4404spd
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LOL, Alright i'll keep my piehole shut!;-)You hush up. Those are my daddy's eyebrows. lol
LOL, Alright i'll keep my piehole shut!;-)You hush up. Those are my daddy's eyebrows. lol
Been growing my hair out for over a year. It was down past the middle of my back. It's funny. I've heard rumors going around in my church about me that I am on drugs because I let my hair grow out.
Truth is, I decided a long time ago to do something I have never done and it was a hard decision. Both mama and daddy succombed to cancer. We watched mama slowly whither away for seven antagonizing years.
Daddy was fortunate. He was gone almost thirty days to the day he was diagnosed. I don't think he ever felt any pain.
Mama died in 84 and daddy in 98. Unlike a lot of people who run out and do the Relay for Life and this and that, I went the other way. I shut down. I didn't want to have anything to do with any charity regarding cancer. I wanted nothing to do with any of it.
I have been growing my hair out to donate to the Macon chapter of Locks of Love. I gotta big chunk to give them. I didn't do it to make myself feel good. I think I did it to sorta get over something I never got over. Not losing my parents. But all the hatred I have felt because something happened to the two least deserving people in the world and it flippin sucked.
With everything we got goin on right now......somehow it did help a little.
Well Bruce, we haven't gone to that church in a few years now because of that exact thing. .....and that's been my family church on my mother's side since 1947. So, my family goes back a long way there. I was born into that church.
When Kitty had both her heart attacks a couple of years ago, we didn't hear from a soul there. Another friend who was finance director there but had gotten tired of it and left for another church, got HIS pastor to come visit Kitty. .......and he did several times until she got home and he came out here several times, but we never heard from our own church or our pastor.
We were Youth Directors there for several years. We gave small amounts to the church, we didn't tithe. Our reasoning was that since we drove in 21 miles one way in the morning AND again for youth group, we were giving what we could. We also never got any help whatsoever with the youth. Just 25 or so neighborhood kids and Kitty and I.
Bottom line, since we didn't give lots of money, the church pretty much turned its back on us. So, I have no real use for organized religion. I have a strong faith in God, but not much in man.
Rob said:It's funny. I've heard rumors going around in my church about me that I am on drugs because I let my hair grow out.
It's comforting to think that way eh? And mostly the only reason I have to think mypost was gonna be a little out of line for was the fact that it touched on religion a little. I tread lighter around religion than I do polotics... polatics?... Why can't I spell that damn word tonight?!? Lol.Thanks Matt. You weren't out of line at all.....I've often thought that myself.
Quick story about my awesome mama. My cousins founded what's become a legendary punk band in and around the Auburn Alabama area.....Mr. Resistor and the Incapacitators. lol They are really good. They are kinda retired from that band, BUT they still get together for charity benefits and such. In the late 70s or very early 80s, their band equipment van was broken into.
My family has never had money. Just something we've all been used to. lol However, there is some of our family that does......just not this bunch. lol Well......mama wrote a really sweet letter telling them how sorry she was their stuff was stolen.....along with a check for 100 dollars. ........and she was already sick and could not work by that time. Nobody....and I mean nobody else in the family did anything. That's just how she was. My cousins and I still talk about that from time to time.
SO THAT IS WHAT A REDNECK looks like...cool
Gotta tell ya, Rob. That's one surprising pic from when I met you and Kitty last fall.
...and here I thought it was just because you're subversive.
It's funny. I've heard rumors going around in my church about me that I am on drugs because I let my hair grow out.
I guess Jesus was on drugs then, too.....LOL