Getting to Know Each Other (2)

[RJB78]

~First Name: John

~Age: 28

~Location: Tennessee right now. Moving to Indiana

~Occupation: Freelance writer, working on a degree in computers so I can afford to purchase food.

~Favorite Color: Red

~Denomination: Catholic, but I was educated at a Baptist school and I incorportate some of their ideas into my faith. I've actually been looking for a church I can feel comfortable with. I know I'm Christian and I'm closer to Catholic than anything else, but I'm still working on the details.

~Favorite Food: Chinese food, especially crab rangoons and egg rolls.

~Favorite Band: I tend to like individual singers more than bands. If you make me choose, though: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Hootie and the Blowfish, The Corrs

~Favorite Holiday: Christmas

~Interesting Factoid #1: I've sold a number of stories and self-published a few books, but I'm still looking for the big break that will make me a "real" writer.

~Interesting Factoid #2: I was homeschooled from 6th Grade through High School.

~Interesting Factoid #3: I live with my mother and two aunts. We get along well together, plus mom's disabled, so I like being able to help her out.

~Interesting Factoid #4: I own a small dog named Penny whom I suspect is actually a psychotic gerbil in disguise.

~Interesting Factoid #5: Not long ago, I spent a month making myself a collection of 28 CD's, containing my favorite songs from each year of my life. This is the sort of geeky thing I do regularly.

~Interesting Factoid #6: My family lived on Cape Cod (MA) for half my life. It's beautiful there, but it's essentially a big island, and living on an island gets quite dull. So we picked up and moved. It's been... really, really frustrating, trying to find the right place.

~Interesting Factoid #7: I'm secretly a ham and I love voice acting. My greatest acheivement? Playing Henry Bolingbroke (aka King Henry IV) in an online production of Shakespeare's Richard II.

~Favorite Bible Verse: Acts 10:34-35 and also the second chapter of Luke, for the Christmas story

~Bible Translation: Probably the New International Version, but I like to read from several different translations to get a broader perspective.

~Favorite Secular Novel: Watership Down by Richard Adams.

~Favorite Christian Novel: Can I count Narnia? I think I will...

 

[HolyOne87]

^hi John nice to meet you!
Im not really new to this page or anything..I never filled this out yet..lol

First Name: Kerri

~Age: 20

~Location: New York

~Occupation: College Student and a Baysitter

~Favorite Color: Midnight Blue

~Denomination: Catholic

~Favorite Food: Pizza

~Favorite Band: Linkin Park

~Favorite Holiday: Christmas

~Interesting Factoid #1:I do a lot of things in my parish..from Altar Serving to helping run a Youth Group

~Interesting Factoid #2: I currently switched majors from Child Study to Social Work

~Interesting Factoid #3: I can act silly a lot. I like putting smiles on peoples faces

~Interesting Factoid #4: I listen to music pretty much all the time

~Interesting Factoid #5: I got printed in a magazine called, Campus Life back in 2005 (a prayer i wrote)

~Interesting Factoid #6: I write my own poetry

~Interesting Factoid #7: I know a lot of the songs from the Sound of Music

~Favorite Bible Verse: 1 Corinthians 13

~Bible Translation: New International Version

~Favorite Secular Novel: The Giver (havent read it in a long time though)

~Favorite Christian Novel: Joshua by Joseph F Girzone

 

[Lbiagm]

welcome kerri and josh.

 

[Luther073082]

welcome kerri and josh.

John, his name is John.

 

[RJB78]

Eh, I don't mind being called Josh. I've had two good friends by that name, and I've always liked the story of Joshua.

Now, refer to me as "Judas" and we might have a problem...

 

[Luther073082]

Eh, I don't mind being called Josh. I've had two good friends by that name, and I've always liked the story of Joshua.

Now, refer to me as "Judas" and we might have a problem...

A violent one arn't we?

 

[HolyOne87]

Hi Lbiagm and Luther!

 

[Luther073082]

Hi Lbiagm and Luther!

Good evening sister. . . (Are you a nun?)

