Ya, right about that. Emasculation via scrotalectomy due to losing them up my ass was not exactly how I had planned my life either.
More about me, the source of my angst and terror :(
Having done my best to keep a low religious profile at school, running into a classmate in the
preaching work was a constant danger. I’m not sure if most of the kids were aware of my faith or
not. I think they must have noticed that I was always absent from any sort of Christmas party. It
turns out Jesus wasn’t born on December 25th and he wasn’t really into birthdays anyway. In one
birthday party mentioned in the bible some guy ending up getting his head cut off. That tended to
put birthdays in a bad light. In any case I didn’t go around preaching at school to both classmates
and teachers like I was instructed to by the ministers. I called on Scott’s house a couple times
which was no big deal. I knew his family well. I would leave a bunch of magazines there just to
keep my numbers up. It was also necessary to have 10 hours of preaching work in each month or else someone would come around to council you. This was usually avoided by lying on my monthly activity slip. I would justify my high number of hours by claiming it was informal
preaching to Scott.
My teachers in elementary school must have known of my faith though. The last Friday of every
month was hotdog sale day. It wasn’t like a cafeteria or anything, you just told the teacher the
day before how many hotdogs you wanted. For some reason years seemed to have passed by
before I realized there were always specially wrapped hotdogs for me. Those would have been
the bloodless ones. Beef and or beef by-products was the red flag on the ingredients list.
Consuming blood by way of eating or a transfusion was ranked right up there with fornication,
masturbation and oral sex. I never told anyone and just naturally assumed my fate lay with my
grandparents. It turned out that that one particular interpretation would later change anyway. Byproducts
would later be classified as just the most vial disgusting parts of the oldest sickest cows
available, but they miraculously turned from being blood to bloodless.
Every summer marked an annual pilgrimage of sorts to the city for the holy mother of all things
exciting religious convention. Imagine the excitement of a Sunday meeting multiplied by ten
thousand. I say this sarcastically of course. It was the be all and end all of everything spiritual.
When everyone else was praying for forgiveness of their sins, faith to endure coming
persecution, or the courage to preach boldly from door to door, I said my own silent prayer for
the power to stay awake. We were also strongly encouraged to wear our suits including our little
nametags identifying ourselves as religious zealots when we were going out to restaurants after
as well.
Good service? Why yes. And for a tip what better a gift then this new book that was just
released on how to survive Armageddon. I hope you weren’t expecting money were you? This is
far more valuable.
It may have been embarrassing but at least there was a zero chance of being identified by
someone I knew. For four days this went on. There would be the normal talks like at the usual
meetings, but also interviews of persons who took the most highly regarded step in life of
quitting their job and only working part time so as to devote more time and energy into
converting others. The Lord would provide of course. Like the one experience of the couple who
needed 240 dollars for some new tires, and wouldn’t you know it, after 2 weeks of praying the
husband received a cheque for exactly 240 dollars from someone else in the congregation. The
Lord must have been in a good mood that day.
Having done my best to keep a low religious profile at school, running into a classmate in the
preaching work was a constant danger. I’m not sure if most of the kids were aware of my faith or
not. I think they must have noticed that I was always absent from any sort of Christmas party. It
turns out Jesus wasn’t born on December 25th and he wasn’t really into birthdays anyway. In one
birthday party mentioned in the bible some guy ending up getting his head cut off. That tended to
put birthdays in a bad light. In any case I didn’t go around preaching at school to both classmates
and teachers like I was instructed to by the ministers. I called on Scott’s house a couple times
which was no big deal. I knew his family well. I would leave a bunch of magazines there just to
keep my numbers up. It was also necessary to have 10 hours of preaching work in each month or else someone would come around to council you. This was usually avoided by lying on my monthly activity slip. I would justify my high number of hours by claiming it was informal
preaching to Scott.
My teachers in elementary school must have known of my faith though. The last Friday of every
month was hotdog sale day. It wasn’t like a cafeteria or anything, you just told the teacher the
day before how many hotdogs you wanted. For some reason years seemed to have passed by
before I realized there were always specially wrapped hotdogs for me. Those would have been
the bloodless ones. Beef and or beef by-products was the red flag on the ingredients list.
Consuming blood by way of eating or a transfusion was ranked right up there with fornication,
masturbation and oral sex. I never told anyone and just naturally assumed my fate lay with my
grandparents. It turned out that that one particular interpretation would later change anyway. Byproducts
would later be classified as just the most vial disgusting parts of the oldest sickest cows
available, but they miraculously turned from being blood to bloodless.
Every summer marked an annual pilgrimage of sorts to the city for the holy mother of all things
exciting religious convention. Imagine the excitement of a Sunday meeting multiplied by ten
thousand. I say this sarcastically of course. It was the be all and end all of everything spiritual.
When everyone else was praying for forgiveness of their sins, faith to endure coming
persecution, or the courage to preach boldly from door to door, I said my own silent prayer for
the power to stay awake. We were also strongly encouraged to wear our suits including our little
nametags identifying ourselves as religious zealots when we were going out to restaurants after
as well.
Good service? Why yes. And for a tip what better a gift then this new book that was just
released on how to survive Armageddon. I hope you weren’t expecting money were you? This is
far more valuable.
It may have been embarrassing but at least there was a zero chance of being identified by
someone I knew. For four days this went on. There would be the normal talks like at the usual
meetings, but also interviews of persons who took the most highly regarded step in life of
quitting their job and only working part time so as to devote more time and energy into
converting others. The Lord would provide of course. Like the one experience of the couple who
needed 240 dollars for some new tires, and wouldn’t you know it, after 2 weeks of praying the
husband received a cheque for exactly 240 dollars from someone else in the congregation. The
Lord must have been in a good mood that day.