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Jesus Homeless Statue

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That's a load of crap. I am much happier in the town I live in now than the one I previously lived in. Where I live now is much better. I still have bad memories of the previous town. I remember being pretty happy in Turkey for instance. That's my own personal thing. I need to merely get away from America to some other land. I picked Bolivia because I think it will be cathartic to live in a place with so many indigenous. Alternatively I was going to go to New Mexico, following my theory that the USA and Europe are a repressive empire that attacks the indigenous globally and that they are better people to live around if you are sensitive and tired of repressive Europeans and their Christian religion.

Goshin said:
You're not going to be happy wherever you go, at least not for long.


To explain why, the following story:


A farmer was working his field when a wagon came down the road. On it was a young couple and what was clearly all their belongings. They stopped to talk for a moment about the town up ahead. "What is it like?" they asked. "Are the people friendly?"
"What were things like in the town you came from?" the farmer asked.
"Oh," they said, "it was wonderful. Everyone was so nice, and we had so many friends... we never would have left except the sawmill shut down and Joe needed another place to work."
The farmer smiled. "You'll love the town ahead then, and I'm sure you'll have many friends and be very happy."

The family was pleased by this prognostication, and drove on.

After a while another wagon came by, with another young couple aboard with all their possessions.

They asked the farmer the same question about the town ahead, and he asked them the same question about the town they'd left.
"It was awful," they said, "everyone was selfish and stupid and greedy and snobbish, we had no friends and were very unhappy."

"Well," the farmer said, "I'm afraid you'll probably find it no different in the town ahead."

Grimly, the unhappy young couple drove on... towards the same town as the happy young couple had driven towards but an hour earlier.



Wherever you go, there you are. Most of the time it is YOU who brings the seeds of happiness and success or depression and destruction along with you.


Looking on the dark side seems a natural with you, so I doubt you're going to find happiness in this world, regardless of where you seek it, until you change that about yourself.
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Goshin said:
Ok. It is still just one woman.
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Nope, the articles say that multiple people have been calling police about this statue. Not just in North Carolina but wherever in the world copies appear of this statue. Its kind of humorous though, as these people sort of curse themselves by calling police on Jesus.
 
michijo said:
That's a load of crap. I am much happier in the town I live in now than the one I previously lived in. Where I live now is much better. I still have bad memories of the previous town. I remember being pretty happy in Turkey for instance. That's my own personal thing. I need to merely get away from America to some other land. I picked Bolivia because I think it will be cathartic to live in a place with so many indigenous. Alternatively I was going to go to New Mexico, following my theory that the USA and Europe are a repressive empire that attacks the indigenous globally and that they are better people to live around if you are sensitive and tired of repressive Europeans and their Christian religion.
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Keep lookin'. You won't find it on a map.
 
Goshin said:
Keep lookin'. You won't find it on a map.
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I'm telling you, I lived in Portland Maine for a while and it is 90% white people and it was the most awful experience imaginable. I was not from up there and it was like northern exposure. that's where I developed my "escape from gringos equals happiness" theory. The further you get from them the better you feel, like a real human.

I hung out with a blond woman from Maine and she was a bitter angry woman, I remember my Ex was from Venezuela and how nice she was by comparison. Im telling you straight up! You have to escape from them. You feel better.
 
michijo said:
I'm telling you, I lived in Portland Maine for a while and it is 90% white people and it was the most awful experience imaginable. I was not from up there and it was like northern exposure. that's where I developed my "escape from gringos equals happiness" theory. The further you get from them the better you feel, like a real human.

I hung out with a blond woman from Maine and she was a bitter angry woman, I remember my Ex was from Venezuela and how nice she was by comparison. Im telling you straight up! You have to escape from them. You feel better.
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So was there any real purpose to this thread, other than to tell us how bad white American Christians are?
 
michijo said:
Maybe you do. I didnt accuse you of judging them by their race. Why defend yourself? I dont particularly judge them by the race, but was only pointing out, these people are in their own isolated world from which their religion is not merely an elite religion but something provincial to themselves. It is their own fantasy, so how can they go around the world trying to missionarize people. Actually, to Americanize people off in Romania or wherever with Baptist churches, when their own religion is not anymore universal than a woman calling a cop on a hoemeless?

It was just a critique of America's strange isolationist religion and its attempts at universiality.
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The people I mentioned are not Baptists, they are Episcopalians and Anglicans, and I don't know what kind of mission efforts they are involved in. There are Episcopalians and Anglicans all over the world. They don't live in an "isolated world" aside from the peculiar small town college town mentality. AMiA, one of the churches in Davidson, is "African Mission in America". That's right, that is not an American based church. Davidson itself is probably more diverse than most because of their college. They are ordinary people, not perfect, but they make an effort, even if it isn't enough for you or for me. I personally think the statue idea is kinda stupid myself, but those artsy types are like that. They are famous because of the statue so maybe they got their message out.

I don't roll with statues and all that, I am a jacket off, sleeves rolled up kind of guy, but whatever they want, it's none of my business. I just get creeped out by all the gluten free stuff.

I will be working hospice over the holidays, and I suppose you will have a problem with that, me being white and all.
 
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it's just me said:
The people I mentioned are not Baptists, they are Episcopalians and Anglicans, and I don't know what kind of mission efforts they are involved in. There are Episcopalians and Anglicans all over the world. They don't live in an "isolated world" aside from the peculiar small town college town mentality. AMiA, one of the churches in Davidson, is "African Mission in America". That's right, that is not an American based church. Davidson itself is probably more diverse than most because of their college. They are ordinary people, not perfect, but they make an effort, even if it isn't enough for you or for me. I personally think the statue idea is kinda stupid myself, but those artsy types are like that. They are famous because of the statue so maybe they got their message out.

I don't roll with statues and all that, I am a jacket off, sleeves rolled up kind of guy, but whatever they want, it's none of my business. I just get creeped out by all the gluten free stuff.

I will be working hospice over the holidays, and I suppose you will have a problem with that, me being white and all.
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Well, many sculptors find themselves with a degree from an art school and work at GAP selling over-priced clothes made by slaves in Indonesia or so. probably after a while, they decide to make a statue that is offensive. In fact, a good statue to make would be a slave working in a sweatshop in Bangladesh, you know get right to the point. Have it on display in the lawn of the whitehouse with a little spring of water coming out of the eye of the worker.
 
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This thread was nothing more than a bash-fest on American Christians from the beginning, an excuse to demean and denigrate a class of religious people, and that is not permitted here.
 
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