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I went to high school with a boy from Saudi Arabia. His father was some sort of consul or something. The kid kept getting DUIs. The courts would order a breathalyzer be installed. His dad would then buy him a new car to drive without the device on it and the cars with breathalyzers would sit in the garage or car park. When we graduated, he had three cars no one drove. He went to my college too -- UT Austin. He got more DUIs. I fell out of contact with him when we were sophomores. No question for you, just a fun anecdote about corruption.

I think I know you. Did you ever live on the 23rd floor of a building in Austin?

I was raised Lutheran and Catholic, confirmed in both churches, but I have become an atheist over the last two decades or so. That said, I had an experience I could not explain and chalked it up to an "acid flashback" or something to do with the use of hallucinogens in college.

However, it finally got the best of me and I approached a local Catholic church on the matter to get some perspective from a priest. Instead, I was shuttled into a room where some secretarial-type female tried to sell me on the young adult Bible study group...

Is this how the Church typically deals with spiritual issues? Or, should I find myself another priest in another parish and try making contact again?

While I am basically now a non-believer, I haven't been unable to shake the feeling that I should alert someone who does believe in saints in an official capacity so as to know that at least I tried to tell someone. Clear conscience and all that.

It's not like I'm a schizophrenic or have mental illness, but if you guys believe in angels and Satan and demon possession and whatnot, you'd think you'd also have some interest when an apparition appears to someone in the shower and says, "______."

Right?

Just typing this makes me feel insane...

Calvin Klein's Escape

lol... you must be new. When Muslims (the males) come to America, they do whatever the fuck they want. Religious bullshit be damned.