tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post399731534248210369..comments2023-10-04T10:57:51.940-05:00Comments on Defined: About Me #2Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11286219824281974297noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post-78395339658863771412008-03-07T12:55:00.000-05:002008-03-07T12:55:00.000-05:00Nate,I really enjoy your blog posts. Very real. ...Nate,<BR/><BR/>I really enjoy your blog posts. Very real. I like that.<BR/><BR/>I also noticed your comment about my eating on a dollar a day on the Deconstructed Christian blog.<BR/><BR/>If you want to be a part of this, please check out our two-week final project. It is <I>simple</I> but will make a powerful difference for people in Africa.<BR/><BR/>Visit my latest post (Day 31) for details. <BR/><BR/>Blog on,<BR/><BR/>Nathan<BR/><A HREF="http://adollartoremember.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">A Dollar to Remember</A> blogNathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01636854183656773800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post-20663296169038134042008-03-06T02:46:00.000-05:002008-03-06T02:46:00.000-05:00semantics? who's arguing semantics, huh?and that ...semantics? who's arguing semantics, huh?<BR/><BR/>and that also made me laugh, nate. (which of course, just made my chest burn and then i started coughing, but what are you gonna do...)<BR/><BR/>you know the old addage, "sometimes you love feels a lot less like love and a lot more like a punch in the face."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post-54218585514675287662008-03-05T09:41:00.000-05:002008-03-05T09:41:00.000-05:00:makes a note: don't tell nate anything to be use...:makes a note: don't tell nate anything to be used against you later. <BR/>ok....got it.<BR/><BR/>Obviously I was just kidding. It takes a lot to spill out details on a blog and I agree with jon on your raw honesty. I understand your arguments on the phrase but it's just arguing semantics between brothers. Isn't that a rule somewhere - that you must argue about something? <BR/><BR/><I>No just a heavy dose of you are not good enough, guilt, you suck, with an encore of, "I am only telling you this in love."</I><BR/><BR/>This completely cracked me up. Been there!One Voice of Manyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406711453291558817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post-40154836765124358262008-03-04T21:52:00.000-05:002008-03-04T21:52:00.000-05:00Erin, The most sordid is yet to come. High School ...Erin, The most sordid is yet to come. High School was just a spring board of bad decision. So, it gets even juicier. In the next segment, I am going to run through my life until I meet my wife. That poor woman, our relationship before marriage will be the next one. Then after that, who knows.<BR/><BR/>Michelle,<BR/>Not talk to me? Your husband was the one who would not, "going to provide stimulus for the emotional masturbation that people were seeking." Not I got ammo to shoot right back atcha. I repurchased every songle one of those tapes. The Peters Brothers era was my most fanatical.<BR/><BR/>V,<BR/>I agree that all of the hysteria just leads us away from where we are supposed to be.<BR/><BR/>Dena,<BR/>The fear mongering crap, is the fundamentalist bread and butter. I don't know if you remember the post that I told about someone trying to get me to go to church by called my a blasphemous, thieving, lying, aduterer. And that I was going to hell. That was there lead off line. Think any of the rest of it was going to get any better once I got there. No just a heavy dose of you are not good enough, guilt, you suck, with an encore of, "I am only telling you this in love."<BR/><BR/>Jarred,<BR/>Thanks for dropping by. Love those Subway ads you do. (like you have never heard that one before.) Just feel free to join in on any conversation you like. Don't feel obligated to comment if the mood doesn't strike you. I would offer you a donut, but Michelle ate the last one.<BR/><BR/>Anonymous,<BR/>Where am I now. Go to the <A HREF="http://myfaithdefined.blogspot.com/2006/12/to-be-servant.html" REL="nofollow">first post</A> of this blog, that will give you a starting point of where I am at. To get the whole picture. Just read the whole blog. Alright, that is a little excessive. But the first post will give you an idea.Natehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11286219824281974297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post-72341340482674569452008-03-04T16:37:00.000-05:002008-03-04T16:37:00.000-05:00So where are you now with God?So where are you now with God?