"David, I’ll be asking you to be master of ceremony if I ever get married again so keep that ministers license handy. Lol"

Until then I shall patiently abide.

I do have a question. Should I use my real name or one that tickles my fancy?

Pastor Fuzz.

Here is the original joke:

The Reverend John Fuzz was pastor of a small congregation in a little Pennsylvania town. One day he was walking down Main Street and he happened to notice a female member of his congregation sitting in the town bar, drinking beer. The reverend thought this was sinful and not something a member of his congregation should do, so he walked through the open door of the bar and sat down next to the woman. "Mrs. Fitzgerald," the reverend said sternly. "This is no place for a member of my congregation. Why don't you let me take you home?" "Shure," she said with a slur, obviously very drunk. When Mrs Fitzgerald stood up from the bar, she began to weave back and forth. The reverend realized that she had had too much to drink and he grabbed hold of her arms to steady her. When he did, they both lost their balance and tumbled to the floor. After rolling around for a few seconds, the reverend wound up lying on top of Mrs. Fitzgerald, her skirt hiked up to her waist. The bartender looked over the bar and said, "Here, here, buddy, we won't have any of that carrying on in this bar." The reverend looked up at the bartender and said, "But you don't understand, I'm Pastor Fuzz." The bartender nodded, "Well, heck, if you're that far along you might as well finish the job."

From unijokes.com

TJ Dudeman: "Thanks to everyone who dropped in. You all helped me tremendously. I apologize for poor grammar. Yet and still, I don’t approach these posts the way I would an essay. Lol."

What poor grammar? I ain't seen any.

"Thanks to everyone who dropped in. You all helped me tremendously."

As I said in previous, at least I think I did, if all you need is to rant about the world and blow off some steam, anytime. Hell, you can even blame me for your problems. I can handle it. Besides, I took all the blame from me wife and daughters while they were alive, I think I can handle it. Three females versus one male, talk about a blamefest. ;-P

rmfr

" I just feel alone in this. Wish I could find a place where I could belong and fit."

I want to respond to this specific concern of yours - "Fitting In." Before I begin I want to tell you that an atheist forum is no place to seek counseling or psychotherapy. Then I will tell you that I have worked with drug addicts and alcoholics for over 30 years.
All that aside - I do not know you and I know nothing about your life. I am generalizing and admit it. What does not fit you will certainly fit someone else reading the post.

You do not fit in because you do not know who you are. While other people were learning social skills and where they fit in life you were drinking. You may have been the friendly drunk or the angry drunk but your identity is tied in to drinking behaviors. When you give up drinking you also give up who you are.

The secret to not drinking is not "not drinking." The real secret is discovering who you are. This is also the secret to being happy in life and to finding friends and fitting in. You can not fit in if you have no idea who you are.

You are what you do. What do you do? What do you REALLY DO! Get honest with yourself. Here and now what are you doing?
If you don't like it - do something different. Take a chance. Stop sitting around doing the same old crap because that is who you are. Change who you are by changing what you do.

Welcome TJD.

Although I don't have a drinking problem, I too find it difficult to mix in with others. The thing is that I don't care. No, really, I couldn't give a tinker's cuss. I don't suppose that having aspergers syndrome of the high functioning variety exactly helps me integrate. However, after having done some reading lately, I now feel that I should care because being lonely and having no social life and having no one to talk to is bad news. It can shave years off one's life expectancy and I got a whole mess of living to do yet.

The thing is that I get on better with Atheists than any other social group. I haven't been a member of this forum long and I haven't made any friends yet but the thing is that they appear to be a good set of intelligent people with fewer hang ups than most and are particularly non-judgemental. I feel at home already. It's well worth a read of their posts.

So, take your shoes off, sit a spell and shoot the breeze.

If you want to chat in private, please feel free to PM me.

I guess I'd use the term centrist libertarian to describe myself. I learned a lot from the libertarian tradition but I don't like calling my self a libertarian right out because so many in the libertarian community are so purists in their ideology that I feel like calling myself libertarian gives people a false impression and sets them up for disappointment when they find out that I'm not prepared to call for anarcho-capitalism.
Feel free to message me sometime if you'd like. I'd love to talk about enlightenment values, I figure that might be something you're interested in as an American using the term, classical liberal, to describe their views. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