Midnight Confessions

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Lanolin said:
I withdrew a book on graffitti /street art and got in trouble with the Principal. I wasn't about to tell her it just encourages tagging and vandalism which we don't want in our community, cos Im sure she would have made a huge fuss about it.
we have youth grafitti clean up crews going round painting over tags and heres this books that glorifies it. and these children are way too young to be wielding spray cans anyway.....
they cant even be sold to anyone under 18
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Spaying graffiti is definitely vandalism. A lot of youth have no respect for personal property and generally act like they are entitled. They learn bad things in school and sadly, in the home as well. I understand your concern about the book but I also believe in freedom of speech. Still, if it were me I would throw the book in the trash as my form of freedom to express myself.
 
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Magenta said:
Midnight confession

I just cried listening to Derek and the Dominos Little Wing, remembering listening to it as a sixteen year old in the living room of my childhood home while being questioned by the police because I had stayed away from home the night before, and waited until my dad went to work for his late afternoon shift because I was afraid he would beat me up if I went back home before he left for work. When I moved away from home two years later my mother told me she wished I had left when I was sixteen. I cried because now I believe I spent the night with an angel, literally someone I did not know, who was watching over me because I was alone and naïve and idealistic and high. Nothing untoward happened... and who would believe that? It took me many years to realize my rebellion against the constraints my mother attempted to put on me had roots from a much younger self who had come to believe that she did not care about me. Intellectually it was always easy to understand and accept the fact that with ten siblings, my mother did not really have time for us as individuals. Emotionally it left a void. My mother also admitted many years later that she did not raise us. My twin brother had commented to her about not remembering being mothered by her, and she told him we were raised by our older brothers and sisters. That in itself was not a bad thing :)
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When I was 16 and living in Detroit I would listen to CKLW in Windsor, Ontario that played classic rock. I do believe that an angel was indeed watching over you. Very sad story about your mother.
 
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Magenta said:
I have always liked Led Zep's softer tunes. For instance, Tangerine from III...


A dreamer I have been...
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oh my goodness, one of my top favorites, that is so cool and now, you seem to bring this to attention, if you like the slowed down blues rhythm, as I do.......

 
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tears of all kinds of flooding emotions, from sublime happiness to earth shattering sadness but mostly Happy, thank you Jesus for who You are and how you Saved my soul from the miry clay of hell, you truly Are Lord of Lord's and King of Kings... there is non above you, your Truly Holy And Magnificently Majestic God All Mighty!
 
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Been a rough day. Not every day goes down the way they should. Maybe I should have become a hairdresser like my mother suggested...
 
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Susanna said:
Been a rough day. Not every day goes down the way they should. Maybe I should have become a hairdresser like my mother suggested...
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My daughter was a licensed cosmetologist but gave it up once the kids started to arrive. I have had my share of rough days too. Really, it's a jungle out there. Hopefully, you will have a little time to relax tonight. My work week starts tomorrow in the early AM. Probably going to walk into a mess at work, per usual, after being gone during my 2 days off. Could be in for a rough day too.
 
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CozHElivesIcanface2morrow said:
I went to the mall Saturday around 10:00 am for the first time in months...I don't know but it feels weird to be outside and around so many people...it feels so very distant...the world seemed changed so fast...it makes me kinda sad...

I was looking for that warm smile coming from the people inside the store...I usually wear a small smile while walking whenever I am outside. Inside the store,market anywhere, it makes me feel good when the people I came across noticed my little smile and smiled back at me, it made me happy...but that day it was so different...there was silence and blank stares...it was like I was watching a movie from 80 years... 😁

I hope things will go back to normal soon...I hope...maybe it will... 🙏🏼
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It certainly is such an odd experience. One that I couldn't have imagined taking place.

Love your picture!
 
