Diablo
09-23-2005, 06:43 AM
As some of you know, I haven't dated since my last gf died back in 2001. A friend of mine talked me into going to the Catholic Church a while back and I go fairly regularly even though I'm more agnostic than anything else. She told the priest that I don't date because I'm trying to lead a chaste life. Not true, however, people believing that about you can get you respect in a Catholic church. If people knew the real reason, they would think they have to convince me to date again and I don't want to deal with that. No one has broached the subject with me there, so I'm saying nothing about it one way or the other. I think it's the wise thing to do, but I have a feeling it's going to bite me on the butt sooner or later. However, people always believe things about you that aren't true. Not many people deserve their reputations anyway, so perhaps the thing to do is to just not bring it up, but another concern is that my friend could say other things about me that aren't true trying to score me some points with the congregation. If it comes out that any of it isn't true, it'll discredit me in the eyes of the people there even though I never said those things. Any thoughts?