I Got Your Religious Experience Right Here

[alexmegami]

Easter Vigil more or less made me want to do potlucking.

And join a choir.

Is it can be May now?

Also: more stupid conversations with my grandmother.

"Do you go to church?"
"No."
"Why?"
*shrug*
"Don't you believe?"
"No."
"Isn't your dad a Catholic? Didn't he ever take you to church?"
"Actually, my dad's an atheist."
"Well, I don't think that's a very good idea either."
*cue me walking away*

Things I didn't say:
"You know, mom never took me to church either except to see the inside of that LDS church the one time (the Bovaird one, you know), and YOUR SON never did either, so really, moral failings all around."

Or possibly,
"Shut the fuck up and leave me alone. I am sick and tired of your conservatism, and I dread having to live here because my 'job' after school will be an internship for however long. Please, God, please let me be hired within a week."

I also fully recognize the irony in appealing to God for such a thing. While I'm at it, can I have a smiting?

Dear Serena and/or Jason,

We should move in together downtown when I have money. For great justice.

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[changeinwatrloo.livejournal.com]

As a non-religious person I can assert with absolute certainty that God does not want you to be preached at, unless you like being preached at.

[safti]

My little coffin necklace, which has a cross on it, incited my stepfather's mum to ask me if I wanted to come to the Easter service with her two weekends ago. I've worn it for almost a year solid now, and so when I looked at her with an expression of "Where the fuck did that come from?" she gestured and told me that there was a lovely cross around my neck. (Apparently this is the first time she's noticed it. *rolls eyes*)

I showed her the innards - the little skeleton inside - and she seemed nonplussed; finally she seemed to give up after asking if I wanted her to save me a palm for Palm Sunday and I replied, rather testily, that it would be best if she didn't.

I don't do well with religious banter, and I've always been a little concerned that the coffin might result in such a conversation, so I accosted one of my mum's friends and asked her if I'd ever given her the impression that I was even vaguely Christian, and she snorted, put an arm around me, and said, "You're your mother's daughter," which made me feel better.

Apparently my step-grandmother is under the impression that no news is good news and that if you're not against her, you're on her side, and therefore my mother - who consented to being married in a church but has otherwise given no indication whatsoever of her actual religious leanings - is Christian, and the rest of the family is at least vaguely.

That long-winded comment was basically me lending my condolences. I can't imagine how much it would suck to LIVE with someone like that.

[adagioweapon.livejournal.com]

I find it's best to either claim to be part of a splinter cult or a Satanist, depending on how rational the person is about this. When you identify as part of a heresy, a lot of people are willing to let it go out of fear that you'll go fanatic on them.

[alexmegami]

See, I don't mind religious banter (see: Easter Vigil), but my grandmother is... yes.

*snort* It's pretty bad.

[macamhaoilein.livejournal.com]

"...and I dread having to live here because my 'job' after school will be an internship for however long. Please, God, please let me be hired within a week."

Dear Serena and/or Jason,

We should move in together downtown when I have money. For great justice.

I might be a long shot, but I have friends who live in the GTA who might be ok with having a roomate over the summer. The pro's would be location (likely Mississauga/Brampton/possibly Toronto), and landlords that are gamers, movie (horror) buffs, and either pagan or atheist.

Just a thought.

[(Anonymous)]

She needs it to be free, is the problem. Interns are paid in experience!

[macamhaoilein.livejournal.com]

Who is this?! Show yourself, I say! Come out from behind that curtain!! ;)

[macamhaoilein.livejournal.com]

Free eh? There be the rum. But she does suggest moving in with others when she has money which I thought ment over the summer. Could mean when she's done the internship. I don't know.

Suffice it to say, my longshot offer still stands, for what its worth.

PS: Isn't it fun talking about Alex in the third person? ;)

[alexmegami]

*shakes fist from behind the window*

Thanks for the offer, but don't worry about it. In the end, if I can't get a place with people I know, I can always move back home for a bit.

[shugahkitty.livejournal.com]

ohh alex: your responses--crack me UP! could not stop laughing.
TV is made for you. now disseminate, disseminate, and stamps of approval all round.

AND #2: YES, let's move in together! preferably the three of us. we will have mad crazy orgy sex daily. oh. did i say that out loud? sorry.

[alexmegami]

Orgies are yay!