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taiyoko posted:Mom used to send my sister and i out to one or two of them a summer when we were in line elementary school, just as a free way to get us out of the house for a couple of hours. The most drat, I had forgotten all about those. Blast from the past
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thing about them that i remember is how they had a pledge of allegiance to the Bible and the "Christian flag". Don't remember the latter, but for some reason the former has etched itself into my brain.
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Did that puppet just move on it's own? Seriously this isn't funny.
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Fur20 posted:god i hated chapel. we read a lot of revelations, though, while pretending to listen to the sermons, because what other part of the bible would you expect edgy teenage boys to read Same with me in CCD (what we called Catholic Sunday School back then). Everyone else would be doing some lame worksheet, and I'd finish it early and root around in the closet for those cheap New American Bibles we had hundreds of with the flimsy red covers and look around for something interesting. I liked Revelation and the plagues of Exodus. My parents didn't let us buy Goldeneye 007 when I was a kid because they said it was too violent. So I was surprised when we were sleeping overnight in our Catholic Church for our pre-Confirmation mini-retreat and found that the Church had a N64 and Goldeneye. We played all night and hoped the sounds of gunfire wouldn't wake up the priest. William Bear fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Jul 15, 2023 |
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I was an altar boy as a young Catholic. A major report came out a few years ago on all the known abuser priests in my diocese. Turns out I dodged a few of them by a matter of months. 
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So glad my mom was Protestant and dad was a Catholic. There was enough family drama from the Catholic side that my parents said gently caress religion and only exposed us to it if we were curious. I think my sister went to Catholic mass once with my grandma... Us boys were not invited. My grandma had severe issues with men and was definitely not happy to have been married. Very lucky to have had such amazing parents tbh. My mom's brother's are all evangelical nutters because they got addicted to alcohol and or cocaine during and after college and Jesus saved them. 🙄 They did mellow out a lot when they got older. One is dead and I think the other teaches at some weird medical/Christian college... Wesleyan or something? I don't really know the history of it but it seems super religious. They managed to raise some weird rear end nerdy cousins I got to see at least once a year during childhood. Got some good and cool cousins too but they are also super into Jesus just not weird judgy ppl. Wendigee fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Jul 15, 2023 |
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Vampire Panties posted:At one of the last camps I attended, the main counselor dude had all the boys stay behind at campfire one night. Then he proceeded to tell a story about how there was this big mountain, and this company was mining the top, and they were hiring truck drivers to haul dynamite to the blasting site. This company gives a trial run to two drivers. One flies up the mountain, banging through gears, sliding all over the road, swinging the trailer out over the side, totally out of control but the driver is the best, so they make it to the top and back in absolute untouchable record time. The 2nd driver drives up the mountain safely, stops for stop signs, and makes the trip in twice the time of the first driver. The company hires the 2nd driver. At the end of the story, IIRC almost verbatim the camp counselor says "thats your sexuality. You're driving a loaded dynamite truck driving up mountain roads, and you have to ask yourself - are you being safe? are you going to get hired?"
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To this day I have no idea what morality he was trying to convey. Is getting laid getting hired? do I need a commercial drivers license for that? 
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Zugzwang posted:I was an altar boy as a young Catholic. A major report came out a few years ago on all the known abuser priests in my diocese. Turns out I dodged a few of them by a matter of months. Congrats!
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I “taught” music at vacation bible school. It wasn’t amazing, but during free periods we teachers got to use the whole sanctuary sound system to sing Disney karaoke, which was extremely fun at the time as a 12- or 13-year-old. I also went to liberal hippie Christian summer camp. 11/10, it was one of the high points of my year. I always wanted to be a counselor there, but by the time I was old enough for that (college), I was also old enough to take an actual money job so I had to do that instead. I missed my chance to fraternize with the nose-studded, unshaven-legged, French-braided, genuinely gorgeous college girl counselors (PS I turned out to be bi) and to spend all summer swimming and going on nature walks and singing. e: disclaimer: not creepy, I was in middle/high school when I had crushes on the college counselors Anne Whateley fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Jul 15, 2023 |
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Animal-Mother posted:WE'RE THE GRAPES Silly yanks, wrath doesn't rhyme with bath. Unless you're mispronouncing 'bath'.
