I think my girlfriend is a Christian! Advice needed.
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Friday will be the biggest day of my life yet in the entire history of my life.
Things gradually started to get better after our argument. I went back to playing it cool as I've been so good at doing lately. It was hard, with the April 27th deadline at the back of my head, but I thought something might happen if I just managed to get close to her again. It's often true that something unexpected comes to save me in situations like this.
We also started watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer together. This was a really smart move by me. Okay, she was the one who brought it up, saying that a friend had told her it was good. But I pounced and suggested we watch it together. You will of course recall her previous aversion to what she calls "vampire crap" so I was quite impressed that she showed an open mind about Buffy. We began watching two, SOMETIMES THREE, episodes a night together. She likes it! Even though we've mostly only watched the first season so far which sucked! I tried to convince her to go straight onto the second (knowing our time together could be limited) but she insisted we watch them all in the right order. I respected her for that.
Watching Buffy also gave me a chance to casually bring up atheism again, when I told her that Joss Wheaton is an atheist. She got angry and said "don't bring that up again!" I said I understood her Christian beliefs were deeply ingrained. She said that wasn't why, she was just sick of me going on about it. But I know I was right. Still, I decided at this point that it would be the LAST TIME I would EVER mention atheism to her. Perhaps it was a mistake to bring it up so often over the last few months. Live and learn.
I also used Joss to bring up The Avengers again, as he is directing it. She asked what it is! I couldn't believe it! Didn't she remember the time I told her I didn't want her going to do volunteer work in a foreign country because I wanted us to see it together and she laughed? I was hurt. But as I watched her enthusiastically watching Buffy with her keen eyes, I smiled. I loved her so much...
I looked at the calendar yesterday and saw just a week left. That was when I made my decision.
I'm going to go with her.
It's the only solution. I'm surprised I didn't think of it sooner. I can go with her, do something special with my life by helping asian people, and also protect her from any and all danger. Most importantly of all, we can be together all the time.
Before telling her I called Thames one last time. I wanted to see if he could talk me out of it. I knew he'd try when I told him. But he didn't. Instead he shrugged (we were talking on the phone but I assume he shrugged) and said "oh, see you in six months then." That's when I knew for sure I was going. Even more than my love for my girlfriend, this was the biggest reason why I should go. My friendship with Thames has been the most important thing in my life, the only constant in my life ("if anything happens to me, Thames will be my constant" I once wrote in a notebook as a jokey Lost reference. He was confused when he read it as he'd never watched Lost) for as long as I can remember. But it's over now. He was a changed man after he had children. Now he's a broken man and has turned to alcohol and probably drugs. I can't save him. Maybe no one can. So I will go and leave him to his fate.
I'm getting excited now. It might be dangerous, but it will be a lot of fun to live in a whole new country with crazy traditions and costumes. I'll finish my college courses when I come back. Unless my girlfriend and I decide to STAY and get married and adopt some local orphans or something. That's the kind of thing I can honestly see happening now.
The sky's the limit.
Things gradually started to get better after our argument. I went back to playing it cool as I've been so good at doing lately. It was hard, with the April 27th deadline at the back of my head, but I thought something might happen if I just managed to get close to her again. It's often true that something unexpected comes to save me in situations like this.
We also started watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer together. This was a really smart move by me. Okay, she was the one who brought it up, saying that a friend had told her it was good. But I pounced and suggested we watch it together. You will of course recall her previous aversion to what she calls "vampire crap" so I was quite impressed that she showed an open mind about Buffy. We began watching two, SOMETIMES THREE, episodes a night together. She likes it! Even though we've mostly only watched the first season so far which sucked! I tried to convince her to go straight onto the second (knowing our time together could be limited) but she insisted we watch them all in the right order. I respected her for that.
Watching Buffy also gave me a chance to casually bring up atheism again, when I told her that Joss Wheaton is an atheist. She got angry and said "don't bring that up again!" I said I understood her Christian beliefs were deeply ingrained. She said that wasn't why, she was just sick of me going on about it. But I know I was right. Still, I decided at this point that it would be the LAST TIME I would EVER mention atheism to her. Perhaps it was a mistake to bring it up so often over the last few months. Live and learn.
I also used Joss to bring up The Avengers again, as he is directing it. She asked what it is! I couldn't believe it! Didn't she remember the time I told her I didn't want her going to do volunteer work in a foreign country because I wanted us to see it together and she laughed? I was hurt. But as I watched her enthusiastically watching Buffy with her keen eyes, I smiled. I loved her so much...
I looked at the calendar yesterday and saw just a week left. That was when I made my decision.
I'm going to go with her.
It's the only solution. I'm surprised I didn't think of it sooner. I can go with her, do something special with my life by helping asian people, and also protect her from any and all danger. Most importantly of all, we can be together all the time.
Before telling her I called Thames one last time. I wanted to see if he could talk me out of it. I knew he'd try when I told him. But he didn't. Instead he shrugged (we were talking on the phone but I assume he shrugged) and said "oh, see you in six months then." That's when I knew for sure I was going. Even more than my love for my girlfriend, this was the biggest reason why I should go. My friendship with Thames has been the most important thing in my life, the only constant in my life ("if anything happens to me, Thames will be my constant" I once wrote in a notebook as a jokey Lost reference. He was confused when he read it as he'd never watched Lost) for as long as I can remember. But it's over now. He was a changed man after he had children. Now he's a broken man and has turned to alcohol and probably drugs. I can't save him. Maybe no one can. So I will go and leave him to his fate.