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post-51866766305465155032008-03-03T20:40:00.000-05:002008-03-03T20:40:00.000-05:00Nate,Just wanted to let you know that throught inc...Nate,<BR/>Just wanted to let you know that throught incredible circumstances R. will be voluntarily going into rehab with one of his buddies. They go on the 15th of March. He cried like a child when he told me...he wants this to work so I ask for that in prayer. Will you join me in praying for R. and D. that they receive dellverance from this addiction? Thought you would like to know that our prayers are reaching God and He is moving on their behalf! Thanks for caring about R.faintnothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09908528929679300814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post-88118704637637994582008-03-03T10:03:00.000-05:002008-03-03T10:03:00.000-05:00It sounds like you've had quite the life journey. ...It sounds like you've had quite the life journey. I look forward to reading more.<BR/><BR/>By the way, I found you through Erin.<BR/><BR/>-- Jarred.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post-78555834132655414502008-03-03T09:14:00.000-05:002008-03-03T09:14:00.000-05:00Oh gosh - I had a tape burning party as well. I t...Oh gosh - I had a tape burning party as well. I threw in over $300 worth of tapes. And backmasking, yeah... I remember those days. Anybody remember Mike Warnke (sp?)? He was a Christian comedian who reportedly had come out of being high up in the satanic movement. Of course he was later discovered to have fabricated 90% of it all but he had a big following for a while. We were praying in tongues against every demon behind every bush you could imagine around my youth group. <BR/><BR/>Oooh the good ole days of charasmania! lol<BR/><BR/>I want my tapes back! Ok... sure I'll take 'em on CD now.One Voice of Manyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406711453291558817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post-84052786426299359532008-03-03T03:10:00.000-05:002008-03-03T03:10:00.000-05:00shit, i'll never forget nate coming home late one ...shit, i'll never forget nate coming home late one night after going with the youth group to a "peters brothers" ocnference in grand forks, nd an hour away. he came straight in, gathered all of the secular tapes in the house, and burned them in the back yard on the ice rink he worked so hard to build. good shit, too. the police, huey lewis and the news. man.<BR/><BR/>of course he bought it all again a few years later when he came to his senses, but that moment really sticks out in my life. i recall it with clarity, because you always look up to your older brother, and it was cool to see him so convicted with something that he would be willing to throw his most prized possessions on the altar and be willing to rid himself of them forever. and having conquered that test, had his gift given back to him like isaac was given back to abraham. to enjoy god's good favor for obedience. by god giving back to you later, with his full blessing, the very thing you were willing to give away for him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post-56631052479279616022008-03-02T23:56:00.000-05:002008-03-02T23:56:00.000-05:00Interesting point, Jon. This didn't seem out of t...Interesting point, Jon. This didn't seem out of the ordinary until I took that step back and looked at it from the "most people" perspective. <BR/><BR/>I think that's a good thing...I'm getting more and more accustomed to this transparency thing. I like it. :-) <BR/><BR/>I remember those "backward masking" days...it was a huge thing around here and we had several presentations in area churches about the evils of rock music, complete with slideshows of album covers and soundbites of songs played backward...because Satan had the power to speak subliminally in that EVIL music and corrupt our young minds.<BR/><BR/>It's no wonder I've been so messed up for years...not because of the music, but because of the fear-mongering crap that was forced down my throat!<BR/><BR/>Nate--I appreciate hearing your story. Makes you seem more "real". :-)Dena Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14287595192101788761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post-31845511250671666222008-03-02T15:08:00.000-05:002008-03-02T15:08:00.000-05:00i guess i don't mean RAW as in broken or anything ...i guess i don't mean RAW as in broken or anything like that. just very bare-bones. no excuses. what is, is.<BR/><BR/>while we are now used to speaking with one another like that here in this place, most people still are not used to being so honest with others. and from that perspective, a post like this is very offensive, and indeed, "raw".<BR/><BR/>loved the stryper reference. "makes me wanna sing" is an all-time classic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post-71487906983166331742008-03-02T14:49:00.000-05:002008-03-02T14:49:00.000-05:00here you go. for shiggles.here you go. <A HREF="http://somethingelsejtp.blogspot.com/2008/03/for-shiggles.html" REL="nofollow">for shiggles.