| Author | Message | ||
| Sherry |
I spent almost 30 years as an Adventist and attended SDA schools. I remember once in Academy I ran down the "blue" sidewalk, made an imaginary pistol with my hand and shot down all those nasty sperms that were flying in the air - ready to attack one of us girls! When I left the church in 1976, it took me 2 years of not attending any church at all before I could go to a "Sunday church." Praise God I was able to make that leap! | ||
| maggieb |
After a particularly emotional "Week of Prayer", the girls in the dorm were extremely wrought up about the Devil. (We had the usual, standard-issue, dorm story about the Ouiji board that someone had used in the dorm, and that had flown out of their hands and into the wall, to permanently "haunt" us.) On the Saturday night ending "Week of Prayer", at the stroke of midnight (I kid you not) the mirror fell off our wall and landed in the middle of our room. In addition, my roomate swore that, at the same time, the curtains stood straight out from the wall. We enjoyed a week of entertaining hysteria from that incident, and required pastoral counseling to settle us down. Maggie | ||
| Susan |
There are many SDA's who I believe are saved. (even if they can't say it themselves!) Ever wonder what death must be like for them? You know, they're just hanging out in the ground until the 2nd coming. Then all of a sudden, they're in the presence of God. Wow! I bet that really freaks them out. I would love to just once, be on the other side to see this happen. You probablly think I'm crazy. I just have to smile sometimes, when I think of deceased/SDA loved ones who've been gloriously reunited with almighty God. What a shocker! | ||
| David |
The thing that always brought out the inconsistency and total irrationality of the SDA church was its ban on wedding rings. I remember the explanation that the pastor gave us when my wife brought the subject up just prior to our joining the denomination. He said that the wedding ring, instead of the pledge of fidelity that we thought it to be, was actually a symbol of a woman's sexual experience. The more I thought about this explanation, given the fact that we had two boys who went everywhere with us, the more contradictory it became. Finally, I realized, given this reason, that every SDA must start leaving the kids at home so their "sexual experience" would not unduly prejudice the public. I remember my wife telling me disgustedly how people would look at her in the store as she shopped with two small boys following her around and how the fact that the presense of the boys and the lack of the wedding ring seemed to refute the SDA argument concerning it. Isn't religion grand?' | ||
| jtree |
I want to say, from a husband of an adventist. When I met my wife, she cooked for me the most delicious tasting pork spare ribs, the spices, as she is Korean, she cooked this for me, a few times afterwords, then about 2 years into our relationship, she got involved with some Koreans in Berrien Springs, who happen to also be of the SDA. They were teaching her this 5 week course the SDA evangelism. Cramming it down her, next thing I know she is telling me, no more pork ribs. Anyways I was always in more favor of beef ribs vs. pork ribs, not because of "the excuses". Now I am not able to enjoy the pork ribs any longer. She don't cook for me at all any more. | ||
| Bill Thompson |
jtree, Would I be going out on a limb to suggest that the "honeymoon" has been over ever since your wife became a SDA? Just wait till she adopts EGW's distorted views against sex, even in marriage, except for having babies. | ||
| Allenette |
HI BILL (and jtree): I noticed that the above posts are NOW in a "Just Joking, folks" folder? While reading these posts CAN make a body laugh, I'm not so sure they are funny. SDA has a way of taking the most basic, human responses, and twist them into something evil or nasty. Going from SDA to living in the real world can be likened to leaving "The Truman Show" or maybe even "Pleasantville". You start seeing that everything normal, everyday, "worldly" people enjoy and take for granted, has been replaced with the SDA version of everything from food to thoughts. For those of us who have left, ESPECIALLY if SDA was what we were born into and raised in, sometimes it was difficult to decide where to draw the line -- what to replace and what to leave out. Getting rid of the guilt for going to a movie!! Getting rid of the guilt for enjoying a Pepsi! Getting rid of the guilt for _________ insert "sin" here. A lot of us have had a tough mental, emotional, not to mention, spiritual (if we still are) "row to hoe" and when we talk about the above stuff, sometimes we are laughing to keep from crying. Allenette :-) |
