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Mo Tzu posted:This is good advice, though if you're more intellectual and less experiential (this seems elitist but I'm not sure how else to say "if thinking is easier than feeling for you") then reading up on different church dogmas, ideologies, and theologies is also good
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Sep 20, 2016 18:47
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Smoking Crow posted:Hello and welcome to the apostolic successor of the last Christianity thread. While most of us are liturgical in some form (Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Episcopalian, etc), we cover a myriad of denominations. Ask anything you want! Just remember the rules: 1) be a cool guy 2) don't be an uncool guy. Just as the devil is disorderly and jumbles things together, so your writings and head are equally disordered and mixed up, so that it is exceedingly annoying to read and difficult to remember what you write, OP. (source)
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Sep 20, 2016 18:49
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Lutha Mahtin posted:Just as the devil is disorderly and jumbles things together, so your writings and head are equally disordered and mixed up, so that it is exceedingly annoying to read and difficult to remember what you write, OP. You are as an arch rascal and disgraceful scoundrel. You are the white devil and a glittering Satan. Imagine if Luther had the internet.
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Sep 20, 2016 19:03
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I may actually change my mind about the, uh,  OP if it gets lurkers to stop lurking and 
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Sep 20, 2016 19:05
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if you're going to complain to someone, complain to rodrigo diaz, i based mine on his milhist op
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Sep 20, 2016 19:08
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To the lurkers, don't sweat the agnosticism. I've arrived as a practitioning asatrúar shaman who is also christian and into native american cosmology. I'll be happy to answer questions about the path or took or just faith in general!HEY GAL posted:there's also different kinds of thinking, for instance i think about abstract things or general things in terms of concrete or specific things, so in order to explain something when i write something i end up listing a billion examples That's
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Sep 20, 2016 19:18
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HEY GAL posted:there's also different kinds of thinking, for instance i think about abstract things or general things in terms of concrete or specific things, so in order to explain something when i write something i end up listing a billion examples Yeah I guess it's less intellectual vs experiential and more visual vs aural/ something about being social maybe Nothing scares me more than a church that welcomes visitors, especially ones with almost no young people (they seem desperate tbh)
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Sep 20, 2016 19:40
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As a Mennonite-Turned-Unfocused-Believer-In-Things-I-Can't-Quite-Define, I rate this thread A++, Would Rescue From Drowning Only To Be Burned At The Stake By It Later Again.
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Sep 20, 2016 19:40
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my dad posted:I may actually change my mind about the, uh, I especially
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Sep 20, 2016 19:45
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Just waiting for Zen death robot I always mess something up in ops
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Sep 20, 2016 20:04
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Smoking Crow posted:Just waiting for Zen death robot Yeah you're missing an I in Christianity.
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Sep 20, 2016 20:12
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Sep 20, 2016 20:15
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meh come back with prosperity gospel
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Sep 20, 2016 20:17
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Worthleast posted:Post the sweetest Church music you got. Christian Rock is not Church music, for it is neither good Christianity, nor good rock. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AhiSYk1zVLQ For real though, that band's songwriter draws most inspiration from Beethoven and other contemporary superstars. Valiantman fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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Sep 20, 2016 20:17
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Should have said arius
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Sep 20, 2016 20:18
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i love the facial expressions in that comic so very very much.
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Sep 20, 2016 20:19
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valentinus was right
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Sep 20, 2016 20:20
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Mo Tzu posted:Nothing scares me more than a church that welcomes visitors, especially ones with almost no young people (they seem desperate tbh) How about mine, where the first day I went to a mass in about 25 years the greeter outside explained to me that he didn't think he believed "the whole thing" but he wanted the "community aspect." He was a Eucharistic minister.
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Sep 20, 2016 20:23
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Mo Tzu posted:Yeah I guess it's less intellectual vs experiential and more visual vs aural/ something about being social maybe What about unfriendly churches
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Sep 20, 2016 20:24
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Worthleast posted:Post the sweetest Church music you got. Christian Rock is not Church music, for it is neither good Christianity, nor good rock. I posted this in the last thread but Armenian chant is baller and I still wanna go to one of their Divine Liturgies with HEY GAL when she's back in the states. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtPfE6mHA_s Also, glad to see lurkers posting, seriously as long as it's not abortion or prosperity gospel
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Sep 20, 2016 20:31
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Here's my fave Christian musician. He's a big genre hopper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sDzjG9p3_c He has about a zillion albums ranging from quasi-prog to deconstructed hip-hop. Here's a solid album of verbatim psalms: https://soul-junk.bandcamp.com/album/1961
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Sep 20, 2016 20:44
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Mo Tzu posted:Yeah I guess it's less intellectual vs experiential and more visual vs aural/ something about being social maybe I've spent a while church shopping in four different cities, and for me it's the community that matters more than the theology - I'm a young person (well, relatively young these days), and I keep looking for a church with people my own age. It's always been hard to find one that also isn't hardcore right-wing.
