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trumad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 02:59 PM Original message |
My report back from my first Church attendance in decades. |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
1. snarf! |
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Iris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
2. You know, I have no problem with this. |
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trumad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 03:18 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I agree... and like I said---it was all in all a pleasant experience. |
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Iris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 03:19 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. yeah - a million box IS a lot! |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 04:49 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. You would not believe how much it costs to heat up a church |
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SmokingJacket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 07:15 PM Response to Reply #11 |
29. How about keeping the coats on? nt |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 09:13 PM Response to Reply #29 |
34. You try telling that to a bunch of 86 year old ladies |
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goclark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 03:18 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I agree ~ |
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goodgd_yall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 05:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
23. I've always though it took away from the worship experience n/t |
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Gato Moteado (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
5. i say just let them go under....there's another church on the next block over |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 11:17 AM Response to Reply #5 |
41. the church... |
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Gato Moteado (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 01:40 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. hey, the repukes are so into the free market correcting everything.... |
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Bzzzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
7. Glad to hear... |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
8. Go to the Baptists, they have superb music....n/t |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 10:11 AM Response to Reply #8 |
39. The Gaithers are |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 01:47 PM Response to Reply #39 |
44. Sorry I meant the black Baptist Church....They are great... |
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Exultant Democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 01:49 PM Response to Reply #8 |
45. Or stop by a jewish temple and listen to a Cantor sing, |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 04:43 PM Response to Reply #45 |
62. I remembe reading Neil Diamond studied to be a Rabbi/Cantor and then |
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Gruenemann (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 04:59 PM Response to Reply #62 |
64. No, that was his character in "The Jazz Singer." eom |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 05:54 PM Response to Reply #64 |
66. Ahh, my bad. Great movie.. |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 05:58 PM Response to Reply #66 |
67. Would you believe our brief exchange re Diamond is on Google already???? |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
9. Donuts and Coffee before Church? |
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JBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 05:35 PM Response to Reply #9 |
25. I thought you were supposed to get that AFTER church |
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trumad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 07:13 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. They had them when you walked in... |
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rockymountaindem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 06:29 PM Response to Reply #9 |
26. Yeah, what's this "before" business? |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 07:28 PM Response to Reply #9 |
31. Take it easy, it was a Methodist Church. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 09:13 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. They'd better find better methods than that! |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
10. raised catholic, church six days a week, we started each day of school with mass |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 04:51 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. moneywere? Sounds interesting |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 05:06 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. It's not just the Catholic churches. My elderly parents had to stop going to their fundie church |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 05:10 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Our monsignor had a mansion across the street from the country club AND |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 05:18 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. The first church I went to in this country was like that |
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me b zola (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 08:08 PM Response to Reply #18 |
32. A parable from popular culture |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 09:52 AM Response to Reply #32 |
37. That's a great scene :-) |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 04:50 PM Response to Reply #15 |
63. As a kid, do you remember the nuns with that damned clicker, we stood, |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 08:31 PM Response to Reply #63 |
68. I was a catechism kid.. I went to base schools and had little contact with nuns |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 05:23 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. You got a problem with the edifice complex? |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 03:08 PM Response to Reply #14 |
52. Maybe we should start downsizing the churches to make them more |
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LNM (538 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 03:14 PM Response to Reply #14 |
53. That's sad. |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 05:16 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. My memories of |
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Gato Moteado (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 01:49 PM Response to Reply #10 |
46. they only made us go on first fridays and holy days of obligation.... |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
13. Today was Reformation Sunday with the Lutherans |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 05:14 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. I LOVE Reformation Sunday |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 05:25 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. I like Marty Luther, good ole' Marty Luther played by the Reformation Band. |
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goodgd_yall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 05:25 PM Response to Original message |
20. I've gone a few times in the past few years |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 05:25 PM Response to Original message |
22. You seems |
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trumad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 05:28 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. snarf! |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 06:39 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Even still, |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 10:03 AM Response to Reply #27 |
38. love that....bored again! |
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Lilith Velkor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 09:23 PM Response to Reply #38 |
72. with a "gentile glow" |
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unc70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 07:26 PM Response to Original message |
30. That is a lot of money. Probably didn't repay the bldg fund |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
35. Wow, that's bad. How did it get so bad? |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 09:32 PM Response to Original message |
36. My friend belongs to a church in the Catholic diocese of san Diego. |
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Gato Moteado (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 01:50 PM Response to Reply #36 |
47. her church harbored a pedophile priest? |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 04:21 PM Response to Reply #47 |
61. No, but the diocese had to file bankruptcy because someone |
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Gato Moteado (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 05:41 PM Response to Reply #61 |
65. i have no doubt that she was pissed about the pedophilia.... |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 08:42 PM Response to Reply #65 |
70. My friend and her fellow parishoners said they started putting |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
40. Maybe they should cut back on the coffee and donuts. nt |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 01:36 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. It's probably donated |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
48. Doing elder care, part of my job can be to go to various Churches |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
49. That is such a crime.... |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
50. Sounds like it's time for a miracle. |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
51. I know the general area you live in Trumad. |
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trumad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 04:02 PM Response to Reply #51 |
58. It was the downtown Methodist church... |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 04:08 PM Response to Reply #58 |
60. Oh, well. You got me there. |
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Perky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
54. If you want a different type of Church experience check out a Vineyard |
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MLFerrell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
55. You let your wife browbeat you into attending a brainwashing sess- er I mean church? |
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snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
56. They didn't try to kill you? |
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Parche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
57. WHY WHY WHY |
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trumad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 04:03 PM Response to Reply #57 |
59. Nah--- especially when my Phins are 0-8. |
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RevCheesehead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
69. So the finance committee was irresponsible.... |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
71. I highly doubt they are really in the tank... |
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