That's the one. She didn't know it was gonna be hot.

She was a member of the www.deffstrings.com forum.

ADD:

• the way sickness ALWAYS pops up on a friday to ruin your weekend, or on a monday to make your work day even MORE miserable.
• When ppl don't like you, but they have ABSOLUTELY no [good] reason.

i ran into an old old friend recently, so a certain thing that pisses me off is still fresh in the mind. it's actually a story (very much a sob story), so if you don't feel like readin it, here's the gist: people like stadric tick me off.

i moved to glendale, CA when i was 14.. new community, new school, new everything. upon walking into the counseling office of my new school on my first day, i found someone else starting her first day as well. stephanie. contrary to how it normally goes with me and other people, we totally clicked. we had 3 classes together and hung out at snack/lunch etc.. so when her parents began working after school, she needed somewhere to go where there would be a parent. she immediately suggested my house.

for months she walked home with me after school, waiting for her parents to pick her up. we were best friends.. well i thought we were. apparently she thought we were more.. but i digress. we often went out to see PG movies and eat panda express at the local mall.. and sometime in the arrangements between rides, my father and her father had a longer talk than usual. he learned some things about her father. stephanie's family was scientologist.. mine was christian. actually it was more like my father was going through a "repent or burn" phase, and saw it necessary to exercise his religious intolerance whenever he could. he told stephanie's parents that she couldn't come over after school anymore.

after school the following day, we met where we normally do to walk home. this time, though, she was upset about something.. her parents told her about what happened, but i had no idea. she wouldn't tell me why, but she wanted me to come to her house instead of her coming to mine. i questioned over and over unto why.. until i finally got a "if we're going to make this work --". at that point i said i had to go. i turned around and without a look back i walked home. there are few things i whole-heartedly regret. that action is one of those things. ..i didn't realize how much she meant to me until days went by with her hanging out with someone else at snack and lunch.. and avoiding talking to me in class. my chances with someone as great as her, even with the once upon a time-esque meeting, were flushed down the s**tter. and why? because my father thought scientology was some sort of plague that i would catch from her.

imho, lumping scientologists together and saying they tick you off is the same as saying "christians tick me off" or "jews piss me off". it's just as wrong. orph, even your constant prejudgments of young people tick me off. not all scientologists are the same, and not all young people are the same.

It always makes me sad to hear a story like that. I want to let everyone know that Bewbies is right. Not all scientologists are "like that." And not all Christians are like that either. We are supposed to love everyone no matter what. "Pray for those who hate/persecute you."

Unfortunately, people only see the negative side of any religion. Most religions give people moral guidelines that it is mandatory that they follow. Most people today don't want to have to take responsibility for thier actions and so they want to think that everything they are doing is okay, so they have to invalidate anything that says that what they are doing is wrong, including religions. All they have to do to feel better about themselves is to label Christians as "Hating Nazis" and Scientologists as "Doofs."

Well, there's ALWAYS a bunch of people who make ANY group of people look bad/stupid/hateful. People take this bad bunch and generalize the whole group so that they don't have to feel guilty. THAT is what ticks me off.

2 Tim 4: 2-4 (NIV) Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

Bewbies and everyone else: Please don't think that all Christians are like the ones they always show on TV. The ones who always seem so hateful. Anybody who is a TRUE Christian, is loving, and forgiving and does not shun or descriminate because another person's religion is different or newer than thier own.

Fatstrings: We've been through this before. The verse above says "Correct, Rebuke and Encourage." and sometimes correcting and rebuking cannot be done with sugar-coating. Now, you'll say "what happened to encouraging?" But you can only encourage people who are doing the right thing to begin with.

intolerance.....you punched it right in the snoot andrei... " SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">

Doc B

HEY! lay off the big trucks, you little... no-hunter-not-liking-country-music.. guy...

dang.. that sounded so much better in my mind...

Oh yeah, I agree that in some cases, rebuking is not what is needed, but its the same with every other method. Each case has its own solution. Just like the computers you fix in class.