(August 22, 2010 at 2:11 pm)RachelSkates Wrote: How did you all come out? Were you believed?
I "came out" on my blog which is fed back into Twitter and Facebook, which is accessible to everyone I know. As my folks are evangelical Christians and since I formerly played in a church band and was at church at least twice a week at one time, the shock was pretty intense for them. My mom isn't a very vocal person and wanted to talk to me one-on-one about my decision, but my dad is the opposite and "cornered" me the next weekend I was in town after I made the coming out post. I didn't say much when he cornered me and just kind of let him have his say. Arguing with him wouldn't have done any good anyway. They probably think I have been "deluded" or run off the rails by the books I have read, etc. He actually has told me twice now that he thinks I have "read too much," like it's a bad thing. So, let me get this straight, I want to reply: Go to college, educate yourself but only up to the point where it doesn't interfere with your beliefs. I probably could have been more tactful with the headline for my post because I named it: "The God Question: My Testimony." Just by looking at the title, they probably thought at first that I was about to affirm my faith, since believers often use the word, "testimony" as such. Oh well. It's done now. It continues to be difficult or awkward at times because my whole family goes to church all the time, prayers before meals, etc. etc.
Our Daily Train blog at jeremystyron.com
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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