Mature Singles Intro Thread

GeekWriter said:

First Name (if you want): Michelle
Location: Atlanta
Children and/or pets: 2 cats
Occupation: Writer

Favorite Color: Lately, it's been teal. Used to be purple. I have a short attention span. LOL
Favorite Food: Gah, I have no idea. Vietnemese Bun? (Noodle salad)
Hobbies: Writing, reading, costuming, roleplaying
Likes: Geeky media (sci fi especially), natural living, chocolate
Dislikes/pet peeves: Dishonesty, people who play mind games

Ministry Involvement: I run two ministries for geek Christians, and am active in my church. The finally just started a singles ministry.
Bible Translation: Lately, the NLT. I learned Greek and Hebrew and went to the simpler English translations.
Bible Verse(s): Psalm 71
Hymns or other Christian songs: Lately, I've been listening to Brooke Fraser.

Interesting Factoid #1: I went to seminary for missions.
Interesting Factoid #2: I was a missionary in Japan.
Interesting Factoid #3: I have one novel published, called Surfer Girl. It is secular, but no sex/language. Book 2, Rebel, is coming out this month.
Interesting Factoid #4: I am a certified elementary and middle school teacher.
Interesting Factoid #5: I love video games.

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tres cool Michelle ! You have many interesting factoids. Nice to meet you

Hi don, welcome

Suppose I should do this since I am going to be posting here

First Name (if you want): Gary
Location: Knoxville
Children and/or pets: 3 kids, not with me
Occupation: Car Mechanic

Favorite Color: Orange
Favorite Food: Thai Drunken Noodles
Hobbies: Linux, Some video games, reading
Likes: Intelligence, Devotion
Dislikes/pet peeves: Materialism, shallowness

Ministry Involvement: Getting involved with some counseling stuff, slowly but surely
Bible Translation: ESV or NASB
Bible Verse(s): Luke 9:23
Hymns or other Christian songs: It is well with my soul

Interesting Factoid #1: I have worked in a dog hotel
Interesting Factoid #2: I am a trained substance abuse counselor
Interesting Factoid #3: My life is a wonderful example of fallen humanity, and God's grace
Interesting Factoid #4: I am a shy extrovert
Interesting Factoid #5: I like to sing along to the Bee-Gee's

Hi BrokenGhost
Welcome to CF

First Name (if you want): Renee
Location: Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Children and/or pets: 4 kids, not with me
Occupation: tech support for internet provider

Favorite Color: Purple
Favorite Food: Pad Thai with shrimp
Hobbies: computers, reading, playing cards
Likes: Doctor Who, LOTR, being a geeky girl
Dislikes/pet peeves: anything/anyone fake

Ministry Involvement: none at the moment, i'm a recovering Christian, don't assume just ask
Bible Translation: ESV or NASB
Bible Verse(s): the one about he will lift you up with wings like eagles, sorry, i'll go look it up
Hymns or other Christian songs: The Old Rugged Cross

I hope I can fill these factoids in at a later date... i can't really think of any...

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Hi Happy, welcome to CF. You can edit and fill in those Factoids later.

Name if you want: Tim
Never married no children. I've been lurking here awhile and you seem like a great bunch of people. I used to hang out on Fab forties until I turned 50. I didn't like being a Golden Eagle so I've been away for a few years. I finally found a group that has something in common with me. I just hope that you guys willl accept me.
Fact# I have been a Christian since I was 32 years old.
Fact# retired
Fact# blue eyes
Fact#light brown hair (what's left of it)
Fact# I take care of my elderly parents and that is a job.
Fact# one pet (a cat).
Fact# I am a fittness freak and I usually work out seven days a week.
Fact# I do zumba three nights a week.
If there is anything else you'd like to know feel freee to ask.
Fact# I'm really kind of shy until you get to know me.

HI Tim, welcome to mature singles. Glad you said hi, join right in. We have been a little slow lately. But things will pick up.

welcome Tim!

We accept everyone. All are welcome here. We don't bash each other's opinions when they differ from ours and we just try to communicate, be helpful when asked, and figure out life from our perspectives.

First Name (if you want): Joseph
Gender: male
Location: India
Children and/or pets: NOP
Marital status: single
Occupation: Executive

Favorite Color: always white and red.
Favorite Food: Not in particular anything with potato.
Hobbies: Music hanging with my guitar
Likes: Geeky media (sci fi especially),
Dislikes/pet peeves: Dishonesty, people who play mind games

Ministry Involvement: I am an active member in my church plays guitar take care of youth activities
Bible Translation: CEV
Bible Verse(s): Isaiah 45:3
Hymns or other Christian songs: contemporary worship Hillsong, Planet shakers, Switchfoot

happysoulrenee said:

First Name (if you want): Renee
Location: Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Children and/or pets: 4 kids, not with me
Occupation: tech support for internet provider

Favorite Color: Purple
Favorite Food: Pad Thai with shrimp
Hobbies: computers, reading, playing cards
Likes: Doctor Who, LOTR, being a geeky girl
Dislikes/pet peeves: anything/anyone fake

Ministry Involvement: none at the moment, i'm a recovering Christian, don't assume just ask
Bible Translation: ESV or NASB
Bible Verse(s): the one about he will lift you up with wings like eagles, sorry, i'll go look it up
Hymns or other Christian songs: The Old Rugged Cross

I hope I can fill these factoids in at a later date... i can't really think of any...

