...and nothing bad happened.

Brendon, 25, Atlanta.

I'm your girlfriend's non-threatening male friend.

I fell in love with Sadness when I was young, but she's been sleeping around, and I'm mad as hell about it.

I've got teeth and claws, but I want to be gentle, gentle.

I believe Jesus is the Son of God -- but that's homeless, itinerant, pacifist, friend-of-drunks-and-prostitutes, uncomfortably ethnic Jesus -- not American capitalist Jesus.

This blog is mostly my writing, and while I want to make you laugh or cry like anybody else, I'll find it more gratifying if you cringe. I admire honesty more than anything else, like when Aaron Weiss sings "I'm still technically a virgin after 27 years," and when David Bazan admits to being haunted by a holy Ghost. I consider it my mission to make decent church-going folk uncomfortable; to force pious young men in Bible-reference graphic tees to admit that sometimes they finish masturbating and sob. But don't take it to mean that I don't believe in orthodox Christian sexual ethics; I just don't believe in refusing to talk about things that exist.

I'm still definitely a virgin after 25 years,
And it's always bothered me before,
And I'm scared there might be fifty more.
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I got this tattoo today. It is a lyric from “O Porcupine” by mewithoutYou. The full lyric goes: “You say Judas was a brother of mine,Oh, but sister! in our darkness, a Light shines!And all I want to say for the rest of my lifeIs how that Light is God,And though I’ve been mistaken on this or that point,That Light is God.” It’s cheesy to explain what your tattoos mean, but this is my blog and you don’t have to read it, so: I am a believer in Jesus, and I have also suffered from chronic bouts of depression since I was about ten years old.  For someone like me, if God is only present and only good on brightly sunlit Sunday mornings, then he is not really God at all. Through dealing with my depression, I have learned that God is not present/good/powerful/glorified in spite of, but rather through the darkness that so frequently comes over me. “In our darkness, a Light shines.” One of the most insidious things about depression is that it infects your will and your thought processes, and it makes you forget what is really important to you. But I have this as a reminder that, however I may feel, I believe that there is a Light in the darkness; I have it as a reminder that “all I want to say for the rest of my life is how that Light is God.”

I got this tattoo today. It is a lyric from “O Porcupine” by mewithoutYou. The full lyric goes:

“You say Judas was a brother of mine,
Oh, but sister! in our darkness, a Light shines!
And all I want to say for the rest of my life
Is how that Light is God,
And though I’ve been mistaken on this or that point,
That Light is God.”

It’s cheesy to explain what your tattoos mean, but this is my blog and you don’t have to read it, so:

I am a believer in Jesus, and I have also suffered from chronic bouts of depression since I was about ten years old.  For someone like me, if God is only present and only good on brightly sunlit Sunday mornings, then he is not really God at all. Through dealing with my depression, I have learned that God is not present/good/powerful/glorified in spite of, but rather through the darkness that so frequently comes over me. “In our darkness, a Light shines.”

One of the most insidious things about depression is that it infects your will and your thought processes, and it makes you forget what is really important to you. But I have this as a reminder that, however I may feel, I believe that there is a Light in the darkness; I have it as a reminder that “all I want to say for the rest of my life is how that Light is God.”

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