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2006-09-14
: Doing religion with someone can...
A long time ago, we did this about roleplaying. Now let's do it about religion.
The rules: no feedback, argument or conversation in this thread. Post a single sentence or a list of single sentences, from your own experiences, good and bad, following this pattern:
Doing religion with someone can bring you closer together.
Doing religion with someone can illuminate your differences.
Doing religion with someone can make your differences seem superficial.
Doing religion with someone can make you question their integrity.
Doing religion with someone can make them question yours.
Doing religion with someone can stand in for being their friend.
Now you.
1. On 2006-09-14, Matt S wrote:
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Doing religion with someone can make you think they're a phony. Doing religion with someone can make you fearful. Doing religion with someone can feel routine. Doing religion with someone can help you question the world. Doing religion with someone can keep you from changing your mind. Doing religion with someone can get you laid! Doing religion with someone can boost your confidence. Doing religion with someone can change your mind. |
2. On 2006-09-14, Ian Burton-Oakes wrote:
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Doing religion with someone can reveal the strength they draw upon in their daily life. Doing religion with someone can let you ignore their real-life experience in favor of platitudes. Doing religion with someone can help you understand how your lives fit together, in a big way. Doing religion with someone can magnify small differences into full-blown conflicts. Doing religion with someone can open your heart. |
3. On 2006-09-14, Troy_Costisick wrote:
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Doing religion with someone can better both your lives. Doing religion with someone can lead to enlightenment. Doing religion with someone can lead to bitterness. Doing religion with someone can be fulfilling. Doing religion with someone can change a life. Doing religion with someone can ruin a friendship. Doing religion with someone can strengthen your courage. Doing religion with someone can stoke one's curiosity. Doing religion with someone can ostracize you from a group. |
4. On 2006-09-14, NinJ wrote:
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Doing religion with someone can get you to question your assumptions. Doing religion with someone can make you lifelong friends. Doing religion with someone can put you in touch with your ancestors. Doing religion with someone can make you resentful. Doing religion with someone can give you emotional support for intellectual facts. Doing religion with someone can show you what's behind the curtain. Doing religion with someone can get you dancing and drunk together. Doing religion with someone can make you want to kill for your tribe. |
5. On 2006-09-14, ethan_greer wrote:
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Doing religion with someone can inflict real, lasting psychological trauma. Doing religion with someone can poison your mind. Doing religion with someone can blind you to both their strengths and weaknesses. Doing religion with someone can give the illusion of common ground when none exists. Doing religion with someone can destroy relationships. Doing religion with someone can be a waste of time and emotional investment. Doing religion with someone can blow me. Gosh. Apparently, I have deeper issues about this than I thought. I started this off and it just went to places I didn't expect. Interesting exercise. |
6. On 2006-09-14, Seth Ben-Ezra wrote:
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Doing religion with someone can bring you closer to God. Doing religion with someone can tear you away from God. Doing religion with someone can be very normal. Doing religion with someone can be sublime. Doing religion with someone can nothing at all. Doing religion with someone can be a waste of time. Doing religion with someone can send you to Hell. Doing religion with someone can be the wrong way to think about this. Doing religion with someone depends on who that Someone is. Doing religion with someone can replace the true faith. Doing religion with someone can make you proud. Doing religion with someone can make you humble. Doing religion with someone can starve the hungry and crush the poor. Doing religion with someone can feed the hungry and uplift the poor. Doing religion with someone is unavoidable. |
7. On 2006-09-14, Meguey wrote:
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Doing religion with someone - - can be as simple as sharing a meal - can move you deeply - can be dry and bereft of meaning - can make you a hypocrite - can alienate you from your family - can save you from your family - can strengthen your family - can give you a social community - can lead you to deep peace - can give you insight into how they think - can be a huge and mutually nurturing service - can be really irritating - can give you strength to do hard work together - can make you dangerous to others - can be silly and light and fun - can be healing - can be constant politics - can be the least important thing you do together - can be a starting point |
8. On 2006-09-14, Vincent wrote:
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Doing religion with someone can be how you maintain your power over them. Doing religion with someone can be how you exert your power over them. Doing religion with someone can be a sacrifice you ask them to make, and they do. |
9. On 2006-09-14, Roger wrote:
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Doing religion with someone can be something you don't even know you're doing. |
10. On 2006-09-14, Joel P. Shempert wrote:
