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**pastor's wife** · 04-21-2011, 01:17 PM

I love that song too! It totally sounds like most of the churches I grew up in: people so focused on "looking right" that they are alienating the hurting souls in the pews around them.

supernova8610 · 04-21-2011, 01:19 PM

(04-20-2011 09:20 PM)Mommy2Kids Wrote: If they reject you for your beliefs, were they really your friend to being with?

I'm going to post this to my facebook wall, if that's ok. I'm curious to see what my fundy friends would have to say about it.

**Mommy2Kids** · 04-21-2011, 01:25 PM

(04-21-2011 01:19 PM)supernova8610 Wrote:
(04-20-2011 09:20 PM)Mommy2Kids Wrote: If they reject you for your beliefs, were they really your friend to being with?

I'm going to post this to my facebook wall, if that's ok. I'm curious to see what my fundy friends would have to say about it.

You might want to correct my spelling error. Blush

"begin with"

supernova8610 · 04-21-2011, 01:30 PM

(04-21-2011 01:25 PM)Mommy2Kids Wrote:
(04-21-2011 01:19 PM)supernova8610 Wrote: I'm going to post this to my facebook wall, if that's ok. I'm curious to see what my fundy friends would have to say about it.

You might want to correct my spelling error. "begin with"

I did

Niki · 04-25-2011, 11:12 AM

(04-21-2011 01:08 PM)pastors wife Wrote: Like the marshwiggle in C. S. Lewis's book "The Silver Chair" when the green lady was deceiving them into thinking there was no real world above, I would say, "I want to live like a Narnian even if there isn't a Narnia!"

*nods* I think that desire is what's kept me from walking away entirely, too. For me, I think it goes deeper in that I lost my mom when I was nine, and enough time has passed now (18 years!) that I'm starting to forget her, try not to as I might. I have to cling to that hope that I'm going to see her again someday, because she was my closest friend and hero. I couldn't bear to live without that hope. The few times I've explored it, unintentionally, I'm pretty sure my brain and heart nearly exploded with grief.

05-27-2012, 06:55 AM

(03-13-2011 11:15 PM)chris1000bc Wrote: I was talking to my sister about some of her friends from pcc (we both went there). Some of them were in ensemble and loved every speaker who came to pcc. They were pcc people. My sister was not. So we were talking about how she does not really fit with those people now.

How about you and your friends from fundyland or fundy school? If you went back as you are now...could you stand yourself back then or your friends from there now?

To give my answer:
If I could go back, I would not like hanging around someone like me in high school. I was a hard-core fundy and thought I was right about everything. My friends in college all live states away, but were all good guys who didn't drink the fundy cool-aid.

First I am not friends with any of them anymore. They all dropped me. Second, I would not like myself as a fundy. I was hard core.

Sophie · (This post was last modified: 06-24-2012 10:17 PM by Sophie.)

Some are still my facebook friends, but we don't actually hang out all that often. When I'm with them I feel like I have to hide a part of myself from view. They can never find out that I wear a two-piece to go (mixed) swimming, or that I love the Beatles, or that I have a sangria once in a while. Not because I'm embarrassed or ashamed, but because I'm afraid that if word got 'round to their parents, I'd be deemed a "bad influence" and they'd be forbidden from seeing me anymore. I'm already treading on thin ice by not being a member of a "Bible-believing" church anymore, working on Sundays, and going to a non-denominational Bible study led by (you're never gonna believe this!) a woman.