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Thread: The Decade is Ending

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    Site Supporter Jay Cunningham's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth_Uno View Post
    I grew up in a strict fundie home. Not cult-level weird, just strict. I moved out in 2000, when I was 19. Despite being almost 20 years ago, it’s still a monumental event in my mind, and the divider between two eras of my life.
    You seem to imply that growing up in a fundie home was undesirable. Can you expound?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cookie Monster View Post
    Isn't 2021 the end of the decade or I am wrong about that detail?

    https://www.farmersalmanac.com/new-d...or-2021-100900
    Yes but people can't count.
    H. Beam Piper started reckoning of the Atomic Age in 1945 AD. Year Zero. So the decades and centuries really did end in naughts.
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    It's not the numbers on the calendar that blow me away - it's the relentless, unforgiving passage of time and the impact it has had on my existence.

    As a species we fail miserably to live in the moment. We're always thinking about tomorrow, at the expense of appreciation for the now. We don't get to do "now" ever again.

    A warm spring day long ago, sitting at a table at an outdoor café with the love of my life. What I wouldn't give to live that moment again.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Jay Cunningham View Post
    You seem to imply that growing up in a fundie home was undesirable. Can you expound?
    I had a bigger reply typed up, but I doubt you’d all find it terribly interesting.

    There was (and is) just a lot of things I disagreed with. Mostly in regards to things we were either expected to do, or forbidden from doing. And I don’t mean actions or lifestyles that are in open defiance of Scripture, I never wanted that - the circles I grew up in just took it too far. I didn’t want to live the rock-n-roll lifestyle; I just wanted to listen to rock music.

    So: when I moved out on my own, my choices would not have been acceptable. Despite being pretty mundane by “normal” standards. And I didn’t immediately sever all ties with a big F You, I just...walked away. Not from my faith, just from the circles I grew up with.

    If you’re really interested, I’ll take the time to hammer out all the pros and cons from my perspective.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth_Uno View Post
    I didn’t want to live the rock-n-roll lifestyle; I just wanted to listen to rock music.
    What a great way to put it. I grew up in a a small town and this really strikes a ... chord [emoji41]




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