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Doing religion with someone can make you feel accepted. Doing religion with someone can make you feel judged. Doing religion with someone can make you feel safe. Doing religion with someone can make you feel assaulted. Doing religion with someone can expand your mind. Doing religion with someone can stifle your growth. Doing religion with someone can raise your spirits. Doing religion with someone can sap your strength Doing religion with someone can be expected of you. Doing religion with someone can be your identity. Doing religion with someone can mean nothing. Doing religion with someone can be impossible to stop. Doing religion with someone can be the point of life. Doing religion with someone can have no affect on how you live your life. Doing religion with someone can help you live well. Doing religion with someone can miss the point. Doing religion with someone can be us vs. them. Doing religion with someone can include everyone. Doing religion with someone can give you common ground. Doing religion with someone can make it impossible to relate to them. Doing religion with someone can make you be like someone. Doing religion with someone can show how you're different. Doing religion with someone can be nightmarishly horrible. Doing religion with someone can be ultimately blissful. |
11. On 2006-09-14, sammy wrote:
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Doing religion with someone can lead to nausea, dry-mouth, dizziness, or constipation. Ask your doctor if religion is right for you. No, I'm sorry, I read this and couldn't think of anything real. I swear I'll come back later and make amends. |
12. On 2006-09-14, Sydney Freedberg wrote:
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Doing religion with someone is not necessarily something you stop doing when you stop believing in God. Doing religion with someone is something you may have been doing long before you realized it was religion. Doing religion with someone is not separable from anything else you do with them, any more than loving them is, or being their friend. Doing religion with someone is what I am doing with all of you, right now. |
13. On 2006-09-15, ethan_greer wrote:
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Doing religion with someone can alienate the people who care about you. |
14. On 2006-09-15, Devin wrote:
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Doing religion with someone is something you do even though you never did believe in God (I don't know, maybe it's not religion, but no one yet has said "Doing religion with someone can only mean talking out our Lord Jesus Christ" and everything I've read above applies, so I think we're talking about the same activity). Doing religion with someone is the only way I know to find out the things that really matter to you and about you. |
15. On 2006-09-15, Levi Kornelsen wrote:
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Doing religion with someone can show you who you are, or hide you from yourself. It can show you who *they* are, or hide you from them, and the reverse. It can do more than one of these things at once. |
16. On 2006-09-15, Joshua BishopRoby wrote:
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Doing religion with someone can prevent you from ever actually interacting with them. Doing religion with someone can prevent you from ever actually interacting with yourself. (What, me? Bitter?) |
17. On 2006-09-16, Eric Provost wrote:
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I really like Meg's list. I think that if I were to replace "Doing religion with someone" with "Sharing a spiritual moment with someone", then that very same list might apply to me. Especially the sharing a meal bit. That rings so true in my ears it makes me want to get everyone together for dinner ASAP. There's just something powerful and magical about preparing food for people that are important to you. -Eric |
18. On 2006-09-16, Chris Chinn wrote:
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Doing religion with someone can be a way for you to reassure your insecurities Doing religion with someone can be a way to rationalize your behavior Doing religion with someone can teach you to avoid taking the personal responsibility of deciding your truth and your actions for yourself. |
19. On 2006-09-16, Brand Robins wrote:
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Doing religion with someone can let you know who they really are. Doing religion with someone can keep you from knowing who you really are. Doing religion with someone can let you see why people need God. Doing religion with someone can let you see why people fear God. Doing religion with someone can get you killed, maimed, or broken for life. Doing religion with someone can make you understand that its all politics. Doing religion with someone can make you look at yourself in the mirror every morning and not be sure what it is you see, or what it is you want to see. Doing religion with someone can make you feel good about yourself. |
20. On 2006-09-17, Blankshield wrote:
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Doing religion with someone can give you a common terminology to explore the universe with. Doing religion with someone can build a common ethical framework. Doing religion with someone can be exactly like any other human activity. Doing religion with someone can be a positive experience. Doing religion with someone can be a negative experience. Doing religion with someone can and will vary depending on you, the someone, and the circumstances. James |
21. On 2006-09-25, Mark W wrote:
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Doing religion with someone is impossible. Doing religion with someone is inevitable. Doing religion is like breathing. It's what we do. But we never, truly and completely, do it together. |
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