hello from sunny portland oregon
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2018 3:44 pm
Hi!
I'm Ben, essentially 100% non-practicing since January 2017, DW is vaguely orthoprax but a questioner too. Three kids, making things work so far, but it's actually been pretty hard relationship-wise (I was questioning / less-active since well before she started doing serious questioning). I wouldn't say my "shelf broke" so much as it gradually faded from existence over the course of a decade, but one of the turning points was Dehlin's why people leave discourse. I consider myself an atheist at this point (DW is *definitely* not), and my politics changed a lot at the same time. I gradually went from a disengaged republican to an anarcho-communist organizing with Democratic Socialists of America over a slightly longer span than my faith change. (the user name is a short form of my Twitter bio: "profit-seizer and revelator" thought y'all would appreciate the pun.)
I've got a crew of NOM-esque people we call the "Rogue Elders' Quorum" that meets at a local pub when we can. (I still haven't done the drinking yet, but I have tried coffee. And folks, I have to say: I freaking hate it.) One time we pruned the rosebushes at an old meetinghouse because the newly-reorganized ward couldn't get its act together, so I guess we have a community service arm.
Anyhow, hmu if you are Portland-area, leftist, or in a mixed-marriage with another questioner and have advice on how not to explode. (I'll probably post in that channel too because it's pretty wild over here just at the moment.)
I'm Ben, essentially 100% non-practicing since January 2017, DW is vaguely orthoprax but a questioner too. Three kids, making things work so far, but it's actually been pretty hard relationship-wise (I was questioning / less-active since well before she started doing serious questioning). I wouldn't say my "shelf broke" so much as it gradually faded from existence over the course of a decade, but one of the turning points was Dehlin's why people leave discourse. I consider myself an atheist at this point (DW is *definitely* not), and my politics changed a lot at the same time. I gradually went from a disengaged republican to an anarcho-communist organizing with Democratic Socialists of America over a slightly longer span than my faith change. (the user name is a short form of my Twitter bio: "profit-seizer and revelator" thought y'all would appreciate the pun.)
I've got a crew of NOM-esque people we call the "Rogue Elders' Quorum" that meets at a local pub when we can. (I still haven't done the drinking yet, but I have tried coffee. And folks, I have to say: I freaking hate it.) One time we pruned the rosebushes at an old meetinghouse because the newly-reorganized ward couldn't get its act together, so I guess we have a community service arm.
Anyhow, hmu if you are Portland-area, leftist, or in a mixed-marriage with another questioner and have advice on how not to explode. (I'll probably post in that channel too because it's pretty wild over here just at the moment.)
