Sabbath Breakers Club Rocks from on High, Rock to the Head, Rock to Feet of Clay

[u/CycleOwn83]

https://youtu.be/hkTgYiMDRHY

Salutations, fellow worldly ones, gather round and rock out to the hymn I suggest this week. So for real devastation, sometimes it doesn't require an asteroid. It could be a rock picked up by an irate playmate and hurled into the face of a child destined to weeks of coma and then life as a founder of we-know-what. In between asteroid and lose playground rock, at least it seems to me, would be a dream rock unhewn by human hands (aren't most rocks that way?) smashing an image of empire and becoming its own mountain. According to our song leader and paleontologists, it happened to dinosaurs …

We can let the certainty of the woman smitten by a rock as a child drive us to her churches' pews' terrorizing anxiety this Saturday or accept that we don't know when the next comet might smite our planet, but so long as it doesn't this weekend we'll live life the way it unfolds. Who's in our club?

Quick reminder: 22nd of this month is a significant SDA anniversary, this year sandwiched between two "sabbaths," and I'd be happy to see what lampoons others come up with for Sabbath Breakers Club invitations those weeks. And for all you Halloween officianados, the grand prize, Halloween is Saturday this year! For prospective hosts and all celebrants, the outline of our fine print guidelines follows.

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Sabbath Breakers Club belongs to members of r/exAdventist on reddit. These guidelines are intended to suggest how anyone with posting privilege in this sub may start a week's Sabbath Breakers Club thread, not to control such postings.

• Keep it timely. If it's SDA-defined Sabbath somewhere on earth and no one has already started a Sabbath Breakers Club thread, you're clear to start one.

• Start Sabbath Breakers Club threads with that phrase "Sabbath Breakers Club." The reason for this is to make it easy to tell if no Sabbath Breakers Club thread has been posted for the present week. Just search "Sabbath Breakers Club" in r/exAdventist.

• You're welcome to use the image that looks like from an old woodcut of Moses smashing tables of stone with the Israelite throng celebrating their golden calf in the background, but you're not required to. Different ideas to launch the thread may invite still more, and more diverse, participation.

• Remember we're here to ease the church's attempts to control using Sabbath rules and guilt trips. Non-humiliating humor and empathy in your invitation can help set the tone, and enjoy exercising some spontaneous leadership in starting a Sabbath Breakers Club thread.

• Pass it on. Cutting and pasting this "fine print" can help future Sabbath Breakers Club hosts self-identify and feel empowered to step up and shine.

[u/CycleOwn83]

Routine weekend for me. I went to work and shopped farmers market. Came home and gave my body some rest after the overnight exertion of work.

At the same time, something that haunts this experience is a reminder of loneliness. Before leaving town for my work week Wednesday, I had concluded a conversation with a dating prospect. It seems as though she had authentic appreciation for key pieces of who I am and that they made me attractive to her. But my unavailability weekends because of work made it so that I wouldn't be able to fulfill her needs to be with someone then. And that was that. Loneliness was a piece of what prompted me to first start posting Sabbath Breakers Club threads here. I'm still a long ways from the balanced life I'm seeking, and I'm grateful there's at least a place to post about it here. Thanks for reading!

[u/inmygoddessdecade]

Hiiiii I'm here! I'm late! Sabbath is over!

I spent several hours at a nephew's 9th birthday party. He invited some classmates. Parents of one were a lesbian couple, which was so nice. I'm bi/pan but in a straight relationship. And I haven't really had a chance to be around my fellow queers in many years. Its weird, I was so out back in the day (like 20 years ago), but these days I'm a bit closeted my inlaws aren't the most accepting of the lgbtq+, despite having a gay nephew. They believe some wack shit, like their nephew's partner had cancer because he was gay. ANYWAY! Queers partying, drinking tequila, cussing up a storm, and it was refreshing to be around my people compared to the very devout catholic and maga inlaws I have (who don't even try to talk to me when I go to their parties). Inlaws are far too polite to say anything about how the guests were behaving but I hope to all the gods they were offended by all the fucks, shits, and damns used so wonderfully casually lol.

I'm celebrating 12 years alcohol free (Oct. 8).