My mom repeats her stories and sentiments regularly due to dementia. One of those stories that gets regular airtime is “My dad said if he ever saw a cigarette in my mouth he’d knock it down my throat”. I’m glad for my grandpa’s threat, because I’ve seen too many older relatives die of smoke-related diseases.
true.... but then i grew up the first ten years of my life being continuously exposed to cigarette smoke both at home and everywhere my mom and then my sister dragged me to..... even my teachers in school back then commented that my clothing smelled like cigarettes.... and not all of it was tobacco smoke either... ..quite a few doobies were lit up and scarfed down in my presence when i was in my early years... ...in fact.. that was exactly the way i took that deep draw on that cigar - just as if i was taking a maximum effect drag on a doobie... .something i had seen done often enough to know exactly how to do it... (even if i hadn;t been given one before by a totally stoned adult and encouraged to take a puff on it as a child....)
I'd have laughed my butt off too.
I’m fortunate that I was exposed to very little second hand smoke growing up. My grandfather was a cigarette smoker, but I wasn’t around him more than a couple weeks a year. My aunt was a smoker, but again, I wasn’t around her when she lit up except for rare occasions. Other than them, I was only exposed to it on the rare occasions we’d go out to eat as a kid (people could smoke inside restaurants back then). Despite all that, I did try smoking cigarettes for a short period of time, but fortunately it wasn’t my thing and I broke the habit within a short period of time. Of course, on the other hand, I enjoyed dipping tobacco for twenty years. I just quit that several years ago. I still use tobacco-free nicotine pouches. I guess I quit tobacco but not nicotine.
Some people are just overly touchy about the threads they start. They forget that this is an internet forum, open to responses that don't fit their intent. I agree...traffic here is light, and he really ought to be glad that it's taken off and even gone into a second, and possibly later into a third page.Your intent for the thread, and the redirection of that intent is perfectly understandable. The truth is, however, nobody here is going to defend such decision making from a pastor. That conversation would end quickly. However, there has been some tangential and interesting discussion flowing from the subject. As light as the traffic is around here anymore, you ought to be glad there’s more than just two responses, lol.That is, of course, unless you just want everybody to pile on all the IFBX stuff that’s stupid like that found in the “IFB Preacher Clips” thread.
One of my former pastors used to say that all the time, and he'd constantly use it against my dad. I was surprised that my dad didn't clock him for all the comments and digs he made towards him, and then would come to his place of business and look for him to give him discounts...large discounts. I have to say straight up, I hate dealing with "Christians," and especially so-called pastors.
To live Above with the saints we love, that will be glory;
I do know that back in the early days of the forum that people would be properly admonished, or rebuked to stay on topic. That was due to the fact that there was so much action going on it was considered improper etiquette to try to derail the conversation by getting off topic, and there were lots of trolls and things like that that would do that kind of thing intentionally. But contextually, neither of those situations are the case near as much now so as to justify censuring folk.
