Pretending I was in A Galaxie 500 video

[iamnikchick]

As we moved out of the farmlands into the grid
The plan of a city was all that you saw
And all of these people sitting totally still
As the ground raced beneath them, thirty-thousand feet down- Liz Phair, Stratford-On-Guy

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[smalley_smoot]

The one somewhat sour note for me in the whole visit was the intense religiosity of the wedding itself. It seems all four of my brothers have grown quite religious, surprisingly religious, of a brand of Christianity that I can't personally embrace. There is no way as Kate's mother I would stand up at her wedding and exhort her to be submissive to her husband, "like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master." Every word about building a marriage under "God's vision" and "God's plan" and finding "a ministry" was like a jarring claxon;

This reminds me of a wedding I attended years ago. One of the Boy Scout camp staff was married at the camp. The couple vowed to love Jesus Christ above all else and through that love, love each other. At the reception, I commented, "Gee, I remember Michael when he swore like the rest of us!" He laughed. She didn't. She was the daughter of missionaries in the Far East. They met at the seminary and later were missionaries in Taiwan together. I lost track of them over the years.

[anonymous]

I can't lay a title on my own beliefs (agnostic? humanist? nihilist?) except to say that Christianity brings me no comfort or inspiration despite the alignment of my basic beliefs with the the teachings ascribed to Christ. It was the one sadness I felt on the trip.

I've found myself in the same boat lately. I've researched Gnosticism and it seems to be a good fit thus far. Hard line [insert any religion here] always gives me the willies.

Shannon