First impressions

Quote: Pacomartin

Both of you are conservative,...

Am I?

I take no offense, I just always find it interesting. I suppose it the guns and old school values thing? I guess I wonder what made you come to that conclusion, because I also trumpet the pro-gay, pro-drug, anti-god lines, which are stereotypically liberal.

Again, not insulted. I just enjoy finding out the "why" behind people's thoughts =)

Quote: Face

I also trumpet the pro-gay, anti-god lines

Everyone has flaws. For your penance, read the entire "Original Sin" thread...:-)

Quote: chickenman

Everyone has flaws. For your penance, read the entire "Original Sin" thread...:-)

I already have =) Currently working on getting my shoulder to work so I can pay off my 50 pushups to Wiz. For a self proclaimed atheist, there sure is a lot of penance flying around his sites ;)

Quote: Face

I already have

You are absolved :-)

Quote: Face

there sure is a lot of penance flying around his sites ;)

Well, we do have our own resident chaplain/gym rat :-)

Quote: Pacomartin

Both of you are conservative, so the assumption is that you are older. It's not always a fair comparison.

For instance a younger person may defend co-habitation over marriage, but so do men who have been divorced twice.

I've gotten the "you sound older/look older" thing since I was 16 or so. I still remember calling to get a quote on a transmission repair for my 77 Sport Fury (Face, please don't ask!) and I say I forget what, maybe about school or my parents and the guy asks how old I was. He was amazed, said I sounded older and said it was a complement. Part of it comes from being raised to learn to do things (signing for prescriptions at 12 and opening my own checking account, alone, at 15) but even as a kid I listened to the adults talk when they dealt with each other and tried to emulate that. I was never afraid to go into nearly any place and conduct any business transaction within reason.

FWIW, I am not against co-habitation, but if a woman wants to be sure the guy never asks her to marry him that is the sure way to do it.

Quote: chickenman

You are absolved :-)



Well, we do have our own resident chaplain/gym rat :-)

Hey, who are you to absolve sins! :-)

By the way I was wondering how old you all think I am?

Quote: FrGamble

Hey, who are you to absolve sins! :-)

By the way I was wondering how old you all think I am?

Late 30s? Total SWAG as you are hard to guage in some ways.

Quote: AZDuffman

Late 30s? Total SWAG as you are hard to guage in some ways.

Yeah, totally thought you were near my age, give or take a few years. So... 30-36.

Quote: FrGamble

Hey, who are you to absolve sins! :-)

By the way I was wondering how old you all think I am?

Sorry, the absolution is for being slightly pink, only He who is without sin can cast the first stone... :P

I'm guessing thirties, maybe forty-ish. But you rock compared to most priests I have encountered, and age doesn't translate well through the ether :-)

Quote: Face

Yeah, totally thought you were near my age, give or take a few years. So... 30-36.

Uh, the guess was the age of the Padre.

I'm 44. I think I have you by a few years but guessed you were older based on your job and general intelligence in your posts.