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Sep 20, 2016 20:44
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Smoking Crow posted:What about unfriendly churches Welcoming, but in a New England way not a southern way
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Sep 20, 2016 20:48
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Mo Tzu posted:Welcoming, but in a New England way not a southern way Gotta explain this to a dirty Old Worlder
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Sep 20, 2016 20:53
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System Metternich posted:Gotta explain this to a dirty Old Worlder i do not know anyone from New England so i don't have the appropriate german adjective ed: also southern food is delicious and fattening
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Sep 20, 2016 20:54
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Cythereal posted:I've spent a while church shopping in four different cities, and for me it's the community that matters more than the theology - I'm a young person (well, relatively young these days), and I keep looking for a church with people my own age. It's always been hard to find one that also isn't hardcore right-wing. Be the change you want to see. Old congregations know they're old and know they need younger members. Join one and be the seed of a new generation in the church. They're all sick of being on committees at this point so in a few years you could be running the place.
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Sep 20, 2016 21:03
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System Metternich posted:Gotta explain this to a dirty Old Worlder Southern people are super friendly, like smiles and "how are you" and stuff like that. New England people are more cold, less likely to be as exuberant in their welcome, but aren't unfriendly. Unless you're southern, in which case it seems rude
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Sep 20, 2016 21:07
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I miss the old OP. huber was right e: The thread tag is funny though.
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Sep 20, 2016 21:14
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From the last thread 'cause I was TOO SLOWHEY GAL posted:anything preventing you from coming back? Mostly just personal difficulty with believing. Even when I was younger and still involved with the church, there was no energy behind it, and after a while I kinda realized I had like, never truly believed in God but went through the motions. This has stayed true even when I was going through a pendulum motion of atheism/agnosticism and the church/deism back in the day. Still, I wouldn't be here if I was some card-carrying, smug "ha ha you dumb Christians there couldn't possibly be such a thing as God  " atheist; I find theology and the liturgy extremely interesting. Pomp and circumstance is like, my extended middle name.Though, come to think of it, I know very little about Orthodoxy beyond a vague concept of autocephaly, the Pentarchy being a thing, and silly hats with fold-down crosses so they don't hit the door. I know some of how Orthodoxy affected the history of the Byzantines as well, but nothing beyond that, really!
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Sep 20, 2016 21:22
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Mo Tzu posted:Welcoming, but in a New England way not a southern way The Midwest is too cold and unfriendly for me
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Sep 20, 2016 21:36
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Deteriorata posted:Be the change you want to see. Old congregations know they're old and know they need younger members. Join one and be the seed of a new generation in the church. They're all sick of being on committees at this point so in a few years you could be running the place. I'm in the fourth city I've lived in in the past ten years.  Maybe if I find the right one. Of the churches I visited, though, it was the ELCA Lutheran church I was happiest with. They certainly had the best food.For those new to this thread, I'm an Evangelical by background and general beliefs, but I no longer consider myself Southern Baptist per se - I have issues with how right-wing the SBC has become, and a lot of Evangelical churches in general.
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Sep 20, 2016 21:42
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Cythereal posted:I'm in the fourth city I've lived in in the past ten years.
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Sep 20, 2016 21:45
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HEY GAL posted:and he moves a lot, add that to the character sheet :p College, grad school, and two different jobs. Thought I'd mention my religious background for any newcomers to the thread since the old one was explicitly aimed at/about liturgical Christianity. At any rate, character sheet duly created. Cythereal fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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Sep 20, 2016 21:48
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A reading from the Gospel of Markovquote:And it came to it, he saith unto them, "Render to Caesar the things which Moses commanded, for a camel to go through the midst of the gospel of the chief priests, and unto the sea." Amen.
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Sep 20, 2016 22:14
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Count me as another long time lurker who is willing to chime in now that the thread is fresh and new. I came into the old one trying to expand my knowledge of the lived experience of liturgical church Christians compared to my staunchly Protestant upbringing, and have been blown away by how much I didn't know about Catholicism and Orthodoxy in particular (I honestly don't even know that I knew Orthodoxy was a thing). My fiancee comes from at least a culturally Catholic background, so I've wanted to learn something of the traditions and practices that make up a significant part of her belief system. It's been incredibly helpful for me to be able to read the experiences and beliefs of everyone here, and hopefully one day I will be able to contribute something myself (though the only thing I really know much about is church planting in Central Texas and that from a congregant rather than clergy position).
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Sep 20, 2016 22:52
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I keep getting videos from this channel in my youtube recommendations, and this one I thought was funny enough to share. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6WI7opaMUI
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Sep 20, 2016 23:26
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Has anyone in this thread been through Pre Cana with the Roman Catholic Church? I'm about to start with my fiancé, and have a general idea of what to expect, yet find myself still somewhat apprehensive about the whole affair.
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Sep 20, 2016 23:27
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Paladinus posted:I keep getting videos from this channel in my youtube recommendations, and this one I thought was funny enough to share. The list of things Facebook thinks I am, judging by the stuff it regularly suggests to me: gay republican pro-putin atheist mra neo-nazi who wants to kill all muslims
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my dad posted:The list of things Facebook thinks I am, judging by the stuff it regularly suggests to me: gay republican pro-putin atheist mra neo-nazi who wants to kill all muslims so... Milo Yiannopoulos?
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