First some background: I've been a wrestling fan all my life since I was born. I always wanted to be a wrestler and started training in my spare time a few years ago.
Needless background exposition makes Trekker angry!
I did very well, learned fast, could have made it as a pro I feel...but the problme is I was only doing it partime.
Those threads are gone but I recall your dabbling in pro-wrestling not exactly being fantastic, you vomiting and pissing blood actually comes to mind.
I had various other jobs over the time period and a pretty crzy life with lots of other commitments. I remember one day one of my trainers sat me down and sadly told me I'd never make it in the wrestling business.
He then only offered you half of the take you were promised for the match, told you were lucky to get that much and sent you on your way, right? Then a man robbed him, ran by you on his way out and you did nothing to stop him. Right?
I asked if it was because I couldn't commit fulltime and he said it was. He advised me to get an education (I'd like to say this is what inspired me to go to community college but I actually wasn't thinking about it at all when I enrolled) as I'd never make it in the wrestling world (due to my other commitments I knew.)
Go on and believe that. This trainer wanted you to get an education and "do something" with your life rather than spend it making him rich off your pissing blood at the end of every match for entertainment purposes.
Even though I respcted him, I thought I could still do it. I showed up at shows promoters I knew were running, but I was only ever booked as a referee on them. This was probably mostly because I couldn't compete fulltime and wouldn't be able to make all the shows: if the fans so me wrestle on one show and grew to love me, they'd be disappointed when I wasn't on the next show. That could be bad for business. So I understood it. I didn't like it but I understood it.
So, here's the question: If you were so good at this wrestling gig and so promising at it and potentially could have gotten rich off of it
why didn't you do it?! You could have set aside your.... Well, your... What was stopping you again? What commitments did you have? Scamming your aunt out of her money? Fucking your cousin? Being a "parent" to someone else's kids while having orgies in their living room? Drop your education, drop this Christian Chick get back in that octagonal ring and get to fighting, man! If you're truly good at it you should pursue and stop making excuses to not do it!
Beau was a guy who trained with me. I didn't even know at the time he was a Christian (going back to the theme of this thread, it's hard to tell.) Then I found out he was involved in Christian wrestling shows.
I have a feeling Christian wrestling shows are a lot like Christian "rock." It's pleasing to listen too and overall... alright, but the imagery and symbolism is hard to get past. I mean a cross-shaped ring is hardly as much fun as an octagon.
I always thought they sounded a bit lame, but I atteneded one of Beau's shows once. They told the story of the bible using the medium of wrestling. It was actually pretty spectcular.
That... that actually
does sound spectacular....
The two guys playing Caine and Able were particularly good and could have even made it in a proper wrestling company. Beu even played Jesus at one point and dived off a crucifix onto a bunch of security guards dressed as Romans. It was spectacular.
Wait. Is this Christian Wrestling to the Bible what Star Trek '09 is to Star Trek? Are they rebooting it and de-canonizing things for the sake of making things more interesting and edgier for younger audiences?
This was, of course, back before I was an atheist and I didn't mind the blatant propuganda. If I went to a Christian wrestling show today I'd walk out before they'd even finished acting out Genesis.
They act-out the
entire Bible? Huh.
Anyway, I still haven't finished that letter. It got harder and harder to write the more I wrote.
It's like poetry.
I didn't want to keep refering back to arguments Dawkings had made, I wanted to articulate my feelings in my own words. It's hard. I found I had to keep explaining certain things that had happened in my life to show how I'd come to the conclusions I'd come to and I didn't want to tell her everything about me.
Dude, you need to open up to her more, I mean don't hold anything back as that will always be between you to.
Plus the letter was ten pages long by now...
FRONT AND BACK!
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I might be in a good shape but even I couldn't keep talking that long. So I deleted the whole thing. I need a new approach.
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I went back and corrected it.
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