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Things will indeed return to normal because the citizens of America will demand it and will tolerate no further unnecessary restrictions of freedom. It is hard to see a smile through a mask. The masks do very little actually in preventing the spread as the virus can enter the body from many places. Hand sanitizer is a good thing though, of course, it is generally unavailable. On a positive note, the toilet paper crisis seems to be abating. The world has billions of people yet we seem to be all alone at times. Sad.
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I agree Sir Tourist 😊

Hand sanitizer makes my hands so dry and also I don't like the smell 😅...so I don't use hand sanitizer that much...I prefer washing my hands with soap and sanitizer is not as effective at killing germs as washing your hands with soap and water...(that's what they say 😐)

Let's just pray this pandemic will end soon and things will go back to normal. I miss mcflurry with my friends already *sigh* can't believe the situation right now 😕 stay safe sir Tourist and your family ❤
 
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The Holy Bible Is God's Breathing Living Word All The Time... Every Thing, Ever Question Is Answered = Jesus Loves Me For The Bible Tells Me So... Amen ❤️
 
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confession, I dont like long prayer meetings
if people are to pray in groups can it only be 2 or 3 at a time cos waiting for six or more people to pray just takes AGES
 
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Lanolin said:
confession, I dont like long prayer meetings
if people are to pray in groups can it only be 2 or 3 at a time cos waiting for six or more people to pray just takes AGES
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agree... especially when we are about to eat
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CozHElivesIcanface2morrow said:
I agree Sir Tourist 😊

Hand sanitizer makes my hands so dry and also I don't like the smell 😅...so I don't use hand sanitizer that much...I prefer washing my hands with soap and sanitizer is not as effective at killing germs as washing your hands with soap and water...(that's what they say 😐)

Let's just pray this pandemic will end soon and things will go back to normal. I miss mcflurry with my friends already *sigh* can't believe the situation right now 😕 stay safe sir Tourist and your family ❤
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God bless you for your well wished for me and my family and I pray the same for you and your family as well.
 
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tourist said:
When I was 16 and living in Detroit I would listen to CKLW in Windsor, Ontario that played classic rock. I do believe that an angel was indeed watching over you. Very sad story about your mother.
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My mother passed this month eleven years ago, and my dad many years before that. I don't like saying anything that casts them in a "bad" light because it feels like I am dishonoring them or blaming them, and I do not wish to do either. I believe my parents did the best they could with what they had and I am grateful for all they gave me :) Also it was a very different world back then. If they were alive today they would both be over a hundred years old :geek::giggle::geek:
 
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OK. Midnite confessions on a Sunday morning. Sorry this is so long.

I quit going to my long time Catholic parish almost a year ago. Instead I've been going to a United Methodist Church. The methodist church seemed close, in terms of liturgy, method, etc. to the church I was used to. The Creed is the Apostles Creed, of which I accept and I appreciate their doctrinal perspective of worship and authoritarian approach to Pastoring.

As brief history, I could never accept the Immaculate Conception of Mary, mother of Christ. There was nothing in scripture supporting this. I did understand why the Catholic church adopted this belief, but I can also see why (sometimes) common sense or popular concensus approaches to supernatural phenomena can kind of take on a life of their own and lead people down a wrong path.

There was a lot more to this that I don't want to get into, like I still don't fully understand why Maccabees I and II and Book of Wisdom, so forth were removed from KJV, but that's another story. There's still the question of papal descendancy for me but that's not what's on my mind today.

What's on my mind is now the United Methodist Church has changed their Book of Discipline or doctrinal beliefs. While they've long held a ban on gay marriages and bans on practicing LBGT clergy, the World Methodist Council has decided that this practice is not inclusive to these groups and, thus, will lift these bans. This has caused a big split in the church and negotiations were ironed out, etc., bottom line being that many churches will not remain in the UMC. The church I go to will remain.

So, again, this leaves me with the question. CouldI remain in the Catholic Church if I didn't believe in many important parts of standing doctrine? And if I decide to leave (and I did) can I go to another church and not accept their standing doctrine?

To me, acceptance of souls in any church is a corner stone of witness, recognition, and growth. But acceptance is not inclusion. Inclusion involves incorporation and by incoporating the practice of gay marriage in the church, would we (again) not be taking a common sense or popular concensus approach to supernatural phenomena (the Word of God) that takes on a life of its own leading people down a wrong path?

Wouldn't I be back to square one? Hmmm.
 
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