I can't believe you read this. It came out a lot longer than I wanted; I was distracted, though.
You know, I bet one day you are going to be a great novelist.
Eh, maybe. I want to do a book of stories about my childhood, because I guess it was sufficiently ... different, you know? But I can never get the tone right on these stories. Things that I think are funny come out depressing. Maybe I need to add funny illustrations.
Man, I can think of so many things like this that happened in my childhood, which you only realize how insane everyone behaved when you look back it several years removed.
I think not allowing women to officially be leaders creates this kind of atmosphere of backstabbing and hatred, where women are forced to try to work behind the scenes to get their way and the ordained pastors/deacons resent them for it. But whatever.
I know, it's crazy! It's almost like what's been going on for the last several thousand years in patriarchal societies everywhere, leading to this idea that women are naturally backstabbing and two-faced!
You cannot empath with my family at all? I think you're fucking up that verb, but I can't put my finger on why.
It is kind of frustrating to me that people can't understand my family. Only certain people from very special backgrounds - and then, I don't think they could understand the current me. You know, the flamboyant, atheist, modern me. So I'm kind of stuck. I think A. understand me, though. ... I kind of want him to meet my family, just to see what would happen.
If A understands you, wouldn't there be a good chance that he understands your family, too? Since they are the reason you are the way you are, right?
I don't understand my family. I certainly don't understand my parents. I understand my siblings, most of the time ... I know where they're coming from. ...but there are some things, like we kind of speak in code to each other, and nobody can understand it but people in the family. I don't expect A. to be able to understand that.
D'you think he would get along with anyone?
He already met Clairbear and my mom, actually, and they got along swimmingly. I think he would get along great with everybody as long as they minded their manners.
I think I would be scared shitless by your family. I'd probably feel totally inferior next to them. ;)
I don't know about that, but you probably would be scared, if you are intolerant of loud noises and lots of yelling
I guess we were lucky that Mom was friends with our priest.
There is considerably more backstabbing at the local church than there was at the church we went to when I was a kid--or at the least, it's more obvious. Up until recently, there were two Catholic churches in town, but then they closed one down and demolished it, and everyone had to start going to the other one. The people who belonged to the church that was closed are bitter about it.
I don't think anyone ever gets snubbed outright, though. That is...distinctly un-Christian...?
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You know, I bet one day you are going to be a great novelist.
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You know, I bet one day you are going to be a great novelist.
Eh, maybe. I want to do a book of stories about my childhood, because I guess it was sufficiently ... different, you know? But I can never get the tone right on these stories. Things that I think are funny come out depressing. Maybe I need to add funny illustrations.
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I think not allowing women to officially be leaders creates this kind of atmosphere of backstabbing and hatred, where women are forced to try to work behind the scenes to get their way and the ordained pastors/deacons resent them for it. But whatever.
I know, it's crazy! It's almost like what's been going on for the last several thousand years in patriarchal societies everywhere, leading to this idea that women are naturally backstabbing and two-faced!
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It is kind of frustrating to me that people can't understand my family. Only certain people from very special backgrounds - and then, I don't think they could understand the current me. You know, the flamboyant, atheist, modern me. So I'm kind of stuck. I think A. understand me, though. ... I kind of want him to meet my family, just to see what would happen.
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"feel with"? German is awesome sometimes.
If A understands you, wouldn't there be a good chance that he understands your family, too? Since they are the reason you are the way you are, right?
I don't understand my family. I certainly don't understand my parents. I understand my siblings, most of the time ... I know where they're coming from. ...but there are some things, like we kind of speak in code to each other, and nobody can understand it but people in the family. I don't expect A. to be able to understand that.
D'you think he would get along with anyone?
He already met Clairbear and my mom, actually, and they got along swimmingly. I think he would get along great with everybody as long as they minded their manners.
I think I would be scared shitless by your family. I'd probably feel totally inferior next to them. ;)
I don't know about that, but you probably would be scared, if you are intolerant of loud noises and lots of yelling
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There is considerably more backstabbing at the local church than there was at the church we went to when I was a kid--or at the least, it's more obvious. Up until recently, there were two Catholic churches in town, but then they closed one down and demolished it, and everyone had to start going to the other one. The people who belonged to the church that was closed are bitter about it.
I don't think anyone ever gets snubbed outright, though. That is...distinctly un-Christian...?
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