tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295871696739737161.post148906310516834114..comments2024-01-24T03:22:47.332-08:00Comments on The Prodigal Jon: Strippers, brain science and why some of your friends suck.Prodigal Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04395761117304091672noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295871696739737161.post-33662625387840739732008-01-11T05:04:00.000-08:002008-01-11T05:04:00.000-08:00a few notes about this one.a) I'm just now reading...a few notes about this one.<BR/>a) I'm just now reading it.<BR/>b) In the months between my long time girlfriend and my current wife I went crazy. I hung with strippers and I was the total gym guy. I tried to pack the "college experience" I missed into as short of a time as possible. There is something sureal about going to a strip club, talking taxes with a girl covered in tattoos who is undressing on your lap, then going to her house afterwards to drink apple juice and play cards til 7 in the morning. But that was me. I was "that guy". I actually applied to work at the strip club. For years I so self concsious about myself that when I had the bachelor freedom I decided that I would only care about what was on the ouside. The girls/guys I hung with felt the same way and it was great, until I realized that I was empty inside and finincially I was on a path of living with my parents again and losing almost everything I own. I quickly changed.<BR/>c) Depending on the people I'm around I find myself talking like them. When I'm home I have a deep southern accent. When I'm with people that are "urban" I take on that persona. I get all "techie" when at work some times, and when in the presence of "suits", I talk real big. It's all in who I'm around I reckon. I try to curb that, but it doesn't always work.<BR/><BR/>That's my take!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295871696739737161.post-79583771602550398022008-01-03T23:54:00.000-08:002008-01-03T23:54:00.000-08:00i would agree whole-heartedly with this... having ...i would agree whole-heartedly with this... having also heard the common phrases that mean this same basic thing...<BR/><BR/>interestingly, it hits home to me, because over the last several years i have had to distance myself from specific friends because of the way it affected the way i behaved. these were Christians, safe right? NO, not necessarily. in fact, the truths that freed me to make these separations were the admonitions in the Bible not to ABIDE where unholiness abides. <BR/><BR/>If you find that you are more short tempered with your children after being with another person and their kids - and absorbing their parenting styles - this cannot be honoring to God. <BR/><BR/>If you find that you are dissatisfied with your spouse after being with a friend that is dissatisfied with their spouse, this does not honor God. <BR/><BR/>If you find that you want to talk bad about people... the list goes on and on.It is so hard to live a life above reproach, you do not help yourself live a holy life by ABIDING with unholiness...<BR/><BR/>so- all of that to say, i agree, and watch out for bad mirrors? wait... maybe i'm confused about the science! no... aaaahhhh...robyn blaikie collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15941994535643099431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295871696739737161.post-48343114843564629282008-01-03T06:20:00.000-08:002008-01-03T06:20:00.000-08:00I'm going to perhaps have to read this post severa...I'm going to perhaps have to read this post several times. My head is abuzz. There's definitely something I'm supposed to "get" from this - something that I think I've been waiting for. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com