I'm getting excited now. It might be dangerous, but it will be a lot of fun to live in a whole new country with crazy traditions and costumes. I'll finish my college courses when I come back. Unless my girlfriend and I decide to STAY and get married and adopt some local orphans or something. That's the kind of thing I can honestly see happening now.
The sky's the limit.
You're the first atheist I've seen that was down-right evangelical about it. You're about two heart-beats away from stopping people at random at bus-stops or handing out pamphlets at the airport. Do that last one, I want to see you get kicked in the nuts by Robert Stack.
He's lucky he can get that passport-in-a-week deal. 
MadBaggins in a Third World Country? And with the object of his desire at his side?
I smell ROAD TRIP COMEDY!
If Sean William Scott, Jesse Eisenberg, Seth Rogen and/or Jonah Hill don't at least make a brief cameo in future chapters I'm going to be seriously disappointed. I just hope a beer bong and a case of mistaken identity find a way of worming their way into the storyline.
I smell ROAD TRIP COMEDY!
If Sean William Scott, Jesse Eisenberg, Seth Rogen and/or Jonah Hill don't at least make a brief cameo in future chapters I'm going to be seriously disappointed. I just hope a beer bong and a case of mistaken identity find a way of worming their way into the storyline.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qse_wf57tZM[/yt]
Remember when he Stone-Cold Stunned his cousin and he Thames got in a van and drove off into the sunset for future adventures like David Banner?
Yeah, that didn't lead up to much either.
I blame the change in leadership and direction at the network. BBS-TV just doesn't support its core shows the way it used to. The show vacillates wildly from awesome to snoozefest and back like the S.S. Minnow being tossed about in a sea storm. MB needs writers who are consistent and can really develop the characters to their maximum potential.
You are a true friend
But if you go you'll miss the Avengers?
Hmm, could be a comedy, but I'm leaning more towards a Hostel style horror where his girlfriend is sold into slavery and he's sold to the organ harvesters?
Or it could go action movie, maybe the plane will be taken over by religious fundementalist terrorists and MB will need to defeat them with a combination of well reasoned Dawkins' style logic and Stone cold Stunners?
"I am TIRED of these motherfuckin' Christians on this motherfuckin' PLANE!!!"
Samuel L. Jackson IS MadBaggins. Coming to a theater near you.
Samuel L. Jackson IS MadBaggins. Coming to a theater near you.
You're a genius! Just when she thought she was going to get away you're right back in there! She won't escape so easily this time! Mwahahahahhahahhahaha!
But beware of all these nasty little third world countries! One does not simply walk into Mord- I mean, wherever you're supposed to be going. You planning to tell us? Do you even know where you're supposedly going?
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOil_ht0khI&feature=related[/yt]
Give him time, guys. He needs time to look at a map and find a spot that sounds convincing.
I...I meant...locate just where where he and his girlfriend will be traveling.
I...I meant...locate just where where he and his girlfriend will be traveling.
No doubt this will conclude in an epic fashion but should he end up going on the trip, can we safely assume that the next chapter will come six months from now?
Well, I got my ticket today so it's official! And the church cleared me to work in the country! They gave me a big long scare story first. I nearly fell asleep during it. They told me all the terrible things that could happen to me there, but I think they were just worst case scenarios. I wasn't scared at all (by the parts I listened to.) Anyway, there will be quite a few of us there together. I'll be fine. They kept asking me so much if I was sure I wanted to go and even went as far as to say it was a bad idea (just testing me) that I got angry but I kept the anger internal and only let it out after I left by shouting. But it's fine. There's no going back now, I'm defiantly going.
My girlfriend's suddenly started feeling nervous about the whole trip, the poor thing. She'd been excited about it all until recently. I think the reality has just hit her, that she's leaving her home and going somewhere alien. But I'll protect her. She doesn't have to worry.
Going to go into school tomorrow to make some arrangements and say goodbye to the friends I made there. To be honest I won't miss most of them much. I don't know if I'll ever go back to finish my courses, really. Helping people is more important.
My girlfriend's suddenly started feeling nervous about the whole trip, the poor thing. She'd been excited about it all until recently. I think the reality has just hit her, that she's leaving her home and going somewhere alien. But I'll protect her. She doesn't have to worry.
Going to go into school tomorrow to make some arrangements and say goodbye to the friends I made there. To be honest I won't miss most of them much. I don't know if I'll ever go back to finish my courses, really. Helping people is more important.
Well, I certainly believe that you're defiantly going.
If you were my "boyfriend" and had declared that you'd be joining me during my trip to a foreign country (take your pick which one) I'd start feeling nervous too. Perhaps you shouldn't have offered to protect her? Or is that a secret?
If you were my "boyfriend" and had declared that you'd be joining me during my trip to a foreign country (take your pick which one) I'd start feeling nervous too. Perhaps you shouldn't have offered to protect her? Or is that a secret?
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