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Nike
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My dad came to my mom's boarding house to meet my mom's friend. Apparently, this girl got a lot of admirers and she accidentally made a mistake in her schedule that she was gonna meet my dad and another guy on the same day and time. (uh oh)
So she made my mom went out to see my dad. (LOL)
The rest of the story is obvious
So she made my mom went out to see my dad. (LOL)
The rest of the story is obvious
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progressivenerdgirl
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My father was on business on the Dalmatian coast and met my mother and her family there vacationing. They quickly discovered one-another as the only Korean ethnicity people evident in the region, and that they were both of the Reformed faith. They were married shortly after that!How did your parents meet?
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Jordache
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Gee... I wish my parents had a positive meeting. My mom was 18 with a baby from another man when she met my dad who was 29 with a daughter just a few months older from his previous marriage. They were crank buddies for 9 yrs. In that time, my mom raised her son, my dads daughter, and his stepson from a previous marriage. Then at about it 6, I was born: the first of two special needs babies. 11 months later my brother was born. Two years later my mom found Jesus on her bedroom floor and was instantly delivered from her crank and cigarette addictions, and left my father.
Good question helloooo!
My parents were both working at an inner city mission. Took a while for them to get together, but they have been an amazing Godly couple for as long as I can remember.
My parents were both working at an inner city mission. Took a while for them to get together, but they have been an amazing Godly couple for as long as I can remember.
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NodMyHeadLikeYeah
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My dad was in the military and stationed here, my mom grew up here. They met at a bar, and since they were both raging alcoholics it was a match made in heaven They were married 1 year later.
After they divorced
My mom met my step dad at church, her cousin dragged her there. She was still partially drunk and my step dad thought that the perfect time to ask her out. 25 years later he is a pastor and she works at a place helping homeless addicts.
They were married 1 year later.After they divorced
My mom met my step dad at church, her cousin dragged her there. She was still partially drunk and my step dad thought that the perfect time to ask her out. 25 years later he is a pastor and she works at a place helping homeless addicts.
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progressivenerdgirl
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A side effect of Trascendentalist cultural traditions in America, I'll bet. How is it odd that my parents are humans of the ordinary sort?
*points to his Australian flag*
Oh they are ordinary humans, guess I've learned this over the last few years. But thinking about how they got together leads to thinking about what they did after marriage. Or before in quite a few cases.
Yes I went there.
Enjoy that image in your head.
Bahahahahahaha.
Oh they are ordinary humans, guess I've learned this over the last few years. But thinking about how they got together leads to thinking about what they did after marriage. Or before in quite a few cases.
Yes I went there.
Enjoy that image in your head.
Bahahahahahaha.
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progressivenerdgirl
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Right, but that's still an Anglophone church; same tendencies if not as pronounced. Certainly the Ostriches and Kiwis have plenty of Transcendental Protestant preachers in their past.
And I don't really have any issue of my mind 'leading off'. Objectively they had sex, but that's no concern of mine. 'The marriage bed is undefiled,' so good for them.
Like I said, transcendentalism; the post-Puritan movement that went all Dualistic and decided to despise the Earth and the body. That sort of neurotic piety still infects even hyper-sexualized American culture, it probably feeds it, really.
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christiancollegegirl
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My dad likes to tell a story about him riding a burro in mexico delivering Bibles. Somehow something happens to the burrro and my mother is the one that came to help him. In some versions the burro goes lame and in some versions the burro falls into a ditch.
The real story is pretty boring. They met in church about a week before she was supposed to go home to her family. I don't remember what happened and how but he ended up driving her home which is 6 hours south of here. 6 months later, they married. They ve been married 26 years now. How my mother puts up with him for so long, I don't know!!
The real story is pretty boring. They met in church about a week before she was supposed to go home to her family. I don't remember what happened and how but he ended up driving her home which is 6 hours south of here. 6 months later, they married. They ve been married 26 years now. How my mother puts up with him for so long, I don't know!!
My mommy was in her senior year of High School when she did something very naughty with a boy she met there.
I have to say... how do you know churches are like this outside of America? You Americans had your little merchants rebellion in 1775.
In addition - most of the puritan types I believe went to America, while a lot of other reformed churches did not, so to call it post-Puritan? May be a little inaccurate.
How do you even know what type of church I go to? I can tell you that we do not despise the Earth and body... we view things as good gifts.
I feel like you might be coming from a very... puritan? position without really understanding what other churches really believe or why.
Psalm 104 - 14He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,
And vegetation for the labor of man,
So that he may bring forth food from the earth,
And wine which makes man’s heart glad,
So that he may make his face glisten with oil,
And food which sustains man’s heart.
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progressivenerdgirl
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Because it comes from Manichean, Gnostic and Platonic elements that infected the early church fathers. Specifically in the case of the Australians, the 'Free Lutherans' who were schismatic from the Prussian state church themselves were often part of the development of transcendentalism, and many came to Australia (as well as the US).
It's post-Puritan chronologically in the US, it is a separate (though related) movement in general.
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arwen83
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In Highschool, they married when they were 19 and are still married. When I turned 19, I just couldn't believe myself being married at that age. Different times I guess.
Regardless... I do maintain, you have no idea what church I attend or what it is like. And more generally you don't really know the state of churches in Australia... I do not think this 'post puritanism' is really a problem to be perfectly honest. Denying the physical... no, I don't see that in Church's here.
Church's I might consider to have some part of that theology - Methodist for example are pretty much dead. I don't see many of them around, there might be a couple of Baptist churches around with that sort of theology but in general I think those sort of Church's are very minimal.
I'm impressed - though not yet convinced - of your knowledge of the reformation. I will admit my knowledge of this time has holes in it.
Every church was schismatic from one church or another at one point. We are one church though.
I would also like to point out, and I think that you would know this, that one of the main points of the reformation was a return to the sources. A rejection of the 'traditions of the church' as valid and a return to the Greek sources. Aka reading the bible in the language it was originally written and translating it into languages that people can understand.
So I'm a little bit puzzled as to how Gnostic, Platonic elements etc effected someone reading the bible in its original language? Especially consider that they considered the bible the ultimate source of authority. Oh sure there might be a bit of philosophical influence or whatever, but that is just culture and everyone is influenced by their cultural perceptions when they read the bible. I'm talking real major influence that leads to a gross interpretation of the bible. Would you be able to elaborate?
Church's I might consider to have some part of that theology - Methodist for example are pretty much dead. I don't see many of them around, there might be a couple of Baptist churches around with that sort of theology but in general I think those sort of Church's are very minimal.
I'm impressed - though not yet convinced - of your knowledge of the reformation. I will admit my knowledge of this time has holes in it.
Every church was schismatic from one church or another at one point. We are one church though.
I would also like to point out, and I think that you would know this, that one of the main points of the reformation was a return to the sources. A rejection of the 'traditions of the church' as valid and a return to the Greek sources. Aka reading the bible in the language it was originally written and translating it into languages that people can understand.
So I'm a little bit puzzled as to how Gnostic, Platonic elements etc effected someone reading the bible in its original language? Especially consider that they considered the bible the ultimate source of authority. Oh sure there might be a bit of philosophical influence or whatever, but that is just culture and everyone is influenced by their cultural perceptions when they read the bible. I'm talking real major influence that leads to a gross interpretation of the bible. Would you be able to elaborate?
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arwen83
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why does everything have to be theological/philosophical debate/conversation in threads these days?