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Rebel Blob posted:Sounds like your counselor really liked Wages of Fear. Thank you! I was trying to remember the name of that movie!
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taiyoko posted:Mom used to send my sister and i out to one or two of them a summer when we were in line elementary school, just as a free way to get us out of the house for a couple of hours. The most This is the one i had to learn at school from grades K-1, we'd recite this and the pledge of allegiance everyday. I pledge Allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior for whose kingdom it stands, one brotherhood, uniting all Christians in service and in love.  Not a cult though. My family decided cali was too librul and moved me to loving middle of nowhere Idaho at 2nd grade. Also my teacher loving lied to me when I asked if there were fireflies in Idaho. "oh yeah tons of them". loving bitch.
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Grey Cat posted:Alright everybody with me rear end in a top hat. Father Abraham had many son, many sons had father Abraham, I am one of them and so are you so lets just praise the lord!!! I
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Oh boy Christian kid songs. I was one of the choir boys back around Jr high school or so. Once they had us do Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah but with the lyrics changed to actually be about god instead of sex metaphors.
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Anne Whateley posted:I also went to liberal hippie Christian summer camp. 11/10, it was one of the high points of my year. I always wanted to be a counselor there, but by the time I was old enough for that (college), I was also old enough to take an actual money job so I had to do that instead. I missed my chance to fraternize with the nose-studded, unshaven-legged, French-braided, genuinely gorgeous college girl counselors (PS I turned out to be bi) and to spend all summer swimming and going on nature walks and singing. I went to 2 Christian camps a year until my Junior year of Highschool due to my grandparents each making a point of me going and tossing money at my mom to make me go. 1 was a cool loving place in the middle of the mountains where the Jesus content was pretty minimal outside of reminding us to be good people (as in helping others), and the 2 hiking camps I attended in HS were basically entirely non-religious outside of taking the same bus and being based out of the camp. We basically spent one day packing hiking bags, slept, then hosed off to go hike in the Black Hills for 5 days. The other one was basically ran by poorly socialized fundamentalist teenagers who fully internalized the "nobody should ever get to do anything approaching fun, ever" mindset of their parents. My church group was from the liberal-rear end branch of Lutheranism which is why I never got why they picked that specific camp most years. We're talking basically 2 church services a day. sermons for every meal, and maybe an hour of lake swimming time.
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I went to multiple Goalie Camps but it sounds very much like the Hell I hear you Christians talk about.
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Still better than the origins of species camp
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Colonel Cancer posted:Still better than the origins of species camp Do you even know?
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I think kids should be allowed to come up with their own gods and assemble them into a totem at the end of camp. Every year they kick off camp with a bonfire of their previous gods and build the new totem on a pire of years past.
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Time to learn the hand motions for Audio Adrenaline - Big House https://youtu.be/omoOLhDdTPA
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Overdog posted:I think kids should be allowed to come up with their own gods and assemble them into a totem at the end of camp. Every year they kick off camp with a bonfire of their previous gods and build the new totem on a pire of years past. Ah yes, The Totem God
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I remember back in the 1970's between 1st and 2nd grade going to VBS in some other family's basement in the neighborhood. I don't think anything bad happened per se, but just really odd my folks had no issues of me going there never having met this other family.
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redshirt posted:Ah yes, The Totem God Sometimes the embers last a full year and make a scrolling, self-refreshing totem. And after centuries the totem reaches the moon. A hallowed path. An endless summer. 
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in CCD they had us put beads in our shoes once and I don't really remember why, prob to feel a fraction of Jesus' discomfort, but it stands out as a weird memory to me also went to this camp that wasn't religious, but it had an activity where everyone was in a group and we had to hold strings between each other to represent having had sex until it was a web and then the twist reveal was that so-and-so got AIDS or w/e and now people's strings were connected to them and also just being connected to like 10 other people through one
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I’m picking up my son from his very last week of Christian camp. He finally aged out. They’re doing baptisms so I’m chilling in the Pilot listening to Hall and Oates.