 

[~BelovedDaughter~]

First Name: Mary

~Age: 23

~Location: Missouri

~Occupation: College Student

~Favorite Color: Cerulean and Fuchsia

~Denomination: Baptist

~Favorite Food: Lasagna

~Favorite Band: Third Day

~Favorite Holiday: Christmas

~Interesting Factoid #1: I'm the oldest of 4 kids

~Interesting Factoid #2: I'm a sociology major with a criminology minor

~Interesting Factoid #3: I listen to music like it's life support

~Interesting Factoid #4: I love being connected to the Internet 24/7 because at home, we don't have it.

~Interesting Factoid #5: I have A LOT of animals at home.

~Interesting Factoid #6: I love to sing

~Interesting Factoid #7: I don't really look my age

~Favorite Bible Verse: 2 Corinthians 12:9 and Jeremiah 29:11

~Bible Translation: New International Version

~Favorite Secular Novel: Any of the books in The Hollows' series by Kim Harrison

~Favorite Christian Novel: The Redeemer by Francine Rivers

 

[Lbiagm]

welcome mary and ok welcome john sorry bout that sir.

 

[HolyOne87]

Good evening sister. . . (Are you a nun?)

nope im not..but always been told I should become one..lol

 

[HolyOne87]

hi mary!

 

[Luther073082]

nope im not..but always been told I should become one..lol

Thats an awefully big sacrifice that other people think you should be making. If someone told me I should be a priest I'd ask them if they want to take the vows of poverty and chastity for life. No offense but I don't think I'd recommend becomming a nun to anyone. But also remember this is comming from a Lutheran.

 

[HolyOne87]

Thats an awefully big sacrifice that other people think you should be making. No offense but I don't think I'd recommend becomming a nun to anyone. But also remember this is comming from a Lutheran.

yeah, i dont blame you for not recommending it. When people tell me I should, i just nod my head and be like, "yeah okay"(pretty sarcastically) and leave it at that.

I dont think being a nun would be my cup of tea though. Dont know why, just dont think it would.

 

[Luther073082]

yeah, i dont blame you for not recommending it. When people tell me I should, i just nod my head and be like, "yeah okay"(pretty sarcastically) and leave it at that.

I dont think being a nun would be my cup of tea though. Dont know why, just dont think it would.

If you became a protestant you could be a deaconess, and get married, have kids, and you don't have to live in a monistary (or whatever they call the place where nuns live)

Yeah I just think thats something thats an awefully big sacrifice that other people have decided you should make. I mean this isn't like saying someone should be a teacher or something. This is something that you have to give your whole life to. Being a nun isn't a job or a career, its a lifestyle.

 

[HolyOne87]

yup, that it is.

Yeah, that would be cool to be a deaconess. I learned a lot about Protestantism (i took a whole class on it for a semester in college). It was very interesting.
I wish that option was in the Catholic religion.

 

[Luther073082]

yup, that it is.

Yeah, that would be cool to be a deaconess. I learned a lot about Protestantism (i took a whole class on it for a semester in college). It was very interesting.
I wish that option was in the Catholic religion.

Christianity is a religion. Catholic is a denomination of so.

I personally have an issue with the terms "Catholic Religion" and I really get ticked about saying "Catholics and Christians"

I'm in the ELCA, our church has determined through actually having researched it that Catholics are infact Christians. So I always say "Catholics are Christians, we've had that checked"

Our churches have their differences but we worship the same God who saved us through the same Jesus Christ.

 

[HolyOne87]

^yup

sorry bad choice in words at the moment.

 

[RJB78]

Christianity is a religion. Catholic is a denomination of so.

I personally have an issue with the terms "Catholic Religion" and I really get ticked about saying "Catholics and Christians"

I'm in the ELCA, our church has determined through actually having researched it that Catholics are infact Christians. So I always say "Catholics are Christians, we've had that checked"

Our churches have their differences but we worship the same God who saved us through the same Jesus Christ.

Thank you!

One big issue I have with official Catholicism is our tendency to think of ourselves as Catholics first and Christians second, when it should be the other way around. I wish more people, both Protestant and Catholic, focused on our similarities rather than our differences...

 

[~BelovedDaughter~]

Hey Kerri!
Hey Kirk!
Hey John!