Bilious Potash P.I.
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- Posted: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:11:07 +0000
"So I've got a friend, right? Real desprate for dames... a real push-over when it comes to them too."
I lit another cig.
"Anyway, for a year prior to this event, he'd always tell me he was Atheist... cold hard logic, that was his game. I, being strictly 'sorda-kinda-christain myself, always wondered how my friend would end up."
I licked my lips to the story.
"Then my very sentimental friend gets a letter from another friend of his. Girl she is, cute too. Poor friend-o-mine can't help himself from instantly wanting to live with this person for the rest of his life... assuming she even likes him."
I shook my head.
"Well anyway, she tells him he's a perfect guy and she really wishes she could go out with him but for one major issue: She's Egyptian Coptic... they tend to have arranged marrages anyway... and she doesn't have much choice in the matter. Heck, she couldn't even think about him because he's not Coptic at all!"
I flicked away my cig.
"Well, that's no problem.... a week later my friend declairs that he is now Coptic... he's learned all the rules and is ready to practice. He even goes to the church she does (Though, not WITH her because the men and the women can't talk with eachother."
I wall of texted.
"Well, turns out that she... and everyone else... doesn't believe he really wants to be Coptic or even Christan for that matter, just that he's doing it for her. She tells him to go away... hates him for even hanging out with her and tells him to not even go to her graduation."
I lit another cig and spoke around it.
"Now whenever I bring it up... once every couple of months... my friend becomes suddenly religious for about a week. He tells me not to say 'God Damn' like I do all the time-even though the day before he didn't care. Honestly it ticks me off. I told him that deep in my heart I can't believe him about his new found faith."
I blinked a bit and pressed on.
"Know anybody else who converted to a religion? Do you wonder if they are on the up-and-up? How do you deal with it if you think they're doing it for something less than they say?"
I lit another cig.
"Anyway, for a year prior to this event, he'd always tell me he was Atheist... cold hard logic, that was his game. I, being strictly 'sorda-kinda-christain myself, always wondered how my friend would end up."
I licked my lips to the story.
"Then my very sentimental friend gets a letter from another friend of his. Girl she is, cute too. Poor friend-o-mine can't help himself from instantly wanting to live with this person for the rest of his life... assuming she even likes him."
I shook my head.
"Well anyway, she tells him he's a perfect guy and she really wishes she could go out with him but for one major issue: She's Egyptian Coptic... they tend to have arranged marrages anyway... and she doesn't have much choice in the matter. Heck, she couldn't even think about him because he's not Coptic at all!"
I flicked away my cig.
"Well, that's no problem.... a week later my friend declairs that he is now Coptic... he's learned all the rules and is ready to practice. He even goes to the church she does (Though, not WITH her because the men and the women can't talk with eachother."
I wall of texted.
"Well, turns out that she... and everyone else... doesn't believe he really wants to be Coptic or even Christan for that matter, just that he's doing it for her. She tells him to go away... hates him for even hanging out with her and tells him to not even go to her graduation."
I lit another cig and spoke around it.
"Now whenever I bring it up... once every couple of months... my friend becomes suddenly religious for about a week. He tells me not to say 'God Damn' like I do all the time-even though the day before he didn't care. Honestly it ticks me off. I told him that deep in my heart I can't believe him about his new found faith."
I blinked a bit and pressed on.
"Know anybody else who converted to a religion? Do you wonder if they are on the up-and-up? How do you deal with it if you think they're doing it for something less than they say?"