</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post-12676022503919178792008-03-01T22:30:00.000-05:002008-03-01T22:30:00.000-05:00I don't think I can talk to you people anymore.......I don't think I can talk to you people anymore.... ;-)<BR/><BR/><BR/>MichelleOne Voice of Manyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406711453291558817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post-9840683586698942982008-03-01T18:07:00.000-05:002008-03-01T18:07:00.000-05:00Some added thoughts... :-)I remember that time wh...Some added thoughts... :-)<BR/><BR/>I remember that time when I ran into the church mentality that rock music was "bad"<BR/><BR/>I started going to church when I was 21 ... I had just emerged from the "drug culture" ... Had just returned from Vancouver where there were more hippies and magic mushrooms, pot and LSD than I've ever seen in one place. One of my favourite songs was from Led Zeppelin and I loved Hendrix and Dylan and the WHO. I wasn't stuck on one type of music though, I liked it all when it was good. Still that way.<BR/><BR/>So then I meet up with the God I knew was there all along hitchhiking home from the West Coast. Then I hear the message of salvation again ... I had heard it before ... but this time it takes root. Then I started hanging with church folk. In some circles there was talk of hidden evil messages IF you played a rock record backwards. Hmmmm ... so Pin Ball Wizard is evil? About a deaf dumb and blind kid being good at playing pin ball? Boris the Spider is evil? <BR/>IF I play it backwards? Hey, Jude too? <BR/><BR/>My question was WHY would anyone play a record backwards? Isn't there enough blatant evil around? Anyway I decided that these people who were actually saying these things were the evil ones. LOL <BR/><BR/>Well there was a lot of sorting out to do. Figuring out who was real and who wasn't ... <BR/><BR/>I was blessed to have, what I didn't know then, was one of the best pastoral couples there is.<BR/><BR/>They didn't sweat that stuff ... never taught about those weirdy things in sermons, didn't condemn Hallowe'en and all those cultural celebrations ... they embraced love and life. They simply taught their congregation what God required of us ... love was mainly their message and the way they lived their lives at home bore that out. <BR/><BR/>This was my intro to church ... hung out there for awhile. <BR/><BR/>Then it got old ... no longer reflecting the character of the God who loved.<BR/><BR/>:-) Too much of anything will always lead to roads away from the Lord. A lesson we all have to learn. Amazingly enough it isn't always spirits or drugs that lead people away.Valorosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07879571162743027865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post-49643077147753106922008-03-01T12:03:00.000-05:002008-03-01T12:03:00.000-05:00I don't know, I'm not sure I should ever talk to y...I don't know, I'm not sure I should ever talk to you again. ;-)<BR/><BR/>Actually, I relate on so many levels. I was an ugly duckling until about my Sr. hear of high school, where I somehow turned into a swan and all the trappings that go with it. Varsity Cheerleader...etc. I was heavily into youth group until then, when I suddenly stopped giving a sh** about morality.<BR/><BR/>We never moved growing up, but otherwise, I get it. Ironically my husband worked for Dominoes when we met, so I even understand the all-nighters and pseudo-all-nighters <BR/><BR/>It will be interesting to hear more.Erinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01067954787472463337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post-10828141172949871722008-03-01T01:54:00.000-05:002008-03-01T01:54:00.000-05:00If you have them, I am sure others would enjoy the...If you have them, I am sure others would enjoy them.<BR/><BR/>Also for me it is not RAW honesty. Just where I came from.Natehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11286219824281974297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post-46655223013394293232008-02-29T21:26:00.000-05:002008-02-29T21:26:00.000-05:00Pics would be great ... :-)Holy Wildness, Batman.Pics would be great ... :-)<BR/><BR/>Holy Wildness, Batman.Valorosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07879571162743027865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712693260203313540.post-53714173525095552732008-02-29T02:42:00.000-05:002008-02-29T02:42:00.000-05:00i enjoyed reading this. thank you for your raw ho...i enjoyed reading this. thank you for your raw honesty. i love getting to read things like this. plus, it was extra fun because i actually have mental pictures to associate with this.<BR/><BR/>it almost makes me want to post some pictures i have of you from this time period so everyone can see them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com