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Kiddo75 --- I've always wondered about that tricky Holy Spirit ---why is
that he/she only seems to enter people like this when they are surrounded by others in some sort of church meeting? Like doesn't he/she go enywhere else to "enter" these people. Like sitting on the can or while driving or where ever? It becomes a little suspicious don't ya think? An omnispresent being that only shows up in a few select churches and only enters a few select people. Yet they will tell you that it was real.
posted by
gomedome
on October 11, 2005 at 9:48 AM
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Gomedome - I didn't want to overload you with my hardcore Baptist experience....but since you asked...I asked her, "What the fuck was that?" and she looked at me as if she didn't know what I was talking about. I mean, she knew I was talking about her flopping around on the floor, but she didn't know why I was disturbed. I know this woman, have known her for years. This woman has slept with 5 married men IN that church, before she found "Jesus" she was drunk every weekend with a different guy and on any given saturday night if you saw her, you could be sure at least one of her boobs was out to say "HEY!". Which matters none in the grand scheme of things I suppose, we can all change. Funny she didn't find Jesus until she met her husband 10 years younger than her who had a little girl and he wanted her in church. Which is good as well, just funny how quick she changed to keep her little young stud.
ANYWAY, I'm explaining all of this to give you the idea of why what she told me disturbed me even more. She explained to me what the fuck that was with this explanation..."The Holy Spirit entered me and took my breath away. Every once in a while it happens, and when it does I start sweating and the rush is so great that it just drops me to my knees." Then she cranked the car and we started to leave. Then she started talking about other things not realizing that my mouth was hanging open. The holy spirit? Holy shit! I know someone who had the Holy Spirit "enter" them, right beside me! Sounded more like some other kind of "experience" to me, maybe she saw an old love or something. I suffered no effects of this Spirit entering, other than the loss of an insane friend.
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Kiddo75
on October 11, 2005 at 9:40 AM
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Kiddo75 - don't leave me hanging -- you got to the car and asked her
"Just what the fuck was that?" ...what did she say?
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gomedome
on October 11, 2005 at 7:49 AM
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Hey, that Jesus juice sounds tasty...
where can you buy that at?
Respect isn't given in my book, it's earned. I say that buy I'm really respectful until something pisses me off. But some folks you can just see the look on their face that they have already in their mind summed you up. I live in Mississippi, and I can't tell you how many Churches I have bounced from trying to find the right one where I felt comfortable to believe what I wanted to believe. I take what I need and not what they neccessarily give when I do go. (sorry to say I don't attend as I should) It's a good place for my kids to meet the other kids they are going to grow up with in a decent environement. That's my main purpose. There are so many trashy criminals where I live, I am trying to bring them up around better people. But as far as the service, I have to just take what I need. I found one that I like because the children go to the same school as my daughter, but it's like one of those Worship God's Music commercials. The first time they started holding hands and crying while they sang to the 20 foot screen of birds flying and water running in a stream...I got scared. The woman I visited with actually fell down on her knees crying. Why? I don't know. Maybe had something to do with her divorce. I saw NONE of this coming. And then she walked out of there as if nothing happened. We got in the car and I asked her, "Now just what the fuck was that!?"
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Kiddo75
on October 11, 2005 at 7:46 AM
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