Went to the Clarks concert last night. Man they are awesome. I mean so insanely awesome. I so greatly enjoy them. We even took Victor last year since they are pretty family friendly. Glad we didn't this year though. Opening band not so family friendly.
I have been to a lot of concerts in my short little life. I have been attacked my crowd surfers and mashed my mosh pitters. It was a Dropkick Murphey concert that made me swear off concerts all together. But then there was the Clarks. I just can't swear them off.
The atmosphere is just so different there than at my teenagerhood concerts. If they weren't different I wouldn't be attending.
Sadly, there were a fair amount of teenage boys, standing directly beside me, who can not differentiate between mosh pit bands and the Clarks. Last year at the fair the Clarks specifically said, "Please do not crowd surf, we don't want anyone to get hurt." No, he did not make that announcement this year, but I will always hold that as a standard at their shows.
When I was younger I almost never spoke up for myself, ever. I still have a hard time at moments. Somehow I think I am afriad they will relize that I am very small and easily ignored and thus will ignore me or yell at me back. I really don't like being yelled at. However the older I get, the more concerts I go to, the more perfectly willing I am to tell people around me when they are doing things I do not approve of. Maybe this sounds harsh. Let me point this out to you, I am 5ft 1in. Only 124 pounds while pregnant, I can not and will not try to hold up a crowd surfer.
The boys near me spent 2 songs trying to figure out which one of them was going to be lifted up. I couldn't stand it any more and finally poked a few of them in the back and said in a fairly angry voice, since other people had already come way too close to me, "if one of you really needs to be up there you better go in the other directions because we are really short over here and we will drop you." In my head was added "on purpose". Shortly after that they just started dancing and singing and just enjoying instead of plotting.
I know this story isn't all that exciting, I simply wanted to point out that my backbone seems to be growing even if stature is pretty stunted. It made me quite happy when we got to the point of just enjoying the show instead of the constant worry of having someone thrown on top of me. I was very proud of myself for ending the threat all on my own. I have even recently poked people that moved in front of me and reminded them how short I am and how they should not stand directly infront of me. Me in high school? yea... not talking to strangers I tell you that much. Some times I really wish I could go back and stand up for myself, I seem to have gotten much better at it. Plus I am so small, I am certainly not worth the time to beat up, though it wouldn't take very long at all.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Trying to take over the world.
So about 3 years ago we had this older couple stop by to help us be "reborn". It is nice and sweet of them to be concerned about my personal well being. I have dealt with other churches that due to the fact that I am Mormon kind of just wrote me off as beyond saving. Sadly this couple just doesn't go away. They like to set up lots of points to tell you how wrong and stupid you are for believing what you currently believe.
So yesterday they showed up again. They lectured me about how Hitler and Al Capone were baptised so obviously baptism doesn't mean anything at all. And take a look at this brochure of how big our church is getting, we have had to remodel because so many people are coming. ( We handle that problem by building more buildings.), but anyway. I just smiled and nodded, there is nothing in the world that I am going to say that is going to change their mind that I am not going to hell and I am not going to listen to them because I have a testimony of my religion. Arguing doesn't get anyone anywhere. Luckily Naomi came outside crying and they went on their way.
Then an SUV pulled up beside them as they were going door to door across the street. They decided to come back and tell me all about what the guy in the car had to say to them. ( I honestly don't care, I just assumed he was one of the thousands that go to their incredible church stopping to say hi. ) I guess he was a Muslim trying to get them to read the Koran. So I got a lecture about how dangerous Muslims are and the Koran says to kill everybody. The thing in the conversation that got to me was when he talked about how quickly they are reproducing and how everyone else in the world is not. This is the quote that got me:
Crazy missionary man, : "They are trying to take over the world, and that is how they are going to do it."
Me,( I let so much go by, I just couldn't let that one go.) " Isn't that what Christians are trying to do too?"
Should have seen the look on his face. No, No. Christians are good and they are bad so they shouldn't take over the world. We don't kill people they do.
I can be honest. I really do want Christianity to take over the world. I just don't want it forced on anyone that doesn't agree. I do want everyone in the entire world to have the chance to learn of Christ, but no, not going to kill anyone who decides they are better otherwise.
Just don't demonize them for having the exact same goal. OK if they are taking a tactic you don't agree with, but don't pretend they are trying to do something evil, when it is your goal too. Honestly did they really think they were that different when they go to every single door in Butler, aren't they doing their own little convert the world campaign right here?
Then he told me to tell Ethan "hi". So I told Ethan "hi" I don't know if he meant for me mention it was from the crazy man or not. So I didn't.
Hee hee hee. He also looks at me with a very stern unfriendly face and says," You are looking at the happiest people in the world, Most joyful." We're happy dang it. Don't you see just how stinkin joyful we are!? You want to be like us. US! I tell you!
He also didn't like it when I mentioned we were still Mormons and in fact going out to Colorado for a friends baptism in a month, and that I am even teaching my children Mormon doctrine. You could just see him cringe. Hahahah, makes me laugh.
So yesterday they showed up again. They lectured me about how Hitler and Al Capone were baptised so obviously baptism doesn't mean anything at all. And take a look at this brochure of how big our church is getting, we have had to remodel because so many people are coming. ( We handle that problem by building more buildings.), but anyway. I just smiled and nodded, there is nothing in the world that I am going to say that is going to change their mind that I am not going to hell and I am not going to listen to them because I have a testimony of my religion. Arguing doesn't get anyone anywhere. Luckily Naomi came outside crying and they went on their way.
Then an SUV pulled up beside them as they were going door to door across the street. They decided to come back and tell me all about what the guy in the car had to say to them. ( I honestly don't care, I just assumed he was one of the thousands that go to their incredible church stopping to say hi. ) I guess he was a Muslim trying to get them to read the Koran. So I got a lecture about how dangerous Muslims are and the Koran says to kill everybody. The thing in the conversation that got to me was when he talked about how quickly they are reproducing and how everyone else in the world is not. This is the quote that got me:
Crazy missionary man, : "They are trying to take over the world, and that is how they are going to do it."
Me,( I let so much go by, I just couldn't let that one go.) " Isn't that what Christians are trying to do too?"
Should have seen the look on his face. No, No. Christians are good and they are bad so they shouldn't take over the world. We don't kill people they do.
I can be honest. I really do want Christianity to take over the world. I just don't want it forced on anyone that doesn't agree. I do want everyone in the entire world to have the chance to learn of Christ, but no, not going to kill anyone who decides they are better otherwise.
Just don't demonize them for having the exact same goal. OK if they are taking a tactic you don't agree with, but don't pretend they are trying to do something evil, when it is your goal too. Honestly did they really think they were that different when they go to every single door in Butler, aren't they doing their own little convert the world campaign right here?
Then he told me to tell Ethan "hi". So I told Ethan "hi" I don't know if he meant for me mention it was from the crazy man or not. So I didn't.
Hee hee hee. He also looks at me with a very stern unfriendly face and says," You are looking at the happiest people in the world, Most joyful." We're happy dang it. Don't you see just how stinkin joyful we are!? You want to be like us. US! I tell you!
He also didn't like it when I mentioned we were still Mormons and in fact going out to Colorado for a friends baptism in a month, and that I am even teaching my children Mormon doctrine. You could just see him cringe. Hahahah, makes me laugh.
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