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every summer, back in the day, my grandparents would send me to spend a few weeks with our poor country relations. they thought it was good for my character or whatever and their traditions were technically also our traditions it’s important, after all, to remember the old ways—so, off i went every year to spend most of my vacation at what can best be described as “klan kamp” part of it was working on a farm; part of it was weapons training; part of it was this weird “campground” thing; and another big chunk was vacation bible school vbs is where i got to learn all of the cool things my church back home was too pansy-rear end to teach. i’m not going to get too into it because it’s all horrible insane nazi stuff anyway, at vbs they’d pledge allegiance to the christian flag—although their version was a bit more blatantly white nationalist than yours. it was weird as gently caress then i’d go back home. our church there didn’t seem that bad in comparison, but after a few summers in the ol’ ancestral lands i started to be able to read between the lines we had the same drat flag, but no one ever said a thing about it. there was no pledge, but it flew superior to the american flag every day a truly cursed item
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Dick Fontaine posted:then i’d go back home. our church there didn’t seem that bad in comparison, but after a few summers in the ol’ ancestral lands i started to be able to read between the lines Did they have a weird siege mentality about "the world" or "the antichrist" lurking out in "the world" and how they were gods chosen? Also how did they explain jesus love of all the children of the world red or yellow black or white....
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Vampire Panties posted:At one of the last camps I attended, the main counselor dude had all the boys stay behind at campfire one night. Then he proceeded to tell a story about how there was this big mountain, and this company was mining the top, and they were hiring truck drivers to haul dynamite to the blasting site. This company gives a trial run to two drivers. One flies up the mountain, banging through gears, sliding all over the road, swinging the trailer out over the side, totally out of control but the driver is the best, so they make it to the top and back in absolute untouchable record time. The 2nd driver drives up the mountain safely, stops for stop signs, and makes the trip in twice the time of the first driver. The company hires the 2nd driver. At the end of the story, IIRC almost verbatim the camp counselor says "thats your sexuality. You're driving a loaded dynamite truck driving up mountain roads, and you have to ask yourself - are you being safe? are you going to get hired?" As I read this metaphor: The first driver is hooning around, loving like crazy every time he wants to and having a great time and being cool. But the second driver is being "careful" and only having sex when/if it's right, (so preferably never). Sure it takes longer, but he gets there safely and without the risk of dying or being blown up by the dangerous dynamite. So second driver gets "hired". And being "hired" in this case means getting married to a wholesome woman and living a stable godly life. (i.e. "The company" that chooses the second guy over the first guy.) Basically saying: Sure loving around is fun in the short term, but it's dangerous and you might or might not be blown up by dynamite, but if you are careful/abstinent, then the reward is a stable continuing relationship with your Godly wife and no excitement or risk of blowing up. So, to a teenager, he is not making it sound as appealing as he thinks he is.
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Jambo, Jambo, it means hello, hello So say hello to Jesus everyday He listens when you pray
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BrigadierSensible posted:As I read this metaphor:  also as another goon upthread posted, I'm pretty sure that guy was into that old movie. Either way, the metaphor flew completely over our heads, and IIRC it took exactly .03 seconds after leaving for a kid to say "I wanna be the 1st driver  " I wish I could remember some of these kids names so I could look them up on social media
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Dick Fontaine posted:vbs is where i got to learn all of the cool things my church back home was too pansy-rear end to teach. i’m not going to get too into it because it’s all horrible insane nazi stuff jfc 
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I had to go to something called this but it was just basically drop your kid off at the church every day for a week. All I really remember is making a driedel. We were catholic so I don't really get why that was a thing we did.
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Well, this unearthed a memory. Can't recall what the edible dirt really was.
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Animal-Mother posted:Well, this unearthed a memory. Can't recall what the edible dirt really was. crushed up oreos, gummy worms, and probably something else
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https://alittlehintofthis.com/the-ultimate-dirt-pie/ be as trashy or fancy as you want to be
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For everyone else https://www.orientaltrading.com/craft-and-hobby-supplies/religious-a1-550055+1967-1.fltr
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