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>POTENTIAL SCHIZO BABBLE INCOMING
I don't know whether its the new meds I'm on or the fact that I had an argument with my mum (I ended up making up with her so don't worry) before, but I had what can only be described as a spiritual awakening. I was in my room seething but then for what reason I have no clue about I imagined myself going to church, being happy and having a community. I also started thinking about some small christian towns and how everyone knows eachother and goes to church together and it started getting to me and for the first time in years I cried, though they were tears of joy. I couldn't describe this experience in words so I'll demonstrate how impactful it was by saying that in general I'm a very unemotional/rational person, I think crying is weak and solves nothing and for me to be so overcome with emotion that I start to cry the experience would have to be powerful.
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Originally I was going to make a post seething about my mum but this experience I had really changed my mindset. My family doesn't care for religion at all and I'm not even baptized, my limited experience with christianity is going to a church as a caca (I remember this because the priest kept on going on about a metaphor with a conch shell in a bowl of water, and he asked kids from the pews about what it meant. All the cacas just said it was a shell but I gave the right answer about the metaphor and I still remember it because of how proud it made me as a caca), singing carols at my cousins church and doing scripture in primary school. I'm not very familiar with religion and church in general so I'm looking for advice from christian 'teens about what they think I should do. The only Christian I know that takes it seriously is my maths teacher whose greek orthodox, we're very close and I've chosen him as my mentor so we get to discuss things in his free periods. He told me he has a son my age so when I get back to school in a couple weeks I'll ask him for his thoughts.
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I know I might sound like selfish little fuck for saying this but I'm a little worried that when I go to church it will be full of old people that don't want newcomers (I'm 17 and live in australia btw if this matters). There is a bible study group at my school doe the guy that used to lead it left school and the new leader is this brannigger type (he watches nick fuentes and tranime) so I probably won't join it, plus it kinda seems like he's trying to proselytize uninterested year 7 cacas. If any westoid 'teens go to church could you tell me the age range and how many young people there are, also if they're welcoming to newcomers or not.
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If I end up converting it would probably be to catholicism because I don't really like protestants for reasons I'm not bothered to explain and they're also the largest church in my country. It's also because I like the idea of a traditional and universal church, I was also considering orthodox but most orthodox churches in australia are greek and I kinda feel like I'll be the odd one out by being an anglo in a sea of greeks/eastern europeans.
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If you read all this I just want to thank you for caring about my SNCA issue, my friends and family are all agnostic (doebiet one friend says he's catholic but he doesn't go to church), the only person I'd be comfortable talking about this too is my maths teacher I mentioned earlier but I'm on holidays now so whining on the shardee is the only thing I can do right now. Any advice will be appreciated.

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>Converting to Christianity

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>>77862
Gigachad is Christian, too, btw, if that matters

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>>77862
thanks for the tuff edit 'teen

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>>77861 (OP)
im a protestant (presbyterian if that matters). if i would go catholic i would probably be old catholic just because of problems i have with the vatican councils

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>>77873
Yeah that’s why I was considering orthodox first. I’ll do some more research on my local churches, I’ll also look into some Protestant ones because I do think I was too dismissive of them in my post.

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>>77876
i dont blame you protestantism is in niggerhell right now

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Glory to God! Its good instinct to imagine the Christian life as happy and community driven. A good church does give you an amazing sense of community.
>The only Christian I know that takes it seriously is my maths teacher whose greek orthodox, we're very close and I've chosen him as my mentor so we get to discuss things in his free periods
This is a very fortunate opportunity! Though I'm obviously biased as an Orthodox Christian myself, I think the best thing you could do now is to ask him about it. Orthodox Churches are very accommodating to newcomers, so you are free to stand in for a Divine Liturgy, Vespers, etc.
>I know I might sound like selfish little fuck for saying this but I'm a little worried that when I go to church it will be full of old people that don't want newcomers
I can assure you that this will not be the case. Almost every single church there is with the exception of some bizarre protestant ones will be elated to have a new convert. I know this from personal experience.
>I was also considering orthodox but most orthodox churches in australia are greek and I kinda feel like I'll be the odd one out by being an anglo in a sea of greeks/eastern europeans.
I could be wrong here, but if you haven't been to that church, don't assume that it will all be Greeks and East Europeans. Orthodoxy is having a pretty big boom in converts lately after all. But regardless, they rarely care for such things and will be happy to have you.

I hope my thoughts are of value to you should you decide to embrace Orthodoxy. God bless you soyteen, I will pray for you.

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>>77861 (OP)
just go to a church bro

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>>77881
Thanks alot for advice 'teen. As I mentioned in my post I haven't even been inside a church since I was in primary school and I made this post of a whim without doing much research about denominations so most of what I said worrying about not being accepted is just me being paranoid because of my fear of rejection.
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I looked up the convert rates for orthodox in australia and it turns out their the only major denomination to actually gain members while everyone else is declining
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Honestly I kinda was niggerbabbling in original post, most of my worries are really just assumptions and the only way to know is to actually attend church. Considering community and traditions are becoming rarer and rarer in the modern world while loneliness is increasing I'm not surprised with the amount of converts to orthodox. Anyway, thank you for the kind words and clearing up my misconceptions about orthodoxy.

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>>>77861 (OP)
>just go to a church bro



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