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Hi Andrea, just thought I'd say hello since you stopped by my blog. Hope you enjoyed your stay.

I have really enjoyed our talk. I am heading to work now. I will be back on mindsay tommorrow afternoon or night.

I really like talking to you.

Yes, it's 6 AM here and I still have yet to sleep. Having the summer off has really messed with my sleep schedule. haha. But I hope you have a good day at work and that your family visit is both safe and enjoyable!

And I enjoy our conversations as well!

I hope you don't get angry with me when yopu read this. I love your blogs and agree with them 95% but not 100%.
I really agree on your post on Jews vs christians. However there are some Christians who are kind, compassionate and do not desire to convert others. While the church is pretty shitty overall there is some good there. There are also evil people outside of the church. I was abused in a church and have seen horrid things there I just don't want to throw all my friends or all Christs teachings away.

I dont know what I believe about God and don't even consider that all that important. I consider being caring and creative to be most important.

Now here is the part that nmay throw you. I am a former clergyman who retired at 28. Youngest ever to quit in the province I had lived in. I thought the church got in the way of me lkving with full compassion with my children. I refused to try and convert people I just wanted to present ideas to people to think about. I still do but I am a blogger not a preacher and a seeker not someone who calls himself saved.  Am i seeking god. i dont think so  I am seeking to be all that I can be. I talk to you on your wiki page becuase I hate the way other commenters might attack us for this conversation. 

I hope you stay on Mindsay even if you move to Germany. I like to think of Mindsay as Heartsay.

If you don't see me respond for a couple of days it is because I am going to see my family. I will be back tuesday night for sure.

Ray

No I agree. Not all Christians are like the ones I have described in my blog, which is why I said most Christians. Its just I have come across a lot more unaccepting Christian people than any other religion. Thanks for the reply. 

So have I by far. 

I could tell you some hiorrid stories, I heard some last night with the first of what I called  in my blog my
latest interoggation. How those people who heard me tell my story could expect I would go to their church blows my mind.

I'm all for religion and believing in God if it helps you out. But once it goes past that point and people start singling you out for having a different opinion than theirs is what makes me upset. I embrace all different opinions and beliefs. For if we all thought the same, there would never be any world or moral progress. Its the differences in our ideas that allows for us to keep moving up to a better understand of each other and the world.

You are totally right with that. I once did a blog on my idea of what I considered a sacred modern place. It is a coffee house where people share food and drink and their gifts with one another. To bring our two conversations together i used casettes in all kinds of ways when i was a minister. I taught teenagers how to make sound recordings and then we would make tapes for shut ins of their favorite readings and talking books. We would even record messages from one shut in to another. I belived voice was healing not in a mystical sense but because of its power to invoke memories and hope. I have no TV but took the money i would have spent on cable and got broadband. i download music and interviews from all over the world.  In my  eyesthefuture blog I have links for public radio worlwide. I will send you a link for a fascinating show out of Australia whuch records sounds on a different theme each week. I have no idea why this is purple.  Where are you going to school.?

Coffee houses, local ones, not the Starbucks crap haha, always evoke a sense of peacefulness and calm to me. They're just a good place to relax and meet new and interesting people. As for where I'm going to school, it will be at Ball State Univ in Indiana. 

Only local ones. Starbucks is like Walmart and all those other chains. In the one i frequent not only do they roast their coffee there but the owner visits the famers in Guatemala in the winter abnd buys direct curring out the big companies. Starbicks coffee is so strong you can really catch the taste.  I am against chains of all kinds. I work for a hudge store and they just screw us workers.

Yep. My sister works for Starbucks. She got a 10,000 scholarship and why she isnt using it to get an education and get out of that crappy capitalistic company is beyond me. But I guess if thats what she wants, theres nothing I can say.

The local coffee shop here in my town is cool because they're a mom and pop shop and they also have open mic nights and let local bands put on shows there occasionally, promoting community affairs. Thats what I like about these types of establishments. They put in the "unity" in community lol.

My sister was the same way massive scholarships and didn't use them.
AThankfully my kids used the small ones they got. \
I blew mty education going to the "Born Again" school then changing  my beliefs.
But I could never change back.
I only make 25 cents above min wage and am 55 years old.

Mindsay has given me a place to still be creative.
That and being a grandfather.

I screwed up during my high school years, slacked off and didn't really give a crap about being an honor student or any of that. I didn't think I was going to try to go to college, and thus, I didn't try hard to get the grades or take the classes to have a good high school resume for college. Now that I found something I would actually invest time and money in, I regret not trying harder.

I'm not even employed at the moment. Ah, to be 18 and still under the wing of mommy and daddy haha. I would have a job but I'm moving to Indiana at the end of Sept. (i live in Nevada currently) and feel it would be silly to get a job just to have to quit in a few weeks. What is the minimum wage in Canada? And, excuse me if this is a rather stupid question, what kind of currency do you use in Canada? lol

Drea - I can't answer your message to me, as you have me blocked now...Ubu

I didn't block you...I just set my blog entry to online contacts instead of everyone...

Aha!  I totally understand, because I screen my blog.  I'll add you as a friend now.  Just back from our local accordion festival - our yearly event.  Love those punk accordions and zydeco. 

Damn, I love me some Andrea.