blush.......Hell, mom even went on the pill in 1966 after having 5 children in just over 7 years. "No Goddamn sexless priest is going to tell me how to run my Goddamn sexlife life!"

My dad was raised Catholic, one of my uncles was an alterboy...and my dad's an atheist, now. lol

[Buckeye Native 001]

At least you got an omlette, right?

[Lipani]

^ I was raised Catholic as well. At 17 I was no longer forced to go to church after threatening to take a shit on the altar. The only times I've been since were my mom and step-dad's anniversary 3 years ago and while in Sicily last March (you don't say no to those mafia cousins).

[rockyi]

I do go to weddings and funerals in Catholic church but that's about it.

Luckily since mom went to a very strict Catholic school, she didn't want her babies being subjected to the wrath of hateful, bitchy nuns, so we got to be "public" kids.

[Lipani]

^ Oh, I forgot about a wedding in 2005. Also, that was the first wedding I attended in which a fist fight occurred.

[rockyi]

My folks do occasionally show a superior streak due to their religion, almost always toward evangelical Baptists (the two groups are NOT the best of friends), and southerners since they are both from Minnesota....I remember this little conversation from many years ago that my dad had with some hillbilly, southern Baptist kids from the church up the street who were soliciting their bible school door to door using their regional dialect.....

*Ding-Dong*

Dad: "May I help you?"

Baptist kid: "We juss wanted to know if yer children want to join us in our bobble skoo?"

Dad: "What the hell is a bobble skoo?"

Baptist kid: "Not bobble skoo....BOBBLE SKOO!"

Dad: "That's what I said, bobble skoo. What do they bobble there?"

Baptist kid: "NO! Bobble, like the holy book."

Dad: "OH, BIBLE....whats a skoo?"

Baptist kid: "A place where yous go to learn and such."

Dad: "Oh, so you want to know if my children want to join you in your BIBLE SCHOOL?!"

Baptist kid: "Yes sir, that's what I said."

Dad: "No thanks, we're Catholic so we're already going to heaven."

Door closes, mom scolds him while holding back a laugh.

[vid]

I was raised atheist. I didn't know what a church was until I was a teenager. We've been through this before.

The whole thing is silly to me. All I knew of god when I was little is that he lived in the sky and hated everything fun.

[mobyhead]

Originally Posted by vid

I was raised atheist. I didn't know what a church was until I was a teenager. We've been through this before.

The whole thing is silly to me. All I knew of god when I was little is that he lived in the sky and hated everything fun.

Church for me as a kid was my Mom's excuse to sleep in with her hangover. I'll never forget filling those tithing envelopes.

[Strange Meat]

You can't hug your children with nuclear arms.

[wong21fr]

^Dude, I know all about procrastination; I took the 12-year plan for the bachelors.