(January 20, 2018 at 9:29 pm)Whateverist Wrote:(January 20, 2018 at 9:19 pm)emjay Wrote: Probably explains why it never happened with me then... cos there was very little ritual involved in the churches I went to growing up.. and we went to a lot of different ones... so very little opportunity for habits to form because every one was different. They were very eclectic for want of a better word... and based almost entirely on the notion that the church was the gathering itself rather than the building or whatever... so most of them didn't even have their own building, or so much as a crucifix on the wall (as that would be considered a graven image).
Egad, not Jehovah's Witnesses I hope. But I think you mentioned "carpet time" and I didn't think they were into that. Also, I thought you were in England, no?
No, not Jehoval's Witnesses. Tbh I have no idea what our denomination was
Lots of different words come to mind; the main one... and the type of church my parents go to now... is Baptist... but I also remember other terms like Pentecostal and Evangelist growing up. I think the carpet time one may have been an evangelist visiting from America, but I'm not sure; all I do remember is a room full of giggling and crying people layed out on the floor... and my own experiences of having that done to me but it not working for me; I remember kind of willing it... more of wanting it to happen than it actually happening... so feeling a weakness in my legs and the possibility that I might go down but at the same time aware that it just felt like wishful thinking... that I was trying too hard to see something that wasn't there and that if I had gone down, it would not have felt genuine. Yeah, I am in England.