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Hi Reene nice to know you

I guess I am not new here after over 6 months. I thought I would post here so there will be info about me in one place. I like the idea of adding to a post that has been here for years and years.

First Name (if you want): Yes, I have a name.
Location: Third planet from the Sun.
Marital Situation: Older man and Never Married. Feel free to run away in horror but please take your stereotypes with you!
Children and/or pets: No children/have had dogs.
Occupation (current): Science/Technology (a long way from retirement).
Occupation (past): Artist and man of all trades in the publishing business.
Occupation (past): Electronics.
Denomination: Anglican
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Food: Japanese, vegetarian
Hobbies: Astronomy, amateur radio, collecting ancient coins, collecting meteorite fragments (really!), electronics.
Likes/Interests: Classical music, art, museums, reading, history, science, theology, linguistics, talking long walks/hikes, road trips.
Dislikes/Pet Peeves: People who are mean or ignorant. People who are immature for their age.

Ministry Involvement: Pew warmer.
Bible Translation: KJV, NRSV, Luther's Bible (German).
Bible Verse(s): Psalm 37. Joel 2:25 - And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

Theology in a Nutshell: Okay with Theistic Evolution but not dogmatic. Amillennialist. I have a sacramental view of baptism and the Lord's Supper. Just FYI, I am not trolling for arguments.

Hymns or other Christian songs: A Mighty Fortress is our God. Any cantata or motet by Bach!

Interesting Factoid #1: Raised in a Lutheran denomination but now I am going to an Anglican (ACNA) church.
Interesting Factoid #2: German is my second language and Russian is a distant third.
Interesting Factoid #3: Earned my college degree by going to school part time while working 60 - 70 hours a week (can you say burnout?).
Interesting Factoid #4: My MBTI personality has tested as INTJ. It explains why I am sometimes tragically misunderstood, kind of like Genghis Khan was tragically misunderstood.
Interesting Factoid #5: I had flying lessons as a teenager before I had driving lessons.
Interesting Factoid #6: I would like to get an airplane someday.
Interesting Factoid #7: I was a passenger in a small airplane when the engine failed and the pilot made an emergency landing. It did not make me afraid of flying – it was just one of those things.
Interesting Factoid #8: I was in a building while it was being damaged by a tornado.
Interesting Factoid #9: I have talked to astronauts and cosmonauts in orbit via my ham radio station. Kind of geeky.
Interesting Factoid #10: I have sent friends e-mail messages that were relayed by the International Space Station (completely legitimate, no hacking). Try to get geekier than that. Just try!
Interesting Factoid #11: I know Morse Code fluently. Geeky if old-fashioned.
Interesting Factoid #12: There are radio astronomy experiments I want to do.
Interesting Factoid #13: One of my favorite books is Sun Tzu's "Art of War" (more literally translated, War Methods). I have read every English translation I can find. I tried to teach myself how to read Classical Chinese using Sun Tzu's book as a guide and I half-learned how to read a few chapters in the original language. Classical Chinese is difficult and vague and abstract. Fascinating but also frustrating!
Interesting Factoid #14: I once briefly met Ronald Reagan.

First Name (if you want): maybe later
Location: New York
Children and/or pets: No children, no pets
Occupation: self employed

Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Food: Fried chicken but I rarely eat it so I will go with cakes and pies

Hobbies: gardening, hosting dinner parties

Ministry Involvement: nope
Bible Translation: KJV
Bible Verse(s): don't have any favorites
Hymns or other Christian songs: Varies, depends on what I'm going through and how I feel

Interesting Factoid #1: Never married
Interesting Factoid #2: INTJ personality type
Interesting Factoid #3: I'm Pentecostal (old school pentecost where you get your shout on)

Interesting Factoid #4: I am forty-five years old and my last date was when I was in my thirties.

Interesting Factoid #5: I dream of the day when we get to leave earth and be with our father surrounded by nothing but love and acceptance

Interesting Factoid #6: I'm really much nicer than people think when they first meet me. Well women anyway, I get along much better with men.

Interesting Factoid#7: I don't care to have female friends and the majority of my friends are male.

Interesting Factoid#8: I view things in life much more like a man than a woman. Drama drives me up the wall.

Interesting Factoid #9: I love football, boxing, college basketball

Interesting Factoid #10: I truly believe men prefer women who have the qualities that they all complain about because that is who they choose to be with instead of someone who doesn't nag, talk to they are blue in the face as soon as they walk through the door, or constantly ask silly questions during the game.


Single thoughts: Most of the time I am ok but when I'm not ok with it I'm really not ok with it. My thoughts on why I am still single: I won't have sex before I'm married, I don't make six figures, I don't want to have children. Most men don't make it past those three things to find out other things about me. Those are major deal breakers obviously.

Yup I'm in a serious not ok with it mood.