"You are NOT an apostate!"

[Hagoth]

I bet you don't take the slippers off then put them back on? Amiright??

I bow my head and say "whatevs."

[Wonderment]

The other reason that I forgot to mention is that I'm a 60-year old man, for crying out loud, and I am just done with the absurdity of sitting down in a closed room with a middle-aged guy from down the street and allowing him to judge me in regards to my "worthiness," and to verify that I meet his standards of underwear respect. It's madness. I think I'm old enough to finally be a grown-up.

You know what's funny about this whole thing is that it's just about someone deciding not to give a damn about people with make-believe authority, and how much that threatens the make-believe authority of those people. Since they don't have any REAL authority they have to resort to fear tactics. "Follow your own conscience instead of us and we'll take away your family for freakin' ever! Not to mention your genitals. The Good Ship Zion is sort of a floating Halloween hunted house where you pay (a lot) to have people jump out and scare you.

Very true.
As we mature, we realize that so many of life's decisions ( like whether to play along with the questions in a TR interview) just boil down to plain old common sense. It is a huge step forward to realize the absurdity of sitting down with the neighbor from down the street and allowing him to judge you, or other nonsensical issues that crop up all the time in church situations. - Wndr.

[wtfluff]

I bow my head and say "whatevs."

Must remember this!

[FiveFingerMnemonic]

I bet you don't take the slippers off then put them back on? Amiright??

I bow my head and say "whatevs."

This always makes me think of the scene in the film planet of the apes where the big gorilla general is going to say a prayer and yells out in his big deep voice "BOW YOUR HEADS!"

https://youtu.be/UFGL-Bz3VfI